EAST AFRICA WELFARE AND DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1128218 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EAST AFRICAN WELFARE AND DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION

EAWDA has carried projects sponsoring orphans, digging wells, Qurbani, food packs, medicine. This year also provided clean water creating reservoirs, water well and borehole pumps in Somaliland. A new project of school has also been initiated this year. (Country of operation is Somaliland which is not found in drop-down option. Hence, Somalia is selected)

Objects

* TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THEIR ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES OF (PRINCIPALLY) YOUNG PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE* TO RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AND TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE IN SOMALIA AND THE SOMALI COMMUNITY IN THE UK

Area of benefit: SOMALIA

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Animals · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £24,741 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £35,246 to £10,505. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted revenue funds moved into a deficit of £8,995, while restricted funds decreased to £19,500. The trustees consider the financial performance satisfactory despite the deficit.

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
• 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
• 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 06608585

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — EWADA - East Africa Welfare and Development Association (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• ADAM, Abdi-Fatah — director, appointed 10/01/2024on trustee list
• ADAM, Faisal — director, appointed 22/08/2012on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• HASSAN SAED ADAMchair
• Abdi-Fatah Adam
• FAISAL ADAM

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

Operates in: Somalia · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT TRUST.

• AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £625k
• EDAID FOUNDATION income £169k
• HELP IN NEED TODAY income £558k
• AFRICAN ADVENTURES FOUNDATION income £331k
• THE WELFARE ASSOCIATION income £1.2m
• FAITH IN ACTION income £148k

Side by side with its peers

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