WEST BROMWICH AFRICAN CARIBBEAN RESOURCE CENTRE

Registered charity 1091956 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ACESS, ACRC CARE, STEPS TO WORK, WBACRC

Provision of Health and Social Care Services Educational support Employment support CateringInformation advice and guidance Facilities hireHealth Promotion, Youth Activities Cultural Awareness Entertainment

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE AFRICAN CARIBBEAN INHABITANTS OF SANDWELL AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY ASSOCIATION TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS..

Area of benefit: SANDWELL AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity returned an operating deficit of £42,390 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1,648,751 and total expenditure of £1,691,141. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £197,950, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain going concern status for the next 12 months despite anticipated funding reductions and tax increases.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HB&O Ltd. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £60,000 - £70,000 (FY2024) to £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Paying staff
• 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 03916617

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Bishop Davis — Chair (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).

• Leverhulme Trust — “This is a collaboration between West Bromwich African Caribbean Resource Centre and Northumbria University Newcastle Funded by the Leverhulm…” (source page)
• Sandwell Council — “Funders Sandwell Council” (source page)
• Sandwell and Birmingham NHS Trust — “Sandwell and Birmingham NHS Trust” (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.

• MIGHTY, Donna — director, appointed 24/07/2023on trustee list
• GRANT, Avril — director, appointed 20/06/2020on trustee list
• DAVIS, Lincoln Hugh, Bishop — director, appointed 19/03/2018on trustee list
• FOGARTY, Sharon — director, appointed 21/01/2016on trustee list
• JAMES, Kenneth — director, appointed 31/01/2000on trustee list
• JARRETT, Hyacinth — director, appointed 31/01/2000on trustee list
• WARD, Shane — secretary, appointed 16/05/2022

Official officers record.

CQC provider record: West Bromwich African Caribbean Resource Centre — Registered, 3 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 25/11/2019.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 01/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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).

• West Bromwich African Caribbean Resource Centre: Good (31/12/2019) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• AVRIL GRANT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Daniel Harty
• Donna Mighty · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Melissa Brown
• HYACINTH ADESSA JARRETT
• KENNETH JAMES · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev LINCOLN DAVIS
• SHARON FOGARTY

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

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 CARIBBEAN ACHIEVEMENT PROJECT.

• AFRICAN CARIBBEAN ACHIEVEMENT PROJECT income £165k
• THE CARERS' RESOURCE income £4.4m
• LOCAL SOLUTIONS income £14.6m
• WARWICKSHIRE COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY ACTION income £2.0m
• SEFTON CARERS CENTRE income £2.2m
• MEDWAY AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN ASSOCIATION income £123k

Side by side with its peers

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