ELBWO

Registered charity 294973 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EAST LONDON BLACK WOMEN'S ORGANISATION

To provide quality service to meet the diverse needs of families through provision of advice, information and advocacy that addresses individual needs; the delivery of education, training and mentoring to assist attainment within school and employment; and the development of projects and resources for supporting and strengthening families and other groups within the community.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF NEWHAM AND THE ENVIRONS THEREOF AND IN PARTICULAR THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF AFRICAN DESCENT.

Area of benefit: NEWHAM LB

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 · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted funds increased to £117,578, up from £94,145 in the previous year, following a net income of £23,433 against charitable expenditure of £20,327. The charity maintains a reserves policy target of three to six months of expenditure, and its current unrestricted reserves exceed this minimum threshold. No material uncertainties or governance failures are disclosed in the filing.

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 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Diane Nicola Nempbhard
• Donna-Marie Johnson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jacqueline Hamilton
• MYRTLE NOBLE
• Mavis Wenham
• Natalie Tanya Benjamin
• OLIVENE HOWELL
• Paulette Stewart
• Sharon Grandison
• THERESA MOORE
• YVONNE WEEKES

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

Operates in: Barking And Dagenham · Hackney · Lambeth · Lewisham · Newham · Redbridge · Tower Hamlets · Waltham Forest

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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