AFRO INNOVATION GROUP

Registered charity 1191803 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Afro Innovation Group provides advice, advocacy, education, training, health and wellbeing support, employability, housing and community development services for refugees, asylum seekers, migrants and disadvantaged communities. We work through partnerships, research, volunteering and community leadership initiatives across the UK and support international development projects.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: 1.TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO MIGRANTS AND THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS IN THE EAST MIDLANDS AREA BY THE PROVISION OF TRAINING FACILITIES AND SUPPORT SERVICES SO AS TO ADVANCE THEM IN LIFE AND ASSIST THEM WITH THE ADAPTION WITHIN A NEW COMMUNITY, WITH THE OBJECTS OF: -A)PRESERVING AND PROTECTING THEIR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTHB)ADVANCING THEIR EDUCATION AND TRAINING;C)RELIEVING THEM FROM FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND UNEMPLOYMENT; ANDD)ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.2)TO RELIVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP IN AFRICA THROUGH SUCH SUPPORT AND SERVICES AS THE TRUSTEES DEEM APPROPRIATE.NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORIZE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH [SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT SCOTLAND ACT 2005 AND SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT NORTHERN IRELAND 2008.

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 · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity faced ongoing sustainability pressures due to increased service demand, inflationary cost increases, and limited unrestricted reserves. The trustees acknowledge that without continued multi-year funding support, service continuity would be at risk, although the charity reported a net income surplus for the year.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lilian Rudo Mukuduchair
• Annette Ngalula
• Deville Poto Moto
• Eden Moges
• Nejah Alwich
• Nicola Babunga
• Rwakasihi Marembo
• Taysir Al- Fayed

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

Operates in: Congo (Democratic Republic) · Kenya · Tanzania · Throughout England · Uganda

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AFRICAN WOMEN'S HEALTH GROUP.

• AFRICAN WOMEN'S HEALTH GROUP income £118k
• REVIVE CIO income £358k
• AFRICA ADVOCACY FOUNDATION income £1.4m
• DOSTIYO- ASIAN WOMEN AND GIRLS ORGANISATION income £209k
• AFRICAN CARIBBEAN ACHIEVEMENT PROJECT income £165k
• GRANBY SOMALI WOMEN'S GROUP income £228k

Side by side with its peers

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