Impact & accountability
The whole ledger, in public.
If you are considering funding ASPIRE, read this page first. The figures below come from our accounts, and we will send the supporting statements to any funder who asks.
The 2025 annual report is in preparation.
20
Organisations supported
Across three cohorts delivered end to end.
3
Cohorts delivered
Screened, certified and closed out.
80+
Volunteer experts
Barbadian professionals who have worked pro bono.
10:1
Expertise to grant
About ten dollars of donated professional support for every dollar granted.
The gap
Rich in commitment. Thin on capacity.
This is what ASPIRE exists to change, and why capacity funding compounds in a way project funding cannot.
Founder-dependent
Most are run by one or two people holding governance, finance and delivery at once. When they burn out, the service stops.
Unfundable, not unworthy
Without audited accounts, boards and impact data, they cannot access the international grants their work already merits.
Funded project by project
Donor money buys programmes, rarely the institution that delivers them. Nobody pays for the backbone.
Progress
Target: fifty organisations certified
20 supported
30 to go
We publish this whether it flatters us or not. The gap between where we are and where we’re aiming to be is the most useful number on this website.
Thirty organisations to go.
Anything the report doesn’t answer — admin@aspirebarbados.org, +1 246 429 1368.