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Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 0
  • Removed: -50
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    Overall GiG Score: -50 ?

    MERTON HOME TUTORING SERVICE

    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
    31/07/23£227£215£12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/07/22£200£196£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/07/21£71£121£-50n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/07/20£240£134£107n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/07/19£88£83£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/07/18?£110£88£22n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/05/17£78£58£19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/05/16?£61£57£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/15*£43£36£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/14£22£28£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/13£33£20£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/12£33£20£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/03/11*£11£9£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Established: 14 years
    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • Education/Training
    GiG Classification
    • Academic support
    How it operates
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Merton, Sutton, Wandsworth,
    Who it helps
    • Other Defined Groups

    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
    City Bridge Trust£283,550
    Henry Smith Charity£180,000
    Garfield Weston Foundation£15,000
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    City Bridge Trust - Grant to Learn English Together in Merton
    £137,800 29/02/2024
    24
    £137,800 over two years (£67,840, £69,960) for 0.3 FTE Curriculum & Quality Manager, variable costs between 0.2 and 0.4 FTE towards the Director and the Administrator posts across the two years, sessional Teachers and sessional Creche ....more
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
    £15,000 12/04/2023
    Teaching English in Merton to ethnically diverse adults and marginalised groups to support community integration.
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Merton Home Tutoring Service
    £180,000 15/06/2022
    36
    towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of an organisation providing weekly English lessons for adult refugees and migrants in the London Borough of Merton.
    City Bridge Trust - Grant to Merton Home Tutoring Service
    £10,750 09/04/2020
    A one-off, unrestricted grant of £10,750, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant.
    City Bridge Trust - Grant to Merton Home Tutoring Service
    £135,000 28/11/2019
    36
    £135,000, over three years (43,000, £46,000, £46,000) towards pre-entry to entry level 2 ESOL community classes to give adult migrants, refugees and asylum seekers more opportunities to learn English. The grant includes £2,000 in year 1 towards ....more
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
    £15,000 03/09/2019
    ESOL classes and home tutoring
    National Lottery Community Fund - Merton Home Tutoring Service ESOL classes
    £207,630 01/07/2019
    36
    The project will use the funding to deliver their free pre-entry ESOL classes and home tutoring service in Merton and to develop and test new approaches to their services. The funding will also allow them to reach additional groups such as migrants ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - Home Tutoring in Everyday English
    £9,937 13/07/2018
    12
    The funding will be used to provide beginner English classes for refugee and migrant adults. The project aims to facilitate learning in order to enable participants to improve self-esteem and integrate with their local communities.
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Merton Home Tutoring Service
    £90,000 13/06/2018
    36
    towards three years' running costs of an organisation that provides weekly English language lessons in the homes of adult refugees and migrants in the London Borough of Merton
    Greater London Authority - Grant to Merton Home Tutoring Service
    £5,970 18/03/2017
    Team london small grants - supporting 59-69 year olds to volunteer and/or elderly people to have improved access to community services
    National Lottery Community Fund - Merton Home Tutoring Service
    £177,440 08/04/2015
    36
    This project is using its funding to develop its work delivering free English language tuition to adults from BME communities in the borough of Merton for whom English is an additional language. Home tuition is delivered by trained volunteers and ....more
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 22/11/2010, number: 1139126
    Gift Aid
    • 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
    • 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
    13 returns made; AR15: 52 days late, AR11: 211 days late,
    Main office


    Objectives

    3.1 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF ADULTS LIVING IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF MERTON, FORWHOM ENGLISH IS A SECOND LANGUAGE AND FOR WHOM IT IS DIFFICULT TO ATTEND FORMALCLASSES, BY THE PROVISION OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TUITION IN THEIR HOMES.3.2 SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    LONDON BOROUGH OF MERTON

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving

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