Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 4
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 2 ?

HORN OF AFRICA FOUNDATION

Horn of Africa foundation, supports people affected by conflicts. we particularly help orphaned children and destitute families, who have been displaced into refugee camps, in the fields of education and health care. we currently operate in Dadab Refugee camps in Kenya.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

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

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£5£13£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£85£84£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£164£160£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£97£96£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£16£20£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£55£55£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£12£7£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£7£6£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 10 years

http://www.hornofafricafoundation.org/

info@hornofafricafoundation.org

07863634567

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Grant-making foundations
How it operates
  • Provides other finance
Where it operates
  • Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£56,000
City Bridge Trust£19,997
DCMS£9,970
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Action for improvement
£10,000 07/01/2022
The funding will be used to run regular community activities and make improvements to the Foundation's website and IT infrastructure. The project aims to help the organisation re-engage with the community following the restrictions of the pandemic ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - In This Together-Covid-19
£46,000 30/03/2021
12
The project is using funding to provide information advice and signposting as well as food delivery support to people from East African backgrounds across Hounslow Ealing Hillingdon Harrow and Brent. The project aims to raise community awareness ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Horn of Africa Foundation (HOAF)
£10,000 15/12/2020
0
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,970 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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Horn of Africa Foundation
£9,997 11/06/2020
£9,997 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, in order to carry on providing support to Londoners.
National Lottery Community Fund - Lights, Camera, Action!
£9,610 17/10/2019
12
Lights, Camera, Action!

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

  • ABDI OMAR OSMAN (Chair) Appointed: 2015
  • ABDI HERSI Appointed: 2022
  • GANI ABDULLAHI Appointed: 2015
  • JUWERIA ALI Appointed: 2022
  • YUSUF JAMA KABILE Appointed: 2022
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 22/05/2015, number: 1161800
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • 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
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
8 returns made; all on time
Main office

Horn of Africa Foundation
Unit 5
2nd floor
Red Lion Court
Alexandra Road
HOUNSLOW

Objectives

1.THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND WELFARE AND RELIEF OF POVERTY OF VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES AND PEOPLE, INCLUDING REFUGEES, INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS, DISABLED PERSONS, CHILDREN, WOMEN AND OTHER INDIVIDUALS IN NEED, IN THE HORN OF AFRICA IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING FOOD AND HEALTH FACILITIES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT,2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, HUMAN RIGHTS AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION FOR INDIVIDUALS IN NEED IN THE HORN OF AFRICA, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WOMEN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND VICTIMS OF CONFLICT, BY, FOR EXAMPLE, PROVIDING EDUCATION FACILITIES AND INFORMATION AND FACILITATING DIALOGUE, AND3. THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND WELFARE, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF SOMALI CULTURE AND HERITAGE OF PEOPLE LIVING IN ENGLAND, ESPECIALLY GREATER LONDON AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, IN PARTICULAR WOMEN, ELDERLY AND YOUNG PEOPLE, BY, FOR EXAMPLE:A. PROVIDING INFORMATION,B. PROVIDING FOOD,C. RAISING AWARENESS OF MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES AND SIGNPOSTING SERVICES, ANDD. PROMOTING AND FACILITATING INTER-GENERATIONAL DIALOGUE,FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.?

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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