AFGHANISTAN & CENTRAL ASIAN ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1096908 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q39056495 · Wikipedia · also known as AFGHAN COMMUNITY ORGANISATION OF LONDON, AFGHAN COMMUNITY ORGANISATION OF LONDON IN GREAT BRITAIN, AFGHANISTAN & ASIAN COMMUNITY ORGANISATION

The Afghanistan and Central Asian Association (ACAA) is an award winning UK charity supporting refugees and asylum seekers. We provide integration services, including advice, advocacy, cultural events and class-based learning. In Afghanistan, our aim is to relieve poverty and support vulnerable communities.

Objects

1. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN PARTICULAR AMONGST AFGHAN REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF LANGUAGE AND OTHER SUPPLEMENTARY CLASSES.2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN AFGHAN CULTURE AND HISTORY IN PARTICULAR THROUGH EDUCATIONAL EVENTS. 1.THE RELIEF OF POVERTY SICKNESS AND DISTRESS, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH OF PEOPLE IN AFGHANISTAN IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.2.THE PROMOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:A) RELIEVING THE CHARITABLE NEEDS OF VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES B) ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES THROUGH THE USE OF [PUBLICATIONS, LECTURES], SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS.

Area of benefit: INTERNATIONAL

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £80,934 for the year ended 31 October 2025, resulting in unrestricted funds of £93,107. The trustees note that free reserves are below the stated policy target of three months of core unrestricted operating expenditure. However, the accounts confirm that the charity maintains adequate liquidity with cash balances of £498,655 and has prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by SCB (Accountants) Limited. Discloses 6 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Afghanistan and Central Asian Association (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Fariba Shahmohammadi
• Fatemeh Emami
• Nooruddin Ansari
• Noorzia Aimaq

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

Operates in: Afghanistan · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 AFGHANISTAN EDUCATION ACTION.

• AFGHANISTAN EDUCATION ACTION income £156k
• ASSOCIATION OF AFGHAN HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS-UK income £38k
• QATRAH income £39k
• THE ASSOCIATION FOR REAL CHANGE income £1.9m
• ARYANA AID income £411k
• AFGHAN SOCIETY IN THE WEST MIDLANDS income £38k

Side by side with its peers

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