01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC046451
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- UK and overseas
- Volunteers
- 1-50 volunteers
- Staff
- 0
- Postcode
- G33 4HW
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
AfricAlba is a Scottish-based charity and community-led organisation focused on empowering people of African descent in Scotland and Africa through education, poverty relief, cultural development, and promoting citizenship and sports, aiming to build successful entrepreneurs and sustainable communities with support for employment, health, and environmental initiatives. The charity fulfils its objectives by: - organising sport and physical exercises in different venues in Glasgow - providing information and advice with the aim of improving Africans' confidence and raising their self-esteem thus enabling them to cope with global economic competition and challenge through conferences, seminars, workshops, trainings sessions in different community halls in Glasgow - organising youth music, dance, ambition and dream sharing sessions - delivering educational activities for ethnic minority groups
Charitable purposes
- the prevention or relief of poverty
- the advancement of education
- the advancement of citizenship or community development
- the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
- the advancement of public participation in sport
- the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended
- the promotion of religious or racial harmony
- the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Beneficiaries
- No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Activities
- It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
The organisation's purposes are: (a) To advance education among Africans of Scotland and in Africa. (b) To prevent and relieve poverty within African communities in Scotland and in Africa. (c) To advance citizenship and community development within African communities in Scotland and in Africa. (d) To advance art, heritage, culture and sciences within African communities in Scotland and in Africa (e) To advance public participation in sport among Africans of Scotland and in Africa. (f) To provide recreational facilities, and organise recreational activities for Africans of Scotland and in Africa with the object of improving their conditions of life. (g) To promote equality and diversity in Scotland and Africa. (h) To advance environmental protection and improvement in Scotland and Africa. (i) To relieve Africans of Scotland and in Africa who are in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, and financial hardship or other disadvantage. j) To promote training and skills that will empower Africans of Scotland and in Africa to obtain paid employment. (k) To promote, establish, operate and/or support other similar schemes and projects which further charitable purposes, for the benefit of Africans in Scotland and in Africa.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £30,075 | £29,489 | 0 | 31 December 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £29,700 | £29,169 | 0 | 30 December 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £25,430 | £24,610 | 0 | 30 December 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £10,500 | £12,792 | 0 | 30 December 2022 |
| 31 March 2021 | £16,182 | £16,940 | 0 | 5 January 2022 |
Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.
04 Contact record
Principal office or trustees address
- Address supplied to OSCR
- Flat 1/2, 2 Inver Road, Glasgow
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.africalba.org
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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