Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 10
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

EQUALITY ACTION LTD

Charnwood Racial Equality Council was established in May 1969.In September 2008, CREC changed it name to Human Rights & Equalities Charnwood and in February 2017 became Equality Action Limited. Our aims are:Work towards eliminating discriminationCampaign for equality of opportunityPromote good relations between all persons in the Borough of Charnwood, in the County of Leicestershire
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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 and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • 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£242£265£-23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/23£299£246£53n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£281£244£37n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£242£186£56n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20?£160£157£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£203£192£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£190£193£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£164£138£26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£145£149£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£223£209£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£290£272£19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£179£183£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£218£215£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£193£193£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£134£155£-21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£182£189£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£200£164£36n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£129£133£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£139£122£17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£198£192£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 23 years

www.equalityaction.org.uk

contact@equalityaction.org.uk

01509261651

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Amateur Sport
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Legal & financial advice
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Leicestershire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

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
Access to Justice Foundation£78,585
Lloyds Bank Foundation£52,250
Rank Foundation£20,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Equality Action Ltd
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Equality Action Ltd
£50,000 30/03/2022
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Equality Action Ltd
Rank Foundation - GOLDEN AWARDS EQUALITY ACTION LTD 2022
£20,000 23/03/2022
The Golden Award was given to Eqality Action to create A 'The Apprentice' style project to enable young people to test their entrepreneurial, leadership and teamwork skills, in a fun and competitive way.
National Lottery Community Fund - Upteching
£9,000 28/01/2022
The funding will be used to improve the group's capacity to support their service users by upgrading their IT equipment and software as well as creating a training room for staff. The project aims to increase capacity for the organisation to ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£47,800 09/08/2021
A flexible grant as part of wave 2 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID80
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£30,785 21/09/2020
A flexible grant as part of wave 1 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - Positive Minds
£273,802 31/05/2018
60
This project will support women from the black, Asian and minority ethnic community who are experiencing mental health issues. The aim is to help them lead happier and healthier lives by providing a holistic service which covers physical, emotional, ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Improving Lives
£293,490 09/09/2015
60
The organisation will be working to support and empower local men, particularly from BME backgrounds, to have healthier lifestyles, improved employability and identifying radicalisation and extremism within their communities. It is based on a ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Human Rights & Equalities Charnwood
£10,000 11/06/2015
12
towards one year's salary of the Executive Officer at a project providing advice and information on welfare benefits, housing, immigration and accessing key services in Leicestershire to BAME communities
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Human Rights and Equalities Charnwood
£24,000 29/01/2014
The charity provides representation and immigration advice as well as running a project to support Asian women to develop skills. The grant will enable them to maintain advice provision and support women to increase their skills.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Human Rights & Equalities Charnwood
£9,500 05/12/2013
towards one year's salary of the Development Officer at a project providing advice and information and guidance in a deprived area of Leicestershire
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Human Rights & Equalities Charnwood
£9,500 05/12/2012
24
towards two years' salary of a Co-ordinator/Development Officer for a community project in a disadvantaged area of Leicestershire
National Lottery Community Fund - Chances For All - empowering female members of Charnwood's BME communities
£255,714 12/07/2012
60
The aim of this new project is to empower women from the South Asian communities in Loughborough to become role models in their communities, better able to cope with challenges and feel less isolated. The group will provide courses and training on ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 45-86
  • ABIDA AKRAM Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired
  • BEN SMITH Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Leicester Prevent Co-Ordinator
  • DILSHAD CHOUDHURY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Analyst
  • DR GEETHA BALASUBRAMANIAM (Chair) Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired
  • DR JILL VINCENT Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired
  • KIRIT MISTRY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Health Worker
  • RACHEL SUSAN THORPE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Accountant
  • REV CHARLES DOBBIN Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/09/2001, number: 1088411
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/04/2001, number: 04198889
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
  • Investment
  • 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
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

Equality Action
66 Nottingham Road
LOUGHBOROUGH
LE11 1EU

Objectives

(A) TO WORK TOWARDS THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR RACE, AGE, GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, DISABILITY, RELIGION AND BELIEF(B) TO PROMOTE EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN ALL PERSONS, ESPECIALLY IN THE BOROUGH OF CHARNWOOD IN THE COUNTY OF LEICESTERSHIRE (THE AREA OF BENEFIT)

Defined Area of Benefit:

BOROUGH OF CHARNWOOD IN THE COUNTY OF LEICESTERSHIRE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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