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The David Oluwale Memorial Association (DOMA/Remember Oluwale)

12th ANNUAL REPORT 2024 — 2025

RememberOluwale www.rememberoluwale.org

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CONTENTS

CONTENTS
OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY
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WHO WAS DAVID OLUWALE? 4
IMPACT 6
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES 7
GOVERNANCE
Patron
Directors and Trustees
Advisory Committee
Partners
REVIEW OF OUR WORK 9
FUTURE PRIORITIES 12
PUBLIC BENEFIT STATEMENT 12
FINANCIAL STATEMENT

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OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY

The David Oluwale Memorial Association (DOMA) has adopted aims agreed with the Charity Commission. It aims to promote equality, diversity and racial harmony for the public benefit in Leeds specifically and the UK in general, in particular but not exclusively by any or all of the following means:

  1. educating the public about the life and death of David Oluwale

  2. educating the public on the progress the City of Leeds has made towards justice for ethnic minorities and humane treatment of the homeless and destitute, and in combating the stigma of individuals experiencing mental ill health

  3. educating the public on what more needs to be done to achieve full racial justice and humane treatment of the homeless and destitute in Leeds, and to combat the stigma of individuals experiencing mental ill health.

WHO WAS DAVID OLUWALE?

David Oluwale arrived in Hull, East Yorkshire, in 1949, having stowed away on this ship, the MV Temple Bar, as it left Apapa Wharfe in Lagos, Nigeria.

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David Oluwale arrived in Hull (East Yorkshire, UK) in 1949. With some friends, he had stowed away on the MV Temple Bar, a merchant ship docked in Lagos, Nigeria. He was imprisoned in Leeds (UK) for one month for the offence of not buying a ticket. Since he was a British citizen, he was free to make his way when he left prison. Like all migrants in search of a better life, he arrived with energy and ambition. He had various manual jobs until 1953. Despite gruelling work and racism, he seems to have enjoyed himself in the pubs and dance-halls of Leeds. He was known as Yankee by his friends, such was his love of American popular culture and his zest for life. This is the period of hope for David Oluwale.

After a dispute over the bill at the King Edward Hotel in Leeds city centre on 25th April 1953, he was arrested and sent to Leeds Prison in Armley. From there, he was dispatched to Menston Asylum, a psychiatric hospital in Leeds (later renamed High Royds). He was briefly released in 1961. In 1964 he was jailed for being drunk and disorderly, assessed as paranoid and a ‘dullard’, and sent again to High Royds hospital in 1965. Released in 1967, he lived as a vagrant on the streets of Leeds. He was last seen in the early morning of 18th April 1969, having been assaulted by two Leeds police officers. David was found drowned in the River Aire/Leeds Canal at the Knostrop weir on 4th May 1969.

While he was of no fixed abode (‘wandering abroad’ was his crime under the 1824 Vagrancy Act) and sleeping rough in the Leeds city centre over the last two years of his life, David Oluwale was persistently assaulted and abused by two Leeds police officers, Sergeant Kitching and Inspector Ellerker.

These officers were arrested following the brave whistle-blowing of a police cadet named Gary Galvin after David’s body was found. The investigating officer, Chief Superintendent Perkins of the Metropolitan police, recommended that they were charged with the murder of David Oluwale on 18th April 1969. Instead, they were prosecuted for manslaughter, ABH and GBH (Actual and Grievous Bodily Harm).

In November 1971 they were convicted of ABH. They were acquitted of David’s manslaughter and GBH on the Judge’s direction. Ellerker was sentenced to three years, Kitching got 27 months.

There was much publicity of the trial in the local and national press. The artist Rasheed Araeen produced his work For Oluwale between 1972 and 1975. In 1974 Smiling David, the script of a BBC radio play by Jeremy Sandford, was published. Linton Kwesi Johnson referenced David Oluwale in his 1979 poem Time Come. Until two more books about David were published in 2007, by Caryl Phillips and Kester Aspden, his story was almost forgotten. In 2008, while speaking about David Oluwale at the launch of his book at Leeds Metropolitan (now Beckett) University, Caryl Phillips suggested that there should be a memorial in Leeds to David Oluwale.

