UNITED AFRICAN ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1192725 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as UAA

Our activities include the provision of weekly African food parcels at Leicester Street Community Centre in Northampton. We operate an admin office at Barratt House, Kingsthorpe Road, Northampton, NN2 6EZ providing one to one support, outreach services in partnership with CAB. Other activities include African drumming, ladies swimming, IT sessions, online immigration sessions, health & wellbeing

Objects

THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN NORTHAMPTON BY PROVIDING AFRICAN FOOD PARCELS, NON-FOOD ESSENTIALS SUCH AS PERSONAL AND HOUSEHOLD ESSENTIALS, CLOTHING AND OTHER ITEMS AS WELL AS SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER PARTNER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income was £262,045 against total expenditure of £253,503, resulting in a net income of £8,542. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds increased from £41,874 to £81,594, with the charity maintaining a reserves policy aimed at ensuring continuity of services. The independent examiner confirmed that accounting records were kept and the financial statements comply with applicable regulations.

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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• 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

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Raymond John Ombuichair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anne Wankiiri · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Kinuthia
• JOYCE SUSAN WAMUYU MBAU
• Muchineripi Rwizi
• Wanjiru Macharia

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

Operates in: Northamptonshire

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 AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTRE.

• AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTRE income £405k
• UGANDA MUSLIM COMMUNITY IN UNITED KINGDOM income £193k
• BRITISH AFRICAN CO-OPERATIVE FOUNDATION income £611k
• NORTHAMPTON ASSOCIATION FOR ACCOMMODATION FOR SINGLE HOMELESS income £2.0m
• THE AFRICA CENTRE LIMITED income £643k
• BECOME UNITED income £252k

Side by side with its peers

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