Finance Score: -50
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 0
  • In administration/insolvent: -50
    Overall GiG Score: -50 ?

    CONSONANT LTD 

    Legal advice provision, community education, empowerment, media and policy work, nursery, employment and training services, health promotion, volunteering, IT and ESOL classes
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
    • This charity is a recent Award Winner

    Financial issues to consider:

    • This charity is in Administration or Insolvent
    Established: 39 years

    www.migrantsresourcecentre.org.uk

    RESTRUCTURING.LONDON.CORE@RSMUK.COM

    0203 201 8000

    Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House

    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
    31/03/19*£1,181£1,620£-440£119£789£7895.83193
    31/03/18£1,260£1,619£-359£143£1,200£1,2008.92850
    31/03/17£1,558£1,386£172£67£1,541£1,39812.12450
    31/03/16£502£756£-254£13£1,336£1,31420.91250
    31/03/15£719£768£-49£4£1,590£1,53123.91350
    31/03/14£627£696£-69£4£1,639£1,61027.7130
    31/03/13£596£652£-57£5£1,708£1,69231.1140
    31/03/12£659£601£58£4£1,765£1,72434.4140
    31/03/11£744£753£-10£5£1,707£1,69226.9130
    31/03/10£768£804£-36£9£1,717£1,71525.6160
    31/03/09£732£704£28£12£135£1312.2160
    31/03/08£492£502£-10£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/07*£418£382£36£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/06£336£329£7£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/05£390£383£7£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/04*£312£311£1£0£0£0n/a00

    Financial Ratios
    Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 10.8%
    Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 7.3%
    Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 6%
    Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
    Liabilities/Assets: 35%
    Liabilities/Income: 36%
    Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
    Reserves/Spending: 5.8 months
    Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
    Quick Ratio: 0.1
    Asset Split ?
    Listed activities
    • Economic/Community Development/Employment
    • Education/Training
    • General Charitable Purposes
    • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
    • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
    • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
    How it operates
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
    • Provides human resources
    • Provides services
    • Sponsors or undertakes research
    Where it operates
    • Throughout England,
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    • Other Defined Groups
    • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
    Who works here?
    • 31 employees
    • 93 volunteers

    Who's supporting them? ?

    Awards received
    • Charity Awards 2019 Campaigning & Advocacy
    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
    Greater London Authority - Stepping Out
    £70,000 30/09/2019
    Stepping Out will provide adapted sporting activities to support migrants to interact with their neighbours, integrate with the wider community & improve health & wellbeing.
    Comic Relief - Stepping Out
    £70,000 04/09/2019
    24
    Stepping out will provide structured sporting activities (football and walking) for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. These activities will integrate ESOL (English for Speakers of Other ....more
    AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Consonant
    £20,000 25/04/2019
    An unrestricted grant of £20,000. Consonant aims to support refugees & migrants through delivery of ESOL classes, computer classes, health services, general advice and support with employment. ....more
    Home Office - EU Settlement Grant Scheme Funding 2019-20
    £21,648 01/04/2019
    This grants scheme is enabling organisations to provide practical support to vulnerable EU citizens through information-giving, advice and provision of technology and assistance to help them make ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - A Common Place
    £10,000 02/07/2018
    12
    The funding will be used to provide a programme of activities such as English language training, story sharing and women's rights education, with an aim to empower migrants and refugees to better ....more
    City Bridge Trust - Grant to Migrants Resource Centre
    £94,500 02/05/2018
    36
    £94,500 over three years (£30,500, £31,500, £32,500), contributing to a Senior Caseworker post, Legal Administrator and Supervising Solicitor salaries, and associated running costs.
    AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Consonant
    £20,000 24/04/2018
    £20,000 towards legal services. Consonant aims to support refugees & migrants through delivery of ESOL classes, computer classes, health services, general advice and support with employment. It ....more
    Comic Relief - Developing and supporting volunteering & civic participation among older migrants in Haringey
    £79,995 24/01/2018
    36
    Over 39% of the population of Haringey was born outside of the UK. Older migrants, refugees and asylum seekers are amongst the hardest to reach and most isolated groups in the borough. This project ....more
    Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Developing and supporting civic participation among migrants in London
    £266,000 25/09/2017
    36
    Migrants Resource Centre aims to enable refugees, people who migrate and asylum seekers to better integrate into UK society. This grant will back a programme to encourage increased civic ....more
    Unbound Philanthropy - Grant to Consonant Ltd.
    £100,000 12/07/2017
    24
    For general support of an organization supporting and led by people who are migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers to overcome the barriers that prevent them from fully participating in British ....more
    AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Migrants Resource Centre
    £20,000 27/04/2017
    £20,000 towards core costs. Consonant aims to support refugees & migrants through delivery of ESOL classes, computer classes, health services, general advice and support with employment. It also ....more
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Migrants Resource Centre
    £45,000 30/11/2015
    12
    Towards a programme for refugee and asylum-seeking journalists to engage in mainstream media to achieve a fairer representation of immigration issues in the media in the UK.
    AB Charitable Trust - assisting migrants refugees and asylum seekers
    £10,000 28/04/2015
    £10,000 towards core costs
    AB Charitable Trust - assisting migrants refugees and asylum seekers
    £7,500 09/07/2013
    £7,500 towards core costs
    National Lottery Community Fund - Reform Advice in Westminster Project (RAW)
    £332,001 13/05/2013
    24
    This new two-year project aims to bring together a group of established voluntary sector and statutory agencies to preserve the provision of free legal advice to clients across Westminster by ....more
    Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Migrants Resource Centre
    £29,600 30/05/2012
    the salary of the Community Education and Employment Co-ordinator, events and workshops costs, venue hire, Project Volunteers, office running costs and governance, HR and IT costs
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (4)
    Current Trustees appointed
    Gender Split

    Age Range of Trustees: 35-45
    • PETER REID Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Policy Adviser
    Legal constitution
    • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/05/1985, number: 291789
    • Registered at Companies House on 07/05/1985, number: 01911662
    Gift Aid
    • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Other Regulators
    • Financial Conduct Authority
    • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
    Policies in force
    • Complaints handling
    • Conflicting interests
    • Paying staff
    • Risk management
    • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
    • Volunteer management
    Filing Record
    16 returns made; AR19: 49 days late, AR07: 118 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
    Main office

    RSM RESTRUCTURING ADVISORY LLP
    25 FARRINGDON STREET
    LONDON
    EC4A 4AB

    Objectives

    TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS AND MINORITY ETHNIC MIGRANT WORKERS OF ANY NATIONALITY AND THEIR FAMILIES AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, HEALTH PROTECTION AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND DISTRESS.

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    NOT DEFINED

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase

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