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Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 3
  • No PartB
  • Static board: -3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +0
Overall GiG Score: 3 ?

UGANDA COMMUNITY IN GREATER MANCHESTER

The charity furthers its purposes for the public benefit through activities, projects or services like; Community Engagement, Crisis funding for families and individuals, Social engagement, the UCOMM Newsletter, and projects like; The Girl Child, The Great Tackle, The Sausage Project, delivered in the recent past and intended to continue, and more future projects as per community needs.
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Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board composition appears to be rather static

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit		 Volun-
teers
31/12/23£20£14£6n/a
31/12/22£16£17£0n/a
31/12/21£16£19£-3n/a
31/12/20£69£39£30n/a
31/12/19£0£0£0n/a
31/12/18£0£0£0n/a
31/12/17£0£0£0n/a
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 7 years

www.ucomm.org.uk

office@ucomm.org.uk

01612227933

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebookX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Other facilities management and maintenance
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Forever Manchester - The Great Tackle
£1,000 13/09/2023
Funding for football venue hire.
Sport England - TGC CF - Strictly Africa Dance
£9,520 05/01/2021
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This project will deliver a series of online African dance classes to women in Greater Manchester.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • BETTY KIWANUKA MIREMBE Appointed: 2017
  • JOEL NYANZI KASAGGA Appointed: 2017
  • MILTON NUME (Chair) Appointed: 2017
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 19/06/2017, number: 1173468
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
7 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from UGANDA COMMUNITY IN GREATER MANCHESTER on 13/10/2020
Main office

UCOMM
Surcon House
11A Copson Street
MANCHESTER
M20 3HE

Objectives

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE TO:I) RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT GOOD HEALTH AND ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF PERSONS OF UGANDAN DESCENT AND THEIR FAMILIES LIVING IN GREATER MANCHESTER; ANDII) PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NEED OF THESE FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE BENEFIT OF PERSONS OF UGANDAN DESCENT AND THEIR FAMILIES NOW LIVING IN GREATER MANCHESTER.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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