Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 8
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

AFRICAN CARIBBEAN ACHIEVEMENT PROJECT 

Mentoring Service Alternative Curriculum Programme Tailor-made Educational Support Programmes Youth Advocacy Service Parental Support African & Caribbean Studies Holiday Scheme Activities Cultural Library Youth Entrepreneurs Project Volunteers Programme Training for young people, parents, schools and teachers
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly female

Financial issues to consider:

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

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£40£43£-3n/an/an/an/an/a14
31/03/22*£50£60£-10n/an/an/an/an/a14
31/03/21*£61£46£15n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/03/20£16£25£-9n/an/an/an/an/a24
31/03/19£28£24£4n/an/an/an/an/a18
31/03/18*£11£16£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17*£5£15£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16*£17£16£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£12£24£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14*£213£13£200£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£22£37£-16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12*£52£47£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£83£70£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£73£91£-18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£97£159£-61£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£189£92£97£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£90£91£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£70£56£14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£44£62£-18£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 24 years

www.acap.org.uk

OFFICE@ACAP.ORG.UK

01274 720254

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Services for young people
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Bradford City, Calderdale, City Of Wakefield, Kirklees, Leeds City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 14 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Leeds Community Foundation£39,400
DCMS£10,000
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
People's Health Trust£0
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Leeds Community Foundation - Grant to ACAP (African Caribbean Achievement Project)
£10,000 20/12/2022
Grant to ACAP (African Caribbean Achievement Project)
People's Health Trust - Active Women Together (AWT) Club
£0 06/09/2022
A two-year project providing a safe space for Black women (age 25+) in Bradford to come together twice weekly to build new friendships, improve their social connections and benefit from opportunities ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Therapeutic Arts for Health Project
£20,000 01/11/2021
Two year Therapeutic Arts & Crafts project for parents suffering from depression and poor mental health. The project will use woodworking, art, sewing and gardening to help reduce mental health ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - STEM 4 All Project
£6,000 21/09/2021
STEM 4 All is a new project that provides weekly STEM education in the form of 1-1 tutoring, group work and workshops to children from disadvantaged backgrounds. The project deepens young peoples’ ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 23/09/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Covid-19
£3,400 21/04/2020
Grant to ACAP (African Caribbean Achievement Project)
National Lottery Community Fund - ACAP Healthy Links Project
£10,000 01/08/2019
15
The funding will be used to deliver arts, crafts, gardening and woodwork sessions or black, Asian and ethnic minority women in the community, with the aim of reducing issues including depression and ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - iSTEM Project
£4,750 28/01/2019
12
iSTEM is a new project that seeks to provide mentoring services to young people in the areas of IT, Science, Engineering and Maths. This peer learning mentoring programme will provide young people ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Engage - 'Inclusive Youth' Forum
£5,750 23/11/2018
12
The development of a new Youth Forum piloting a new Pop Up Shop style outreach model of engagement. We will create a network of children and young people of BAME (predominantly, but not exclusively) ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Youth Action Movement (YAM) Project
£5,000 23/08/2018
12
Grant to ACAP (African Caribbean Achievement Project)
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards a summer play scheme
£300 16/06/2017
Towards a summer play scheme.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 35-63
  • ANGELA PHILLIP Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Clerical Support Officer - Met Police
  • DONNA HOWELLS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Behavioural Support Worker
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 18/07/2000, number: 1081624
  • Registered at Companies House on 29/04/1999, number: 03762462
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
  • 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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • 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; AR22: 3 days late, AR21: 1 days late, AR18: 64 days late, AR17: 113 days late, AR16: 2 days late, AR14: 12 days late, AR12: 122 days late, AR10: 117 days late, AR07: 114 days late, AR05: 15 days late,
Main office

17 CLAREMONT
BRADFORD
BD7 1BG

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE AFRICAN CARIBBEAN INHABITANTS OF WEST YORKSHIRE

Defined Area of Benefit:

WEST YORKSHIRE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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