Overall GiG Score: 8 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 8
  • No PartB
    • Large volunteers +3
    • Grant maker support: +5

    COMMUNITY OF TIGRAYAN IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 

    * Advice, support and advocacy on welfare benefits, education, training and employment etc.* Female and young people training and development programmes * Health development programmes* Job search and business start up * Provide courses such as English, IT, web-design etc. * Organise social and cultural event* Supplementary classes, and homework club
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
    • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
    • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

    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: 9 years

    www.ctguk.org

    info@ctguk.org

    02036200764

    Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebookX
    UN SDGs
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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£26£15£11n/an/an/an/an/a5
    31/03/22£9£16£-7n/an/an/an/an/a6
    31/03/21£42£22£20n/an/an/an/an/a15
    31/03/20£32£25£7n/an/an/an/an/a4
    31/03/19£18£5£13n/an/an/an/an/a16
    31/03/18£0£1£-1£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/17£7£6£1£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/16*£13£2£11£0£0£0n/a00

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    What it does
    • Education/Training
    • General Charitable Purposes
    • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
    Who works here?
    • 5 volunteers
    Who it helps
    • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
    How it operates
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • 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.

    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Trust for London - Community of Tigrayan Refugees in the United Kingdom
    £4,691 29/09/2022
    This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-05.10.2021-9340
    Trust for London - Community of Tigrayan Refugees in the United Kingdom
    £56,033 09/02/2022
    This funding is for “Independent Futures” CTG-UK will provide welfare benefits, housing and general advice to Tigrayans living in poverty within Lambeth. A key focus will be collaborations with ....more
    Trust for London - Community of Tigrayan Refugees in the United Kingdom
    £8,489 19/08/2020
    6
    The funding is for welfare benefits, housing and general advice for Tigrayans living in poverty, and affected by trauma and isolation in London. A key element will be collaborations with health and ....more
    Trust for London - Community of Tigrayan Refugees in Britain
    £45,000 20/02/2019
    36
    The funding is for welfare benefits, housing and general advice information and casework including links with health and specialist services through a new, part-time Advice Worker.
    People's Health Trust - "Community Connections" (Tigrayan Community Development Project)
    £25,000 02/08/2018
    This two-year project put in place activities run by and for the Tigrayan Community living in Southwark and Lambeth. The project created a Forum made up of Tigrayan community members, who suggested ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - Coming Together:Volunteer & Community Development Project
    £9,718 26/03/2018
    12
    This project will engage young people from black and ethnic minority backgrounds in a programme of activities to develop new skills and improve their confidence through volunteering. This will enable ....more

    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (10)
    Current Trustees appointed

    Age Range of Trustees:
    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 03/10/2014, number: 1158762
    Gift Aid
    • NOT 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
    • Investment
    • 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
    8 returns made; AR16: 1 days late,
    Main office

    13-15 STOCKWELL ROAD
    LONDON
    SW9 9AU

    Objectives

    (1) The relief of poverty, sickness and distress and the advancement of education, particularly among persons of the community of Tigrayan now living in the UK. (2) To provide or assist in the provision of facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation or other leisure time occupation of individuals who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age infirmity or disability, financial hardship or social circumstances with the object of improving their conditions of life. (3) To promote social inclusion of persons of the community of Tigrayans now living in the UK by preventing them from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate in society. (4) To act as a resource for young people, particular from the community of Tigrayans, by providing advice, assistance and organising programmes of physical, educational and other activities as a means of advancing in life and helping such young people by developing their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to fully participate in society as independent, mature and responsible individuals.' (5) The advancement of environmental protection or improvement in Tigray by working closely with local, national, regional, and international governmental, and non-government organisations and agencies. (6) Providing support to organisations who are working to build a strong anti - poverty network in the Tigray regional state and to support the development programmes in Tigray to promote social justice with the objective to combat poverty.

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase
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