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Finance Score: 7
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 12
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
    • Overall weighted support: +12
    Overall GiG Score: 19 ?

    COMMUNITY LANGUAGE SUPPORT SERVICES

    CLSS aiming to advance the education and training of people with limited English language skills and their dependents in need there of so as to advance them in life and assist them to adapt with in a new community. Enables clients to have better access to mainstream services. Through provision advice, advocacy, support, interpreting and translating, referrals and signposting service.
    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 and there are significant future grants due to be received

    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
    31/03/23£130£102£28n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/22£89£85£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/21£124£79£45n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/20£92£59£33n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/19£44£47£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/18£46£47£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/17£40£37£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/16£30£25£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/15£29£25£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/14£22£34£-12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/13£38£39£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/12£50£32£18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/11£19£16£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/10£9£10£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/09£9£7£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/08?£11£6£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/05/07£6£6£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Established: 18 years

    http://www.communitylss.com

    communitylss@hotmail.com

    0207 2813228

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    UN SDGs
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    Listed activities
    • Accommodation/Housing
    • Education/Training
    • General Charitable Purposes
    GiG Classification
    • Services for people with disabilities
    How it operates
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides human resources
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Throughout London,
    Who it helps
    • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin

    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
    Cripplegate Foundation£87,652
    National Lottery Community Fund£80,707
    Cloudesley£76,500
    Trust for London£60,897
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months    		 To be used for
    Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Community Language Support Services
    £10,000 09/04/2024
    To provide financial support to carers in need.
    Cloudesley - Grant to Community Language Support Services
    £52,500 20/02/2024
    Helping hand to improve lives
    Cloudesley - Grant to Community Language Support Services
    £4,000 19/09/2023
    Cloudesley Partner welfare grant 2024
    Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Community Language Support Services
    £5,000 11/07/2023
    Help to improve the lives of vulnerable refugees
    Cloudesley - Grant to Community Language Support Services
    £10,000 21/02/2023
    Helping Hand
    Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Community Language Support Services
    £19,652 09/02/2023
    Get together to help older people in need
    Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Community Language Support Services
    £2,000 08/02/2023
    Islington Giving Crisis Appeal grants
    Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Community Language Support Services
    £3,000 04/01/2023
    Cost of living increase
    Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Community Language Support Services
    £3,000 28/11/2022
    Islington Giving Crisis Appeal
    National Lottery Community Fund - Reaching to help vulnerable refugees:
    £80,707 18/11/2022
    The funding will support BME refugees mainly those from East Africa and other Arabic speaking communities who experience health inequalities poverty and isolation. The aim is to support beneficiaries to improve their physical mental and social ....more
    Trust for London - Community Language Support Services
    £4,667 29/09/2022
    This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-02.02.2022-9500
    Cloudesley - Grant to Community Language Support Services
    £4,000 27/09/2022
    Cloudesley Partner welfare grant 2023
    Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Community Language Support Services
    £5,000 05/07/2022
    Help: to improve lives and integration of vulnerable refugee
    Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Community Language Support Services
    £30,000 29/06/2022
    Core funding
    Trust for London - Community Language Support Services
    £56,230 05/05/2022
    The funding is for the salary for a part time advice worker (2.5 days a week), who will provide advice and support to our service users, support staff in running workshops and group activities and will do home visits to assist housebound service ....more
    Cloudesley - Grant to Community Language Support Services
    £3,000 01/09/2021
    Cloudesley Partner Welfare Grant 2022 - Awarded Sep 2021
    Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Community Language Support Services
    £5,000 29/06/2021
    Assist to improve the lives of vulnerable refugees
    Cloudesley - Grant to Community Language Support Services
    £3,000 22/09/2020
    Cloudesley Partner Welfare Grant 2021 - Awarded Sep 2020
    Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Community Language Support Services
    £5,000 30/06/2020
    Help: to improve lives and integration of vulnerable refugee
    Trust for London - Community Language Support Services
    £37,200 10/10/2019
    36
    The funding is for a salary of a part time advice worker, who will provide advice and support on social welfare to refugees from Arabic speaking countries to access mainstream services, workshops, group activities and home visits to assist people ....more
    Cloudesley - Grant to Community Language Support Services
    £3,000 24/09/2019
    Cloudesley Partner Welfare Grant Awarded Sep 2019
    National Lottery Community Fund - Reaching to help disadvantaged people
    £132,288 01/07/2019
    36
    The project will use the funding to run their activities supporting vulnerable women, especially refugees from east Africa and other Arabic speakers to access mainstream services such as health, education, welfare, housing and legal services.
    Cloudesley - Grant to Community Language Support Services
    £3,000 27/11/2018
    Interim Welfare Grant (Awarded November 2018)
    Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Community Language Support Services
    £10,000 26/06/2018
    Help: Building community integration .
    National Lottery Community Fund - Women together for a change
    £10,000 22/06/2018
    12
    The funding will be used to continue providing information, advice and advocacy services to refugees with an aim to also enable women to come together in a safe space.
    Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Community Language Support Services
    £5,000 27/06/2017
    Support: To improve the lives of vulnerable refugees.
    Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Community Language Support Services
    £5,000 28/06/2016
    Towards the costs of an Improving Access and Inclusion for BME Disabled People Project.
    Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Community Language Support Services
    £20,000 24/11/2011
    the salary costs of the Coordinator as well as volunteer costs, travel, training and a contribution to office overheads including rent, utilities, post and stationery
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (7)
    Current Trustees appointed

    • KAOUTAR HANNACH Appointed: 2022
    • MEBRAHTU ROSSOM Appointed: 2020
    • NATU HADISH Appointed: 2022
    • RUTH CLARKE
    • SEGA HABTOM
    • ZAHRA SULEIMAN Appointed: 2019
    • ZIBIAH ALFRED Appointed: 2014
    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 10/08/2006, number: 1115756
    Gift Aid
    • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • 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
    • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
    • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
    • Volunteer management
    Filing Record
    17 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    CHURCH OF ST. MELITUS
    TOLLINGTON PARK
    LONDON
    N4 3AG

    Objectives

    1 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF PEOPLE WITH LIMITED ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILLS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS IN NEED THEREOF SO AS TO ADVANCE THEM IN LIFE AND ASSIST THEM TO ADAPT WITHIN A NEW COMMUNITY.2 THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THOSE PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES.3 THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT OF PEOPLE WITH LIMITED ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILLS AND IN PARTICULAR THOSE IN LONDON, BY THE PROVISION OF VOCATIONAL AND SKILLS TRAINING, ADVICE AND SUPPORT.

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    UN DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, GREATER LONDON.

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving

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