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Africa Connection

Country
England & Wales
Charity number
1146628
Status
Registered
Reporting
Up to date Last filed July 1, 2025. Filing history
Registered
March 28, 2012
Legal form
Charitable company
Company number
07898103

Address

Address
14 West Royd
Wilsden
Bradford
BD15 0HU

Activities

Main activities are Healthcare, Business start ups and meeting basic needs. Within our first accounting period we have held eye/medical camps in association with Kenyan professionals and dispensed spectacles and eye drops. We have started a Sewing School and a computer school to offer basic instruction. With basic needs we have helped fund a toilet block, given out seed and supported a blind group

Objects: Relief Of Need And The Promotion Of Health In Africa, In Particular But Not Exclusively, For The Blind And Partially Sighted By Providing Specialists & Supplies And Enabling Local People To Use Their Specific Talents To:-A) Provide Healthcare To Those In Need; B) Encourage And Enable The Start Up Of Businesses And C) Tackle Areas Of Basic Need Such As The Provision Of Clean Water, Food, Clothing, Housing And Education

Classification

How
Makes Grants To Individuals, Makes Grants To Organisations, Provides Other Finance, Provides Human Resources, Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space, Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information
What
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Accommodation/housing, Religious Activities, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Who
Children/young People, Elderly/old People, People With Disabilities, Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies, The General Public/mankind

Geography

Country
Kenya, Uganda
Region
Throughout England

Finances

Period end Filed Income Expenditure
Jan. 31, 2025 July 1, 2025On time £8,026 £2,135
Jan. 31, 2024 Sept. 9, 2024On time £1,464 £5,099
Jan. 31, 2023 Oct. 31, 2023On time £7,135 £4,870
Jan. 31, 2022 Aug. 12, 2022On time £2,804 £623
Jan. 31, 2021 Aug. 9, 2021On time £1,143 £1,205

Trustees

Name Appointed
David Bass (Chair) Jan. 15, 2012
John Leslie Wood Jan. 24, 2024
Richard Malcolm Waters Rmn Rgn Gc Sept. 1, 2024