CARIBBEAN AND AFRICAN COMMUNITY HEALTH SUPPORT FORUM

Registered charity 1162605 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CACHSF

The aim of the Forum is to raise the profile of health and well being within the Caribbean&African community.The Objectives involves promoting awareness of the major health issues such as heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, mental health, stroke, & prostate cancer.CACHSF conducts research and acts as a first port of call for the exchange of health promoting/information amongst the community.

Objects

THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH WITHIN THE CARIBBEAN AND AFRICAN COMMUNITY IN SUFFOLK, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING EDUCATION, HEALTH ADVICE, SIGNPOSTING ON HEALTH ISSUES AND RAISING AWARENESS OF HEALTH ISSUES INCLUDING SICKLE CELL ANAEMIA AND LUPUS THAT AFFECT THE CARIBBEAN AND AFRICAN COMMUNITY

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity had an opening balance of £21,818.35 and total income of £40,727.75 for the year ending 31/03/2025. Total expenditure was £34,187.24, resulting in a closing balance of £6,540.51. The document does not provide information on unrestricted reserves or reserves policy.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• CLEMENT DAVID TURNERchair
• Courtney Akrofi
• Deloreta Williams
• Gregory Lee Denton
• Judith Harper
• Leroy Edwards
• Lydia Forrester
• Silbert Mervin Blake

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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