## **African Caribbean Medical Mentors**
## **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 seventh year running this year. This year we have focused on running projects with a core team and building on our engagement with our community. We have also been working out our long term strategy to ensure the sustainability of the organisation.
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 all those who have continuously engaged with our organisation and supported us so far.
## **Trustee’s Report**
Over the past year, we have focused on the restructuring of our team and running projects with our team members who were former mentees and students we have supported before. African Caribbean Medical Mentors continues to achieve some positive milestones. We plan to focus further on creating sustainable income for the charity to complete it’s core objectives.
We currently have over 4,500 social media followers.
We successfully ran our mentoring programme for both prospective Medics and Dentists with over 10 mentor relationships in 2023. In early 2024, we started working towards our medical application conference, engaged a new team and engaging people via social media.
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 over 500+ 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 500 medical students, dental students, doctors and dentists who volunteer to take part in or run our initiatives and support our prospective students. Our applying student newsletter has also grown by over 60 students this year. 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 2024
|**Incoming resources**|**Notes**|**Unrestricted**
**£**|**Restricted**
**£**|**Total Funds**
**£**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|Grant|5.1||0.00|0.00|
|Donation||40.96||40.96|
|E-books||0.00||0.00|
|Outreach provision
Collaboration
Events||0.00
0.00
0.00||0.00
0.00
0.00|
|**Total Incoming**||40.96|0|40.96|
||||||
|**Resources Expended**|||||
|Administration & Running
Costs|5.2|188.25||188.25|
||||||
||||||
|**Total Resources Expended**||188.25||188.25|
||||||
|**Net incoming/(outgoing)**||(147.29)||(147.29)|
|**resources**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||
|Net Movement in Funds||(147.29)||(147.29)|
|Fund balances brought
forward||147.29||147.29|
|**Fund balances carried**
**forward**||0.00||0.00|
## **African Caribbean Medical Mentors**
Balance Sheet as at March 31st 2024
|**Fixed Assets**|**Notes**||**Total Funds £**|
|---|---|---|---|
|Tangible assets|||-|
|||||
|**Current Assets**||||
|Cash at bank and
in hand|||0.00|
|**Total Assets**|||0.00|
|||||
|**Creditors**||||
|Amounts falling due
within one year|||-|
|||||
|**Total Assets less**
**current liabilities**|||0.00|
|||||
|**Unrestricted**
**funds**||||
|Income and
expenditure|||0.00|
|---|---|---|---|
|**Total funds**|||0.00|
Monique Wheatle
Approved by the board virtually on 17th January 2024
## **African Caribbean Medical Mentors**
## **Notes to the Accounts**
## **For the year ended 31 March 2024**
## **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**
||2023|
|---|---|
||£|
|Trade Creditors|0|
## **3. Profit and loss account**
||2023|
|---|---|
||£|
|At 1 April 2023|147.29|
|Prior year adjustments|-|
|At March 2024|(147.29)|
|Profit for the year|0|
|Restricted Funds|Unrestricted|Restricted|2024|
|---|---|---|---|
||||£|
|At April 2023|-|-||
|Net Incoming|40.96|0.00|40.96|
|Funds||||
|---|---|---|---|
|At March 2024|-|0.00|0.00|
## **4. Trustees Remuneration and benefits**
There were no trustees’ remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 31st March 2024
## **Trustees’ Expenses**
There were no trustees’ expenses paid for the year ended 31 March 2024
## **African Caribbean Medical Mentors**
## **Notes to the accounts - continued**
## **For the year ended 31 March 2024**
## **5 Income and Expenditure Account**
|**5.1 Incoming**
**Resources**||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Total Fund**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**£**|**£**|**£**|
|Grant|||0|0|
|Outreach||0||0|
|Donation||40.96||40.96|
|E-book
Collaboration
Events||0
0
0||0
0|
|**Total Incoming**
**Resources**||**40.96**|**0**|**40.96**|
## **Outgoing resources**
|**5.2 Management and**
**Administration of Charity**|||
|---|---|---|
|Volunteer expenses||0|
|Website||158.25|
|Email||0|
|Video Conferencing||0|
|Business Phone Contract||30|
|**Total Outgoing**
**Resources**||188.25|