Overall GiG Score: 7 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 9
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Grant maker support: +9

AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTRE 

To promote participation and break down barriers to community cohesion by delivering services and activities to promote the health, wellbeing, education, employment and partcipation of African and African Carribean people.Our vision is of a society where African and African Caribbean community members are fully included, where their wellbeing is a priority and where justice is promoted.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

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: 16 years

www.africancommunitycentre.org.uk

info@africancommunitycentre.org.uk

01792470298

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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£326£189£137n/an/an/an/an/a7
31/03/22£398£260£138n/an/an/an/an/a24
31/03/21£288£271£17n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/20£172£159£13n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/19£119£152£-33n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/18£141£136£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£143£134£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16*£163£162£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£224£204£20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£140£191£-51£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£139£124£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£123£105£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£151£120£30£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£63£102£-39£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£93£73£20£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 7 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cardiff, City Of Swansea, Newport City, Vale Of Glamorgan, Wrexham,
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

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
National Lottery Heritage Fund£249,700
BBC Children in Need£189,494
Lloyds Bank Foundation£52,250
National Lottery Community Fund£19,360
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
BBC Children in Need - Grant to African Community Centre
£93,172 07/08/2023
This grant supports counselling and play therapy for refugee and asylum-seeking children and young people. It will help to increase their emotional resilience, build friendships, and reduce social ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Digital Access for All: Closing the Inequality Divide
£9,900 21/03/2023
The African Community Centre in Swansea will use £9900 to deliver a digital inclusion project for vulnerable community members who are digitally excluded. The training will offer the necessary tools ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to African Community Centre
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Valley Heritage
£200,400 25/06/2021
The Alliance @ The L&Y
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Valley Heritage
£5,900 26/01/2021
COVID19 Valley Heritage
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Recovery grant to African Community Centre
£50,000 03/12/2020
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of African Community Centre, awarded under the Foundation's Asylum Seekers and Refugees funding stream. Part of the Covid Recovery Fund to ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to African Community Centre
£3,000 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will provide technology to allow refugee and asyulum seeking children and young people who have been isolated by Covid-19 to access counselling support. As a result they will be ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£3,000 27/05/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to The African Community Centre
£3,000 06/05/2020
COVID19 : purchase IT equipment for a charity that works with BAME communities including asylum seekers in Swansea
National Lottery Community Fund - EmpowerMe
£9,460 15/09/2019
12
EmpowerMe
BBC Children in Need - Grant to African Community Centre
£93,322 26/06/2019
36
This project will provide counselling for young refugee and asylum seekers. They will reduce their anxiety, be better able to make friends, and increase their emotional resilence.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to African Community Centre
£43,400 23/05/2019
Windrush Generations: Evolving Heritage
National Lottery Community Fund - Songs, Dances, Stories - Capturing Culutures
£9,710 06/03/2018
12
Songs, Dances, Stories - Capturing Culutures
National Lottery Community Fund - Swansea Asylum Seekers Community Transport Scheme
£249,945 27/09/2017
48
Project Summary : The project is to provide a community transport scheme for isolated asylum seekers in Swansea. It will improve the lives of asylum seekers through enabling better access to ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to African Community Centre
£43,000 21/11/2016
The Windrush Intergenerational Project
Comic Relief - The Amani Project
£138,094 25/11/2015
36
The Amani Project, based in the Swansea area, will provide specialist counselling to refugee and asylum seekers from the African and African Caribbean communities who have experienced severe trauma. ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to African Community Centre
£12,800 28/02/2013
Running costs of the therapeutic groups for women seeking sanctuary or women who have refugee status living in Swansea, allowing them to have increased access to support networks and services.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees:
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/06/2008, number: 1124327
  • Registered at Companies House on 02/08/2007, number: 06331619
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • 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
15 returns made; AR16: 12 days late,
Main office

Swansea Grand Theatre
Singleton Street
SWANSEA
West Glamorgan
SA1 3QJ

Objectives

1. To advance education amongst African, African Caribbean people and other ethnic minority service users, including those seeking asylum and those granted refugee status particularly but not exclusively by the following: Providing guidance, signposting and assistance to those seeking asylum and those granted refugee status2. Advancing education and raising awareness about different ethnic groups to promote good relations between persons of different ethnic groups3. To improve the health and well-being of ethnic minorities and other vulnerable groups by the provision of Arts , therapeutic and counselling services and other recreational activities regardless of and not limited to age , gender , sexual orientation , gender reassignment , faith or other economic circumstances and in accordance with the Equalities Act 2010

Defined Area of Benefit:

ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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