Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 0
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: -1 ?

HANS AND ANNIE REIFENBERG TRUST 

Supports financially individuals and organisations, eg orphanages and students, predominantly, but not exclusively, in South Asia and predominantly, but not exclusively people from the Himalayan regions, especially Tibetans.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income has been volatile recently
Established: 22 years

handareifenbergtrust.org

mountain_gr@hotmail.com

01223354355

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/23£10£6£4n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/22£8£7£1n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/21£7£18£-11n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/20£20£10£10n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/19*£15£7£8n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/18£8£8£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/17£7£7£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£6£9£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£8£5£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£6£9£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£7£3£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£4£5£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£7£7£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/10£4£6£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09£4£3£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/08£4£4£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/07£4£5£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/06£2£3£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05£4£3£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04£2£2£0£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
Where it operates
  • Bhutan, Cambridgeshire, China, India, Nepal,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 05/08/2002, number: 1093285
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Investment
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR19: 26 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from LINKS-INDIA on 18/12/2020
Main office

5 OWLSTONE ROAD
CAMBRIDGE
CB3 9JH

Objectives

1) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS, DISTRESS AND SUFFERING OF, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY , THE INHABITANTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH ASIA, WITH ESPECIAL PREFERENCE FOR THOSE ORIGINATING FROM HIMALAYAN AND RELATED MOUNTAIN REGIONS, BY THE PROVISION OF SUCH FINANCIAL OR MATERIAL ASSISTANCE AS WILL RELIEVE THEIR NEEDS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THE INHABITANTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH ASIA, WITH ESPECIAL PREFERENCE FOR THOSE ORIGINATING FROM HIMALAYAN AND RELATED MOUNTAIN REGIONS, BY THE PROVISION OF SUCH FINANCIAL OR MATERIAL ASSISTANCE AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE

Defined Area of Benefit:

CENTRAL AND SOUTH ASIA

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
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