KRIO DESCENDANTS UNION UK AND IRELAND

Registered charity 1189037 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KDU UK AND IRELAND

-Education and promoting awareness of the Krio culture and heritage - Participatory experiences through workshops, classes, dramatisation, lectures and exhibitions.-Documenting and showcasing distinctive Krio historic or cultural practices relating to Language etc.-Health promotion and advice- outreach and clinics. -Fundraising events to raise funds for the work of KDU UK & Ireland.

Objects

(1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CULTURE AND HISTORY OF THE KRIO PEOPLE OF SIERRA LEONE.(2) THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH IN FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE, BY THE PROVISION OF HEALTH OUTREACH PROGRAMMES THAT CONSIST OF HEALTH AWARENESS SESSIONS/TALKS IN THE AREAS OF BASIC HYGIENE, NUTRITION, DISEASE PREVENTION, HIV, SEXUAL HEALTH AND PREGNANCY THAT ARE DELIVERED BY REGISTERED HEALTH PRACTITIONERS.

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's total balance decreased from £18,886.43 at the start of the year to £18,886.43 at the end, with total expenses (£31,760.63) exceeding total income (£29,361.81). The trustees' report notes that the policy on holding reserves is 'in development' and that the amount of reserves held is 'zero' or to be determined as funds grow. The charity is structured as a Charity Incorporated Organisation (CIO) with 115 active members.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Abdul Rashid Thomas. Discloses 3 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Velma Seraphina Ayodele Tobunchair
• Beryl Genevieve Juma
• Dorothea Olabisi James
• Dr Kayode Ronald Adesimi Robbin-Coker
• Ellen Samuels
• Jesse Hamelberg
• Lawrence Anthony Beresford Lusanie
• Lindsay Benjamin
• Marionette Sheila Gilpin
• Mohamed Gibril Carew
• Ramatu Adisa-Sesay
• Rev Madeline Val-Macauley
• Yvette Erritan John

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

Operates in: Sierra Leone · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).