ACCM (UK)

Registered charity 1128904 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Activities include tackling health inequalities and all forms of abuse, providing information and training to communities and professionals to raise awareness. Working with other organisations to develop services, deliver practical health and well-being programmes to tackle health inequalities amongst minority communities in Bedfordshire.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH AMONG ETHNIC MINORITIES IN ENGLAND AND WALES AND OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD. TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF BEDFORD AND SURROUNDING AREA THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS.

Area of benefit: ENGLAND AND WALES.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Latest income
£137k
Latest spending
£150k
Registered
2009
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's total funds increased from £28,161 to £15,413 in unrestricted and restricted funds combined, with a net expenditure of £12,748 recorded for the year. The trustees report that the charity is financially sustainable for the next four years due to secured core funding from The National Lottery Community Fund and Lloyds Bank Foundation.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/05/2025£137k£150k
31/05/2024£94k£122k
31/05/2023£96k£120k
31/05/2022£142k£105k
31/05/2021£129k£102k

Common questions

Is ACCM (UK) financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity's total funds increased from £28,161 to £15,413 in unrestricted and restricted funds combined, with a net expenditure of £12,748 recorded for the year. The trustees report that the charity is financially sustainable for the next four years due to secured core funding from The National Lottery Community Fund and Lloyds Bank Foundation.

Who funds ACCM (UK)?

Funders whose own accounts filings name ACCM (UK) as a grant recipient include SMALLWOOD TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
SMALLWOOD TRUSTFY2025£20k

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund06/02/2024£369kMaking a difference
The National Lottery Community Fund06/12/2019£10kSupporting homeless people in Bedford
The National Lottery Community Fund07/06/2018£8kCelebrating Bedford African Community
The National Lottery Community Fund05/10/2016£10kSupporting and Tackling Illegal Harmful Traditional Practices
The National Lottery Community Fund24/02/2016£323kTackling health inequalities amongst minority and other disadvantaged
The National Lottery Community Fund25/02/2015£10kSupporting older people
The National Lottery Community Fund15/08/2012£236kHappy and Healthy Bedford Citizens
The National Lottery Community Fund18/04/2012£9kEmpowering Our Users of Hidden Domestic Abuse to Improve Their Lives
The National Lottery Community Fund18/03/2010£4kHealthier and More Active Citizens in Bedford
The National Lottery Community Fund16/12/2008£7kHappy Citizens