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DOMA: EDUCATING AND CAMPAIGNING TO #REMEMBEROLUWALE

The David Oluwale Memorial Association (DOMA) started life in 2007 as a committee based in the Community Partnerships and Volunteering office at Leeds Metropolitan/Beckett University. In 2012 it was registered as a charity and as a company limited by guarantee, unaffiliated to the university. Its objects are listed above. It is now branded as #RememberOluwale.

In remembering David Oluwale, and in joining with all those who are working today to overcome all the challenges that David faced, the charity sees itself as restoring David’s initially hopeful trajectory. We recognise the improvements that have been made since David’s time in Leeds, but we argue that so much more is needed to properly address the ‘Oluwale issues’ in the city of Leeds: racism, hostility to migrants, mental ill-health, homelessness, police malpractice and destitution. We support Leeds City Council’s ambition to create a compassionate, inclusive and more equal city, where diversity is welcomed and everyone is able to fulfil their dreams.

Leeds City Council has supported our work since we set up the working party at Leeds Met University. It made a major contribution to DOMA’s work by backing the Hibiscus Rising sculpture for David Oluwale by Yinka Shonibare CBE, RA, installed in the Meadow Lane Gardens in Aire Park in Leeds in November 2023.

This art-work symbolises the creativity and energy that migrants bring to our city and the special place of remembrance that is being created exemplifies the city’s aim to embrace diversity and welcome everyone to Leeds. Fund-raising and technical matters for Hibiscus Rising was brilliantly managed by the LEEDS2023 Festival of Culture, and the sculpture is a major part of the legacy of that festival.

David’s life in Leeds started with hope and ended in abjection; DOMA aims to restore hope as Hibiscus Rising exemplifies the City of Leeds becoming a place that is fully inclusive. We always work with artists of every type to tell David’s story and to campaign for social justice with vivacity, creativity and enjoyment.

DOMA co-secretary Chloe Hudson (left) in the Oluwale Memory Garden in Meadow Lane, Aire Park, Leeds on 23.5.25 © Max Farrar

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[Much more information about David Oluwale and the charity can be obtained from here on our website.]

DOMA’S IMPACT IN THIS PERIOD

This report covers the charity’s activities over the period of 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025. It provides the charity’s accounts up to 31st March 2025.

DOMA regarded the installation of Hibiscus Rising as the fulfilment of its main ambition: a permanent, inspiring and hopeful place of memory in the city for David Oluwale. The year covered by this report has therefore been one of consolidation and rest.

In brief we have:

(Details of the above activities are provided below.)

We consider therefore that our impact has been to:

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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES

Raising our profile:

We have kept our story in the public eye by regularly posting items of interest to our followers on social media. Facebook seems to be dropping in popularity, but our other social media platforms have seen reasonable increase in followers.

We also produced additional merchandise which we advertise on our website, use as gifts for supporters, and sell at events. Our merch now includes:

GOVERNANCE

Patrons

Caryl Phillips, writer and Professor of English Literature at Yale University, USA became our Founding Patron in 2013. Phillips was born in St Kitts and grew up in Leeds. The third part of his book Foreigners — Three English Lives (2007) analyses David Oluwale’s life and death. He initiated the memorial to David Oluwale in Leeds when speaking about David Oluwale’s significance at Leeds Met University in 2007. CarylPhillips.com

Ruth Bundey, MA, became a Patron in February 2019. Ruth has lived in Leeds since 1969. Initially she worked for the Race Relations Board but soon became a solicitor. Her office in York Place merged with Ison Harrison on Chapeltown Road in 1993, becoming Harrison Bundey Solicitors. Ruth now works from the city centre representing families at inquests into deaths in custody and mental health detention.

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Directors and Trustees

In March 2025 our Directors and Trustees were: Abdullah Adekola, Victoria Ajayi, Max Farrar, Asher Jael, Chloe Hudson, Emily Zobel Marshall, Abigail Marshall Katung, Peter Hindle-Marsh, Ellie Montgomery, Meleri Roberts and Mariam Sadikot. Full details appear here on our website ww.rememberoluwale.org

Volunteers and Consultants

There are lots of people who help DOMA’s work as Patrons, Board members, Consultants, Advisers, Partners and Volunteers and we are grateful to them all. We particularly thank the two consultants who gave us much support in developing Phase 1 of the Yinka Shonibare sculpture project: Pam Bone and Pippa Hale. LEEDS2023’s Sue Ball was very helpful in developing the early part of Phase 2 of this project (delivery of the completed sculpture).

