Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 5
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • All male board: -3
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 0 ?

MERSEYSIDE SOMALI AND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

-We provide a community centre that is open 12 hours per day, 7 day week-Lunch club for the elders serving a daily average of 10 breakfasts, 20 lunches and innumerable hot drinks-Advice sessions on: Welfare rights, Health and drugs, Benefits, Jobs and training and Housing.-an advocacy and interpreting service for dealing with the authorities
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why is the Board completely male?

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
  • 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 £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/24£72£139£-67n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/23£96£151£-55n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£125£172£-47n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£136£194£-58n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20?£54£89£-35n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£83£121£-38n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17*£93£144£-51n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16*£62£101£-40n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£547£94£453£1£463£47160.210
31/03/14£106£97£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13*£47£48£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£54£54£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£54£55£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10*£53£53£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09*£55£64£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08*£50£46£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07*£52£49£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£29£43£-14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£40£42£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 30 years

somalicommunity22@hotmail.com

01517273000

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Other welfare services
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Liverpool City, Sefton, St Helens, Wirral,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
DCMS£19,744
John Moores Foundation£14,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,560
CAF£5,400
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
John Moores Foundation - Grant to Merseyside Somali Community Association
£6,000 03/05/2023
Towards the Advice and Advocacy Worker's salary
National Lottery Community Fund - Reach Out
£9,560 06/08/2021
The funding will be used to deliver group based one-to-one and social media support sessions for members of the Somali Eritrean and Sudanese communities with a focus on mental health sexual health and female genital mutilation. People will be ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£14,780 19/08/2020
"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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
CAF - Grant to Merseyside Somali and Community Association
£5,400 29/06/2020
3
Grant to Merseyside Somali and Community Association to support the organisation through COVID19
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£4,964 29/05/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an ....more
John Moores Foundation - Grant to Merseyside Somali Community Association
£8,000 27/01/2020
Towards the salary of the Co-ordinator/Advocacy Worker and running costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Building Links 2019 - 2022
£99,276 29/08/2019
36
Building Links 2019 - 2022
John Moores Foundation - Grant to Merseyside Somali Community Association
£7,500 01/11/2017
Towards the salary of the Co-ordinator
National Lottery Community Fund - Building Links
£135,769 04/06/2015
36
The aim of the project is to develop a multi-cultural centre that will develop community cohesion through recreation, social, welfare and learning activities and services. This project will provide life and basic financial skills to beneficiaries, ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Building Links
£474,840 16/07/2013
24
Merseyside Somali Community Association want to upgrade their facilities to provide a community centre. Services will include adult education in languages, IT, citizenship and personal development, particularly aimed at unemployed people. Welfare ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Building Links
£25,160 17/10/2012
12
Merseyside Somali Community Association want to upgrade their facilities to provide a multi-cultural community centre at the heart of an area currently seeing substantial re-development. To be called Building Links, the aim is to develop community ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

  • AHMED ADAN FARAH Appointed: 2013
  • ALI HASSAN MOHAMOUD Appointed: 2013
  • ABDIHAKIM MOHAMOUD Appointed: 2022
  • DAHIR OMAR SALIH Appointed: 2013
  • MOHAMED HASSAN EGE Appointed: 2013
  • MOHAMED HASSAN IBRAAHIM Appointed: 2022
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 26/01/1995, number: 1043679
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
  • 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; AR17: 1 days late, AR16: 11 days late, AR13: 25 days late, AR10: 37 days late, AR09: 19 days late, AR08: 26 days late, AR07: 17 days late,
Main office

145 GRANBY STREET
LIVERPOOL
L8 2UR

Objectives

TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF MERSEYSIDE WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID RESIDENTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, RELIEVE SICKNESS, RELIEVE POVERTY AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE RESIDENTS

Defined Area of Benefit:

MERSEYSIDE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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