EBENEZER COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Registered charity 1108579 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EBENEZER COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTRE

Ebenezer Community College (ECC) is an Adult Education college that aims to support all learners towards personal and economic freedom. Through achievement of educational goals our learners gain enhanced confidence, mindset and skill that allow them to embrace new challenges and opportunities. Additionally, ECC partners with colleges to offer pathways to higher education.

Objects

TO PROMOTE GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS, THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM, MEMBERS FROM BLACK AND MINORITY ETHNIC (BME) COMMUNITIES AND THE UNEMPLOYED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:(A) PROVIDING ADVICE AND INFORMATION ON CAREERS AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES;(B) DISSEMINATING HEALTH INFORMATION TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE HEALTH;(C) ADVANCING OF EDUCATION, TRAINING OR RETRAINING, PARTICULARLY AMONG THOSE WHO ARE UNEMPLOYED;(D) PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATIONS, IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, FOR THOSE WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES; AND (E) DEVELOPING THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF CLIENTS IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £49,179 for the year, resulting in unrestricted reserves falling to a deficit of £12,941. This is below the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining reserves equivalent to approximately four months of expenditure (£181,505). Despite the deficit, the trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). 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
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04873355

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.

• FRIMPONG-MANSON, Kwaku — director, appointed 20/08/2003on trustee list
• REID, Angela Eugenie — secretary, appointed 20/08/2003

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ARCHBISHOP KWAKU FRIMPONG-MANSON
• CONSTANCE ABENA ADOMA OWUSU
• JAMES BENJAMIN BUACHIE

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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 EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH, SCARBOROUGH.

• EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH, SCARBOROUGH income £131k
• EBRAHIM COMMUNITY COLLEGE income £502k
• EASTBOURNE COLLEGE (INCORPORATED) income £28.1m
• NHANCED COMMUNITIES income £182k
• ESS EDUCATION AND SUPPORT SERVICES income £230k
• COMMUNITY EDUCATION INSTITUTE income £231k

Side by side with its peers

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