RECONNECTION

Registered charity 1157568 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EAST-AFRICAN DIASPORA COMMUNITY NETWORK (EDCN)

Provide welfare-benefits advice and information to increase access to services,Walking and Cycling activities to promote health and wellbeing,Coffee Chat Shop advice to promote integration,Run drop-in advice/information service to increase access to available services,Facilitate the integration of new communities into their new country

Objects

1. TO RELIEVE AND PREVENT POVERTY AMONG MEMBERS OF ALL ‘NEWLY ARRIVED COMMUNITIES’ AND THEIR DEPENDENTS LIVING IN GREENWICH, BRENT, BEXLEY AND SURROUNDING AREAS BY PROVIDING ADVOCACY/SIGNPOSTING/GENERAL ADVICE/TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION SERVICES2. TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AMONG MEMBERS OF NEWLY ARRIVED COMMUNITIES WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED ON THE GROUNDS OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC POSITION IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING:A) INFORMAL CONVERSATIONAL ENGLISH GROUPS, WITH FLUENT ENGLISH SPEAKERS;B) EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING IN THE COMMUNITY;C) SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY.IN THIS CLAUSE ‘NEWLY ARRIVED COMMUNITIES’ MEANS THOSE COMING TO LIVE AND SETTLE IN THE UK FROM OTHER COUNTRIES, PARTICULARLY THOSE WHO DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Greenwich, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased by £2,000 during the period, resulting in total unrestricted cash funds of £58,976 at year-end. The charity reported total receipts of £58,976 and total payments of £28,274, leaving a net surplus of £30,702 across all funds. No liabilities or restricted fund balances were recorded at the end of the period.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• WOLD ASMEROMchair
• GIMJA ADHANOM
• ISMAEL MUSA

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Connection Support.

• Connection Support income £10.1m
• RECONNECT income £123k
• COMMUNITY DISCOVERY AND RECOVERY SERVICES income £1.3m
• CONNECT COUNSELLING SERVICE income £140k
• AGE CONNECTED income £177k
• COMMUNITY CONNECT FOUNDATION income £310k

Side by side with its peers

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