CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY WELFARE

Registered charity 1133701 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CEDCOW-UK

IN UK,CEDCOW INTEGRATE AND EMPOWER MIGRANTS ESPECIALLY REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS TO OVERCOME POVERTY, SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND DISADVANTAGES.IN AFRICA,OUR ACTIVITIES FOCUS ON RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES AND PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA.

Objects

1. TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION IN LONDON FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BYPREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OFTHOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATEINTO SOCIETY EG REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THISCLAUSE "SOCIALLY EXCLUDED" MEANS AFRICAN MIGRANTS TO THE UK WHO AREEXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, ON THE GROUNDS OF THEIR ETHNICORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF OR CREED OR DUE TO SOCIAL AND ECONOMICDISADVANTAGE.2. TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA FOR THEBENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:(A) THE PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAND THE PRUDENT USE OF RESOURCES;(B) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE INSOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES;(C) THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE MEANS OF ACHIEVING ECONOMIC GROWTHAND REGENERATION.SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MEANS "DEVELOPMENT WHICH MEETS THE NEEDS OFTHE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEETTHEIR OWN NEEDS."

Area of benefit: LONDON

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lewes, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

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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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 02/02/2024, 2 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 05/02/2022, 5 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CATHERINE NGUNI EFAPE
• COLUMBUS NDELOA NJUALEM
• EBUCHE ESUA MICHAEL NKENG

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Operates in: Cameroon · Sierra Leone · The Gambia · Throughout London · Uganda

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