THE BENIN TRUST
Charity Number: 1116338
Charity reporting is up to date (51 days late)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
Provision of senior citizen support and volunteering, organizing youth mentoring and health promotion including sports and recreational services, delivering vocational education including entrepreneurship, film-making, arts and mother tongue language training , offering job-search, capacity building workshops, research , promotion of black history and other general charitable activities
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 October 2023
Total income: £75,972
Total expenditure: £63,710
People
4 Trustee(s)
15 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charityFundraising
No information available
Trading
This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.
Trustee payments
No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.
What, who, how, where
What the charity does:
- General Charitable Purposes
- Education/training
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- Disability
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- Accommodation/housing
- Religious Activities
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Amateur Sport
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Recreation
- Other Charitable Purposes
Who the charity helps:
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- Other Defined Groups
- The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
- Provides Other Finance
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- Other Charitable Activities
Where the charity operates:
- Throughout London
- Benin
- Nigeria
Governance
Registration history:
- 10 October 2006: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Other
Other names:
- BENIN YOUTH FORUM (Working name)
- THE BINI UNION TRUST (Previous name)
Gift aid:
Not recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
- Complaints handling
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Conflicting interests
- Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Investing charity funds policy and procedures
- Investment
- Paying staff
- Risk management
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Social media policy and procedures
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
- Volunteer management
Land and property:
This charity does not own and/or lease land or property
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
4 Trustee(s)
| Name | Role | Date of appointment | Other trusteeships | Reporting status of other trusteeships | ||||
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| DAMILOLA ALABI | Trustee | 01 August 2016 |
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| STEWART BOWIE | Trustee | 06 June 2013 |
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| Rev HOFFMAN FRIMPONG-MANSO | Trustee | 29 April 2013 |
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| JUSTIN OLOYA MA | Trustee | 23 January 2013 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 31/10/2019 | 31/10/2020 | 31/10/2021 | 31/10/2022 | 31/10/2023 | ||
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Total gross income | £23.60k | £23.10k | £36.29k | £66.54k | £75.97k | |
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Total expenditure | £23.25k | £22.89k | £34.94k | £15.86k | £63.71k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | N/A | N/A | £1.00k | £1.00k | N/A |
Accounts and annual returns
This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 31 October 2023 | 21 October 2024 | 51 days late | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 October 2023 | 21 October 2024 | 51 days late | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 October 2022 | 21 December 2023 | 112 days late | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 October 2022 | 21 December 2023 | 112 days late | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 October 2021 | 16 May 2022 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 October 2021 | 16 May 2022 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 October 2020 | 01 September 2021 | 1 days late | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 October 2020 | Not Required | ||
| Annual return | 31 October 2019 | 26 November 2020 | 87 days late | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 October 2019 | Not Required |