LATIN ELEPHANT

Registered charity 1158554 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Current Activities: Latin Elephant is striving to ensure that migrant and racialised groups are adequately represented and engaged in regeneration initiatives in London, in particular in Elephant and Castle.

Objects

TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY WORKING WITH PEOPLE IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED BOROUGHS OF LONDON (IN PARTICULAR ELEPHANT AND CASTLE, SOUTHWARK) WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED ON THE GROUNDS OF THEIR ETHNIC ORIGIN (IN PARTICULAR, MEMBERS OF THE LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY) TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF SUCH PEOPLE AND ASSIST THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY, IN PARTICULAR BY: 1.PROVIDING A LOCAL NETWORK GROUP THAT ENCOURAGES AND ENABLES MEMBERS OF THE LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY TO PARTICIPATE MORE EFFECTIVELY WITH THE WIDER COMMUNITY;2. INCREASING, OR CO-ORDINATING, OPPORTUNITIES FOR MEMBERS OF THE LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY TO ENGAGE IN URBAN REGENERATION INITIATIVES, AND IN ADVOCACY FOR INCLUSION IN SUCH ENGAGEMENT, IN THE AREAS WHERE THEY LIVE. 3. ENGAGING WITH SERVICE PROVIDERS, TO INFORM THE DELIVERY OF SERVICES TO BETTER MEET THE NEEDS OF THE LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year ended 30 September 2025 was £274,249, representing a significant increase from the previous year. Expenditure totalled £148,401, resulting in a net movement in funds of £125,847 and total reserves of £230,118. The trustees report that the charity is well-positioned for the future with secured long-term funding partnerships.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Global P & G. 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 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
• Social media 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr PATRIA ROMAN-VELAZQUEZchair
• David James Richard McEwen
• Dr Catalina Ortiz Arciniegas
• Dr Juliana Velez Echeverri
• Dr Katharine Elizabeth Wright
• Gabriela Zoraida Rojas Perez
• Jerry Flynn
• Prof Cathy Mcilwaine · trustee of 1 other charity

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 SAVE THE ELEPHANTS.

• SAVE THE ELEPHANTS income £5.3m
• LATIN LINK INTERNATIONAL income £45k
• THE ELEPHANT TRUST income £78k
• HISPANIC WELFARE ASSOCIATION income £228k
• LATIN LINK income £1.9m
• LATIN AMERICAN HOUSE income £478k

Side by side with its peers

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