Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 5

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 6

FURNESS MULTI-CULTURAL COMMUNITY FORUM

The Charity promotes multiculturalism the Furness area. It does this through promoting multicultural events and providing access to services for BME people. It aims to re-establish a multicultural drop-in centre for people from all cultures to meet and celebrate eachothers' cultures in comfort and safety. It runs a multicultural youth group for children and young people in the area.

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 and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 4 trustees

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	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23		£123	£94	£29	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/03/22		£75	£51	£24	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/03/21		£67	£32	£35	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/20		£20	£23	£-3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/19	*	£27	£14	£13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/18		£11	£11	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£13	£13	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£21	£20	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	*	£9	£26	£-17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£20	£16	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£12	£16	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£10	£23	£-13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	*	£47	£47	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	*	£56	£33	£23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	*	£71	£93	£-21	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£60	£47	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£50	£42	£9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£8	£11	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£4	£0	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£8	£4	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 20 years

info@furnessmulticultural.org.uk

01229 481405

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Disability
Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
Recreation
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Community services

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Cumbria,

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
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
5 volunteers

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Furness Multicultural Community Forum
£10,000	17/06/2022	The funding will be used to continue and further develop its services for BAME people in Barrow-in-Furness. Services include support and raising awareness around hate crime a weekly women’s group ....more The funding will be used to continue and further develop its services for BAME people in Barrow-in-Furness. Services include support and raising awareness around hate crime a weekly women’s group and 1-2-1 and group support for asylum seekers. The project will promote inclusion within the wider community and enable BAME people to feel safer less isolated and more connected.
Cumbria Community Foundation - Essentials for asylum seekers
£1,938	26/01/2022	Essentials for asylum seekers
National Lottery Community Fund - Furness Multicultural Community Forum (FMCF)
£165,000	22/09/2021 36	The project will use the funding over three years to offer support advice and training to all members of the BAME community in Barrow Dalton and Ulverston. It will provide a community hub for members ....more The project will use the funding over three years to offer support advice and training to all members of the BAME community in Barrow Dalton and Ulverston. It will provide a community hub for members to socialise and access support services. This aims to reduce isolation improve community cohesion and mental wellbeing.
National Lottery Community Fund - Feeling safe at home and in the community
£10,000	05/03/2021 12	The funding will be used to employ a part-time hate crime outreach worker. The project aims to support people to identify and report hate crime incidents which have increased during COVID. This aims ....more The funding will be used to employ a part-time hate crime outreach worker. The project aims to support people to identify and report hate crime incidents which have increased during COVID. This aims to reduce isolation anxiety and improve well-being.
Cumbria Community Foundation - Feeling Safe at home and in the Community
£12,410	17/12/2020	Feeling Safe at home and in the Community
Cumbria Community Foundation - Stronger Together Ormsgill
£2,708	07/10/2020	Stronger Together Ormsgill
Cumbria Community Foundation - Stronger Together Ormsgill
£2,896	07/10/2020	Stronger Together Ormsgill
Cumbria Community Foundation - Stronger Together Ormsgill
£13,104	07/10/2020	Stronger Together Ormsgill

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

KLEANTH LABO

LEE KENNETH WICKS Appointed: 2024

MUJAME MORGAN KATJIUANJO Appointed: 2024

NATALIA WEALLEANS-TURNER Appointed: 2014, Other trusteeship: SIGNAL FILM & MEDIA LIMITED,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 23/08/2004, number: 1105589

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
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

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR19: 42 days late, AR15: 20 days late, AR11: 1 days late, AR10: 1 days late, AR09: 2 days late, AR07: 45 days late, AR04: 121 days late,

Main office

Cooke's Studio
104 Abbey Road
BARROW-IN-FURNESS
Cumbria
LA14 5QR

Objectives

To promote racial harmony in Furness for the benefit of the public, aiming to provide a local drop-in centre to offer advice and support; provide a youth club, and by any other charitable means as the trustees from time to time determine.

Defined Area of Benefit:

FURNESS

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