Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 13
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +13
Overall GiG Score: 21 ?

IMECE WOMEN'S CENTRE 

Advice & Information, Violence against Women and Girls Service, Therapeutic Services, Mental Health and Well Being, Elderly Support, Family Support, Training for Professionals, Domestic Abuse and Harmfull Practices Training. Volunteering. Awareness raising with Communities, Confidence building with Women, Campaign against child abuse, Campaign to end Violence against Women and Girls. NRPF
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • 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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently
Established: 20 years
(22 years as a company)

www.imece.org.uk

info@imece.org.uk

02073541359

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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
31/03/23*£799£785£14£0£374£3745.7220
31/03/22£759£747£11£0£360£3605.8230
31/03/21£664£653£12£0£349£3476.4170
31/03/20£471£456£16n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/19*£453£432£20n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/18£404£378£26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£370£322£48£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£279£287£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£283£296£-14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£326£278£47£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£325£285£40£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£321£350£-29£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£359£356£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£383£353£30£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£393£349£44£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£370£336£34£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£311£299£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 17%
Liabilities/Income: 9%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 5.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 3.1
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Barking And Dagenham, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Islington, Lewisham, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • 22 employees

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Henry Smith Charity£244,900
Comic Relief£114,113
Lloyds Bank Foundation£52,250
Hackney Council£49,864
Power to Change£25,850
The London Community Foundation£23,946
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to IMECE Women's Centre
£50,000 07/12/2022
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of IMECE Women's Centre
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to IMECE Women's Centre
£2,250 07/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to IMECE Women's Group
£149,400 15/06/2022
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of a project providing employment support and training for Turkish, Kurdish and Cypriot Turkish women who have experienced domestic ....more
Comic Relief - Pathway to Recovery Project (PRP)
£114,113 22/06/2021
13
This project will work with Black, Minority Ethnic, Refugee (BMER) women survivors of VAWG aged 16+. It will enable survivors receive immediate crises intervention for reaching safety and therapeutic ....more
Department for Work and Pensions - MARYMO
£3,522 01/04/2021
The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to create new jobs for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit who are at risk of long term unemployment.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Imece Women's Centre
£9,608 17/12/2020
5
Continue providing wraparound floating support for those hardest hit BAME women who have been further victimised in addition to their VAWG crises/needs- as current Wave 3 funding covering most of ....more
Power to Change - C-19 CCLORS - Imece Women's Centre
£25,850 15/10/2020
Grant to C-19 CCLORS - Imece Women's Centre
The London Community Foundation - Grant to IMECE Women’s Centre
£9,988 07/05/2020
the funding is for boosting the Advice and management capacity to ensure the needs of the communities we work with are met.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to IMECE Women’s Centre
£4,350 15/04/2020
the funding is to provide financial support to vulnerable women and their children in the BAMER communities for food and essentials. We will prioritise those whom are on low income, single mothers, ....more
GMSP Foundation - Grant to IMECE
£5,000 06/04/2020
Rise Together campaign - unrestricted grant
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to IMECE Women's Group
£95,500 10/12/2019
24
towards two years' project costs of the 'Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG)' project, working with Turkish, Kurdish and Cypriot Turkish women who have experienced Violence
Hackney Council - Grant to IMECE Women's Centre
£49,864 28/10/2019
24
Improve the safety and wellbeing of older (55+) Turkish, Kurdish, Cypriot-Turkish women in Hackney experiencing VAWG including elder abuse through a dedicated programme of linguistic, culturally, ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to IMECE Women's Group
£70,000 03/12/2015
36
towards two years' salary of a Coordinator to support volunteers to provide community engagement services to BAMER women at risk of domestic violence in London
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to IMECE Turkish Speaking Womens' Group
£23,000 29/04/2014
IMECE provides information, advice and family support services to women from Turkish speaking communities, with a particular focus on addressing domestic violence. It is seeking funding towards the ....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: 38-78
  • ALGIN SAYDAR Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Ex Chief Executive
  • AYLA OZMEN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Team Lead Expertise & Policy
  • NUR YAZICI Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Bank Compliance Manager
  • OLCAY LUMLEY Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Local Authority Manager
  • RANA AKSAC Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Psychotherapist
  • YASEMIN PINAR Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Project Control Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/02/2004, number: 1101882
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/08/2001, number: 04262910
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • 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
18 returns made; AR23: 1 days late, AR19: 33 days late, AR10: 2 days late, AR08: 6 days late, AR07: 230 days late, AR06: 1 days late,
Main office

2 NEWINGTON GREEN ROAD
LONDON
N1 4RX

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF WOMEN WHO RESIDE OR WORK IN THE BOROUGH OF ISLINGTON AND SURROUNDING AREA IN PARTICULAR TURKISH CYPRIOT/TURKISH/KURDISH/TURKISH SPEAKING WOMEN FROM TURKEY AND LONDON BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID WOMEN AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID WOMEN, AND OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES

Defined Area of Benefit:

GREATER LONDON, IN PARTICULAR ISLINGTON, HACKNEY AND HARINGEY

Data Sources

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