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Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 10
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

THE AFRICA CENTRE LIMITED

Cultural and education events and programmes
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k		 Spending
£k		 Surplus/
Deficit £k		 Fundraising
Cost £k		 Total
Funds £k		 Unrestricted
Funds £k		 Mths
Rsrvs		 Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£386£1,248£-861n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£1,321£716£605£0£9,407£6,083101.955
31/03/21£668£630£37£0£8,737£6,406122510
31/03/20£409£607£-198n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£251£558£-307n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£196£794£-598n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£90£543£-453n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£179£617£-439n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15*£172£444£-272n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£207£550£-344n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13*£10,484£512£9,972£326£10,419£10,318241.800
31/03/12£375£453£-78n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11*£92£220£-128n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10*£1,752£175£1,577£124£802£1137.700
31/03/09*£152£294£-142n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08*£66£368£-302n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07?*£134£477£-343n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£487£459£28n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04*£415£473£-58n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Balance Sheet History
Established: 64 years

www.africacentre.org.uk

info@africacentre.org.uk

02078361973

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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Other facilities management and maintenance
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
DCMS£131,823
Wolfson Foundation£100,000
National Lottery Heritage Fund£77,673
National Lottery Community Fund£48,026
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to The Africa Centre
£100,000 08/06/2023
New exhibition space for the Centre's archive
National Lottery Community Fund - The Africa Centre Supperclub
£48,026 17/03/2023
This project will use funding to explore how they can support and empower the local Black/African LGBTQ+ community through their monthly Supperclub pilot. It will aim to address the lack of safe spaces for honest conversations as well as creating ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Africa Centre Limited
£77,673 14/10/2022
The Malangatana Heritage Programme
DCMS - The Africa Centre Operations
£131,823 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 30-62
  • AUDREY MPUNZWANA Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Consultant
  • DAVID TUNDE DAVIS Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Accountant
  • ETHEL TAMBUDZAI Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Company Director
  • JULIAN BOAITEY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director
  • MALGORZATA SWIERCZEWSKA Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Co-Founder
  • MURIEL LAMIN Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Head Of Commercial & Operations
  • NISSRIN ZAPTIA Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Marketing Consultant
  • NZUBE UFODIKE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Entrepreneur
  • OBA NSUGBE (Chair) Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Barrister
  • PAUL ANDREW GOODWIN Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Researcher / Curator
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 08/05/1961, number: 313510
  • Registered at Companies House on 21/02/1961, number: 00683989
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • 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
19 returns made; AR15: 80 days late, AR13: 2 days late, AR11: 3 days late, AR10: 2 days late, AR09: 13 days late, AR08: 1 days late, AR07: 324 days late, AR05: 22 days late, AR04: 96 days late,
Main office

The Africa Centre
66 Great Suffolk Street
LONDON
SE1 0BL

Objectives

TO PROMOTE EDUCATION IN MATTERS CONCERNING AFRICA AND ITS PEOPLES BY ESTABLISHING ONE OR MORE EDUCATIONAL CENTRES;BY STIMULATING INTEREST IN AFRICA BY APPROPRIATE MEANS IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND BODIES; BY ORGANISING STUDY GROUPS,PROVIDING A REFERENCE LIBRARY AND CARRYING OUT RESEARCH IN SOCIOLOGICAL SIMILAR FIELDS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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