THE BENIN TRUST

Registered charity 1116338 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BENIN YOUTH FORUM, THE BINI UNION TRUST · filing overdue (register status)

Provision of senior citizen support and volunteering, organizing youth mentoring and health promotion including sports and recreational services, delivering vocational education including entrepreneurship, film-making, arts and mother tongue language training , offering job-search, capacity building workshops, research , promotion of black history and other general charitable activities

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL SKILLS OF THE PUBLIC, AND IN PARTICULAR AMONG THE PEOPLE OF BENIN KINGDOM DECENT, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, AND TO PROVIDE DISADVANTAGED UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE WITH WORK EXPERIENCE WHICH THEY NEED TO GET PAID JOBS IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY IN WAYS WHICH ALLEVIATE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE. (B) TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY, AND IN PARTICULAR AMONG PEOPLE OF BENIN KINGDOM DECENT, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED AND DISTRESS BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES BY DEPLOYING HUMAN AND MATERIAL RESOURCES, MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY FOR PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR ITEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES, AND BY ANY OTHER CHARITABLE MEANS WHICH SUCH PERSONS COULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD THROUGH LACK OF MEANS, AND BY PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR ORGANISATIONS WHICH GIVE HELP TO PEOPLE SUFFERING FINANCIAL HARDSHIP. (C) TO RELIEVE SICKNESS, AND PRESERVE THE HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC, AND IN PARTICULAR THOSE OF BENIN KINGDOM DECENT, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY ADVANCING PUBLIC EDUCATION IN ALL ASPECTS OF HEALTH AND RAISING AWARENESS OF SUCH ISSUES, BY PROVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH FACILITIES, ORGANISING SEMINARS, FORUMS, AND UNDERTAKING RESEARCH.

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: 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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The Benin Trust reported a surplus for the year ended 31 October 2024, with total income of £75,972 and total expenditure of £63,710. The charity holds total reserves of £17,625, comprising £7,525 in unrestricted funds and £10,100 in restricted funds. The trustees confirmed the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for at least twelve months from the approval date.

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 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
• 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
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAMILOLA ALABI
• JUSTIN OLOYA MA
• Rev HOFFMAN FRIMPONG-MANSO
• STEWART BOWIE

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

Operates in: Benin · Nigeria · Throughout London

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).