## **Charitable Objective**
The promotion of equality and diversity for the public benefit by seeking to address the underrepresentation of students of African Caribbean descent studying Medicine and Dentistry at universities in the United Kingdom and working as professionals in the fields of medicine and dentistry as a whole and to reduce the socio-economic barriers that often affect people of African Caribbean descent in entering those professions.
## **Our Vision and Mission**
In particular African Caribbean Medical Mentors seeks to:
· increase the number of people of African Caribbean descent studying and practicing Medicine and Dentistry;
· improve their likelihood of success in applications to Medical and Dental school;
· provide a network for communication, support, assistance and
empowerment of people of African Caribbean descent in the fields of medicine and dentistry.
with the vision of creating a more diverse and representative healthcare system which reflects society as a whole.
## **Chairperson’s Report**
African Caribbean Medical Mentors (ACMM) celebrated it’s fourth year running this year with many changes occurring to the way we work. With the COVID-19 pandemic and eyes shifting onto racism and police brutality - the last year has been a challenging one for many of the people who volunteer with us and use our services. These worldwide issues have highlighted the importance of what we do and encouraged us to work harder to create a more equal and just healthcare environment. We’re extremely grateful to these people for continuing to support and champion us despite the difficult times they have been experiencing as without them, ACMM would not thrive in the way that it has.
With the pandemic, we have transitioned to providing all of our services virtually including our events, resources and mentoring but have still been able to provide useful and impactful services.
With our work, we continue to strive to create a world that allows all to have a fair and equal opportunity, despite race or socio-economic background and thank everyone who has supported us so far.
## **Trustee’s Report**
Over the past year, despite the pandemic, African Caribbean Medical Mentors has been able to achieve some positive milestones. We have hosted 11 virtual events with over 350 virtual attendees covering topics from Mock Interview preparation to managing Social Media as a medic.
Due to the pandemic, we transitioned to virtual events which enabled us to further widen our reach and increase access to our events - a true positive from the change in the way we work currently.
We have increased our reach on social media with over 4,000 followers on our social media platforms which allows us to support and encourage those within our community and provide a safe space for growth and reflection.
We successfully ran our mentoring programme for both prospective Medics and Dentists with over 30 mentor relationships in 2021.
Our initiatives for supporting prospective Medicine and Dentistry students in applying successfully supported record numbers this year.
We run an annual personal statement reviewing service, allowing prospective students of African or Caribbean descent to have their personal statement reviewed for free. Our personal statement reviewing service allowed for over 50 students to have their personal statement reviewed by current medical or dental students, dentists or doctors.
Our annual mock interview service provides the opportunity for prospective students of African or Caribbean descent to have at least one mock interview to prepare them for the Medicine or Dental school interview. We are proud that we were able to provide this service to over 90 prospective students - allowing them to have a better chance of being successful in their Medical or Dental school journey.
In September 2020, ACMM launched our first ever e-book series to support those of African and Caribbean descent in applying to Medicine and Dentistry. We created a personal statement guide, an interview guide and one of the initiatives we are most proud of - our black student survival guide. This original e-book provides first hand experiences of being a black medical or dental student across 46 medical and dental schools within the UK and abroad. With invaluable information on the university experience from a black student’s perspective, the guide aids prospective students in choosing a medical or dental school they will feel most comfortable at, providing realistic information to students about the things that matter to them. Since our development of e-books, we’ve had 246 downloads and hope to see this grow over the coming year.
Every single one of our initiatives rely on volunteers. We created our ambassador network in 2018 - a pool of over 400 medical students, dental students, doctors and dentists who volunteer to take part in or run our initiatives and support our prospective students. From reading personal statements to providing yearly mentorship, our volunteers are an integral part of seeing out our mission.
We look forward to seeing how we can further support our community over the next year.