Partners

We are indebted to these organisations, with whom we have had association and partnership arrangements and/or financial support over several years:

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REVIEW OF OUR WORK Educational and Arts work 2024-5

Essentially, DOMA is an educational charity which takes a very broad view of education and doesn’t make a strong distinction between education and campaigning, and sees the arts as a key part of this process. (We see all our public events as both educational and change-making.) We are educationalists with a mission: to remind people of David Oluwale’s story, its relevance today, and to make links with all those educating and campaigning for racial and social justice, with special attention to mental health, homelessness and migration, while joining with all those who are eliminating malpractice in the police service.

Each of these events were developed and produced by DOMA, utilising funds raised by DOMA and by the LEEDS2023 Festival of Culture. Our work with Leeds Beckett University is funded by its School of Humanities and Social Sciences.

The DOMA education pack and animated film for use with Key Stage 2 and 3 pupils in schools was launched at the Development Education Centre’s annual awards ceremony at Leeds Civic Hall on 21.6.25. © Max Farrar

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Education pack and animated film for schools: Thanks to a grant from Lottery Heritage during the LEEDS2023 Year of Culture we commissioned school teachers to produce an education pack for teachers working with pupils at Key Stage 2 (top primary) and Key Sage 3 (early secondary). The

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pack shows how David’s story might be integrated into the curricula and assessment of school students studying English, Drama, Art, Citizenship and History. To accompany the film we did the story board for a three minute animated film telling David’s story and showing how we have remembered him in Leeds — the Hungry Sandwich Club made the film for us. Thus year we have begun to follow up the launch of this pack and film in further collaboration with the Leeds Development Education Centre.

August 2024

Arts and crafts: We held stalls at three of the City Council’s annual Breeze Festivals held in parks all over the city. We engaged with children, their parents and careers, talking about David’s story and its relevance today. Children made tiny fabric and wood models of Hibiscus Rising and bunting flags with the words they chose to exa eS T | Ip SN >” — press compassion and solidarity. The bunting is used to adorn the stalls we use at public events.

7th September 2024

Nice Up Again : Following last year’s Nice Up music festival hosted by young people from Music House in Leeds, held near The Tetley and close to the proposed site for Hibiscus Rising, we organised a second festival designed to draw people into the Meadow Lane Gardens to see Hibiscus Rising, installed in November 2023. This year we had performances from musicians with heritages in Ireland, the Punjab, Africa, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and the UK, expressing our enthusiasm for the diverse cultures we enjoy in the city of Leeds. This event was supported by LCC’s Breeze team, who provided infrastructure and play equipment for young children.

January - April 2025

Members of Ey Up Klezmer! At the Nice Up Again festival beside Hibiscus Rising in Meadow Lane, Aire Park, 7.9.24. © Max Farrar

Educational work with Leeds Beckett University’s School of Humanities and Social Science: DOMA has worked with students in this school over many years. This year we supported their Applied Humanities students, introducing

them to the world of work in a small charity. As well as touring the city centre in David’s footsteps, they had interviews

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with a senior police officer (Asst Chief Constable Carl Galvin) and a prominent human rights lawyer (our Patron Ruth Bundey) in support of the educational materials they made for our new website which summarised recent cases in which black people have died in police custody.

Community and Civic Engagement Programme 2024-5

Members of the Punjabi heritage Sabhrang Gidda Group at the Lord Mayor’s International Cultural Celebration event, 15.11.25. © Max Farrar

15th November 2024: The Lord Mayor’s International Day of Cultural Celebration:

We worked in collaboration with Leeds African Communities Trust in applying for and administering a ‘community cohesion’ grant from Leeds City Council in order to assemble performances representing thirteen different cultural organisations in the city of Leeds at the Bridge Street Church’s vast concert hall. There were dance and music groups with heritages in the Caribbean, Ireland, Nigeria, South Asia, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Eritrea. In addition we worked with the Leeds Afrikindness group to provide African drumming workshops in three schools across the city. This was an initiative by Cllr Abigail Marshal Katung, our co-chair, who, this year, has been the Lord Mayor of Leeds. Our co-Secretary Chloe Hudson played a leading role in pulling this huge event together.

