Finance Score: 9
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 5
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Future income +5
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

MINIK KARDES LTD

To provide full time bi-lingual nursery education for children between 3 months to 5 years of age, whose parents are working, studying or disadvantaged. We also provide outreach service to Turkish speaking community, this includes children education, parents learning basic skills, parenting skills, translation and interpretation, set up workshops and seminars.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending 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 including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

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
31/03/23£1,654£1,564£89£0£1,811£1,37910.6440
31/03/22£1,651£1,392£259£0£1,721£1,29011.1420
31/03/21£1,568£1,217£351£0£1,462£1,03110.2410
31/03/20*£1,266£1,221£45£0£1,111£1,11110.9450
31/03/19£1,264£1,224£40£0£1,066£1,06610.4460
31/03/18£712£671£41£0£1,026£1,02618.3250
31/03/17£666£630£36£0£985£98518.8250
31/03/16£628£608£20£0£949£94918.7250
31/03/15£632£612£20£25£929£92918.2240
31/03/14*£719£610£110£23£909£90917.9250
31/03/13*£651£580£72£21£822£82217300
31/03/12£580£526£54£9£771£3628.3260
31/03/11£556£526£30£8£726£72616.6270
31/03/10£496£524£-27n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£499£466£33n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£464£387£77n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£484£378£106n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£708£691£17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05*£324£302£21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04*£254£239£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 5%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 4%
Liabilities/Income: 5%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 76%
Reserves/Spending: 10.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 11 months
Quick Ratio: 18.3
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 27 years
(29 years as a company)

info@minikkardes.org.uk

02079237226

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Secondary schools
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin

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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Turkish and Kurdish speaking Family support project
£496,276 13/04/2023
This project will use funding to expand wraparound services into Haringey and Enfield. There will be increased violence against women and girls support working with high-risk cases and giving a more dedicated Turkish language service. Speech and ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Minik Kardes limited
£10,000 21/05/2020
A grant of £10,000 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 - Improving and enhancing lives - Turkish and Kurdish community and fami
£495,984 29/08/2019
59
Improving and enhancing lives - Turkish and Kurdish community and fami
National Lottery Community Fund - chairs for children
£4,126 27/02/2019
12
The project aims to provide a facility for community events and activities.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 37-50
  • ABDUL KHADIR MEER (Chair) Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Nhs Manager
  • FUNG WAH MAN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Self Employed
  • PAMELA DANIELS Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Creative Director
  • PROFESSOR ELISA VAN WAEYENBERGE Appointed: 2023
  • SENEM ARSLAN Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Teaching Assistant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/02/1998, number: 1067893
  • Registered at Companies House on 05/07/1995, number: 03076260
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
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
20 returns made; AR20: 1 days late, AR14: 53 days late, AR13: 118 days late, AR05: 1 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

MINIK KARDES DAY NURSERY
53-55 BALLS POND ROAD
LONDON
N1 4BW

Objectives

(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN BELOW COMPULSORY SCHOOL AGE IN THE COMMUNITY BY THE PROVISION OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION;(B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AMONGST SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN IN THE COMMUNITY BY THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE INCLUDING HOMEWORK CLUBS;(C) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AMONGST PARENTS AND CARERS FROM THE COMMUNITY BY THE PROVISION OF SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS AND COURSES IN LIFE SKILLS AND PARENTING SKILLS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, SO AS TO BETTER ENABLE THEM TO ASSIST IN THE EDUCATION AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN IN THEIR CARE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

HACKNEY, GREATER LONDON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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