Dr Shikila Edward
Chair Person
Contents
Company Information 1
Statement of financial activities 2
Balance sheet 3
Notes to the accounts 4-6
## **African Caribbean Medical Mentors**
## **Company Information**
## **Trustees**
Shikila Edward Chair Person Monique Wheatle Trustee Sarah Mpi Trustee Odunayo Oyedele Trustee Naomi Adejumo Trustee Omolara Akinnanonu Trustee
## **Registered Office**
61 Bridge Street KINGTON Herefordshire HR5 3DJ
## **Registered Number**
1190968
## **African Caribbean Medical Mentors Statement of Financial Activities**
Financial Year End March 2021
|**Incoming resources**|**Notes**|**Unrestricted**
**£**|**Restricted**
**£**|**Total Funds**
**£**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|Grant|5.1||3000|3000|
|Donation||142.52||142.52|
|E-books||120.29||120.29|
|Outreach provision||75||75|
|**Total Incoming**||337.81|3000|3337.81|
||||||
|**Resources Expended**|||||
|Administration & Running
Costs|5.2|3021.19||3021.19|
||||||
||||||
|**Total Resources Expended**||3021.19||3021.19|
||||||
|**Net incoming/(outgoing)**
**resources**||316.62||316.62|
||||||
|Net Movement in Funds||316.62||316.62|
|Fund balances brought
forward||1756||1756|
|**Fund balances carried**
**forward**||2072.62||2072.62|
## **African Caribbean Medical Mentors**
Balance Sheet as at March 31st 2021
|**Fixed Assets**|**Notes**||**Total Funds £**|
|---|---|---|---|
|Tangible assets|||-|
|||||
|**Current Assets**||||
|Cash at bank and
in hand|||2072.62|
|**Total Assets**|||2072.62|
|||||
|**Creditors**||||
|Amounts falling due
within one year|||-|
|||||
|**Total Assets less**
**current liabilities**|||2072.62|
|||||
|**Unrestricted**
**funds**||||
|Income and
expenditure|||2072.62|
|**Total funds**|||2072.62|
Shikila Edward
Approved by the board virtually on Wednesday 19th January 2022
## **African Caribbean Medical Mentors**
## **Notes to the Accounts**
## **For the year ended 31 March 2021**
## **1. Accounting policies**
## **Basis of preparation**
The Financial Statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Accounting Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities (SORP 2005), issued in March 2005, UK Accounting Standards and the Charities Act 2011.
## **Incoming Resources**
Incoming resources represents the value, net of value added tax and discounts if goods provided to customers and work carried out in respect of services provided to customers.
## **Resources Expended**
Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under heading that aggregate all cost related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources.
## Depreciation
Depreciation has been provided at the following rates in order to write off the assets over their estimated useful lives.
Plant machinery 20% straight line Motor Vehicles 25% straight line
|**2. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year**|**2. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year**|
|---|---|
||2021|
||£|
|Trade Creditors|501|
|**3. Profit and loss account**||
||2021|
||£|
|At 1 April 2020|-|
|Prior year adjustments|1756|
|At March 2021|2072.62|
|Profit for the year|316.62|
|Restricted Funds|Unrestricted|Restricted|2021|
|---|---|---|---|
||||£|
|At April 2020|-|-||
|Net Incoming
Funds|-|2072.62|2072.62|
|At March 2021|-|2072.62|2072.62|
## **4. Trustees Remuneration and benefits**
There were no trustees’ remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 31st March 2021
## **Trustees’ Expenses**
There were no trustees’ expenses paid for the year ended 31 March 2021
## **African Caribbean Medical Mentors**
## **Notes to the accounts - continued**
## **For the year ended 31 March 2021**
## **5 Income and Expenditure Account**
|**5.1 Incoming**
**Resources**||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Total Fund**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**£**|**£**|**£**|
|Grant|||3000|3000|
|Outreach||75||75|
|Donation||142.52||50|
|E-book||120.29|||
|**Total Incoming**
**Resources**||**337.81**|**3000**|**3337.81**|
## **Outgoing resources**
|**5.2 Management and**
**Administration of Charity**|||
|---|---|---|
|Volunteer expenses||2099.46|
|Website||115.09|
|Email||506.88|
|Video Conferencing||164.76|
|Business Phone Contract||135.00|
|**Total Outgoing**
**Resources**||3021.19|