WELWITSCHIA WELFARE CENTRE

Registered charity 1131751 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WELWITSCHIA LEGAL ADVICE CENTRE

The WWC provides advice, information, advocacy to African Portuguese Speaking refugees, asylum seekers and migrants. It services are provided in different subjects such as; immigration, housing, welfare benefits, community care, debt/money, education, employment and training, interpreting and translation services. It also carries out home visits.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net incoming resource of £15,324 for the year, resulting in total unrestricted and restricted funds of £66,378. The trustees have confirmed the charity is a going concern, citing secured continuation funding and cost reduction measures. The charity maintains a reserves policy target of at least six months' expenditure.

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06528173

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Welwitschia Welfare Centre (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.

• BAPTISTA, Helder — director, appointed 13/03/2021on trustee list
• DA SILVA, Antonio Amaro — director, appointed 28/02/2019not on trustee list
• JONES, Adao Joao — director, appointed 14/12/2012on trustee list
• BAPTISTA, Ribeiro Francisco — director, appointed 27/03/2010on trustee list
• BAPTISTA, Ribeiro Francisco — secretary, appointed 23/11/2019

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Antonio Amaro da Silvachair
• Adao Jones
• Helder Baptista
• RIBEIRO BAPTISTA

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

Operates in: Barking And Dagenham · Barnet · Enfield · Hackney · Islington · Lambeth · Newham · Waltham Forest

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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