Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 5
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Grant maker support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 4 ?

HEAR EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS NETWORK 

HEAR is a network of equality and human rights voluntary and community sector organisations in London, bringing together groups pan-equality for mutual learning and support
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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 4 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 has been volatile recently and was substantially in excess of spending in the latest year
Established: 8 years

www.hearequality.org.uk

hear@hearequality.org.uk

0207 832 5817

Charity Commission for England and WalesX
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£151£98£53n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/22£74£125£-51n/an/an/an/an/a1
31/03/21£215£204£11n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/20£228£177£50n/an/an/an/an/a1
31/03/19£102£88£14n/an/an/an/an/a1
31/03/18£92£57£35£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • Other Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • The General Public/Mankind

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
Trust for London£154,600
National Lottery Community Fund£14,000
City Bridge Trust£12,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Trust for London - HEAR Equality and Human Rights Network
£4,600 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-04.02.2020-8467
National Lottery Community Fund - HEAR - COVID Response
£14,000 09/09/2020
5
HEAR Equality and Human Rights Network aims to support people in the local community. Funding will go towards staff costs and upgrading the organisations infrastructure to deal with increased demand.
Trust for London - HEAR Equality and Human Rights Network
£150,000 03/06/2020
36
The funding is for coordinating members' pan-equality and intersectional lobbying and campaigning, expanding user-led and Expert by Experience advocacy. HEAR will engage members, defining new ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to HEAR Equality and Human Rights Network
£12,500 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £12,500, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant.
National Lottery Community Fund - HEAR Stronger Together
£9,982 18/04/2019
12
The project will improve the way in which this organisation supports and builds capacity for voluntary community groups. The aim is to enhance links and strengthen the voluntary sector which lacks ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - See application
£247,137 20/03/2019
24
The project will use funding to explore mapping as a participatory tool and develop an innovative and accessible digital platform, connecting organisations. The project will work with partners to ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to HEAR Equality and Human Rights Network
£194,000 31/01/2019
60
£194,000 over five years (£50,000; £42,000; £34,000; £34,000; £34,000) towards the salary of a full-time HEAR Network Co-ordinator and running costs of work to develop and support the ....more
Trust for London - HEAR Equality and Human Rights Network
£92,500 15/06/2017
36
The funding is towards the post of a 0.6FT Policy and Campaigns Officer, associated overheads, and direct costs of activities to enable continuation of work supporting equalities organizations in ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 03/08/2016, number: 1168591
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
  • 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
7 returns made; all on time
Main office

HEAR C/O Voluntary Action Islington
200a Pentonville Road
London
N1 9JP

Objectives

(1) THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY, FOR EXAMPLE:(A) THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF AGE, RACE, GENDER, GENDER REASSIGNMENT, MARRIAGE OR CIVIL PARTNERSHIP, PREGNANCY OR MATERNITY, DISABILITY, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR RELIGION OR BELIEF;(B) ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY;(C) PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE WITH DIVERSE CHARACTERISTICS;(D) CONDUCTING OR COMMISSIONING RESEARCH INTO EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY ISSUES AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTS;(E) CULTIVATING RECOGNITION AND SUPPORT FOR GREATER EQUALITY AND RECOGNITION OF DIVERSITY.(2) TO PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS) THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:(A) RESEARCH INTO HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES; (B) PROVIDING TECHNICAL ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AND OTHERS ON HUMAN RIGHTS MATTERS; (C) CONTRIBUTING TO THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS LAW; (D) COMMENTING ON PROPOSED HUMAN RIGHTS LEGISLATION; (E) RAISING AWARENESS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES; (F) PROMOTING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS;(G) PROMOTING RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AMONG INDIVIDUALS AND CORPORATIONS.IN FURTHERANCE OF OBJECT (2) BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE TRUSTEES SHALL HAVE POWER TO ENGAGE IN POLITICAL ACTIVITY PROVIDED THAT THE TRUSTEES ARE SATISFIED THAT THE PROPOSED ACTIVITIES WILL FURTHER THE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY TO AN EXTENT JUSTIFIED BY THE RESOURCES COMMITTED AND THE ACTIVITY IS NOT THE DOMINANT MEANS BY WHICH THE CHARITY CARRIED OUT ITS OBJECTS.(3) TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE USE OF RESOURCES FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES BY CHARITABLE AND NON-CHARITABLE BODIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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