COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION FOR MINORITY COMMUNITIES LTD

Registered charity 1114410 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SOMALI BRAVANESE ASSOCIATION IN LONDON

Supplementary School Classes Basic English Classes For Refugees Employment and work Opportunity: Outreach Support and Interpreting Services Family Support Services Advice and advocacy services and Telephone Help Line Sport Activities Elderly and Women Social Club Cultural and Social events Community gathering and Consultation Meetings

Objects

A) TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF AND IMPROVE THE SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SOMALI BRAVANESE C0MMUNITY AND OTHER ETHNIC MINORITY GROUPS IN UK AND THE REST OF THE WORLD BY PROVIDING PRACTICAL SUPPORT, ADVICE, INFORMATION, GUIDANCE AND REINFORCE THEIR CULTURAL IDENTITYB) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE SOMALI BRAVANESE COMMUNITY AND OTHER ETHNIC MINORITY GROUPS.C) TO ADVANCE RELIGIOUS OF THE SOMALI BRAVANESE COMMUNITY AND OTHER MINORITY GROUPS.D) TO PROMOTE AND IMPROVE THE HEALTHCARE OF SOMALI BRAVANESE COMMUNITY AND OTHER MINORITY GROUPS.E) TO PROVIDE RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES, IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SOMALI BRAVANESE COMMUNITY AND OTHER MINORITY GROUPS.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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: Haringey, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were £30,582, which is below the charity's stated policy target of six months' expenditure (£32,850). The independent examiner confirmed the accounts were prepared in accordance with applicable requirements, and the trustees consider the current reserve level adequate to continue activities.

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.

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
• 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)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Hussein Ali Ahmedchair
• Abubakar Sheikh
• Ifrah Ahmed
• Ifrah Mohamed
• Muna Noor

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

Operates in: Haringey

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MINORITY COMMUNITY AID.

• MINORITY COMMUNITY AID income £63k
• PROACTIVE COMMUNITY ENDEAVOURS income £252k
• COMMUNITIES WELFARE NETWORK income £58k
• ENFIELD SOMALI COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £100k
• COMMUNITY AID LIMITED income £25k
• COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £253k

Side by side with its peers

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