Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 10
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • All female board: -3
  • Overall weighted support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

UTULIVU WOMENS GROUP

Promoting healthy living through workshops/seminars and trainings. Welcoming and supporting women and their families from abroad. Workshops on education for both women, young people and men. Enhancing social networks through outings, picnics, holidays and exchange programmes. Empowering children/young people through drama, music, poetry etc. Promoting cultural awareness. Providing volunteering opp
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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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why is the Board completely female?

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
31/05/23£132£141£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/22£78£59£19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/21£71£68£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/20£16£9£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/19£12£11£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/18£11£6£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/17£30£24£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/16£34£16£18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/15£13£9£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/14£3£4£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/13£5£7£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/12£30£22£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/11£15£25£-10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/10?£27£25£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
21/07/09£21£19£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
21/07/08£16£11£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 18 years

www.utulivu.co.uk

info@utulivu.co.uk

07859063643

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Practical support, advice & companionship
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bracknell Forest, Kenya, Oxfordshire, Reading, Slough, Somalia, The Gambia, Wokingham,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • 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
National Lottery Community Fund£225,808
Rosa UK£58,400
Department for Work and Pensions£27,972
Postcode Society Trust£24,994
DCMS£14,339
The Clothworkers Foundation£9,600
Allen Lane Foundation£6,080
Henry Smith Charity£4,810
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Utulivu Women's Group
£2,550 30/08/2023
towards the cost of a day trip to the Isle of Wight for a group of 35 children from disadvantaged communities in Reading.
Rosa UK - RISE R2-UTULIVU-2023
£18,400 18/05/2023
Cost of Living Grant
Postcode Society Trust - Project Funding
£24,994 03/04/2023
Funding will enable us to organise weekly conversations, exercises and activities to improve the mental wellbeing of BAME women and girls.
Rosa UK - RISE R1-UTULIVU-2022
£40,000 19/05/2022
£40,000 has been awarded to Utulivu Women's Group to support the organisation to digitise process, improve IT systems and provide training on how to capture data.
Department for Work and Pensions - UTULIVU WOMENS GROUP
£10,654 01/04/2022
The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to employers to create jobs for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit.
National Lottery Community Fund - ''My Voice Counts Too For My Wellbeing''.
£223,308 14/03/2022
The project is using funding to continue the ‘Let’s Talk’ wellbeing sessions which supports wellbeing and helps manage stress and anxiety caused by the pandemic. The project will benefit the less engaged communities whose wellbeing has largely ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Utulivu Women's Group
£2,260 21/09/2021
towards the costs of a trip to Thorpe Park for children from disadvantaged communities in Reading.
National Lottery Community Fund - Aging Gracefully Through Story-Telling Music Art Poetry Food
£2,500 22/07/2021
The funding will be used to bring a group of older Kenyan women together to connect through music story telling poetry food & art. The project aims to connect people in a lasting way so that the participants can form social networks.
Department for Work and Pensions - UTULIVU WOMENS GROUP
£17,318 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.
Allen Lane Foundation - Grant to Utulivu Women's Group
£6,080 11/03/2021
£6,080 single grant for rent towards the establishment of a Community Hub and Safe Space Centre of this organisation in Reading.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Utulivu Women's Group
£9,600 17/11/2020
purchase IT equipment and furnishings for a charity supporting disadvantaged community in Berkshire
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£14,339 08/07/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
People's Health Trust - Story Telling; Better Knowing Me & You
£10,000 11/10/2018
This two-year project brought together people from the Whitley Estate in Reading twice monthly to get to know each other and socialise through listening to and telling stories. Participants were able to describe and share their own stories through a ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - 'Let's Talk Wellbeing'; Healthy To Do
£7,900 24/05/2018
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The project will raise awareness of mental health within the BAME community and will look at ways they can encourage integration into the wider community. This will be done through events and activities to promote mental and physical health, ....more
DCMS - Rosa Fund, Tampon Tax
£8,650 01/05/2017
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • ANGELINA MUKWAMATAPA Appointed: 2020
  • ESTHER OENGA
  • JOSEPHINE KIHIKA Appointed: 2017
  • LILIAN MSHILA Appointed: 2015
  • LORNA OBURE Appointed: 2016
  • REBECCA MWANJE Appointed: 2020
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 20/03/2007, number: 1118448
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
16 returns made; all on time
Main office

555 NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE
READING
RG2 8NX

Objectives

TO PROVIDE RELIEF OF POVERTY OF KENYANS LIVING IN BERKSHIRETO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF KENYANS LIVING IN BERKSHIRETHE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF GOOD HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, SEMINARS, AND COUNSELLING OF KENYANS LIVING IN BERKSHIRE

Defined Area of Benefit:

BERKSHIRE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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