# BETTER COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION WEST AFRICA

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 1169646
- **Other names:** BCAWA
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** CIO
- **Registered:** Oct. 13, 2016
- **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=1169646


## Contact

- **Address:** 4 Cubbin Crescent, Liverpool
- **Postcode:** L5 7TU
- **Phone:** 07925938237
- **Email:** bcawa2016@gmail.com
- **Website:** https://www.facebook.com/BCAWestAfrica



## Activities

**Objects:** THE CIO IS ESTABLISHED TO FURTHER THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN WEST AFRICA OR ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. 1. TO RELIEVE POVERTY 2. TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT GOOD HEALTH 3. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION 4. TO PROMOTE RACIAL HARMONY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY RAISING AWARENESS OF AFRICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE, INCLUDING THAT OF THE GLOBAL DIASPORA, TO PROMOTE GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN PERSONS OF DIFFERENT RACIAL GROUPS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OTHER COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT. 5. TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITION OF LIFE.

**Activities:** BCAWA focuses on schools (furniture, stationery, concrete floors), hygiene (toilets), library facilities, water and electricity, teacher training, and on income sustainability and 'survival' meaning food, school fees and medication. Future: to gain funding, especially to help Ker Serign nursery school, Ghanatown classrooms, and numerous other minor projects. Presentation of Mary dream.




## Classification

- **How:** Makes Grants To Individuals, Provides Other Finance, Provides Human Resources
- **What:** General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Amateur Sport, Animals, Economic/community Development/employment, Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency, Recreation
- **Who:** Children/young People, Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies, The General Public/mankind



## Areas of operation

- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Cape Verde
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-bissau
- Ivory Coast
- Liberia
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Saint Helena
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- São Tomé And Principe
- The Gambia
- Togo



## Finances

| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct. 13, 2024 | £0 | £0 | — | — |
| Oct. 13, 2023 | £13 | £200 | — | — |
| Oct. 13, 2022 | £105 | £100 | — | — |
| Oct. 13, 2021 | £5 | £461 | — | — |
| Oct. 13, 2020 | £3326 | £1877 | — | — |



## Trustees

- ALIEU BITTAYE — appointed Oct. 16, 2020
- Caroline Angela Riley — appointed Feb. 22, 2017
- JOY SARAH BUCHANAN — appointed Oct. 13, 2016
- Philip Terence Weeden — appointed May 22, 2017