THE AFRICA CENTRE LIMITED

Registered charity 313510 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Cultural and education events and programmes

Objects

TO PROMOTE EDUCATION IN MATTERS CONCERNING AFRICA AND ITS PEOPLES BY ESTABLISHING ONE OR MORE EDUCATIONAL CENTRES;BY STIMULATING INTEREST IN AFRICA BY APPROPRIATE MEANS IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND BODIES; BY ORGANISING STUDY GROUPS,PROVIDING A REFERENCE LIBRARY AND CARRYING OUT RESEARCH IN SOCIOLOGICAL SIMILAR FIELDS.

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: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £542,040 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £8,458,413 to £7,916,373. The trustees note that the charity had current liabilities exceeding its unrestricted cash resources and identified a material uncertainty regarding its ability to continue as a going concern, mitigated by securing a loan against its freehold building. Despite these pressures, the trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue operations for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hillier Hopkins LLP. Discloses 3 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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Africa Centre (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Wolfson Foundation — “£100K The total amount of funding from our latest successful application to the Wolfson Foundation.” (source page)
• Propel — “It is funded by Propel.” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (60% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• OBA NSUGBEchair
• Michael Farinu
• Nzube Ufodike

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).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Culture& Arts and Heritage.

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Side by side with its peers

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