ETHNIC MINORITIES WIDOWS/WIDOWERS ORGANISATION UK LIMITED

Registered charity 1105900 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EMWWOU, EMWWOUL, ETHNIC MINORITIES WIDOWS/WIDOWERS ORGANISATION UK · filing overdue (register status)

We make donations of household goods such as clothing & cooking utensils. We provide domestic support, run a charity shop. We visit people (elderly & vulnerable widows & widowers & their families). We help every widows & widowers with their other needs but not money (cash) because we are in debt. We will help with finance fund when the shop picks up and we've cleared our debt.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROVIDE CHARITABLE ASSISTANCE TO AFRICAN, CARIBBEAN AND OTHER ETHNIC MINORITIES, WIDOWS, WIDOWERS AND THEIR CHILDREN AGED BETWEEN ONE AND FIFTEEN YEARS WHO ARE IN NEED PRIMARILY, BUT NOT NECESSARILY AS A CONSEQUENCE OF THE LOSS OF THEIR SPOUSE OR PARENT, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE, ADVICE, INFORMATION, COUNSELLING, SUPPORT, TRANSLATING AND INTERPRETING IN MATTERS SUCH AS LOSS OF A SPOUSE, ADVOCACY, MONEY, DEBTS, WELFARE BENEFITS, HOUSING, HEALTH, EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND 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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operates a single shop as its only source of income, which generated £40,886 in the year. However, the charity reports a net expenditure of £777 and holds unrestricted reserves of £(102,427), indicating a significant accumulated deficit. The trustees note that the shop was affected by the pandemic and that the charity is currently unable to pay its debts, with a stated aim to 'start paying our debts' in its next phase.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 4 were received after the due date: year ending 31/10/2024 (received 15/03/2026, 196 days after the 31/08/2025 due date); year ending 31/10/2023 (received 26/10/2024, 56 days after the 31/08/2024 due date); year ending 31/10/2022 (received 05/10/2023, 35 days after the 31/08/2023 due date); year ending 31/10/2021 (received 30/09/2022, 30 days after the 31/08/2022 due date).

1 further annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOY AZUBUIKE
• STELLA AMADI

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WIDOWS EMPOWERMENT TRUST.

• THE WIDOWS EMPOWERMENT TRUST income £114k
• ARMY WIDOWS' ASSOCIATION income £40k
• THE WIDOWS, ORPHANS AND DEPENDANTS SOCIETY OF THE CHURCH IN WALES income £143k
• JEWINS WOMEN 2 WOMEN LIMITED income £165k
• EAST - WEST MINISTRIES income £65k
• WORTHING WOMEN'S AID income £714k

Side by side with its peers

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