African Community Council For The Regions
Charity 1088205
Overview
Summary
The African Community Council For The Regions appears to be positioned as a regional intermediary rather than a single-service provider: it aims to strengthen African communities in the West Midlands through membership support, advocacy and capacity building. Its formal purposes combine direct disadvantage reduction with a broader ambition to improve cross-cultural understanding, participation and social cohesion. However, the available digital contact point appears unreliable or compromised, creating uncertainty about the organisation’s current public-facing presence and operational accessibility.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Bournbrook and Selly Park
Confidence: medium
A recently updated NHS service profile identifies Prospect Hall in Selly Oak as ACCR's contact and service location, gives weekday opening hours, and describes self-referral and professional referral routes. Confidence is reduced because the charity reported zero income and expenditure for the year ended 31 March 2025, and the available evidence does not directly establish operational activity across the ward.
- NHS service directory profile for African Community Council For The Regions (information supplied 29 May 2026)
Lists Prospect Hall in Selly Oak, Birmingham as the service address; states opening hours of Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm; and allows self-referral or professional referral. - Birmingham City Council ward maps
Recognises Bournbrook and Selly Park as a current Birmingham ward.
Remaining uncertainties
- There is conflicting evidence about current activity: the NHS profile was updated in May 2026 and presents an open referral service, while the Charity Commission records zero income and zero expenditure for the financial year ended 31 March 2025.
- The Charity Commission records Birmingham and several other West Midlands local-authority areas as places where the charity operates, and the NHS profile gives a Birmingham and West Midlands catchment. This supports a regional operational identity, but neither source identifies current delivery sites, membership locations or service volumes outside the Selly Oak service location.
- No current, reliable evidence was found of active delivery in other named Birmingham wards, so no additional wards have been recorded.
- No material current partnerships that extend ACCR's operational geography could be verified from authoritative sources.
- The organisation's stated website was not usable as evidence because its content was unrelated Vietnamese gambling-site material rather than ACCR information.
- Companies House shows an active proposal to strike off and overdue company filings, which further limits confidence that public organisational information fully reflects current operations.
Additional evidence needed
- A current ACCR annual report, trustee report or service-delivery update covering 2025-26, including active projects, participant locations and delivery venues.
- Confirmation from ACCR or the NHS directory profile editor that Prospect Hall remains an operating service site, rather than only a contact or registered-office address.
- Current funding, commissioning or partnership documentation identifying the organisations and localities through which Kushinga, Bridging the Gap, African Roots and women's inclusion activity is presently delivered.
- A current list of member organisations or supported groups, with their service geographies, to test the reported West Midlands-wide umbrella role.
Areas of work
- Accommodation/housing
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
How they help
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A community infrastructure role
The organisation appears designed to support other African community groups as well as individuals, using an umbrella model to build shared capacity, representation and access to resources across the region.
Why it matters
This suggests its influence may lie less in delivering a single programme and more in connecting, enabling and amplifying a wider network of organisations and communities.
Show evidence
“A umbrella membership organisation set up to help and support members of the African communities in the West Midlands region.”
Source:Organisation“Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body.”
Source:Charity Commission
Social cohesion is treated as an outcome, not a side benefit
Its objects suggest that addressing poverty, health and employment disadvantage is linked to cultural recognition, participation and relationships between African and non-African communities.
Why it matters
This distinguishes the organisation from a narrowly welfare-focused charity: it may regard inequality as partly relational and civic, requiring representation, mutual understanding and inclusion alongside practical support.
Show evidence
“The charity aims to address ill health, economic deprivation, social, educational, vocational or employment disadvantage, hardship, distress, discrimination or need.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity aims to promote social and cultural understanding, inclusiveness, participation, integration, cultural diversity, fairness and social cohesion.”
Source:Charity Commission
A broad remit may require careful prioritisation
The organisation’s stated purposes span health, poverty, education, employment, housing, overseas aid, community development and cultural integration. This may indicate an intentionally holistic approach, but available evidence does not show which areas are currently active or resourced.
Why it matters
Understanding its practical priorities is essential for identifying complementary partners, avoiding assumptions about duplication, and seeing where its regional convening role could add most value.
Show evidence
“What the charity does includes education/training, health, poverty relief, overseas aid, accommodation/housing and economic/community development/employment.”
Source:Charity Commission“Who the charity helps includes children and young people, elderly people and people of a particular ethnic or racial origin.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its public web presence cannot presently be treated as organisational evidence
The supplied website content appears unrelated to the charity and instead promotes an online gambling platform. This may indicate a lapsed, misdirected or compromised web domain rather than a functioning organisational channel.
Why it matters
This creates a practical visibility and trust issue: potential members, partners and beneficiaries may be unable to verify the organisation’s current work or contact it safely through the listed website.
Show evidence
“The supplied website content promotes GO99, an online gambling platform, and contains no apparent information about the African Community Council For The Regions.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Whether the organisation is currently active, and what services or member support it currently delivers.
- Which African community organisations or localities in the West Midlands it represents.
- Whether the unrelated website reflects a domain issue, data error or loss of the organisation’s public digital presence.
- How its international charitable objects relate to its stated West Midlands regional role.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, accounts and trustee reports showing current activities, income, beneficiaries and partnerships.
- A verified current website, contact channel or social presence.
- A membership list or examples of member organisations and collaborative initiatives.
- Evidence of recent advocacy, capacity-building or service-delivery outcomes.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
A umbrella membership organisation set up to help and support members of the African communities in the West Midlands region.
Charity objects
1. TO ADDRESS ALLEVIATE AND REMEDY THE ILL HEALTH, ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION, SOCIAL, EDUCATIONAL, VOCATIONAL OR EMPLOYMENT DISADVANTAGE, HARDSHIP, DISTRESS, DISCRIMINATION OR NEED OF AFRICAN INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES WORLDWIDE 2. TO ENABLE, SUPPORT, ASSIST, PROVIDE AND PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF AFRICAN INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES AND THE PUBLIC GENERALLY, THE HIGHEST ETHICAL PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HARMONY, HEALTH AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND CROSS CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING, INCLUSIVENESS, PARTICIPATION AND INTEGRATION, THE RESPECTING AND HONOURING OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY, FAIRNESS, TRANSPARENCY AND COLLECTIVE WELL BEING BOTH AS BETWEEN AFRICAN INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES AND AFRICAN AND NON-AFRICAN INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES SO AS TO CREATE AND DEVELOP ENLIGHTENED MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING, RESPECT AND SOCIAL COHESION AND INTEGRATION. 3. TO CREATE, ASSIST, SUPPORT, MAINTAIN, DEVELOP AND CAPACITY BUILD CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE FOR AFRICAN INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES IN NEED DEDICATED TO THEIR SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND HEALTH DEVELOPMENT AND COLLECTIVE WELL BEING AND TO ASSIST IN INDIVIDUALLY ESTABLISHING COHESIVE AND INTEGRATED COMMUNITIES AND DEVELOPING SOCIAL ECONOMIC AND HEALTH EQUALITIES BETWEEN BOTH INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES INTO FULL INTEGRATIVE PARTICIPATION WHILST ACKNOWLEDGING AND CELEBRATING CULTURAL DIVERSITY