AFRICA OYE

Registered charity 1062484 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AFRICA OYE LIMITED

The principal activity of the company is to promote concerts and festivals to celebrate the cultural heritage and music of Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas. Africa Oye has an international reputation for world class performances.

Objects

TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE ART OF AFRICAN CARIBBEAN AND AMERICAS MUSIC, IN PARTICULAR BY PROMOTING CONCERTS AND FESTIVALS TO CELEBRATE CULTURAL HERITAGE AND MUSIC OF AFRICA, THE CARIBBEAN AND THE AMERICAS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with unrestricted reserves in deficit of £19,118, a significant improvement from the £71,157 deficit in the prior year, resulting from net incoming resources of £52,039. However, the trustees note that the charity is dependent on continued support from key funders like Arts Council England and Liverpool City Council to cover future festival activities and rising compliance costs. While the going concern basis is adopted, the financial position remains fragile due to the negative reserves and reliance on external funding.

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 5 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
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• 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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Serge Patrick Heseltonchair
• Anna Louise Maloney
• Benajmin Kofi Obeng
• Jessica Juckes
• Karine Nzang
• Kaya Ulrikke Herstad-Carney

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

Operates in: Knowsley · Liverpool City · Sefton · St Helens · Wirral

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AFRICAN CULTURAL EXCHANGE LIMITED.

• AFRICAN CULTURAL EXCHANGE LIMITED income £789k
• OYA ORGANISATION OF YOUNG AFRICANS income £143k
• Liverpool Irish Festival income £141k
• CHINEKE FOUNDATION income £1.5m
• The African People's Historical Monument Foundation (Black Cultural Archives) Limited income £545k
• OPERA NORTH LIMITED income £18.8m

Side by side with its peers

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