ERITREAN PARENTS AND CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1048965 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as E P C A

EPCA aims to raise aspirations, educational achievement of young children from refugee background and equip them with skills that will increase their employability. EPCA believes that providing community based education for children & their families and widening their participation in learning leads towards building stronger and healthy communities.

Objects

FOR THE RELIEF OF NEED AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE OR WORK IN THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA, AND IN PARTICULAR, THOSE WHO ARE ERITREAN OR OF ERITREAN DESCENT IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS:- (A) BY RELIEVING THOSE WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS (ESPECIALLY BY PROVIDING INFORMATION, ADVICE, GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING FOR SUCH PERSONS) AND, (B) BY ADVANCING EDUCATION INCLUDING EDUCATION IN THE ARABIC AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES.

Area of benefit: ROYAL BOROUGH OF KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held no reserves during the period under review. The trustees report that they give all their time free of charge, and the independent examiner confirmed that proper accounting records were kept and accounts complied with the Act.

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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• 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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 25/04/2022, 84 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

• Hassan Adem
• Hawa Omer
• JAMAL IBRAHIM OMAR

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

Operates in: Kensington And Chelsea

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AFRICAN CHILDRENS EDUCATIONAL TRUST.

• AFRICAN CHILDRENS EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £111k
• ERITREAN COMMUNITY CENTRE income £49k
• EVERY PARENT & CHILD income £200k
• AFRICA EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £1.7m
• PEDMORE CHURCH OF ENGLAND (AIDED) PRIMARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION income £26k
• PETER PAN PRE-SCHOOL FLECKNEY income £64k

Side by side with its peers

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