COMMUNITIES WELFARE NETWORK

Registered charity 1167437 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COWNET

The provision of information, advocacy, and advice services- The Provision of training for employment- The provision of financial capability training and advice sessions- The Provision of literacy and numeracy classes and supplementary education forchildren.- The provision of domestic, befriending, and recreational services for the sick, isolated, and disabled people.

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, WOMEN, MEN AND CHILDREN OF MINORITY COMMUNITIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM WHO ARE IN NEED DUE TO YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, BY:A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, INCLUDING BY THE PROVISION OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSES AND SUPPLEMENTAL EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN;B) THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT; C) THE PROMOTION AND PRESERVATION OF GOOD HEALTH D) THE PROVISION OR ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £4,008 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £57,877 and total expenditure of £53,869. The trustees confirmed that unrestricted reserves stood at £17,254, which is below the stated policy target of 3-6 months' turnover. The financial statements were subject to an independent examination rather than a full audit, as the charity qualified as a small company.

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
• Paying staff
• 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/06/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BEUGRE JACQUES NDOUBA
• FELIX WOHI
• YLLO AYA KOHI

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

Operates in: City Of London · Lambeth · Southwark

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMMUNITY AID LIMITED.

• COMMUNITY AID LIMITED income £34k
• COMMUNITY WELFARE TRUST income £50k
• COMMUNITY SOUTHWARK income £1.4m
• COMMUNITY EDUCATION EMPLOYMENT AND ADVICE LTD income £86k
• NHANCED COMMUNITIES income £182k
• COMMUNITIES EMPOWERMENT NETWORK income £110k

Side by side with its peers

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