AFRUCA - Safeguarding Children

Registered charity 1093027 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AFRICANS UNITE AGAINST CHILD ABUSE, AFRUCA

We promote the well-being and protection of children and families in black and ethnic communities across the UK using a cultural-competent approach. We provide a range of prevention and early intervention services to address child abuse, child trafficking, modern slavery and exploitation. We work with others to influence policy and improve practices. We are based in London and Manchester.

Objects

TO PROMOTE FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT THE WELLBEING OF VULNERABLE CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES, IN BME COMMUNITIES IN THE UK AND OVERSEAS WHO ARE VICTIMS OF ABUSE, CHILD TRAFFICKING AND EXPLOITATION BY PROVIDING PREVENTION SERVICES AND SUPPORTING THEM TO RECOVER AND REBUILD THEIR LIVES.?

Area of benefit: NATIONAL & OVERSEAS

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hackney, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded an operating deficit of £161,000 for the year, driven by a 12.39% decline in total revenue and a 19.76% increase in expenditure. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves fell by 29.44% to £169,552 as the charity drew on reserves to cover operational costs amid reduced grant funding and service delivery income.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Goldwins Limited. 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
• 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
• Investment
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04306536

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — AFRUCA- Safeguarding Children (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• DIMONEKENE, Alimatu Yagbessay — director, appointed 24/06/2023on trustee list
• SYLLA, Mamayimbe — director, appointed 02/05/2023on trustee list
• USIKARO, Magdalene Nyerovwo — director, appointed 02/09/2022on trustee list
• ADEOLA-ONI, Omolola Olayinka — director, appointed 18/08/2022on trustee list
• SETHI, Sudhir Kumar, Dr — director, appointed 19/01/2021on trustee list
• ARIYO, Modupe Debbie — secretary, appointed 17/10/2001

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (73% 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: 3.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Akua Gilfillian
• Dr Sudhir Kumar Sethi
• Halilat Yusuf
• Magdalene Nyerovwo Usikaro
• Mamayimbe Sylla
• Omolola Olayinka Adeola-Oni
• Roseline Oiwoh
• Yomi Tijani

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SAFE CHILD AFRICA.

• SAFE CHILD AFRICA income £74k
• ACTION FOR CHILDREN income £163.4m
• Able Child Africa income £939k
• ACTION FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA income £186k
• CURE INTERNATIONAL (UK) income £461k
• CHILDRENS HOSPITAL TRUST SOUTH AFRICA income £191k

Side by side with its peers

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