Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 12
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

ASIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTRE

The charity provides holistic support services to BMER ( Black,Minority, Ethnic, Refugee) women and children and prioritises work on issues around violence against women ( which includes domestic violence, rape, forced marriages and honour killings). The Charity also works on the challenges associated with violence such as homelessness, welfare benefits, child contact and Immigration.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
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
31/03/23?£3,054£2,605£449£0£834£5002.3200
30/09/21£2,065£1,975£90£0£384£1430.902
30/09/20£1,606£1,397£210£0£294£2231.9101
30/09/19£624£587£37£0£84£841.762
30/09/18£576£540£36£1£47£46165
30/09/17£515£513£2£8£11£0070
30/09/16?£711£712£-1£0£8£-11-0.290
31/03/15£427£448£-20n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14*£475£437£38n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£237£267£-30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£291£264£27n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£276£269£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£255£296£-41n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£189£224£-36n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£166£175£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£217£212£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£199£224£-25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£207£207£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£179£137£42n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 35%
Liabilities/Income: 22%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 60%
Reserves/Spending: 2.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 1.7
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 29 years
(39 years as a company)

www.asianwomencentre.org.uk

info@asianwomencentre.org.uk

07932714535

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Support for victims of domestic or sexual abuse
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
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
Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime£894,845
National Lottery Community Fund£300,000
Esmee Fairbairn£212,410
The London Community Foundation£85,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Asian Women's Resource Centre
£19,310 27/02/2023
Towards core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime - Grant to Asian Women's Resource Centre
£95,000 03/02/2023
Allocation of Ministry of Justice IDVA funding FY 2021/22 to 2022/23 - Uplift and extension
Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime - Grant to Asian Women's Resource Centre
£533,230 26/01/2023
Prevention and Action Through Community Engagement Ending Harmful Practices Partnership (P&ACT EHP)
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Asian Women's Resource Centre
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Asian Women's Resource Centre
£193,100 21/09/2022
Towards core costs for organisational development to address inequity & historical disadvantage of BME organisations' as well as support training bursaries ringfenced for BME professionals
Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime - Grant to Asian Women's Resource Centre
£266,615 15/08/2022
Prevention and Action Through Community Engagement Ending Harmful Practices Partnership (P&ACT EHP)
National Lottery Community Fund - Surviving Abuse and Thriving (SAAT)
£300,000 07/04/2022
This funding will support the charity to assist 480 women per year by delivering domestic abuse outreach and advocacy service offering emotional support risk assessments and safety planning referrals to counselling and other appropriate agencies.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Asian Women's Resource Centre (AWRC)
£35,000 22/12/2020
2
Developing an accredited specialist DA & Harmful practices, professionals training package (on the lines of the IDVA training) to build capacity of BME organisations by increasing the number of trained specialist advocates to respond effectively ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Asian Women's Resource Centre (AWRC)
£50,000 22/05/2020
Additional worker capacity to assist with increased demands ; installation of extra telephone line; zoom/web subscriptions ; purchasing computers, lap tops, chairs; smart phones, non managerial /supervision for staff; cleaning costs for AWRC ....more
GMSP Foundation - Grant to Asian Women Resource Centre (AWRC)
£30,000 06/04/2020
Support towards AWRC's core costs
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Asian Women's Resource Centre
£100,000 27/03/2019
36
AWRC is seeking core costs supporting its delivery of a range of information, advice, advocacy and casework and development support for women from mainly Asian backgrounds affected by domestic and/or sexual abuse and honour based violence
National Lottery Community Fund - Surviving Abuse and Rebuilding Lives ( SAARL)
£310,350 31/10/2018
36
The project aims to support women whose first language isn't English by offering offers advice and information services. Activities and workshops will also be included to improve their IT skills, eat healthy and improve their wellbeing. This will ....more
Trust for London - Asian Women's Resource Centre
£50,000 04/10/2017
24
The funding is to support AWRC applying for a contribution towards the directors salary costs which are not covered fully by existing funders. Generally most funders provide direct project costs with little or no management costs to run projects, ....more
London Councils - Ascent Ending Harmful Practices project
£1,280,000 15/02/2017
47
The partnership will provide intensive support to 623 women and girls from BMER communities, across London affected by Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), 'Honour' Based Violence (HBV), Forced Marriages (FM), and other harmful practices within the ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Surviving Abuse and Rebuilding Lives (SAARL)
£500,000 12/03/2013
60
The aim of this new project is to offer a coordinated, integrated, person-centred model of care within a safe community based environment that enables South Asian women in the London Borough of Brent and Harrow to become more independent and better ....more
London Councils - Ending Harmful Practices
£1,200,000 20/02/2013
The partnership provided intense support to 510 women and girls from BMER communities across London affected by Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), 'Honour' Based Violence (HBV), Forced Marriages (FM), and other harmful practices within the spectrum of ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Age Range of Trustees: 36-69
  • CHANDRIKA GAJARWALA
  • NITHEE KOTECHA Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Project Manager
  • RASHMI VARMA, Occupation: Executive
  • RUBY SAYED BARRISTER (Chair), Occupation: Barrister
  • RITA BOLOGNA Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Trustee
  • TAJINDER NIJJAR Appointed: 2003, Occupation: Chair Person
  • TINA SIDDIQUI Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Entrepreneur
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 07/09/1995, number: 1049058
  • Registered at Companies House on 29/08/1985, number: 01942925
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
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
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR14: 36 days late,
Main office

108 Craven Park
Harlesden
London
NW10 8QE

Objectives

(A) TO RELIEVE POVERTY AMONGST WOMEN AND CHILDREN PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY OF ASIAN ORIGIN BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE AND INFORMATION IN THE AREAS OF HOUSING AND EMPLOYMENT. (B) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY THE PROVISION OF CLASSES WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS IN THE AREAS OF HEALTH AND CHILDCARE AND THE PROVISION OF TRAINING FOR EMPLOYMENT

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED - IN PRACTICE LONDON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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