COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT

Registered charity 1076090 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We offer nursery and, out of school club provisions, conference and meeting space hire, general advice & information.Best described as a Social Enterprise organisation which aims to provide a one stop service to the local community to help them to access work, education and other services locally.

Objects

TO PROVIDED OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES AND ACTIVITIES FOR PRIMARILY THE AFRICAN - CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY IN AND AROUND THE SOHO AND VICTORIA WARD OF THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF SANDYWELL AND IN PARTICULAR THE FURTHERANCE OF EDUCATION, RECREATION AND LEISURE, THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS.

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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sandwell, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a net income of £72,015 for the year ended 31 March 2026, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £1,331,413. The accounts state there are no material uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. However, the charity holds significant long-term liabilities, with creditors falling due after more than one year totaling £608,958.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

Inspection and regulatory ratings

Matched to this charity by name; verify provider identity on the regulator’s site.

• Ofsted — Community Action Project: Good · Ofsted

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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

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

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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 31/03/2023 (received 14/05/2024, 104 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03655201

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• EBANKS, Lathan — director, appointed 23/10/1998not on trustee list
• GORDON, Marcia — director, appointed 23/10/1998on trustee list
• HYLTON, Albert David — director, appointed 23/10/1998on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALBERT HYLTON
• LATHAM EBANKS
• MARCIA GORDON

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Coventry City · Dudley · Sandwell · Solihull · Walsall · Wolverhampton

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMMUNITY NEEDS FOUNDATION.

• COMMUNITY NEEDS FOUNDATION income £48k
• COMMUNITY ACTION DERBY LTD income £3.1m
• EARLEY CRESCENT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £215k
• COMMUNITY ACTION MALVERN AND DISTRICT income £457k
• COMMUNITY AID LIMITED income £25k
• COMMUNITY LIVES MATTER income £91k

Side by side with its peers

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