AKWAABA

Registered charity 1181291 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Akwaaba is a Hackney-based social centre for migrants. We offer a space for rest, play, learning and mutual support. Akwaaba seeks to reduce social isolation, to build lasting relationships between new members of the community and old (regardless of age, background or immigration status), and to foster solidarity in an extremely diverse inner London

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:1. THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AMONG PEOPLE WHO ARE MIGRANTS, INCLUDING REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS, AND THEIR DEPENDANTS, AND WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED ON THE GROUNDS OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC POSITION OR IMMIGRATION STATUS BY PROVIDING A SAFE AND WELCOMING SPACE FOR SOCIAL ACTIVITY WITH OPPORTUNITIES FOR PARTICIPATION IN WORKSHOPS, FORUMS AND CLASSES.2. TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF MIGRANTS, INCLUDING REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS, AND THEIR DEPENDANTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PEOPLE AND ASSIST THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.3.TO RELIEVE HARDSHIP AMONG MIGRANTS BY PROVIDING OR FACILITATING ACCESS TO INFORMATION, LEGAL ADVICE, ADVOCACY, EDUCATION, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT OR ANY OTHER APPROPRIATE SUPPORT AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT.4.TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER SOLIDARITY AND BUILD A SHARED COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £84,038 for the year ending March 2025, resulting in a net increase in cash balance. The charity maintains unrestricted reserves of £72,340, which the trustees note provides for approximately six months of essential costs. The primary financial risk identified is the potential loss of recurring income during difficult socio-economic conditions.

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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Bukola Akinniyi
• Ibtisam Imam
• Jihad Issa
• Morgan Paige Harries
• OMOLOLA ALIMI
• Otto Wolf

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

Operates in: Hackney

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AKWAABA FOUNDATION.

• AKWAABA FOUNDATION income £67k
• HACKNEY MIGRANT CENTRE income £562k
• The Gambia Welfare Society income £76k
• Karibu African Support Group income £56k

Side by side with its peers

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