Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 9
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

AFRICAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL 

ACS Provides holistic support and teaching of the National Curriculum subjects for KS 1 to KS4,revision class for GCSE and SATs test, mentoring,ICT class and cultural awareness. Saturday's 10.00am to 1.00pm. Summer Mon to Fri: 8.40am to 6pmFree Accredited adults classes ICT, Functional English,Maths, Vocational courses, Well-being activities : Mon-Fri.Family learning Parenting class
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • 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 dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly female
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 23 years

www.acschool.org.uk

office@acschool.org.uk

02079238350

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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£246£189£56n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/22£208£179£29n/an/an/an/an/a14
31/03/21£290£131£159n/an/an/an/an/a150
31/03/20£135£120£15n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/19£130£109£21n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/18£140£119£21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£185£101£84£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16*£132£111£22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£144£89£55£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£0£92£-92£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£90£86£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£62£74£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£111£109£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£67£84£-17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£77£77£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£62£43£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£45£50£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£50£44£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£36£25£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£10£17£-6£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • 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
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 15 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
Mercer's Charitable Foundation£232,506
Hackney Council£102,770
Hackney CVS£61,119
City Bridge Trust£15,096
Joseph Levy Foundation£10,000
DCMS£9,542
Co-Operative Group£7,152
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to African Community School
£1,035 21/10/2023
We would like to provide free holiday creative activities, sports and healthy meals to children and young people aged 5 to 15 in the community.
Mercer's Charitable Foundation - Grant to African Community School
£232,506 01/04/2023
To deliver the ‘Best you Can Be’ project - high quality mentoring and educational support.
Hackney CVS - Hackney Giving and LBH Cost of Living
£6,000 08/12/2022
to help 25 families with their gas and electricity bill.
Hackney CVS - Hackney Giving Better Mental Health
£51,389 09/09/2022
Providing a holistic training, support and empowerment programme for 40 marginalised Global Majority women who are struggling with their mental wellbeing due to complex challenges and needs.
Hackney CVS - Hackney Giving Living with Covid
£3,730 30/06/2022
Ongoing participation in the Community Champion network and dissemination of health information to Black, Asian and mixed background communities.
Hackney Council - Grant to African Community School
£9,361 12/05/2022
ACS Heritage and Identity programme will provide weekend extra-curricular activities focused on heritage,identity, belonging and building a personal and collective voice for 30 Hackney children and ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to African Community School
£3,058 23/10/2021
We'd like to provide one-to-one educational support, mentoring and fun activities for students aged 7-15 every weekend during term-time.
Joseph Levy Foundation - Covid-19: young people and family support
£10,000 08/02/2021
3
Covid-19: support for 40 BAME young people and their families in North London
Hackney Council - Grant to African Community School
£33,826 12/11/2020
8
CEV funding 3 wards
Hackney Council - Grant to African Community School
£20,140 12/11/2020
3
T&T: The Consortium consists of three organisations African Community school (ACS), Kanlungan Filipino and Community African Network. The partners will cover food referrals in three wards - ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to African Community School
£3,059 24/10/2020
Coach hire and entry to Chessington World of Adventures and ice skating for children and young people from a disadvantaged background.
Hackney Council - Grant to African Community School
£9,454 10/09/2020
3
DEFRA: To cover costs incurred for the provision of culturally appropriate food and household essentials for vulnerable BAME Hackney families with complex needs and multiple deprivations on low ....more
Hackney Council - Grant to Woodberry Aid (with African Community School as funding host)
£4,999 10/09/2020
3
DEFRA: Woodberry Aid requests funding for food shopping, running costs, and befriending for local vulnerable families and individuals. There are many people in our local community in need of basic ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,542 08/07/2020
"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
City Bridge Trust - Grant to African Community School
£15,096 19/06/2020
£15,096 towards costs outlined in your application excluding the laptops for students.
Hackney Council - Grant to African Community School
£4,998 10/12/2019
12
African Community School plan to organise two weeks educational free play onsite and off-site summer activities from Monday to Friday targeting 45 disadvantage children aged 6 to14 years managed by ....more
Hackney Council - Grant to African Community School
£4,992 10/12/2019
12
We plan to run weekly Digital Inclusion and Awareness Programme embedded with accredited functional English E2/E3 to 24 disadvantaged unemployed women living in poverty,without qualifications to ....more
Hackney Council - Grant to African Community School
£15,000 28/10/2019
6
To work with 6-16years identified as at-risk from school exclusion to improve their educational attainments through extra support in English,maths,science,booster class also to provide opportunity to ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 09/08/2001, number: 1087936
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • 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
20 returns made; AR16: 1 days late, AR05: 1 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

AFRICAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL
The Adiaha Antigha Centre
24-30 Dalston Lane
Dalston
HACKNEY
LONDON

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE ACADEMIC EDUCATION OF CHILDREN FROM THE AGE OF 3 TO 16 YEARS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF VARIOUS OUT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION SUPPORT/ACTIVITIES/PROJECTS INITIALLY RESIDENT IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY AND THE SURROUNDING AREA AND IN PARTICULAR SUCH CHILDREN WHO ARE OF AFRICAN-CARIBBEAN DESCENT OR WHO ARE FROM OTHER MINORITY ETHNIC GROUPS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

HACKNEY AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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