BARNET AFRICAN CARIBBEAN ASSOCIATION LTD

Registered charity 1151068 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BACA

Service users benefit from hot lunches, manicures, massages, opticians visits, health checks, advice and information on healthy living, keep-fit classes and support from a social worker and a nurse. Service users take part in activities including singing, pottery, drawing and painting, arts and crafts, puzzles, scrabble, dominoes and bingo.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE LONDON BOROUGHS (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE ‘AREA OF BENEFIT’), IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY PEOPLE OF AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN HERITAGE, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND THE INHABITANTS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO RELIEVE POVERTY, PRESERVE AND PROTECT GOOD HEALTH, ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING CONDITIONS OF THE SAID INHABITANTS.

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £27,935 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £23,793. The trustees note that the charity is dependent on grant funding from Age UK Barnet and face major risks to its going concern status due to the challenging fundraising environment and cost-of-living crisis.

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.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/01/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alesia Melanie Carrington
• Caroline Viola Mitcham
• Linda Lusingu
• MAGDALENE AKOSUA FODA BAYIM-ADOMAKO
• TIMOTHY BLANC

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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