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African and Caribbean Support Organisation Northern Ireland (ACSONI)

A Registered Charity based in Northern Ireland

Active Registered Charity (Northern Ireland)

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GB-NIC-105267
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Description

The Association is established to advance education, relieve poverty, protect and promote public health and to promote the benefit of the inhabitants and in particular the communities of Caribbean, African, Mixed Heritage and/or West Indian origin and descent and their dependants (hereinafter called the “beneficiaries”) of Northern Ireland (hereinafter called the “area of benefit”) without distinction of age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnic identity, political or religious opinion, by associating the statutory authorities, community and voluntary organisations and the beneficiaries in a common effort to advance education, and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation or other leisure-time occupation, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said beneficiaries and in particular: (a) to relieve persons in need, hardship or distress within the Caribbean, African, Mixed Heritage and/or West Indian communities in the area of benefit in particular through advocacy and the provision of advice and support; (b) to advance education within the area of benefit in all matters relating to Caribbean, African, Mixed Heritage or West Indian arts, history, traditions, language and culture thereby promoting good race relations in an effort to foster a sentiment in favour of equality and diversity and thereby endeavouring to eliminate racial discrimination; (c) to preserve and protect good health, particularly but not exclusively through the provision of forums, projects, seminars and workshops; (d) to educate and train persons of Caribbean, African, Mixed Heritage and/or West Indian origin living in the area of benefit who through their social and economic conditions are in need and unable to gain employment by the provision of or assisting in the provision of facilities, forums, projects, classes and seminars necessary for such training and education so as to enable them to acquire and develop vocational skills; (e) to advance any other exclusively charitable purpose as the management committee, may from time to time, decide in accordance with the law of charity.

Also known as

  • Acsoni

CCNI Charity number

105267

Registered

Postcode

BT7 1NR

Website

acsoni.org

Domain

acsoni.org

Latest income

£83,132 (on )

This organisation record is based on data from Charity Commission for Northern Ireland charity search published by Charity Commission for Northern Ireland.

African and Caribbean Support Organisation Northern Ireland (ACSONI)

GB-NIC-105267

Locations

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Registered Office in the UK

African and Caribbean Support Organisation Northern Ireland (ACSONI)

GB-NIC-105267

Themes and activities

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This organisation has been classified using different categories:

International Classification of Non-profit and Third Sector Organizations (ICNP/TSO)

ICNP/TSO categories have been automatically assigned from a machine learning model, as part of the UK Charity Classification project.

  • Social advocacy G11

UK Charity Activity Tags

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  • Arts AR
  • Associations AS » Women's Institute AS107
  • Beneficiary group BE » Families BE103
  • Beneficiary group BE » Racial; ethnic or national communities BE111
  • Beneficiary group BE » Women BE113
  • Beneficiary group BE » Young people BE115
  • Charitable activities CA » Advice and individual advocacy CA101
  • Charitable activities CA » Policy campaigning and advocacy CA103
  • Education ED
  • Education ED » Training ED300
  • Education ED » Training ED300 » Mentoring ED305
  • Health HE
  • Heritage HR » History HR103
  • Research RS
  • Society SO » Racial justice SO106
  • Social welfare SW » Loneliness SW106

What the charity does (CCNI)

What the charity does as chosen by the organisation in their annual return to Charity Commission for Northern Ireland. Organisations can chose multiple categories.

  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • The advancement of the arts/culture/heritage or science
  • The advancement of human rights/conflict resolution or reconciliation or the promotion of religious or racial harmony or equality and diversity
  • The relief of those in need by reason of youth/age/ill-health/disability/financial hardship or other disadvantage

Who the charity helps (CCNI)

Who the charity helps as chosen by the organisation in their annual return to Charity Commission for Northern Ireland. Organisations can chose multiple categories.

  • Adult training
  • Asylum seekers/refugees
  • Carers
  • Children (5-13 year olds)
  • Community safety/crime prevention
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Ex-offenders and prisoners
  • General public
  • Homelessness
  • Language community
  • Learning disabilities
  • Men
  • Mental health
  • Older people
  • Parents
  • Physical disabilities
  • Specific areas of deprivation
  • Tenants
  • Unemployed/low income
  • Victim support
  • Voluntary and community sector
  • Volunteers
  • Women
  • Youth (14-25 year olds)

How the charity works (CCNI)

How the charity works as chosen by the organisation in their annual return to Charity Commission for Northern Ireland. Organisations can chose multiple categories.

  • Advice/advocacy/information
  • Arts
  • Community development
  • Community enterprise
  • Counselling/support
  • Criminal justice
  • Cross-border/cross-community
  • Cultural
  • Economic development
  • Education/training
  • Gender
  • General charitable purposes
  • Heritage/historical
  • Human rights/equality
  • Medical/health/sickness
  • Overseas aid/famine relief
  • Relief of poverty
  • Research/evaluation
  • Volunteer development
  • Welfare/benevolent
  • Youth development

African and Caribbean Support Organisation Northern Ireland (ACSONI)

GB-NIC-105267

Charity financial history

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Year ending Income (£) Spending (£)
2016-05-20 Registered as a charity
2019-03-31 78,923 87,447
2020-03-31 82,717 67,838
2021-03-31 32,610 18,592
2022-03-31 45,988 35,813
2023-03-31 83,132 60,698
Income and Spending
Funds and Reserves

Data on funds and reserves are only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.

African and Caribbean Support Organisation Northern Ireland (ACSONI)

GB-NIC-105267

Grants received

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Date Funder Amount awarded Description
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
Northern Ireland 		£150,000
2 years 		Grant to African and Caribbean Support Organisation Northern Ireland (ACSONI)
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
Northern Ireland 		£67,938
2 years 		Grant to African and Caribbean Support Organisation Northern Ireland (ACSONI)
Rosa UK
FGM 		£5,000
7 months 		FGM R5-ACSO NI-2015
Nov 2015 to Jun 2016

Data source

Some grants data comes from funders who publish data using the 360Giving Data Standard. It was accessed using the 360Giving Datastore.

African and Caribbean Support Organisation Northern Ireland (ACSONI)

GB-NIC-105267

Data sources

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Charity Commission for Northern Ireland

Charity Commission for Northern Ireland charity search

Last fetched from source: 2024-07-02

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