AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

Registered charity 1067108 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ACMHS

ACMHS is a community based organisation providing free confidential and culturally appropriate services to African and African Caribbean people suffering from mental ill health. Main activities are assessment and management of care, Mental health services, IAPT, CBT, Advocacy, Volunteering, Carers Group, Student Placement, Advice and Support, Counselling, Drop-ins, Befriending/peer support

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE PRESERVATION OF MENTAL HEALTH AND TO ASSIST IN RELIEVING AND REHABILITATING MEMBERS OF THE AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY LIVING IN GREATER MANCHESTER WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM MENTAL DISORDER OR CONDITIONS OF EMOTIONAL OR MENTAL DISTRESS REQUIRING ADVICE OR TREATMENT

Area of benefit: GREATER MANCHESTER

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 reported a net outgoing resource of £37,798 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds to £359,127. The trustees note that funding constraints have impacted operations and are developing a strategy to safeguard sustainability. Unrestricted reserves have decreased from £383,240 to £359,127, with the trustees considering this level sufficient for effective financial management at present.

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
• 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

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTOPHER AUGUSTINE BINNSchair
• Canon Dr Addy Lazz-Onyenobi · trustee of 4 other charities
• Dr Jaswinder Singh Bamrah
• Izetta Enisouh
• JACQUELINE DIANA THORN
• TREVOR BENJAMIN

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

Operates in: Manchester City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AFRICAN CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY INITIATIVE (A.C.C.I.).

• AFRICAN CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY INITIATIVE (A.C.C.I.) income £1.2m
• SHEFFIELD AFRICAN CARIBBEAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £757k
• AFRICAN CARIBBEAN ACHIEVEMENT PROJECT income £165k
• AFRICAN CARIBBEAN CARE GROUP income £555k
• LEICESTERSHIRE ACTION FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROJECT income £332k
• MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS WALES LIMITED income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.