Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 14
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +14
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

IRAQI COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION 

Iraqi Association is a non-profit organisation that exists to enable Iraqis to settle andintegrate in this country, and with rights to express their cultural identity. Our work aimed at settled and vulnerable people. It is also our mission to raise awareness about relevant events in Iraq and the community integration process in this country.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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 and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

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*£132£118£14n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/22£111£104£7n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/21£135£76£59n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/20£77£92£-14n/an/an/an/an/a7
31/03/19£49£83£-34n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/03/18£74£155£-81£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£98£127£-29£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£109£142£-34£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£100£108£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£104£109£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£112£105£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£99£97£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£147£136£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£156£154£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£148£137£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£134£149£-15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£173£172£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£187£183£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£193£176£17£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 20 years

www.iraqiassociation.org

admin@iraqiassociation.co.uk

02070232650

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Social clubs and similar
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 5 volunteers

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
National Lottery Community Fund£468,671
Trust for London£107,000
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington£61,820
Lloyds Bank Foundation£52,250
The Fore£15,000
The London Community Foundation£9,831
DCMS£9,831
City Bridge Trust£4,832
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Trust for London - Iraqi Community Association
£45,000 24/08/2023
The funding is for the salary of a part-time Welfare Advice Officer (2.5 days/wk.) for two years, who will be offering advice and support on immigration, welfare, housing, education and accessing ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Older People Connect
£302,029 17/08/2023
Funding will be used to continue supporting Iraqi and other refugees by providing volunteer opportunities counselling training employment guidance and cultural events. The project is open to people ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Iraqi Community Association
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Trust for London - Iraqi Community Association
£2,000 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-04.02.2020-8451
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Iraqi Community Association
£50,000 20/10/2021
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Iraqi Community Association
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Grant to Iraqi Community Association
£61,820 24/09/2021
35
3 years proposal of a multilingual assistance & advice to isolated Iraqi & Arabic speaking older people, lacking English language skills and access to services.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Iraqi Community Association
£9,831 18/12/2020
5
The funding is for the delivery of multilingual telephone & email advice, alongside online form-filling and disseminating relevant online information via our email list and social media platforms ....more
The Fore - Grant to Iraqi Community Association
£15,000 01/12/2020
36
Iraqi Community Association (ICA) helps Iraqis living in the UK to settle and integrate, encouraging positive contributions to society and to raising public awareness about the community?s ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,831 17/08/2020
"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 - Iraqi Community Association
£60,000 10/06/2020
36
The funding is for the salary and running costs of a part-time Advice Officer to provide: Up-to-date advice and information on welfare rights. Develop and strengthen networks with voluntary and ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Iraqi Association
£4,832 01/06/2020
A grant of £4,832 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the appliciation, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
National Lottery Community Fund - Iraqi Community Connect
£8,253 23/03/2020
11
The funding will be used to run a community-led project to empower lonely and isolated Iraqi and Arabic-speaking older people and women. The project aims to bring the community together and reduce ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Older People Connect
£158,389 29/08/2019
36
Older People Connect
National Lottery Community Fund - Key to English
£5,610 25/10/2017
12
This project will provide English language lessons for people who have Arabic as their first language, helping them to integrate with the wider community.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Iraqi Community Association
£83,000 27/11/2014
36
£83,000 over three years (£28,000; £27,000; £28,000) for the salary of a part-time worker, management and other project related costs for work with older people aged 75 and over.
National Lottery Community Fund - Advice & Social-care Project
£145,705 17/06/2013
36
This new project by the Iraqi Community Association (ICA) aims to reduce isolation and improve the well being and independence of the Iraqi Communities in London. It will provide advice, information ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Iraqi Community Association
£33,400 31/07/2012
the salary costs of the Service Manager, recruitment, training, travel, volunteer expenses, rent, insurance, telephone, postage, stationery and photo copying costs
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 33-86
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/12/2003, number: 1101109
  • Registered at Companies House on 03/03/2003, number: 04684099
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
19 returns made; AR23: 104 days late,
Main office

Unit 1
Cavell House
233 Wood Lane
LONDON

Objectives

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE THROUGHOUT THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ABROAD AS THE DIRECTORS OF THE COMPANY SEE FIT BUT MAINLY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE GREATER LONDON AREA (AND IN PARTICULAR IRAQI PEOPLE BY BIRTH OR DESCENT) WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF GENDER; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; RACE; POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS; BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER NON-PROFIT MAKING GROUPS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO:(A) ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION MAINLY BY THE PROVISION OF TRAINING AND ADVICE AND/OR GUIDANCE ON SUCH ISSUES INCLUDING: WELFARE RIGHTS, HOUSING AND IMMIGRATION;(B) PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SAID PEOPLES; AND(C) ESTABLISH OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH PEOPLES

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNITED KINGDOM AND ABROAD

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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