Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 12
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION FOR MINORITY COMMUNITIES LTD 

Supplementary School Classes Basic English Classes For Refugees Employment and work Opportunity: Outreach Support and Interpreting Services Family Support Services Advice and advocacy services and Telephone Help Line Sport Activities Elderly and Women Social Club Cultural and Social events Community gathering and Consultation Meetings
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be 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

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
31/12/23£61£50£10n/an/an/an/an/a26
31/12/22£46£41£5n/an/an/an/an/a26
31/12/21£38£45£-7n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/12/20£82£48£34n/an/an/an/an/a24
31/12/19£52£37£15n/an/an/an/an/a19
31/12/18£33£32£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/17£24£23£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£22£17£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£20£20£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£24£19£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£31£23£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£23£22£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£13£7£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/10£9£11£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09£12£9£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/08£9£8£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/07£9£9£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/06£15£9£6£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 18 years

www.communitydevelopmentassociation.btck.co.u

communityassociation@hotmail.com

07946379095

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • Religious Activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Practical support, advice & companionship
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Haringey,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities

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£79,300
National Lottery Community Fund£75,106
City Bridge Trust£20,480
DCMS£9,640
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Trust for London - Community Development Association for Minority Communites LTD
£40,000 24/08/2023
The funding is for the salary of Benefit Advisor, rent, volunteer expenses. The project will provide benefit advice services to the most disadvantaged people from BME communities to enable them to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Haringey BME Women Coffee Morning Project
£9,120 28/04/2023
The funding will be used to continue to run a befriending service for BME women in the community. The project aims to reduce loneliness and isolation improving mental health.
Trust for London - Community Development Association for Minority Communites LTD
£1,300 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-02.06.2020-8610
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Hub for Minority Communities in Haringey
£4,680 08/09/2021
The project will aim to support more than 150 people from multicultural communities who have been severely affected by COVID-19. A community hub will provide regular sessions to bring people together ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Haringey Family Support Services
£46,846 14/07/2021
The project is using funding to support families in Haringey to access more services to reduce isolation and improve their mental health and wellbeing. Project activities include one to one support ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Community Development Association for Minority Communities LTD
£9,020 08/12/2020
0
Trust for London - Community Development Association for Minority Communites LTD
£38,000 14/10/2020
36
The funding is for the salary and associated costs of a part-time welfare benefits advisor to provide welfare benefits advice to people from minority communities in Haringey. The service will assist ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,640 25/09/2020
"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
National Lottery Community Fund - Support the most disadvantaged and vulnerable people in Haringey
£14,460 26/05/2020
6
The funding will be used to provide online services which will include support around understanding COVID-19 and how to keep safe weekly check in calls benefits advice debt advice and telephone ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Community Development Association for Minority Communities
£6,960 15/05/2020
A grant of £6,960 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Community Development Association for Minority Communities
£4,500 13/04/2020
A grant of £4,500 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
National Lottery Community Fund - Women Befriending and Support Services
£9,360 14/12/2018
12
The project will provide a befriending and support service for women from minority groups to help reduce isolation, improve wellbeing and confidence and knowledge to access other services.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Intervention Education Classes for refugee children
£1,000 13/11/2018
Towards Intervention Education Classes for refugee children from minority communities.
Sport England - TIED Haringey Community Sport Project
£9,600 04/01/2018
12
Funding under Sport England's Tackling Inactivity and Economic Disadvantage Small Award funding programme for a Revenue project titled TIED Haringey Community Sport Project. This project is a ....more
DCMS - ALB-TIED Haringey Community Sport Project
£9,600 04/01/2018
Funding under Sport England's Tackling Inactivity and Economic Disadvantage Small Award funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'TIED Haringey Community Sport Project'. This project is a ....more
Trust for London - Community Development Association for Minority Communites LTD
£25,000 07/06/2017
24
The funding is towards the Refugee Welfare Project and is a drop-in services that provides advice and support to refugees and asylum seekers to ensure that they fully understand their rights and ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Somali Bravanese Association in London
£11,100 28/09/2012
rent, volunteer expenses and utility costs
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Somali Bravanese Association In London
£3,630 28/04/2012
towards one year's running costs of a literacy and numeracy support group for children with special education needs in the London Borough of Haringey
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees:
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/05/2006, number: 1114410
  • Registered at Companies House on 20/12/2005, number: 05659288
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • 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
18 returns made; all on time
Main office

28 CHURCH ROAD
TOTTENHAM
LONDON
N17 8AQ

Objectives

A) TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF AND IMPROVE THE SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SOMALI BRAVANESE C0MMUNITY AND OTHER ETHNIC MINORITY GROUPS IN UK AND THE REST OF THE WORLD BY PROVIDING PRACTICAL SUPPORT, ADVICE, INFORMATION, GUIDANCE AND REINFORCE THEIR CULTURAL IDENTITYB) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE SOMALI BRAVANESE COMMUNITY AND OTHER ETHNIC MINORITY GROUPS.C) TO ADVANCE RELIGIOUS OF THE SOMALI BRAVANESE COMMUNITY AND OTHER MINORITY GROUPS.D) TO PROMOTE AND IMPROVE THE HEALTHCARE OF SOMALI BRAVANESE COMMUNITY AND OTHER MINORITY GROUPS.E) TO PROVIDE RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES, IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SOMALI BRAVANESE COMMUNITY AND OTHER MINORITY GROUPS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WORLDWIDE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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