# CARE AFRICA NETWORK

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 1139942
- **Other names:** WECAN
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Trust
- **Registered:** Jan. 20, 2011
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1139942


## Contact

- **Address:** THE COTTAGE, BRAMDEAN, ALRESFORD
- **Postcode:** SO24 0JL
- **Phone:** 01962771346
- **Email:** francescasimms2@gmail.com
- **Website:** www.careafricanetwork.org.uk



## Activities

**Objects:** TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES AND IN FURTHERANCE OF THIS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY TO PROMOTE THE AFRICAN EXTENDED FAMILY AND COMMUNITY CARE SYSTEMS FOR THE BENEFIT OF FUTURE GENERATIONS AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, TO PROVIDE SUPPORT, EDUCATION AND FINANCIAL HELP TO ENABLE SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT TO FAMILIES WHO CARE FOR SUCH ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN, TO COMMUNITIES AND OTHERS WHO ENABLE THIS AND TO THE CHILDREN THEMSELVES

**Activities:** Improving the lives of orphans, vulnerable children, families and future generations and empower women and girls by providing consultations and needs led training in successful methods, (including the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), to local organisations, and funding income generating projects, to empower community supported family care of children in crisis.

**Area of benefit:** UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, OVERSEAS.




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information, Sponsors Or Undertakes Research, Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body, Other Charitable Activities
- **What:** Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment
- **Who:** Children/young People, Elderly/old People, People With Disabilities, People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin, Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies, The General Public/mankind



## Areas of operation

- Eswatini
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Uganda



## Finances

| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 5, 2025 | £622 | £441 | — | — |
| April 5, 2024 | £703 | £640 | — | — |
| April 5, 2023 | £646 | £452 | — | — |
| April 5, 2022 | £596 | £579 | — | — |
| April 5, 2021 | £711 | £0 | — | — |



## Trustees

- **Francesca Simms** (Chair)
- Francis William Gottesman — appointed Oct. 18, 2019
- Howard Jeremy Linsley — appointed Feb. 13, 2014