READING AND EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY

Registered charity 1169146 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

- The advancement of education for the benefit of the public in reading, - To provide facilities for the recreation and other leisure time occupation of children - The relief of financial need and suffering among victims of natural or other kinds of disaster in the form of money

Objects

1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN READING, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN SUBJECTS SUCH AS EMPOWERMENT, SUSTAINABLE LIVING AND RELATED ACTIVITIES AND THE PROVISION OF SUPPLEMENTARY SCHOOL CLASSES FOR CHILDREN AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT FOR THOSE IN OR ENTERING EDUCATION. 2) TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF CHILDREN SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL CAPACITIES AND IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.3) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL NEED AND SUFFERING AMONG VICTIMS OF NATURAL OR OTHER KINDS OF DISASTER IN THE FORM OF MONEY (OR OTHER MEANS DEEMED SUITABLE) FOR PERSONS, BODIES, OR ORGANISATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL AID.

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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Registered contact address: Reading, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted funds increased to £339,857, up from £322,330 in the prior year, driven by net income of £17,527. The charity holds tangible fixed assets valued at £300,538 and has current liabilities of £12,340 against current assets of £51,659. The trustees confirm the accounts comply with the Companies Act 2006 and Charities SORP (FRS 102).

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 4 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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 08/03/2026, 36 days after the 31/01/2026 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 29/05/2024, 119 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ABBAS FAKIH
• Amour Juma Amour
• HASSAN ABDULLAH
• RAMADHAN JUMA

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

Operates in: Reading

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with READING FC COMMUNITY TRUST.

• READING FC COMMUNITY TRUST income £2.4m
• READ FOR GOOD income £1.5m
• ASSISTED READING FOR CHILDREN income £199k
• READING FAMILY CHURCH income £1.5m
• THE READING FOUNDATION income £517k
• READING EDUCATION TRUST income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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