Overall GiG Score: 12 ?
Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 13
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +13

KARMA NIRVANA 

-Raising public awareness on the issues of Honour Based Abuse and Forced Marriages.-Providing confidential, listening support, options and guidance to all victims and survivors of Honour Based Abuse through the Honour Network Helpline.-Providing specific support and guidance to victims and agencies to reduce risk and isolation and increase their safety.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 3 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 22 years

www.karmanirvana.org.uk

info@karmanirvana.org.uk

01138870281

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£441£541£-101n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/22£511£483£28£4£528£45911.41220
31/03/21£643£446£197£1£500£40310.91215
31/03/20£405£445£-40n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/19£548£506£42£41£343£3438.11020
31/03/18£501£507£-6£12£301£2636.2150
31/03/17£531£490£41£110£307£2536.2120
31/03/16*£501£374£127£50£266£2146.9150
31/03/15£369£307£62£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£207£216£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£218£202£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£227£199£28£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£149£136£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£84£88£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£136£132£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£59£53£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£69£79£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£72£61£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£26£20£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£32£19£12£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 20 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Home Office£374,681
Esmee Fairbairn£239,000
Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation£196,748
Henry Smith Charity£179,600
National Lottery Community Fund£145,200
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£30,000
Rosa UK£7,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation - Grant to Karma Nirvana
£150,000 06/07/2023
Towards core funding
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Karma Nirvana
£15,000 06/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Rosa UK - VftF R5-KARNIR-2022
£7,000 15/12/2022
£7000 awarded to adapt and digitize an existing honour-based violence risk assessment tool (currently used by Police across 25 forces). Funding will further cover a test phase with five stakeholder ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Karma Nirvana
£150,000 30/03/2022
36
Towards unrestricted core costs to tackle honour based abuse and forced marriage by supporting survivors, professionals and influencing policy and practice
Home Office - VAWG By and For Services
£21,000 05/01/2022
As committed in the Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy, the Home Office will provide an additional £1.5 million funding for 'by and for' service provision and further increase ....more
Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation - Grant to Karma Nirvana
£46,748 23/07/2021
Towards honoured based abused project
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Karma Nirvana
£30,000 21/07/2021
36
Main Grant unrestricted core costs
Home Office - Violence Against Women and Girls - helplines
£160,000 13/05/2021
The Home Office (HO) published a Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy on 8 March 2016 setting out an ambitious programme to make tackling VAWG everybodys business, ensure victims and ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Karma Nirvana
£54,000 07/04/2021
Towards unrestricted core costs from the Racialised Communities Top Up Fund
National Lottery Community Fund - Honour Based Abuse Helpline
£72,300 13/11/2020
6
The project will use the funding to help pay staffing costs for it's helpline service as well as six month salaries for it's Senior Leadership Team. This will allow the organisation to continue it's ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Karma Nirvana
£179,600 16/09/2020
36
towards three years' running costs of the national helpline project providing specialist support and guidance to victims, survivors and professionals living or working with Honour Based Abuse.
Home Office - Covid-19 Support for Domestic Abuse Charities
£11,499 06/07/2020
Organisations providing services and support for vulnerable people, for which there will be increased demand as a result of the COVID-19 crisis
National Lottery Community Fund - Honour Based Abuse Helpline
£72,900 25/06/2020
6
The funding will provide specialist support and guidance to victims of honour-based abuse (HBA) and forced marriage (FM). In addition to this they will provide online services offering practical and ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Karma Nirvana
£20,000 28/04/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Home Office - Violence against Women & Girls Helplines 2020-21
£150,000 01/04/2020
The Home Office (HO) published a Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy on 8 March 2016 setting out an ambitious programme to make tackling VAWG everybodys business, ensure victims and ....more
Home Office - COVID-19 Support For Domestic Abuse Charities 20-21
£11,499 01/04/2020
This grant is intended to provide funding to organisations whose primary purpose is to improve the response to DA, either through providing support to victims who have experienced DA, or through ....more
Home Office - KARMA NIRVANA
£20,683 01/04/2020
The purpose of this funding is to provide additional funds for DA charities to help them cope with the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic/lockdown; to enable them to continue to meet their usual ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Action Pledge - Signed the Pledge Implementing the Pledge
£39,714 16/01/2019
11
Karma Nirvana successfully worked with BSBT partnership team to achieve full Leeds City Council support voting to develop a Leeds City wide pledge of commitment to tackling forced marriages/honour ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Karma Nirvana
£120,000 05/12/2018
36
Towards unrestricted core costs to tackle honour based abuse and forced marriage by supporting survivors, professionals and influencing policy and practice.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Karma - Nirvana
£50,000 20/07/2016
24
funding towards an Independent Honour Based violence Advocate that will provide indepth 1-1 support to victims ensuring they can remove or assert themselves from the abusive situation in order to ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Karma Nirvana
£120,000 21/01/2015
36
Towards the salaries of the chief executive and project manager for work on forced marriage and honour-based violence.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Karma - Nirvana
£35,000 28/02/2013
Karma Nirvana provides a national helpline to support victims of honour based abuse and forced marriage, and campaigns to raise the profile of the issue amongst policy makers and other relevant bodies
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 23/11/2001, number: 1089477
  • Registered at Companies House on 02/09/2010, number: 07363952
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR16: 2 days late, AR09: 87 days late, AR08: 96 days late, AR07: 55 days late, AR06: 28 days late, AR05: 124 days late, AR04: 327 days late,
Main office

PO BOX 515
LEEDS
LS6 9DW

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THOSE AT RISK OF FORCED MARRIAGES, HONOUR RELATED CRIMES AND THOSE DISOWNED BY THEIR FAMILIES THROUGH: 1)PUBLIC AWARENESS AND CAMPAIGNING ON ISSUES OF FORCED MARRIAGES AND HONOUR BASED VIOLENCE.2)PREVENTION AND SUPPORT WORK WITH THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION.3)PROVIDE ACCESSIBLE SUPPORT AND FRIENDSHIP TO THOSE AT RISK AND DISOWNED.4)DEVELOP NATIONAL DATABASE IDENTIFYING SURVIVORS OF FORCED MARRIAGES AND HONOUR BASED VIOLENCE.5)WORK WITH STATUTORY, VOLUNTARY AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

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