Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 4
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • No PartB
  • Return overdue: -3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +1
Overall GiG Score: -4 ?

AFRICAN SUPPORT AND PROJECT CENTRE 

A.S.P.C main activities: 1) Drop in information and advice sessions, advice and guidance on education, employment and training; options, legal advice on welfare benefits, housing to general help level, health workshops for African young refugees and asylum seekers. 2) Translation and interpreting service for local authorities and other statutory and voluntary sector agencies.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Latest return is overdue

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Latest accounts are overdue for filing

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
31/03/22£13£13£0n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/21£14£13£1n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/20£7£7£0n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/19£1£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/18£7£7£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£3£3£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£0£0£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£0£0£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£0£0£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£0£0£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£5£5£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£4£4£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£13£13£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£8£8£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£35£35£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£35£35£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£31£34£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£25£22£3£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 21 years

afrihackney@yahoo.co.uk

02079231962

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Other welfare services
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • 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 significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Food Supply to African Older people
£9,500 10/12/2020
6
The funding will be used to provide a food delivery service for African French speaking communities in Hackney primarily for older people. The aim is to support people during the current COVID-19 ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 08/12/2003, number: 1101065
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
18 returns made; all on time
Main office

HALKEVI CENTRE
31 Dalston Lane
Hackney
LONDON
E8 3DF

Objectives

A) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN LONDON AND IT SURROUNDING BOROUGHS (THE AREA OF BENEFIT) AND IN PARTICULAR WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, THE REFUGEES FROM BURUNDI, RWANDA, TANZANIA, UGANDA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, ZIMBABWE, LIBERIA AND KENYA LIVING IN THE COMMUNITY, BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID PEOPLE AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND SICKNESS, TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE SAID COMMUNITY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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