Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 0
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • No supporters identified
    Overall GiG Score: -3 ?

    AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP (ACCF), EDINBURGH

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
    • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 31/03/18 31/03/19 31/03/20 31/03/21 31/03/22 31/03/23
    Total income £7,333 £3,292 £2,758 £5,293 £4,915 £5,736
    Total spending £4,793 £5,217 £4,140 £578 £1,623 £1,036
    Surplus/deficit £2,540 -£1,925 -£1,382 £4,715 £3,292 £4,700
    Established: 11 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    Listed activities
    • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
    • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    GiG Classification
    • Legal & financial advice
    Purposes
    • The advancement of education
    • The advancement of religion
    Where it operates
    • More than one local authority area in Scotland, main operating location: City of Edinburgh
    Who it helps
    • Children or young people
    • People with a particular ethnic or racial origin
    • Other charities or voluntary bodies

    Who supports them? ?

    We have no records of donations from grant makers.

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in Scotland on 30/01/2014, number: SC044624
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    16 , Lyall Bow, Edinburgh, None, EH17 8XT

    Objectives

    AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ACCF, Edinburgh is established to achieve the following main objectives: 1.3.1 To provide a forum for enhancing the spiritual well-being and promote spiritual and moral solidarity among Africans, people of African and Caribbean descent, and any other ethnic group or nationality in Edinburgh and the surrounding areas. Thus the ACCF focuses on the advancement of religion in line with one of the charitable purposes defined in section7(2) of the 2005 Act. 1.3.2 To relief poverty by providing direct financial assistance to persons in need or hardship and also through assisting other recognised charities or voluntary organisation that target people in poverty or at risk of poverty. This falls within the general charity purpose of the act of 2005 of preventing or relieving poverty.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator

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