Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 9
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Multiple returns filed late: -3
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

WANDSWORTH COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT NETWORK

THE PROMOTION OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR IN THE WANDSWORTH AREA FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
  • Returns have been filed late on 3 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end

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*£907£953£-46£0£225£1431.81612
31/03/22£780£651£129£0£271£1011.91312
31/03/21*£403£394£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20*£321£347£-26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£259£248£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18*£224£154£69n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£224£154£69n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£176£158£18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15*£144£134£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14*£137£159£-23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£118£134£-17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£134£138£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£172£129£43n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10*£105£129£-24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09*£134£128£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08*£112£97£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07*£203£189£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£203£189£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 9%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 72%
Liabilities/Income: 62%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 63%
Reserves/Spending: 1.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 1.1
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 20 years

http://www.wcen.info/

info@wcen.org.uk

02077209110

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Philanthropic intermediaries and volunteering
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Wandsworth,
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 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£349,388
Lankelly Chase Foundation£144,180
The London Community Foundation£37,432
The Wimbledon Foundation£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Community-Led Healthcare Systems
£349,388 11/02/2022
The project is using funding to embed their community-led health and wellbeing project across Wandsworth. The project aims to support people through targeted healthcare messaging to access early health care screenings diagnostics and health ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Wandsworth Community Empowerment Network
£28,000 30/03/2021
11
The funding is to identify and employ 2 people from our core network partners, to embed alongside our staff team, so that they can train and upskill to be change agents within their own hubs and clusters.
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Wandsworth Community Empowerment Network/WCEN
£85,000 09/12/2020
Wandsworth Community Empowerment Network/WCEN
The Wimbledon Foundation - Community Support Programme
£10,000 28/07/2020
The funding is to continue the support to enable us to provide hands on support to voluntary, community and faith groups who are on the frontline of providing self-help support to their own communities. We are in contact with over 40 groups who ....more
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Wandsworth Community Empowerment Network/WCEN
£19,727 22/06/2020
Wandsworth Community Empowerment Network/WCEN
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Wandsworth Community Empowerment Network
£9,432 04/06/2020
The funding is to enable us to provide hands on support to voluntary, community and faith groups who are on the frontline of providing self-help support to their own communities. We are in contact with over 40 groups who require our support, ....more
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Wandsworth Community Empowerment Network
£39,453 11/12/2019
To backfill the time of an individual while they work full-time for six months on the Ethnicity and MH Improvement Programme at South West London and St George's MH Trust
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Wandsworth Community Empowerment Network
£9,976 30/07/2018
12
This project will provide drama and dance workshops to children and young people with mental health issues. This will help young people to feel emotionally well, gain essential skills and improve their relationships.
National Lottery Community Fund - Wandsworth Coproduction
£463,205 29/11/2017
36
The project aims to use community-centred, co-production working to build the skills and abilities of local people to undertake early intervention and prevention services. Working in partnership with public agencies, they will work together to ....more
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Wandsworth Community Empowerment Network
£249,829 16/03/2016
24
To use coproduction as a methodology to build a whole system, community-centred approach to addressing inequalities in health and social care, through shifting early intervention and prevention initiatives into enabled social networks.
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Evaluation of WCEN project
£10,000 10/12/2015
24
Additional grant to support the evaluation of the existing co-production initiative
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 47-87
  • GEETHA MAHESHWARAN (Chair) Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Community Worker
  • JOAN ROBINSON Appointed: 2003, Occupation: Educator
  • MOHAMED ALI Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Youth Worker
  • NATALIE GIBSON-WILSON, Occupation: Manager
  • REV DELROY POWELL Appointed: 2018
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 18/10/2004, number: 1106354
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/05/2003, number: 04750617
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
  • 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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
18 returns made; AR23: 28 days late, AR21: 59 days late, AR20: 58 days late, AR18: 1 days late, AR15: 6 days late, AR14: 339 days late, AR10: 181 days late, AR09: 270 days late, AR08: 140 days late, AR07: 131 days late,
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Objectives

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED ARE:3.1 THE PROMOTION OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR IN THE WANDSWORTH AREA FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:3.1.1 PROVIDING A FORUM IN WHICH REPRESENTATIVES FROM LOCAL VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY GROUPS IN THE WANDSWORTH AREA, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE, POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, CAN COME TOGETHER AND EXPRESS VIEWS ON MATTERS OF LOCAL INTEREST, AND THE CONVEYING OF SUCH VIEWS TO LOCAL PLANNERS AND DECISION-MAKERS.3.1.2 PROVIDING TRAINING, CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS ON SUBJECTS RELEVANT TO THE EFFICIENCY OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR;3.1.3 IDENTIFYING NEEDS IN THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR AND ESTABLISHING PROJECTS OR POLICIES TO ADDRESS THEM;3.1.4 ASSISTING IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF FUNDING PROGRAMMES TO CHARITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS, MONITORING FOR GRANTS, RECOMMENDING GRANTS, ASSISTING IN APPLICATIONS FOR GRANTS;3.1.5 PROVIDING INFORMATION TO THE PRESS AND THE PUBLIC ON THE OPERATION OF, OR PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED BY, THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR;3.1.6 ACTING AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR IN RELATION TO GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND LEGISLATION.VOLUNTARY SECTOR' MEANS CHARITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS.CHARITIES ARE ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS ARE INDEPENDENT ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR PURPOSES THAT ADD VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE, OR A SIGNIFICANT SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY, AND WHICH ARE NOT PERMITTED BY THEIR CONSTITUTION TO MAKE A PROFIT FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION. VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DO NOT INCLUDE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OR OTHER STATUTORY AUTHORITIES.3.2 THE PROMOTION OF SUCH OTHER PURPOSES BEING EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE TO BE CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THE OBJECTS SET OUT IN CLAUSE 3.1.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON BOROUGH OF WANDSWORTH

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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