AFRICAN FRENCH SPEAKING COMMUNITY SUPPORT

Registered charity 1169279 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Children and Young People's activities: Supplementary education, Homework Club, Sports, Recreational activitiesAdults and families' activities: Employability, Befriending, Sport, Entertainment, Outreach, holiday schemes Networking and Public Events in the communityInternational Development: supporting projects in some third world countriesIncome generation to be reinvested in the charity.

Objects

1. The prevention and relief of financial hardship in people of African ethnic origin whose first language is French and who are residing in Africa or in England and Wales by providing or assisting in the provision of education, training, healthcare projects and all necessary support designed to enable individuals to generate a sustainable income and be self-sufficient.2. The development of the capacity and skills of the socially and economically disadvantaged communities of French speaking Africa so that they are better able to identify and meet their own needs and participate more fully in society.3. The relief and assistance of people who live in French speaking African countries, or who have been displaced from French speaking areas of Africa by natural disaster or catastrophe by the supply aid to such persons.4. To promote for the benefit of the public the conservation of the natural environment and the sustainable use of natural resources, including without limitation, fauna and flora, water, and soils, and the promotion of education in conservation environment, and in the sustainable use of natural resources.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sandwell, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a total income of £292,283 for the year, resulting in a net income of £30,756. The charity holds total funds of £156,841, comprising £118,256 in restricted funds and £38,585 in unrestricted funds. The trustees report that the charity maintained adequate reserves to support sustainability despite rising operational costs and short-term project funding challenges.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — African French Speaking Community Support (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Open Doors Fund — “The African French Speaking Community Support charity has been awarded the Open Doors Fund grant to boost youth music opportunities.” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/09/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jacques Matensi-kubanzachair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Sibanda
• JASON NDUNDULA BSC HONS
• Petelo Gally Sakwanga
• Simplice Odette Nkonge-mbomba

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

Operates in: Angola · Burundi · Cameroon · Central African Republic · Congo · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Gabon · Guinea · Ivory Coast · Mali · Rwanda · Senegal

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 FRENCH-AFRICAN WELFARE ASSOCIATION FAWA.

• FRENCH-AFRICAN WELFARE ASSOCIATION FAWA income £196k
• AFRICAN REFUGEE COMMUNITY income £98k
• THE FAMILY FOUNDATION income £86k
• YOUNG DEAF ACTIVITIES income £30k
• AFRICAN RELIEF FUND income £210k
• FURNESS MULTI-CULTURAL COMMUNITY FORUM income £222k

Side by side with its peers

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