10th and 18th November 2024: Black Flaneurs in Leeds

In partnership with Dr Kalechi Anucha of the Humanities School at Leeds Beckett University we helped produce two events which explored the possibility of Black people engaging in the experience of the ‘flaneur’, historically invented by wealthy white people, and developed by the predominantly white ‘psychogeographers’ associated with the Situationist Interstional. Our friend Joe

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Williams led two groups around the city centre informing them on the places that mark the African presence, and the anti-slavery movement, while our co-Secretary Max Farrar inserted David’s story and his places of memory in the city.

23rd January 2025: Addleshaw Goddard Solicitors

Our co-chair Cllr Abigail Marshall Katung and our co-secretary Max Farrar responded to a request for a talk about David’s life in Leeds and the city centre memorial sites (Hibiscus Rising, the Blue Plaque and the David Oluwale Bridge) by making a photo presentation and fielding questions from a large group of staff at this prestigious firm.

PRIORITIES FOR 2025-6

We will aim to raise further funding to:

PUBLIC BENEFIT STATEMENT

The David Oluwale Memorial Association promotes equality, diversity and racial harmony for the public benefit in Leeds based on the story of David Oluwale, and in this way complies with its duty as set out in section 4 of the 2006 Charities Act.

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DAVID OLUWALE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION

Company Registration Number (England and Wales) 08107693 Charity Registration Number (England and Wales) 1151426

Abbreviated (Unaudited) Financial Statements

Period of Accounts:

Start date: 01 April 2024 End date: 31 March 2025

COMPANY INFORMATION

for the period ending 31st March 2025

Directors

A Adekola

V Ajayi M Farrar C Hudson A Jael A Marshall Katung P Hindle-Marsh E Zobel Marshall E Montgomery M Roberts M Sadikot

Secretary

M Farrar

Office address

8 Gledhow Park Road Leeds West Yorkshire LS7 4JX

Company registration number 8107693

David Oluwale Memorial Association Accounts for the 12 months to 31 March 2025

INCOME
Donations
Grant Income
Sale of Maquette
Book & Other Sales
Event & ticket sales
Interest and Other Income
Total Income
EXPENDITURE
General Events (including performance fees and prizes)
Film Project
Merchandise for resale
Sculpture & Garden Project
Marketing, Brand and Website
Book Publishing Costs
Consultancy and professional fees
General expenses
VAT Payment / (Recovery)
Total expenditure
BALANCE OF INCOME OVER EXPENDITURE
BALANCE SHEET as at 31 March 2023
ASSETS
Bank balance
Cash / PayPal balance
Total Assets being Bank and Cash balances
LIABILITIES
Current liabilities
Total assets less total liabilities
Represented by Total Funds
MOVEMENT IN FUNDS RECONCILIATION
Opening Funds
Income less expenditure in period
Closing Funds		 2025
5,066.93
46,410.00
100,000.00
308.12
116.32
0.00
151,901.37
24,771.60
4,035.00
816.31
102,000.00
839.49
0.00
13,952.50
888.00
0.00
147,302.90
4,598.47
54,088.81
3,206.97
57,295.78
1,486.53
55,809.25
55,809.25
51,210.78
4,598.47
55,809.25		 2024
38,924.61
37,050.00
0.00
1,314.64
7,516.42
1,237.57
86,008.00
25,661.81
2,033.65
0.00
5,395.20
0.00
31,699.80
559.01
0.00
65,349.47
20,658.53
48,030.57
3,180.21
51,210.78
0.00
51,210.78
51,210.78
30,517.01
20,658.53
51,210.78

Audit Exemption

Approved by the Trustees on [ ] August 2025

Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/ DAVID OLUWALE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION (DOMA) members of

On accounts for the year 31st March 2025 Charity no 1151426
ended (if any)
Set out on pages 1 -3

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 / 03 / 2025.

Responsibilities and As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the basis of report accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Date: 27/01/2026 Signed: Name: Mr Uche Okpala FCCA Relevant professional Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: 39 Daleside Avenue. Pudsey. Leeds.

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Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

Give here brief details of any items that the N/A examiner wishes to disclose .

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