REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE INITIATIVE CIO

Registered charity 1200117 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DECOLONISING CONTRACEPTION COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

We are building a radical and inclusive movement that uplifts the reproductive health and rights of those marginalised and made vulnerable. Through community development and engagement, radical collective care, research, policy and advocacy.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:3.1 TO PRESERVE, PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH AMONG MEMBERS OF BAME COMMUNITIES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING):3.1.1 DEVELOPING AND DISSEMINATING EVIDENCE-BASED RESOURCES, TOGETHER WITH SIGNPOSTING OTHER INCLUSIVE HEALTH AND SUPPORT SERVICES;3.1.2 THE PROVISION OF HEALTH-RELATED EDUCATION TO PEOPLE FROM BAME COMMUNITIES AND THE PUBLIC AS A WHOLE BY ADDRESSING HEALTH MISINFORMATION, EDUCATING UNDERREPRESENTED BAME PERSONS ON ISSUES OF HEALTH (IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN RELATION TO THE SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH OF PEOPLE FROM BAME COMMUNITIES) AND EMPOWERING INDIVIDUALS TO BE MORE INFORMED DECISION MAKERS AND TO TAKE BETTER CONTROL OF THEIR HEALTH;3.2 TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING):3.2.1 THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF AGE, DISABILITY, SEXUALITY, GENDER, CLASS, CULTURE AND RACE;3.2.2 PROVIDING EDUCATION AND TRAINING AND RAISING AWARENESS;3.2.3 OBTAINING REDRESS FOR VICTIMS OF UNLAWFUL DISCRIMINATION;3.2.4 PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING ABOUT PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS;3.2.5 CONDUCTING OR COMMISSIONING RESEARCH AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTS TO THE PUBLIC;3.2.6 CULTIVATING A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY.3.3 ANY EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES THAT THE CHARITY TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME.

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

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Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £22,187.52 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reducing its unrestricted reserves from £64,828.50 to £42,640.98. The trustees note that the organisation does not hold reserves and is operating at cost through grants and external funds. The accounts are prepared on a going concern basis, noting dependency on a funder committed to yearly funding until 2030.

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 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
• 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 3 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 17/07/2024, 168 days after the 31/01/2024 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

• Rita Serghischair
• Akosua Nana Owiredua Akrofi
• Elsie Sowah
• Tendai Banda

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CREATIVE OPPORTUNITIES.

• CREATIVE OPPORTUNITIES income £51k
• THE CORPORATE JUSTICE COALITION CIO income £193k
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• MAKING IT OUT CIO income £207k
• USER VOICE income £784k
• KAG ADVOCACY CIO income £187k

Side by side with its peers

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