Connect Stars

Registered charity 1104934 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HORN STARS

Community advice and guidanceSummer and School holidays play activitiesFootball Training programmeMentoringConsultancyFamily mediation

Objects

A. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION INCLUDING PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE IN THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL CAPABILITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVEDB. TO RELIEVE POVERTY BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE AND INFORMATION ABOUT HEALTH, WELFARE HOUSING AND SOCIAL BENEFITS AND BY PROVIDING TRAINING FOR UNEMPLOYED YOUNG PEOPLE

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: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the general reserve was £44,911, which the Treasurer notes has achieved the auditor's advice of holding three months of operating expenditure. However, the Trustees' Report explicitly states the charity currently operates with minimal general reserves and is endeavouring to build its donor base to ensure sufficient reserves for future operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04921997

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.

• ALI, Ayan — director, appointed 21/02/2025on trustee list
• MUSA, Ahmed Kamil Jama — director, appointed 21/02/2025on trustee list
• JAMA, Ahmed Abdirahman — director, appointed 20/12/2018on trustee list
• FARAH, Abdikarim Hussein — director, appointed 17/10/2014on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• ABDIKARIM FARAHchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ahmed Jama
• Ahmed Musa
• Ayan Ali

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

Operates in: Djibouti · Kenya · Somalia · Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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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 YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CONNEXIONS.

• YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CONNEXIONS income £491k
• SHEPHERD'S STAR income £88k
• ASSIST TRUST income £1.4m
• Star Community Foundation income £300k
• AGE CONNECTED income £177k
• CONNECTIONS TRUST income £116k

Side by side with its peers

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