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Timeline

  • 1976 TCCA ESTABLISHMENT
  • 1976 ESTABLISHED Turkish Community Football Federation
  • 1979 ADVICE PROJECT LAUNCHED
  • 1981 LAUNCH OF TOPLUM POSTASI
  • 1983 ACQUIRED 117 GREEN LANES
  • 1993 HOMECARE LAUNCHED
  • 1997 POLICE SURGERY LAUNCHED
  • 1999 INCORPORATED AS A COMPANY LTD BY GUARANTEE
  • 2000 BECAME REGISTERED CHARITY
  • 2002 16 ACTIVE PROJECTS
  • 2004 MOVED TO 628-630 GREEN LANES
  • 2004 TURKISH CYPRIOT HERITAGE PROJECT STARTED
  • 2004 RECOGNISED AS TOP UK BASED TURKISH CHARITY CENTUS
  • 2006 TURNOVER HITS 1.6 MILLION
  • 2010 LAUNCHED EMPLOYMENT COMMISSION
  • 2014 RECOGNISED AS TOP TURKISH CHARITY BY CENTUS
  • 2015 BECAME CACHE ACCREDITED TRAINING CHARITY
  • 2016 CELEBRATED 40 YEARS OF CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES
  • 2017 MAJOR GROUND FLOOR RENOVATIONS COMPLETED
  • 2018 TURKISH CYPRIOT CULTURAL & ARTS FESTIVAL LAUNCHED
  • 2019 THIRD PREMISES OCCUPIED (ENFIELD)
  • 2019 LAUNCHED TURKISH CYPRIOT COMMUNITY AWARDS
  • 2020 LAUNCHED MEDIA PLATFORM
  • 2020 LAUNCHED TURKISH CYPRIOT EMERGENCY PLATFORM
  • 2020 AWARDED IMPACT AWARD FOR WORK RELATED TO COVID
  • 2021 Launch of Kickstart Project
  • 2021 Winner of the highest award in the Third Sector, the “Third Sector Covid 19 Frontline Team of the Year”

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History

Turkish Cypriot Community Association (TCCA) established in 1976, the Charity is a Company Limited by Guarantee (Company Number 3851759) with Charity Status (Charity Number 1080926), and more recently it became registered with Locality (Locality 03063). In terms of turnover and staffing TCCA is the largest Turkish Speaking charity in the UK.

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As a charity it has been providing culturally, linguistically, and religiously sensitive services to Turkish Cypriot community. It also serves other who describe themselves as Cypriot and Turkish Speaking that reside in the UK. TCCA operates from three premises.

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Main Office and Haringey branch

628-630 Green Lanes, Haringey N8 0SD.

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Hackney and Islington branch

117 Green Lanes

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Enfield branch

53 Lancaster Rd, Enfield EN2 0BU

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Southwark branch

152 Old Kent Rd, London SE1 5TY

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We are also considering a subcache in Waltham Forest.

All projects are developed based on assessed need and thereafter provided in partnership with beneficiaries, stakeholders, and members. For those members of our community who have a limited command of English, the disadvantage suffered due to not being able to read or understand is heightened. With the economic climate at its worse since the 1930s, a downturn in services offered by advice bureaus, restriction in accessible benefits and unemployment at record levels, have all placed an immense strain on people(s) ability to deal with debt. The burden on charities to provide debt/financial planning to those most in need is immense, and many charities are unable to bridge the gap between required provision and finances.

In the last 24 this has been expatiated with the Covid 19 pandemic which has plagued our nation since March 2020. With this charities have had to further juggle the need to serve people in need with a need to balance their books ensuring that they have the stability to move forward.

With the economic climate at its worse since the 1930s, a downturn in services offered by advice bureaus, restriction in accessible benefits and unemployment at record levels, have all placed an immense strain on people(s) ability to deal with debt. The burden on charities to provide debt/financial planning to those most in need is immense, and many charities are unable to bridge the gap between required provision and finances.

In recent months this has been expatiated with the Covid 19 pandemic which has plagued our nation since March of this year. With these charities have had to further juggle the need to serve people in need and balance their books ensuring that they have the stability to move forward.

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Our Vision and Mission

Our raison d’etre is to support our community through our self-funded and internally created and externally tendered projects. These projects must provide a springboard for Turkish speaking people to either increase quality of life or gain training and support that will ultimately result in them not requiring government benefits to survive.

Through recognising the developments within our own community and contact with government bodies and locally sympathetic NGO’s, the TCCA will in time create more fresh projects and offer help in the most deprived corners of our community.

Our ambition is to improve lives for the short and long term and to contribute to wider society. Our full charitable objectives and breakdown are as set out in our memorandum and articles of association. Copies of these are available at the TCCA office for anyone who wishes to review them.

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Governance and management

We adhere to a strict governance policy for making and putting into action all decisions and spending. Our board of Trustees takes responsibility as a collective for the overall running and financial processes in the organisation.

As we are keen to that we remain transparent we are inspected by CQC, Your Value, Pre-viable and Cache we also adhere to PQASSO, Investors in People, Investors in Communities, Locality and Hackney Health. Further to main trustees’ meetings we have sub committees that are appointed from time to time current committees include: Finance, Homecare, Property, Festival and Staffing.

Our accounts are securitised by auditors and have a full audit completed rather than an Independent Evaluation.

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Awards

Since 2018, TCCA has been consistently recognised for its delivery of high quality needs led services that are reflective of the community’s needs. In 2021 alone it received 8 awards ranging from the Oscars of the third sector The Third Sector Awards where it was the winner of the “Front Line Covid 19 Team of the Year” through to Haringey Councils “Community Hero Award”

Judges at the Third Sector Awards were impressed by the range of new services the team developed, and praised the TCCA’s “agility and rapid response to the international Pandemic”.

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