Finance Score: -4

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 11

Reasonable growth: +1
Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3

Grant maker support: +11

Overall GiG Score: 13

THE AFRICA CENTRE LIMITED

Cultural and education events and programmes

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
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 well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

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

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		£386	£1,248	£-861	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	16
31/03/22		£1,321	£716	£605	£0	£9,407	£6,083	101.9	5	5
31/03/21		£668	£630	£37	£0	£8,737	£6,406	122	5	10
31/03/20		£409	£607	£-198	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/03/19		£251	£558	£-307	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	19
31/03/18		£196	£794	£-598	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£90	£543	£-453	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£179	£617	£-439	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	*	£172	£444	£-272	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£207	£550	£-344	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	*	£10,484	£512	£9,972	£326	£10,419	£10,318	241.8	0	0
31/03/12		£375	£453	£-78	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	*	£92	£220	£-128	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	*	£1,752	£175	£1,577	£124	£802	£113	7.7	0	0
31/03/09	*	£152	£294	£-142	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	*	£66	£368	£-302	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07?	*	£134	£477	£-343	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£487	£459	£28	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£415	£473	£-58	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 63 years

www.africacentre.org.uk

info@africacentre.org.uk

02078361973

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training
Other Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Other facilities management and maintenance

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
Other Defined Groups
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
16 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

DCMS	£131,823
Wolfson Foundation	£100,000
National Lottery Heritage Fund	£77,673
National Lottery Community Fund	£48,026

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to The Africa Centre
£100,000	08/06/2023	New exhibition space for the Centre's archive
National Lottery Community Fund - The Africa Centre Supperclub
£48,026	17/03/2023	This project will use funding to explore how they can support and empower the local Black/African LGBTQ+ community through their monthly Supperclub pilot. It will aim to address the lack of safe ....more This project will use funding to explore how they can support and empower the local Black/African LGBTQ+ community through their monthly Supperclub pilot. It will aim to address the lack of safe spaces for honest conversations as well as creating systemic change for the Black LGBTQ+ community.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Africa Centre Limited
£77,673	14/10/2022	The Malangatana Heritage Programme
DCMS - The Africa Centre Operations
£131,823	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 29-61

MALGORZATA SWIERCZEWSKA Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Co-Founder

NISSRIN ZAPTIA Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Marketing Consultant

NZUBE UFODIKE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Entrepreneur

AUDREY MPUNZWANA Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Consultant

ETHEL TAMBUDZAI Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Company Director

JULIAN BOAITEY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director

OBA NSUGBE (Chair) Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Barrister

MURIEL LAMIN Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Head Of Commercial & Operations

PAUL ANDREW GOODWIN Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Researcher / Curator

DAVID TUNDE DAVIS Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Accountant, Other trusteeship: THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SAINT MARY OATLANDS,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 08/05/1961, number: 313510
Registered at Companies House on 21/02/1961, number: 00683989

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment 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
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

19 returns made; AR15: 80 days late, AR13: 2 days late, AR11: 3 days late, AR10: 2 days late, AR09: 13 days late, AR08: 1 days late, AR07: 324 days late, AR05: 22 days late, AR04: 96 days late,

Main office

The Africa Centre
66 Great Suffolk Street
LONDON
SE1 0BL

Objectives

TO PROMOTE EDUCATION IN MATTERS CONCERNING AFRICA AND ITS PEOPLES BY ESTABLISHING ONE OR MORE EDUCATIONAL CENTRES;BY STIMULATING INTEREST IN AFRICA BY APPROPRIATE MEANS IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND BODIES; BY ORGANISING STUDY GROUPS,PROVIDING A REFERENCE LIBRARY AND CARRYING OUT RESEARCH IN SOCIOLOGICAL SIMILAR FIELDS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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