Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 1

Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -3 times
Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1

Grant maker support: +1

Overall GiG Score: -5

ERITREAN PARENTS AND CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION

EPCA aims to raise aspirations, educational achievement of young children from refugee background and equip them with skills that will increase their employability. EPCA believes that providing community based education for children & their families and widening their participation in learning leads towards building stronger and healthy communities.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

Spending has increased 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 4 trustees

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
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Established: 29 years

zbest1123@gmail.com

02089645535

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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	Volun- teers
31/03/23		£51	£50	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	7
31/03/22		£23	£25	£-3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/03/21	*	£17	£6	£11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/20	*	£12	£22	£-10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	7
31/03/19	*	£23	£31	£-7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/18	*	£42	£27	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	*	£16	£11	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	*	£14	£14	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	*	£12	£11	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£5	£11	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£18	£19	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£13	£21	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£30	£20	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£11	£17	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£15	£22	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£23	£6	£17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£2	£11	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£13	£18	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£12	£13	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£28	£18	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Amateur Sport
Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides human resources

Where it operates

Kensington And Chelsea,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
7 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Eritrean Parents & Children Association
£2,500	22/06/2018 0	towards a day trip to the seaside for a group of disadvantaged children from the London Boroughs of Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea, and Hammersmith & Fulham
National Lottery Community Fund - Parent Connector
£10,495	01/08/2017 12	This funding will be used to give local parents access to all activities that are on offer for children. The project will benefit 50 children and young people and their families over the six week ....more This funding will be used to give local parents access to all activities that are on offer for children. The project will benefit 50 children and young people and their families over the six week summer holiday.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

HASSAN ADEM Appointed: 2019

HAWA OMER Appointed: 2018

JAMAL IBRAHIM OMAR

SALEHA ALI

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 02/09/1995, number: 1048965

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

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
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR21: 84 days late, AR20: 42 days late, AR19: 95 days late, AR18: 166 days late, AR17: 92 days late, AR16: 37 days late, AR15: 0 days late, AR04: 2 days late,

Main office

Eritrean Parents & Childrens Associ
1 Thorpe Close
LONDON
W10 5XL

Objectives

FOR THE RELIEF OF NEED AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE OR WORK IN THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA, AND IN PARTICULAR, THOSE WHO ARE ERITREAN OR OF ERITREAN DESCENT IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS:- (A) BY RELIEVING THOSE WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS (ESPECIALLY BY PROVIDING INFORMATION, ADVICE, GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING FOR SUCH PERSONS) AND, (B) BY ADVANCING EDUCATION INCLUDING EDUCATION IN THE ARABIC AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

ROYAL BOROUGH OF KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA

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