Finance Score: -4

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 0

Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -3 times
Spending falling: -1
No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1

No supporters identified

Overall GiG Score: -5

CAFE AFRICA TRUST

Provision of funding, with others, to enable consulting and advisory work in a number of African countries with a view to relieving poverty of the small scale coffee grower; the creation of a strategic model for national coffee development programmes aimed at impoverished coffee growers who cannot pay their bills; and the provision of secretariat services working with national institutions.

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Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Accounts have been filed late on 3 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended
Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff
31/12/23		£0	£0	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/22		£2	£1	£2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/21	*	£1	£0	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/20	*	£0	£0	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/19	*	£0	£12	£-12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/18	*	£0	£10	£-10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/17	*	£30	£10	£20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/16		£30	£68	£-37	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/15	*	£56	£61	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/14		£56	£30	£27	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/13		£52	£48	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/12		£15	£33	£-18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/11		£71	£49	£22	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/10		£36	£54	£-19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/09		£44	£50	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 17 years

http://cafeafrica.org/

jlefroy@cafeafrica.org

01732 384585

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Economic/Community Development/Employment
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Grant-making foundations

How it operates

Makes Grants to Organisations
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Cameroon, Congo (Democratic Republic), Switzerland, Tanzania, Uganda,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups
The General Public/Mankind

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

JOHN SCHLUTER Appointed: 2018

DAVID BALCOMBE Appointed: 2018, Other trusteeships: THE WILLIAM STRONG FOUNDATION, THE TONBRIDGE CHILDREN'S WORKSHOP, PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PETER & ST PAUL TONBRIDGE,

VISCOUNTESS GILLIAN EVELYN BRENTFORD OBE, FCA (Chair), Other trusteeship: LORD BRENTFORD'S CHARITABLE TRUST,

JEREMY LEFROY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Member Of Parliament, Other trusteeships: TANZANIA DEVELOPMENT TRUST, Global Coalition for Youth Employment, THE TRAIDCRAFT FOUNDATION, THE DONALD MACKAY TRUST, THE YARLET TRUST, THE MYCRO TRUST, Community Foundation for Staffordshire and Shropshire, THE BUCKE COLLINS CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT, CONCORDIS INTERNATIONAL TRUST, THE RELATIONSHIPS FOUNDATION, IVCC, STAFFORD WORKS, FRIENDS OF THE GUILDHALL, NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME, STAFFORD AND DISTRICT CARERS HOLIDAY TRUST, STAFFORDSHIRE HISTORY DEVELOPMENT TRUST,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 21/03/2007, number: 1118450

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

There are no Policies registered with the Charities Commission

Filing Record

15 returns made; AR21: 103 days late, AR20: 7 days late, AR19: 26 days late, AR18: 27 days late, AR17: 136 days late, AR15: 5 days late,

Main office

9 Highway Lane
Keele
NEWCASTLE
Staffordshire
ST5 5AN

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP SUFFERING AND DISTRESS AMONG PEOPLE LIVING AND WORKING IN AFRICA WHO ARE IN NEED BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH SERVICES, FACILITIES ITEMS AND GRANTS WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD TO ENABLE THEM TO EARN THEIR LIVING BY GROWING COFFEE OR OTHER COMMODITIES; ANDSUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR DISCRETION SHALL THINK FIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

AFRICA

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