Overall GiG Score: 19 ?
Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 14
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +14

MIGRANT VOICE 

Migrant Voice works to increase the skills, capacity and confidence of members of migrant communities (including refugees and asylum seekers) with the aim to engage migrants in developing and conveying key messages about their realities in order to promote a more balanced media coverage and public debate on migration and to encourage integration of migrant communities with the wider public.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

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: 13 years

www.migrantvoice.org

info@migrantvoice.org

0207 832 5824

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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£340£311£29n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/22£207£300£-93n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/21£474£319£156n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/20£262£269£-7n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/19£249£199£51n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/03/18£107£169£-63£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£216£181£36£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£193£167£26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£180£132£49£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£112£162£-49£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£146£107£39£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£88£70£17£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 10 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • 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
Esmee Fairbairn£348,252
National Lottery Heritage Fund£249,213
Trust for London£163,234
Barrow Cadbury Trust£163,100
John Ellerman Foundation£120,000
Tudor Trust£120,000
DCMS£95,253
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£35,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Trust for London - Migrant Voice
£103,000 25/05/2023
The funding builds upon their previous learning to strengthen a migrant led campaign for a fairer visa and settlement process, including more migrants speaking out and campaigning for a fairer ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Migrant Voice
£24,000 13/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Barrow Cadbury Trust - The UK Migrant Voices for Change Network - Birmingham.
£57,200 28/01/2023
To support the UK Migrant Voices for Change Network in Birmingham
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Enhancing staff capacity and national networks
£15,000 18/01/2023
Migrant Voice is a migrant-led, national organisation focused on migrant-centred communications, campaigning and advocacy to achieve migrants’ rights and justice for all. They build migrants’ ....more
Trust for London - Migrant Voice
£2,300 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-02.06.2020-8650
John Ellerman Foundation - Core costs
£120,000 28/07/2022
Core costs
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Migrant Voice
£240,000 26/04/2022
36
Towards unrestricted core costs for the implementation of a new strategy to build migrant voices, power and influence to challenge structural inequality and injustice
Tudor Trust - Grant to Migrant Voice
£120,000 24/03/2022
36
over three years as core funding to support a movement tackling injustice and the marginalisation of migrants in the UK through mobilisation, platforming, training and campaigning led by experience
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Migrant Voice
£249,213 24/02/2022
Putting Ourselves in the Picture
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Migrant Voice
£54,000 24/03/2021
1
Towards unrestricted core costs from the Racialised Communities Top Up Fund
Trust for London - Migrant Voice
£48,834 15/03/2021
This funding will support core staff to ensure continuation of its robust service to support migrants to integrate successfully into British society. Funding will contribute to one day of the ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£95,253 30/10/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Trust for London - Migrant Voice
£9,100 07/10/2020
24
The funding is for developing the capacity and confidence of migrants to speak effectively about the impact of extortionate visa fees on their lives, engaging directly with media and policymakers to ....more
Barrow Cadbury Trust - COVID-19 - Migrant Voice
£48,600 30/09/2020
6
To support Migrant Voice's response to the pandemic.
Barrow Cadbury Trust - UK Migrant Voices for Change Network - Birmingham 2020-22
£57,300 11/07/2020
24
To continue to support Migrant Voice's Birmingham network.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Migrant Voice
£30,252 28/04/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 09/04/2020
3
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Strengthening the policy impact of the stories of people with lived experience of migration
£105,000 10/12/2018
36
Through this grant Migrant Voice will build on their core work, linking high impact stories and people with lived experience to campaigns on emerging migration issues, through their networks in ....more
Barrow Cadbury Trust - The UK Migrant Voices for Change Network - Birmingham
£56,500 20/10/2018
24
To support Migrant Voice's network in Birmingham (2018-2020)
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Migrant Voice
£181,514 29/08/2018
36
Towards the salary of the Chief Executive and a Meet a Migrant Project Worker to lead on work giving voice to migrants and refugees to reduce media bias.
National Lottery Community Fund - Changing Lenses – Glasgow stories of integration
£9,992 23/05/2017
12
This funding will be used to run a project which will explore people's experiences of integration through photography and creative writing, ending with an exhibition of photography and text.
National Lottery Community Fund - Changing Lenses – London stories of integration
£9,997 19/04/2017
12
The funding will be used to run a multimedia project, culminating in an exhibition that will explore issues that migrants are experiencing. The project aims to bring the community together, challenge ....more
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to Migrant Voice
£60,000 18/03/2017
24
Core costs
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Supporting Migrant Voice's convening on communications
£3,000 13/12/2016
3
To support Migrant Voice's convening work within the migrant and refugee sector
Barrow Cadbury Trust - UK Migrant Voices for Change (UKMVC) 2016-18
£55,000 22/10/2016
24
To support Migrant Voice's network in Birmingham
Barrow Cadbury Trust - External evaluation of the work of Migrant Voice
£6,000 13/11/2015
To part fund an external evaluation of Migrant Voice
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Migrant Voice
£86,713 10/06/2015
24
Towards the salary of the chief executive and communication officer for work to enable migrants' voices to be better heard in the debate to challenge stigma, combat xenophobia and hostility, and ....more
Barrow Cadbury Trust - UK Migrant Voices for Change (UKMVC) 2014-16
£53,000 12/07/2014
UK Migrant Voices for Change (UKMVC) 2014-16
Barrow Cadbury Trust - UK Migrant Voices for Change' (UKMVC) 2012-14
£51,000 27/10/2012
UK Migrant Voices for Change' (UKMVC) 2012-14
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 48-76
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/07/2011, number: 1142963
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/02/2010, number: 07154151
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
12 returns made; all on time
Main office

Migrant Voice
VAI
200a Pentonville Road
LONDON
N1 9JP

Objectives

(1) to advance education amongst migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, by the provision of training, advice and support, especially around media work; and(2) to advance the education of the public in general and the media about the issues relating to migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.(3) To promote equality and diversity by the provision of activities to foster understanding between people from diverse backgrounds and to cultivate a sentiment in favour of equality and diversity

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