Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 12
  • No PartB
    • Large volunteers +5
    • Grant maker support: +7
    Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

    UNITED AFRICAN ASSOCIATION 

    Our activities include the provision of weekly African food parcels at Leicester Street Community Centre in Northampton. We operate an admin office at Barratt House, Kingsthorpe Road, Northampton, NN2 6EZ providing one to one support, outreach services in partnership with CAB. Other activities include African drumming, ladies swimming, IT sessions, online immigration sessions, health & wellbeing
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
    • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

    Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

    • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

    Financial issues to consider:

    • 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 Spending Surplus/
    Deficit
    Volun-
    teers
    04/07/23£124,429£103,206£21,223138
    04/07/22£45,481£54,244£-8,76377
    04/07/21£107,749£92,076£15,67355
    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Established: 3 years

    http://www.uaassociation.org

    uafricanassociation@gmail.com

    07932519532

    Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebook
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • Amateur Sport
    • Disability
    • Economic/Community Development/Employment
    • General Charitable Purposes
    • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
    • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
    • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
    GiG Classification
    • Other individual and family services
    How it operates
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    Where it operates
    • Northamptonshire,
    Who it helps
    • Elderly/Old People
    • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
    • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
    • People With Disabilities
    • The General Public/Mankind
    Who works here?
    • Unknown number of employees
    • 138 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
    Northamptonshire Community Foundation£62,583
    National Lottery Community Fund£59,981
    DCMS£3,000
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Northamptonshire Community Foundation - African Community Lunch
    £3,000 27/03/2024
    5
    Community lunches on Saturdays after the food fund drive for volunteers and the community
    Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Grant to United African Association
    £4,286 07/12/2023
    Ongoing wraparound support service to continue the delivery of HSF vouchers.
    Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Grant to United African Association
    £5,000 16/11/2023
    We want to be able to cope with massively increased demand for support services for people in crisis as a result of the cost of living crisis. The people we are planning to support include asylum ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - United African Association Computer Project
    £9,990 22/09/2023
    The funding will be used to provide IT sessions for the African and wider community. The project aims to help those with little or no computer skills to improve their IT abilities.
    Northamptonshire Community Foundation - North Northants African Food Project
    £3,000 02/05/2023
    We would like to purchase some supermarket vouchers to provide assistance to families with children in North Northamptonshire, mainly Wellingborough but also in Kettering and Corby where there ....more
    Northamptonshire Community Foundation - African Food Parcel Project
    £3,000 17/04/2023
    providing food parcels to those who are faced with the worst food poverty in the community
    Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Children's Winter Coat Vouchers
    £3,000 30/01/2023
    Children's Winter Coat Vouchers
    Northamptonshire Community Foundation - HSF3 - capacity support
    £5,444 30/01/2023
    Delivery of phase 3 of the Household Support vouchers and providing support to beneficiaries
    Northamptonshire Community Foundation - African Food Parcel Project
    £3,000 23/01/2023
    African Food Parcel Project
    Northamptonshire Community Foundation - African Food parcel Project
    £3,000 14/11/2022
    African Food parcel Project
    Northamptonshire Community Foundation - African Immigration Support Services
    £2,936 17/08/2022
    African Immigration Support Services
    National Lottery Community Fund - African Community Support
    £9,991 15/08/2022
    The funding will be used as a contribution to pay for the organisations rent for a period of 12 months. Operating in Northampton the project will support African communities including refugees asylum ....more
    Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Dancing Drums
    £3,220 06/05/2022
    to purchase instruments, equipment, tools and uniforms for our African drumming and dance group called the Dancing Drums.
    Northamptonshire Community Foundation - African Food Parcels, Ramadan & Eid Provisions Project
    £2,000 07/04/2022
    to continue providing food parcels to those who are faced with the worst food poverty in the community
    Northamptonshire Community Foundation - African Refugee Support
    £3,000 10/02/2022
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    African Refugee Support
    Northamptonshire Community Foundation - African Food Parcels programme
    £2,000 09/02/2022
    provide food parcels to families on low-incomes
    National Lottery Community Fund - African Community Development
    £30,000 20/12/2021
    The funding will be used over a period of one year and used towards the costs of operating a community support service for people of African descent in the local community.
    Northamptonshire Community Foundation - African food parcel project
    £2,000 22/09/2021
    providing food parcels
    Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Grant to United African Association
    £2,000 04/05/2021
    Grant to United African Association
    National Lottery Community Fund - African Food parcel Project
    £10,000 29/04/2021
    The funding will be used to deliver culturally staple food parcels to African families and individuals who are experiencing financial difficulties due to the pandemic including those who have been ....more
    Northamptonshire Community Foundation - African cultural project
    £1,340 03/02/2021
    Grant to United African Association
    Northamptonshire Community Foundation - Northants African Project
    £11,357 19/01/2021
    6 African organisations based in Northamptonshire are collaborating to help vulnerable African people living in Kettering and Corby.
    DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
    £3,000 29/07/2020
    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
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (5)
    Current Trustees appointed

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 09/12/2020, number: 1192725
    Gift Aid
    • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
    • Complaints handling
    • Complaints policy and procedures
    • Financial reserves policy and procedures
    • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
    • Internal risk management 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
    3 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    Unit F5B
    Barratt House
    Kingsthorpe Road
    Northampton

    Objectives

    THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN NORTHAMPTON BY PROVIDING AFRICAN FOOD PARCELS, NON-FOOD ESSENTIALS SUCH AS PERSONAL AND HOUSEHOLD ESSENTIALS, CLOTHING AND OTHER ITEMS AS WELL AS SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER PARTNER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase
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