Ethnic Minorities in Canterbury CIO
Charity Information for the period ended March 31[st] , 2025
Charity number: 1201006 Registration date: November 15[th] , 2022
| Date | Date | |||
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| Appointed | resigned | |||
| Trustees | Radu-Florin Stancu | Past Chair | 15/11/2022 | 05/07/2024 |
| Bakul Chandola | 15/11/2022 | 05/07/2024 | ||
| Marta Zofa Gocek | 15/11/2022 | 05/07/2024 | ||
| Agnieszka Joanna Gordon | 15/11/2022 | 05/07/2024 | ||
| Vasudev Pamnani | 15/11/2022 | 10/06/2024 | ||
| Chiedza Helen Madzokere | Chair | 15/11/2022 |
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| Dr Mohamed Sakel | Vice Chair | 15/11/2022 | ||
| Agyapal Singh Babra | 15/11/2022 | |||
| Oliver Azubuike Enwonwu | 15/07/2024 | |||
| Morounkeji Moses | 20/09/2024 | |||
| Danielle Banyai | 01/07/2025 | |||
| Registered | 41 Dover Street | |||
| ofice | Canterbury | |||
| CT1 3HQ | ||||
| Bankers | The Metro Bank | |||
| 2 St George’s Street | ||||
| Canterbury | ||||
| CT1 2SR |
Report of the Trustees for the period ended 31 March 2025
The trustees are pleased to present the 2nd annual report of this CIO with financial statements for the period 1[st] April 2024 to 31st March 2025.
The financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011 and the charity’s constitution.
Structure, governance and management.
The charity’s name is Ethnic Minorities in Canterbury and is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, registered on 15th November 2022. The charity’s governing document is its Constitution.
Recruitment and Appointment of Trustees
Under the requirements of the Constitution, the number of Trustees must be not less than four. Trustees are appointed by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees. In selecting individuals for appointment as charity trustees, the charity trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO.
Ethnic Minorities in Canterbury CIO
New Trustees are provided with an induction into the charity’s work and the duties and responsibilities of the Trustee Board, including a copy of the current version of the constitution and a copy of the CIO’s latest Trustees’ Annual Report and statement of accounts.
Objectives and activities
Charitable aims
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To support Ethnic Minority Individuals and Communities in the Canterbury District: give voice, enable community cohesion, integration and preserve culture and language.
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To empower Ethnic Minority individuals and families in the Canterbury District through enabling access to equal opportunities, social integration, healthy living and cultural exchange
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To make the Canterbury District a place where Ethnic Minority residents can live healthily, be actively engaged and have equal opportunities.
Activities
The objects are achieved through the following activities:
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supporting community cohesion and celebrating cultural and ethnic diversity, through collaborative work.
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supporting diverse groups to understand their rights and responsibilities in the UK
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helping people from minority ethnic backgrounds to integrate in the wider community and develop skills to flourish in society.
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promoting healthy living and wellbeing through raising awareness about health issues and services.
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supporting people who experience disadvantage or discrimination and/or find it difficult to access mainstream services.
Public benefit
The Trustees confirm they comply with the duty in Section 4 of the Charities Act 2006 to have due regard to the Charity Commission’s public benefit guidance. The Trustee are confident the objectives and activities undertaken provide significant benefit to the public and are in accordance with its charitable objects, as described in the following section of the annual report.
Achievements and performance
We are delighted to report that regardless of the resignation of 4 of the inaugural trustees in July 2024, EMIC continues to grow from strength to strength and achieved all of its objectives in the year ending 31st March 2025. The hard work of the remaining trustees, new trustees, the community development officer, contract project workers and volunteers were instrumental to this success.
The highlights of Activities are:
1. Community Table events: three separate events namely, European, Asian and African cultural day events celebrating these communities, their culture and heritage, and their
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cuisine took place between April and June 2024 with a collective attendance of 240 people.
- Diabetes awareness project: This project aimed at raising awareness of type 2 diabetes within ethnic minority groups, reducing the risks for type 2 diabetes and improving awareness of the key diabetes prevention messages was carried over from the previous year. The project engaged 355 individuals through events, workshops, small group meetings, one to one, online sessions and cultural events. It also helped us to learn a lot about the communities we serve and their knowledge of diabetes. We recruited and trained 3 sessional community outreach workers. They used the Make Every Contact work approach, small group conversations and workshops to raise awareness and disseminate information to the communities. We also engaged with health workers like dietitians and doctors to talk to the community about healthy eating and diabetes. In addition, we used those with lived experience to talk to share with others. The outreach workers used every opportunity they got with people in the community to start conversations about diabetes and to share information on diabetes and healthy eating.
We held 7 workshops, 3 online and 4 in person. The face-to-face workshops were organised in collaboration with 2 church groups and the Chinese community organisation while the fourth was at our Asian cultural Day event. In addition, we worked with influential Muslim women and met with the Imam from Canterbury Christ Church to reach the male students.
