BASSUAH LEGACY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1185562 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NEW LEGACY FOUNDATION

Relieves the needs of, and promote social inclusion among single parents and their children who are socially and economically deprived through education and service provision within London and throughout listed countries of operation. We undertake other charitable activities, poverty relief, economic and community development, general charitable activities and act as an umbrella or resource body.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF, AND PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION AMONG, SINGLE PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN, WHO ARE SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED, WITHIN THE LONDON AREA, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF:A) EDUCATION, SUPPORT AND ADVICE IN ALL AREAS RELATING TO SINGLE PARENTHOOD.B) FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION 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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hammersmith and Fulham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with unrestricted reserves of negative £1,128, a decline from the previous year's surplus. The trustees consider the financial position satisfactory and adequate to support operations for the medium term, noting that free reserves have been utilized as an emergency reserve to meet obligations.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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
• 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2025 (received 05/11/2026, 5 days after the 31/10/2026 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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• FINBARR BASSUAH
• Isaac Sarbah
• Natasha Kataria
• Philip Obeng
• Philippa Gittens

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

Operates in: Ghana · Throughout England

Income and spending

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

• HASANAH AID income £278k
• BARAKAH EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION income £119k
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• BASEERA income £86k
• BAYIS LEPLEITOS income £639k
• LEGACY IN THE COMMUNITY income £342k

Side by side with its peers

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