Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 8
  • Volatile income: -3
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA COMMUNITY ADVICE CENTRE

Information, advice and advocacy including casework in English-Bosnian-Serbo-Croat languages on Welfare Benefit Rights, housing, Community Care and Health by drop-in, appointments and outreach; person-centred support; food bank vouchers; welfare benefits training, money management workshops, volunteering opportunities and training; twice weekly social club; social and cultural events.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently
  • 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
31/03/23£123£121£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£140£133£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£246£143£103n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£128£141£-13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£161£158£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£126£117£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£77£96£-20n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£101£99£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£118£114£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£121£106£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£125£123£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£169£151£18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11*£152£163£-11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£172£168£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£126£141£-14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£137£115£22n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£98£94£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£80£85£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£48£44£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£25£23£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 24 years

www.bhcac.org.uk

info@bhcac.org.uk

020 8459 4201

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Recreation
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Practical support, advice & companionship
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • 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
National Lottery Community Fund£260,226
Henry Smith Charity£180,000
City Bridge Trust£53,026
DCMS£10,000
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£1,800
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Removing financial barriers
£10,000 09/06/2023
The funding will be used to organise two large social events and a series of floristry workshops with the community. The project aims to build relationships across communities and provide additional skills.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Bosnia and Herzegovina Community Advice Centre
£180,000 09/11/2022
36
towards three years' running costs of the 'Outreach Welfare Benefits Advice and Support' service, including salary and on costs of a Caseworker and Project Manager, supporting deprived areas in the London Borough of Brent.
National Lottery Community Fund - Addressing the impact of Covid-19
£10,000 17/12/2021
The funding will be used to organise a wide range of social activities for disadvantaged and marginalised older beneficiaries to address the impact of COVID-19. The project aims to reduce isolation and loneliness for older people from BAME ....more
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Bosnia and Herzegovina Community Advice Centre
£1,800 05/02/2021
Small Grant Unrestricted Core Costs
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Bosnia and Herzegovina Community Advice Centre
£8,940 15/12/2020
0
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Bosnia and Herzegovina Community Advice Centre
£29,356 28/09/2020
towards the cost of one full-time Benefits Advisor providing Benefits Advice and Person-Centred Support in response to increased demand and challenges due to Covid-19 as outlined in your application, with a reduced contribution of £3,830 (15%) ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 22/07/2020
"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 Bosnia and Herzegovina Community Advice Centre
£4,905 13/04/2020
A grant of £4,905 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 Bosnia and Herzegovina Community Advice Centre
£9,825 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £9,825, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant’
National Lottery Community Fund - Resilience Project Continuation
£240,226 12/12/2019
36
The funding will build on the project's work in providing essential services to the most-hard to reach and vulnerable Londoners from West Balkans. The project aims to enable these communities to thrive by preventing individual crisis, building ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Maximising community space
£10,000 25/01/2019
12
The project aims to maximise space and improve access to services by providing capital improvements and repairs to a community centre which is used by elderly people with disabilities.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Bosnia and Herzegovina Community Advice Centre
£116,800 23/11/2017
36
£116,800 over three years (£38,800; £39,300; £38,700) for the part-time Project Manager, part-time Advocacy Worker, and associated project costs.
National Lottery Community Fund - New kitchen
£9,997 22/11/2017
12
This project will install a new kitchen, enabling the group to expand their healthy eating and cooking courses for older people and improving the community space to ensure greater access for isolated people.
National Lottery Community Fund - Resilience Project
£272,286 27/07/2016
36
This project will deliver activities for older and disabled people from the West Balkan community, aiming to reduce isolation, improve quality of life and bring people together. It will be led by those benefitting from the project alongside 20 ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Bosnia and Herzegovina Community Advice Centre Brent
£30,000 28/03/2013
This charity provides information and advice services, emotional and practical support and social opportunities for older and disabled people from the West Balkans living in London. This grant is supporting its outreach work and its ESOL/IT classes.
National Lottery Community Fund - Outreach Project
£261,614 11/02/2013
36
This is the continuation of an existing project that aims to improve the quality of life for older and disabled people from the West Balkan Community in London by providing them with support to be independent, active and healthy. The project is ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

  • DUSAN BILBIJA Appointed: 2022
  • FEJZI JAHAJ Appointed: 2022
  • HASNIJA MAJDANAC Appointed: 2023
  • SAFETA KARABASIC Appointed: 2022
  • ZAIM PASIC (Chair) Appointed: 2022
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 26/03/2001, number: 1085815
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
  • 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
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR11: 11 days late,
Main office

BHCAC
Rear of 108 High Road
Willesden
London
NW10 2PP

Objectives

(1) RELIEVING POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS, (2) ADVANCING EDUCATION, (3) PRESERVING AND PROTECTING PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH, (4) PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR ITS MEMBERS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

GREATER LONDON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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