We designed information leaflets and disseminated them using social media and WhatsApp. We collected data using an evaluation form and focus groups. The Diabetes Awareness programme has been very well received by the communities. The project achieved its aims to increase awareness of diabetes, the risk factors and symptoms of the diseases. Feedback showed that participants found the project to be relevant to the target communities and that they benefited from the project.
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Partnership engagement was strengthened by working with the following organisations/ groups:
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Vietnamese,
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Beaney Museum Be Connected project: we worked with them on exhibitions called curious stories and Collectors and explorers exhibition to ensure that ethnic groups are represented.
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Karibu Community Action Kent
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We Thrive Together
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Chinese Community Group
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Social Enterprise Kent
4. Financial Review
Financial Position
March 2025 is as follows: The financial overview for the period ended 31[st]
Ethnic Minorities in Canterbury CIO
Net of receipts / payments and cash funds carried forward: £22,867 (comprising unrestricted £2,877 and restricted £19,990)
Policy on Reserves
At 31st March 2025 the charity held reserves of £2,877, comprising its unrestricted cash funds. Reserves are set aside to cover fluctuations in income and unforeseen future expenditure.
Signed on behalf of the Trustees by:
Name: Chiedza Helen Madzokere Position: Chairperson Date: 30/01/2027
Charity Name
Receipts and payments accounts
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| For the period from | Period start date 01/04/2024 |
Period close Date 31/03/2025 |
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Section A Receipts and payments
| A1 Receipts | Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 20 500 - - - - - 520 - - - 520 116 - - - 35 150 255 - - 556 - - - 556 - 36 874 2,039 2,877 |
Restricted funds to the nearest £ - 250 19,990 - - - - 20,240 - - - 20,240 6,511 275 756 110 4,128 96 25 59 78 203 - - - 12,241 - - - 12,241 7,999 - 874 12,865 19,990 |
Total funds to the nearest £ 20 500 250 19,990 - - - - 20,760 - - - 20,760 6,511 391 756 110 4,128 96 - 60 59 78 353 255 - - 12,797 |
Total funds to the nearest £ 20 500 250 19,990 - - - - 20,760 - - - 20,760 6,511 391 756 110 4,128 96 - 60 59 78 353 255 - - 12,797 |
Last year to the nearest £ |
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| Donation | 20 | 2,205 | |||
| Charitable activities | 500 | 4,000 | |||
| Local authority grants | - | 10,000 | |||
| Lottery Grants | - | 9,750 | |||
| Other Income | 1,373 | ||||
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| Sub total(Gross income for AR) | 520 | 27,328 | |||
| A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). |
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| Total receipts A3 Payments |
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| 27,328 | |||||
| Sessional worker/Project Management | 3,475 | ||||
| IT costs | 116 | 519 | |||
| Venue Hire | 1,434 | ||||
| Advertising Cost | - | 565 | |||
| Event costs | - | 4,375 | |||
| Insurance | - | 1,199 | |||
| Stationery | 96 | ||||
| Telephone | 35 | 459 | |||
| Volunteer costs | 212 | ||||
| Office Equipment | 30 | ||||
| Office Costs | 150 | 60 | |||
| Professional costs | 255 | - | |||
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| **Sub total ** | 556 | 12,424 | |||
| A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) |
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| **Sub total ** | - | - | - | ||
| Total payments Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end |
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| 12,424 | |||||
| - 36 | 7,999 | 7,963 | 14,904 | ||
| 874 | - 874 | - | |||
| 2,039 | 12,865 | 14,904 | |||
| 2,877 | 19,990 | 22,867 | 14,904 |
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
| Categories B1 Cash funds |
Total cash funds Details Restricted income Unrestricted Income |
Restricted funds to nearest £ 19,990 2,877 - 22,867 |
Endowment funds to nearest £ |
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| 19,990 | - | ||
| 2,877 | - | ||
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| 22,867 | - |
| B5 Liabilities B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B3 Investment assets B2 Other monetary assets |
Income in Advance - National Lottery Community Fund(Restricted) Details Details Details Details |
Restricted funds to nearest £ - - - Cost (optional) - - - Cost (optional) - - - Amount due (optional) 19,990 - |
Endowment funds to nearest £ |
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| Income in Advance - National Lottery Community Fund(Restricted) |
19,990 | ||
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Notes
1. Purposes of restricted funds
During the reporting period, the charity held the following restricted funds:
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National Lottery Community Fund: Community Table project events celebrating communities, culture and heritage, completed in 2024/2025
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Kent Community Foundation: Diabetes Awareness project to raise awareness of type 2 diabetes within ethnic minority groups, completed in 2024/2025
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- Canterbury City Council: Community Space project to create a welcoming, multi purpose drop in designed to empower ethnic minority residents, completed in 2024/2025
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National Lottery Community Fund: Community Space project: £19,990 received February 2025 and carried forward in full for spending in 2025/2026
Therefore at 31st March 2025, restricted funds totalled £19,990.
Signed by one or two trustees on Date of behalf of all the trustees Signature approval 29/01/2026