Overall GiG Score: 8 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 8
  • No PartB
    • Grant maker support: +8

    AZALEA 

    Practical, emotional and spiritual support offered to to women sexually exploited through prostitution through weekly drop-in, outreach, and be-friending sessions.
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
    • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

    Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

    • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

    Financial issues to consider:

    • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
    Established: 15 years

    www.azalea.org.uk

    info@azalea.org.uk

    01582733200

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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
    31/07/23£418£399£18n/an/an/an/an/a27
    31/07/22£414£388£26n/an/an/an/an/a128
    31/07/21£506£469£36£25£230£1473.815154
    31/07/20£419£360£59n/an/an/an/an/a132
    31/07/19£299£290£9n/an/an/an/an/a107
    31/07/18£273£252£21£0£0£0n/a00
    31/07/17£241£176£65£0£0£0n/a00
    31/07/16£105£102£3£0£0£0n/a00
    31/07/15£81£77£5£0£0£0n/a00
    31/07/14£73£66£7£0£0£0n/a00
    31/07/13£69£57£13£0£0£0n/a00
    31/07/12£49£62£-13£0£0£0n/a00
    31/07/11£62£45£17£0£0£0n/a00
    31/07/10*£16£22£-6£0£0£0n/a00
    31/07/09£22£15£7£0£0£0n/a00

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    What it does
    • Education/Training
    • General Charitable Purposes
    • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
    Who works here?
    • 27 volunteers
    Who it helps
    • The General Public/Mankind
    How it operates
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Luton,

    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
    Lloyds Bank Foundation£85,416
    Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation£39,896
    National Lottery Community Fund£29,770
    Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
    CAF£9,264
    Charles Hayward Foundation£7,000
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Azalea (Luton)
    £2,250 14/12/2022
    One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
    The Bishop Radford Trust - Grant to Azalea
    £2,000 29/07/2022
    Encompass Project: a frontline service supporting women who are surviving sex trafficking through expressing the unconditional love of God, and empowering all to walk free from sex trafficking.
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
    £20,000 20/05/2022
    Azalea
    Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Flint Project
    £23,195 09/02/2022
    24
    The funding will enable the charity to undertake outreach work to give practical and emotional support to victims of sex trafficking and also to those addicted to purchasing sex. The grant will ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - Encompass
    £9,900 30/09/2021
    The funding will be used to recruit a part time volunteer manager for an ongoing project. The project aims to ensure current provision of the service which provides support to women caught in ....more
    Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Azalea (Luton)
    £7,166 23/07/2020
    Grant to Azalea (Luton) meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
    CAF - Grant to Azalea
    £9,264 02/07/2020
    3
    Grant to Azalea to support the organisation through COVID19
    Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Azalea
    £7,000 12/06/2020
    Build and Thrive projects
    National Lottery Community Fund - Encompass Support and Housing
    £10,000 29/05/2020
    6
    The organisation will use finding to cover the salary of an Intervention and Exit Officer for victims of sexual exploitation. This will help to deal with the demand and increased vulnerability lack ....more
    Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Both Streams 1 & 2 - Delivery or Support & Core Costs
    £7,468 03/04/2020
    3
    Grant to Azalea
    Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Azalea (Luton)
    £66,000 02/12/2019
    36
    The grant will fund the salary of the Intervention Exit Officer providing intensive and long term support for those who wish to leave the sex industry.
    Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Grant to Azalea
    £9,233 13/11/2019
    11
    Encompass
    Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Azalea (Luton)
    £10,000 31/10/2019
    12
    Supporting Azalea to influence improvements in the response to modern slavery across Bedfordshire including through research focused on suspected trafficking through Luton airport.
    National Lottery Community Fund - Luton Against Sexual Exploitation (LASE)
    £9,870 02/05/2019
    12
    The organisation will use the funding to run community events and establish an action group to help bring people together and equip them to tackle sexual exploitation in the area.
    DCMS - Tampon Tax Community Fund
    £5,901 01/01/2019
    The Recovery Project will work with 25-30 women over 12 months. We expect to see the following outcomes for them: improved life skills including: group working, using freedom to make good choices, ....more
    Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Grant to Azalea
    £7,475 11/12/2018
    11
    Recovery
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
    £10,000 26/09/2018
    Azalea Outreach, Drop-in, Intervention and Exit and Recovery
    Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Grant to Azalea
    £5,000 23/05/2018
    11
    Intervention, Support and Exit Project
    Joseph Rank Trust - Azalea, Luton
    £10,000 21/07/2017
    12
    To fund the work of the Recovering Director
    National Lottery Community Fund - Azalea IT Update
    £9,977 11/04/2017
    12
    The group will install a new IT system so they can improve their services of providing practical and emotional support to vulnerable women experiencing sexual exploitation, addiction or violence.
    Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Azalea (Luton)
    £66,000 24/11/2016
    36
    The grant will fund the salary of the Intervention Exit Officer providing intensive and long term support for those who wish to leave the sex industry.
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (5)
    Current Trustees appointed

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 14/11/2008, number: 1126716
    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
    • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
    • Paying staff
    • Risk management
    • Safeguarding policy and procedures
    • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
    • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
    • Social media policy and procedures
    • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
    • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
    • Volunteer management
    Filing Record
    15 returns made; AR10: 20 days late,
    Main office

    Azalea
    3A Upper George Street
    LUTON
    LU1 2QX

    Objectives

    THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND ADVANCEMENT OF THE WELFARE OF PEOPLE WHO ARE INVOLVED IN THE SEX TRADE BY THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT SERVICES THAT MEET PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL NEEDS, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT. THE ADVANCEMENT OF CHRISTIANITY, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, PARTICULARLY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROMOTING HOSPITALITY, PRAYER AND SERVICE TOWARD PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE SEX TRADE, WITHIN CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES.THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE SEX TRADE BY THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND ADVICE FROM A CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE.

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    LUTON. BEDFORDSHIRE.

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase
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