ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY IN BRITAIN

Registered charity 299362 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provide informaiton, advice, counselling, referral, interpretation, translation and accompanying services on housing, welfare, health, immigration & asylum, education, training, employment to men, women, older people, young people, children, abled and disabled of all ethnic backgrounds.

Objects

(I) THE RELIEF OF PERSONS FROM THE ETHIOPIAN AND OTHER COMMUNITIES WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS. (II) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AMONGST PERSONS FROM THE ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY AND MEMBERS OF OTHER COMMUNITIES. (III) TO PROVIDE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION, PARTICULARLY FOR MEMBERS OF THE ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY, IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · Accommodation/housing · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased from £4,509 to £16,198 due to a net income of £11,689, reversing a previous deficit. The charity reports that fundraising efforts have not been successful, relying instead on grants and rental income to cover charitable expenditure.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Estyn: Her Majesty's Inspectorate For Education And Training In Wales. 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
• 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
• Investment
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02252246

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• ADDISALEM, Meheret — director, appointed 20/03/2023not on trustee list
• KASSA, Hamere Kebede — director, appointed 14/03/2023on trustee list
• DAGNE, Birhan — director, appointed 22/07/2022on trustee list
• MENGISTU, Selamawit — director, appointed 22/07/2022on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• HAMERE KASSAchair
• Absro Solomon
• Birhan Dagne · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ishak Ayiris
• Meheret AddisAlem Eng.
• Selamawit Mengistu
• Tigest Bekele

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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