AFRICAN RAINBOW FAMILY

Registered charity 1185902 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

African Rainbow Family is the Leading National Expert by Experience Grassroots Charity Campaigning and Advocating for Racial Justice and Human Rights of LGBTIQ Refugees and People Seeking Asylum of African Heritage and the Global Majority. We provide psychotherapeutic group supports, training, counselling, advocacy, legal advice, information, employability, moving-on and integration services.

Objects

1. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL ABOUT THE ISSUES RELATING TO LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER AND INTERSEX REFUGEES AND THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM;2. THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT OF LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER AND INTERSEX PEOPLE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS AND THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IN PARTICULAR NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND, BY THE PROVISION OF VOCATIONAL AND SKILLS TRAINING ADVICE AND SUPPORT;3. TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER AND INTERSEX PEOPLE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS AND THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THEIR DEPENDENTS.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Manchester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £24,964 at the end of the financial year. The trustees report that they aim to retain reserves appropriate to the charity's size and financial commitments to ensure continuity of objectives, though no specific monetary target is defined. The filing confirms no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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
• 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
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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 30/09/2022 (received 06/09/2023, 38 days after the 30/07/2023 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — African Rainbow Family (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Regina Mensahchair
• Babatunde Oluwaseun Ogundana
• Hamdalat Bisi Balogun
• Kudirat Oluwatoyin Abodunde
• Olawunmi Kazeem

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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 THE RAINBOW FOUNDATION, WREXHAM.

• THE RAINBOW FOUNDATION, WREXHAM income £2.0m
• REDBRIDGE RAINBOW COMMUNITY income £38k
• RAINBOW TRUST CHILDREN'S CHARITY income £5.3m
• RAINBOW HOME NORTH income £54k
• RAINBOW MIGRATION income £988k
• HARRYS RAINBOW income £420k

Side by side with its peers

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