Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 9
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

WELWITSCHIA WELFARE CENTRE

The WWC provides advice, information, advocacy to African Portuguese Speaking refugees, asylum seekers and migrants. It services are provided in different subjects such as; immigration, housing, welfare benefits, community care, debt/money, education, employment and training, interpreting and translation services. It also carries out home visits.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years, despite a decline more recently
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
  • 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
31/03/24£37£59£-22n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/23£69£57£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£55£54£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£93£82£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20?£70£64£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£75£50£25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£15£18£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£16£15£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£13£11£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£31£36£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£64£54£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£34£41£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£49£50£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£47£45£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 15 years

www.wwcuk.org

info@wwcuk.org

02088081255

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Support for refugees & asylum seekers
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Barking And Dagenham, Barnet, Enfield, Hackney, Islington, Lambeth, Newham, Waltham Forest,
Who it helps
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • The General Public/Mankind

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
Trust for London£114,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation£85,250
National Lottery Community Fund£19,994
Postcode Society Trust£18,250
The London Community Foundation£9,989
DCMS£9,987
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Postcode Society Trust - Unrestricted Funding
£18,250 29/09/2023
Funding provided advice and support for Portuguese and Spanish speaking African refugees, including daily drop-ins, English lessons and volunteering opportunities.
Trust for London - Welwitschia Welfare Centre
£45,000 24/08/2023
The funding is for our advice work at the premises in Tottenham. The funding will contribute towards running costs and towards the salary of the Services Coordinator who oversees and delivers the work, plus some volunteer costs.
National Lottery Community Fund - Support with the cost of living crisis
£10,000 06/01/2023
The funding will be used to provide outreach and advice services for people from ethnic minority communities. The project aims to support people who speak English as a second language so they can develop their ability to cope financially and ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Welwitschia Welfare Centre
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Trust for London - Welwitschia Welfare Centre
£1,000 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-04.02.2020-8440
National Lottery Community Fund - Rebuilding Lives & promote Independency
£9,994 03/09/2021
The funding will be used to provide advice and support to disadvantaged African Portuguese & French speaking people who have suffered during the pandemic in rebuilding their lives. The project aims to improve lives and relieve family tensions ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Welwitschia Welfare Centre
£50,000 29/07/2021
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Welwitschia Welfare Centre
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Welwitschia Welfare Advice Centre
£9,989 11/12/2020
16
The funding is for the costs of continuing to deliver our befriending and community outreach programme remotely, and to meet the continued need for food and grocery parcels for people in most urgent need as a result of the Covid crisis.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,987 11/09/2020
"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
Trust for London - Welwitschia Welfare Centre
£8,000 19/08/2020
6
The funding is for the costs of its advice and information service, which has seen an increased demand from people affected by the COVID19 pandemic. As a small organisation it needs additional volunteers and equipment to be able to effectively deal ....more
Trust for London - Welwitschia Welfare Centre
£60,000 10/06/2020
36
This funding is for the Parent Champions for Change programme - training and supporting parents living in deprived areas of London to identify the issues with childcare that matter to them and campaign for better services.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Welwitschia Welfare Centre
£33,000 21/05/2020
12
One year core funding to support Welwitschia Welfare Centre to sustain their work to support work addressing Asylum Seekers and Refugees Complex Social Issue (CSI) during COVID19
People's Health Trust - Welwitschia Welfare Centre ESOL Project
£12,935 08/02/2018
This two-year project delivered a programme of ESOL classes for members of the Portuguese-speaking African community in Enfield and Haringey, especially mothers of young children and unemployed adults. The project helped to reduce isolation and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - New Horizons
£186,459 08/03/2017
36
This group will build on their work to support Portuguese speaking African asylum seekers, refugees and migrants. The project aims to provide support through drop-in services and outreach work to improve employability skills, personal development, ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Welwitschia Welfare Centre
£13,800 28/02/2013
The charity supports mainly but not exclusively African Portuguese speakers who have barriers to accessing mainstream advice. Through advice support they are able to reduce poverty, stress and isolation and be informed about their rights.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 38-60
  • ADAO JONES Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Labourer
  • ANTONIO AMARO DA SILVA (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Events Worker
  • HELDER BAPTISTA Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Supervisor
  • JOANA MENDES DOMINGOS Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Student
  • RIBEIRO BAPTISTA Appointed: 2010, Occupation: System Administrator (It)
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/09/2009, number: 1131751
  • Registered at Companies House on 08/03/2008, number: 06528173
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Financial Conduct Authority
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
  • Internal risk management 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
14 returns made; all on time
Main office

IMPERIAL HOUSE
64 WILLOUGHBY LAND
LONDON
N17 0SP

Objectives

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN GREATER LONDON AND ELSEWHERE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IN PARTICULAR FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO ARE FROM AFRICAN PORTUGUESE SPEAKING COUNTRIES AND OTHER PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT. BY RELIEVING PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND STRESS. BY ADVANCING EDUCATION AND PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THOSE PERSONS FOR WHOM THE FACILITIES ARE PROVIDED.FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY OF PEOPLE FROM AFRICAN PORTUGUESE SPEAKING COUNTRIES AND OTHER PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT WHO ARE RESIDENT OR INTENDING TO RESIDE IN GREATER LONDON AND ELSEWHERE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH FREE, CONFIDENTIAL AND IMPARTIAL ADVICE, INFORMATION, ASSISTANCE, REPRESENTATION, COUNSELLING, TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION SERVICES IN SUCH MATTERS AS; IMMIGRATION, MONEY, DEBTS, WELFARE BENEFITS, HEALTH, HOUSING, SOCIAL SERVICES, EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE NATIONAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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