The Centre for African Entrepreneurship

The CAE supports ethnically diverse and disadvantaged communities across Wales to overcome barriers to employment, enterprise and wellbeing. Through holistic support including employability, business support and housing advice, developing affordable, sustainable housing solutions to address housing insecurity and poverty.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales
• Congo (democratic Republic)

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 August 2025, it had income of £641,640 and spent £430,011.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 158%, from £248,289 in the year to 31 August 2021 to £641,640 in the year to 31 August 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 67% of its income in the year to 31 August 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

Swansea Council gave £326,892 in the year to 31 August 2025, 51% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 August 2025: £331,887 from 3 grants. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 August 2025, the charity named 12 funders who gave £641,590 between them. £378,695 of that came from public bodies.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

Only funding the accounts name with an amount is included. Most charities also have income from donations, fees and trading that is not listed by funder, so this is part of its income.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 35 grants to this charity since 2016, worth at least £1,898,882.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

Public bodies' published spending shows 2 payments to this charity worth £300,000 between 29 November 2021 and 24 November 2023.

Councils and Welsh Government publish what they pay suppliers and grant holders above a threshold, usually £500 for councils and £25,000 for Welsh Government, so smaller payments are missing. A payment is shown only when OpenEconomy matched it to this charity with certainty. These figures come from the payer's records. They are a separate measure from the charity's own accounts, 360Giving grants and its annual return, and are never added to them.

3 trustees run the charity.

• Rebecca Nyasha MamhendeChairAppointed 18 November 2021
• Chris WilliamsAppointed 24 September 2026
• Elly HerminawatiAppointed 11 February 2026

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1163348

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

1 September 2015

Governing document

CIO - FOUNDATION REGISTERED 01 SEP 2015AMENDED ON 01 JUL 2016

Website

www.caentr.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Swansea

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 1 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Payments from public bodies: each body's own published spending data, matched to the charity by OpenEconomy. 5 public bodies' data is included so far.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Swansea Council's meetings and decisions
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