CONGOLESE COMMUNITY COUNCIL

Registered charity 1036988 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ISLINGTON ZAIREAN REFUGEE GROUP, IZRG

The Congolese Community Council aims to promote the benefit mainly Congolese any otrher person fron Congolese origin and also African Francophone in Great Britain by association together Congolse people and the local authorities voluntary and other organisations in a common effort to advance education and provide facilities in the interest of social welfare for recreation and leisure time.

Objects

(A) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF ISLINGTON IN PARTICULAR THOSE RESIDENT WHO ARE ZAIREAN REFUGEES BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE THEIR EDUCATION (B) TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF ISLINGTON WITH THE OBJECTS OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE (C) TO ESTABLISH OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE OR MEETING PLACE AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE SAME (WHETHER ALONE OR IN CO-OPERATION WITH ANY LOCAL AUTHORITY OR OTHER PERSON OR BODY) IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS

Area of benefit: ISLINGTON AND NEIGHBOURING AREA

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity broke even for the year, with total income of £61,068.75 matching total expenditure of £61,068.75. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves ended the year at £568, which is below the stated policy target of three months of operating expenditure. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention during the examination of the accounts.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 10/06/2023, 130 days after the 31/01/2023 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 23/03/2022, 51 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• TSHAL KAHUNGUchair
• EMMANUEL KAPAY FABIUS
• EVELYNE MAMPA
• ISABEL RICHARDS
• JEAN-MARIE WITELE
• TEME TEME WANGA

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Camden · Hackney · Islington

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CONGOLESE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT.

• CONGOLESE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT income £176k
• KONGOLESE CENTRE FOR INFORMATION AND ADVICE income £183k
• AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTRE income £405k
• CONGO CHURCH ASSOCIATION income £233k
• LES CROCODILES income £142k
• COMMUNICARE COUNSELLING SERVICE income £119k

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