Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 7
  • Spending declining: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Static board: -3
  • Multiple returns filed late: -2
  • Overall weighted support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 4 ?

THE BRITISH ALBANIAN KOSOVAR COUNCIL LIMITED

Provision of sport and youth activities for young refugees and asylum seekers.Parenting and Training programmes, Albanian cultural activities. Work with refugee children in schoolsAlbanian classes
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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board composition appears to be rather static
  • Returns have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended

Financial issues to consider:

  • Spending is declining
  • 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
31/08/23£23£43£-20n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/22£15£45£-30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/21*£157£130£27n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/20£84£76£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/19*£59£59£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/18£66£67£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/17£10£19£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/16£15£47£-32n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/15£82£86£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/14£100£77£23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/13*£92£96£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/12£100£48£52n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/11£73£64£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/10£19£58£-39n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/09£130£123£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/08£174£160£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/07*£136£175£-39n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/06*£162£172£-10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/05£159£208£-49n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/08/04£165£205£-40n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 26 years

www.bakc.org.uk

info@bakc.org.uk

020 7586 8731

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Community sports activities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Brent, Camden, City Of Westminster, Islington, Kensington And Chelsea, Lambeth, Southwark,
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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
DCMS£47,913
BBC Children in Need£33,632
City Bridge Trust£24,955
Postcode Society Trust£24,574
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Postcode Society Trust - Project Funding
£24,574 29/09/2023
Players helped fund the "Legends Club" which helped support older Kosovars’ emotional, physical, mental and financial well-being at home and in the community.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to British Albanian Kosovar Council
£500 20/10/2022
0
‘Cost of Living uplift: £500 to help projects meet their rising costs and respond to increased demand 31/10/2022’
BBC Children in Need - Grant to British Albanian Kosovar Council
£33,132 03/02/2022
The "Bounce-BAKC” Project supports young people from Kosovan heritage with a blend of on-line, face-to-face and community-based activities and mentoring re-settling them into a post-COVID world.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£47,913 05/10/2020
"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
City Bridge Trust - Grant to British Albanian Kosovar Council (BAKC)
£24,955 11/09/2020
towards the cost of the Bounce BACK project supporting young Kosovars including the cost of a youth development officer role, as outlined in your application.
National Lottery Community Fund - see original application
£9,780 25/10/2019
12
Legends Club'
National Lottery Community Fund - 2020 Vision [The Kosovan Community Development Project]
£184,004 12/07/2017
36
This new project will work with the Kosovan community in Islington and the surrounding areas to improve the quality of life, confidence, education, physical and mental health and skills of this community who often feel isolated. The project will ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - “2GETHER [Young Kosovan “2GETHER [Young Kosovan Mentoring Programme]
£9,640 22/03/2017
12
This project will deliver a programme of engagement activities that will support young people from the Kosovo community who are at risk of the effects of anti-social behaviour, helping to bring the community together.
National Lottery Community Fund - Refugee Family Support Project
£389,706 13/04/2010
60
This project will offer a family support programme to the Kosovan Albanian community in Camden, London. It will aim to promote good parenting such as developing close and warm relationships, discipline, fostering self-esteem and managing anger. ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 39-61
  • ARTA DEDAJ-SALAD (Chair) Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Lawyer
  • ARTAN LLABJANI Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Bussinessman
  • BURBUQE BAKALLI Appointed: 2018, Occupation: School Employee
  • DR VERA ORA Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Doctor
  • VALBONA MEJZINI Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Senior Children'S Advisor
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/12/1998, number: 1072694
  • Registered at Companies House on 12/08/1998, number: 03614685
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
  • 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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR21: 48 days late, AR19: 8 days late, AR13: 31 days late, AR07: 198 days late, AR06: 520 days late,
Main office

RESOURCE FOR LONDON
356 HOLLOWAY ROAD
LONDON
N7 6PA

Objectives

(I) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING AND IN PARTICULAR THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THOSE OF ALBANIAN ORIGIN IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE;(II) TO RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS BY PROVISION OF ADVICE CONCERNING HEALTH, HOUSING, SOCIAL SECURITY, ACCOMMODATION AND OTHER SERVICES AND MATTERS;(III) TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THOSE PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, ESPECIALLY THE PROVISION OF SPORTING ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE;(IV) TO ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN AND MANAGE A COMMUNITY CENTRE AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE SAME IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE UNITED KINGDOM

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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