AFRICAN CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY INITIATIVE (A.C.C.I.)

Registered charity 1081996 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ACCI, AFRICAN - CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY INITIATIVE (A.C.C.I.)

ACCI provides a daily resource centre and Assertively managed (dual diagnosis), Intensive Supported (acutely vulnerable women) supported accommodation, assertive outreach, housing, counselling & therapy service to African Caribbean people (but not exclusively) who have mental ill health, including those who also have learning and less severe physical disabilities. Largest Carers Group regionally.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR TH BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING ESPECIALLY PERSONS OF AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN ORIGIN LIVING OR WORKING IN OR AROUND THE BOROUGH OF WOLVERHAMPTON AND ITS ENVIRONS AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THOSE PERSONS WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM OR WHO HAVE SUFFERED FROM MENTAL ILLNESS OF ANY SORT

Area of benefit: BOROUGH OF WOLVERHAMPTON AND ITS ENVIRONS

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net deficit of £249,257 for the year, reducing total reserves from £556,595 to £307,338. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds are in a deficit of £62,665, which is below the stated policy target of three to six months of expenditure (£372,868 to £745,736). The trustees have implemented cost-saving measures and secured grants to project a return to a surplus position by the end of the current financial year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by LMH Accountants Ltd T/A Trevor Jones & Co. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. 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
• 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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04014153

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Alicia Spence — Director of Services (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Lloyds Bank Foundation — “We've teamed up with Lloyds Bank FOUNDATION” (source page)

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.

• FORSYTH, Steven — director, appointed 26/01/2024on trustee list
• GAYLE, Carl Elliot — director, appointed 01/03/2023on trustee list
• GRANT, Vivene — director, appointed 01/03/2023on trustee list
• TATHAM, Bridget Anne — director, appointed 25/01/2019on trustee list
• DAVIS, Jahnel — director, appointed 10/02/2018on trustee list
• MCINTOSH, Donald — director, appointed 10/06/2017on trustee list
• GAYLE, Canute Earl — director, appointed 29/01/2010on trustee list
• WHITE, Maxine Marina — director, appointed 21/11/2002on trustee list
• GORDON, Thessia St Maria — secretary, appointed 13/06/2009

Official officers record.

CQC provider record: African Caribbean Community Initiative (A.C.C.I.) — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 09/07/2019.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Atiba House: Good (07/08/2019) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bridget Tathamchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• CANUTE GAYLE
• Carl Elliot Gayle
• DONALD MCINTOSH · trustee of 1 other charity
• IFAGBEMI AJANI BANDELE
• JAHNEL DAVIS
• MAUREEN MCCALLA
• MAXINE WHITE
• Steven Forsyth
• Vivene Grant

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

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

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES.

• AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES income £556k
• SHEFFIELD AFRICAN CARIBBEAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £757k
• AFRICAN CARIBBEAN CARE GROUP income £555k
• AFRICAN CARIBBEAN ACHIEVEMENT PROJECT income £165k
• AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTRE income £405k
• IRISH COMMUNITY CARE income £674k

Side by side with its peers

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