Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: -5
Support Score: 9
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Static board: -3
  • Multiple returns filed late: -2
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

EXCEL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION

Excel Women's Centre is a dedicated charity to improve Health & Wellness of Women and their families in Barking & Dagenham and surrounding boroughs by providing information, advice and guidance in areas of Welfare, Housing and Health, Skills and Training and employability, homework club, Sport activities and User led Community Wellness Cafe with leisure and social activities
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board composition appears to be rather static
  • Returns have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • 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£141£160£-19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22*£101£224£-123n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21*£292£164£127n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20*£83£95£-12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£106£107£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£88£73£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£73£47£26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16*£23£24£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15*£20£18£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14*£17£24£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13*£34£30£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 13 years
(15 years as a company)
Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • 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 services
Where it operates
  • Barking And Dagenham,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • 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
National Lottery Community Fund£337,392
Trust for London£149,254
The London Community Foundation£41,020
Garfield Weston Foundation£15,000
Sport England£5,376
The Fore£4,860
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Wellness Cafe
£280,385 20/07/2023
The funding will be sued to run a community wellness café creating a welcoming environment where local women will have access to a range of activities services and holistic support. The project aims to support people with language issues and aims ....more
Trust for London - Excel Women's Association
£46,000 11/07/2023
The funding is to continue an existing Information/Advice/Guidance service for women in/around Barking and Dagenham, concerning: welfare benefits/cost-of-living/housing/access to health/social care/those with no resource to public funds and other ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 25/11/2022
The Excel Women's Centre - sustainability and growth
Sport England - Jubilee Fund - Women and Girls Get Active in Barking and Dagenham
£5,376 06/10/2022
This project will seek to engage women and girls from ethnic minority communities through the provision of twice weekly two hour multi-sports activities. The aim is to target 200 women and girls (aged 14+) with the sessions including fitness, yoga, ....more
Trust for London - Excel Women's Association
£4,000 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-04.10.19-8290
Trust for London - Excel Women's Association
£39,254 09/03/2021
The funding is to enhance support for BAME women and girls in Barking and Dagenham affected by Covid-19. This will include access to its IT training suite and wellbeing programme. COVID19 Recovery.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Excel Women's Association
£31,660 17/07/2020
Additional costs due to COVID-19 lockdown until end of October 2020 as outlined in your application budget.
National Lottery Community Fund - Excel Women's Association
£57,007 25/06/2020
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The Excel Women's Association a women's centre in Barking and Dagenham will use the funding to support vulnerable and disadvantaged women in their local community.
The Fore - RAFT COVID-19 response grant to Excel Women's Association
£4,860 03/06/2020
36
Grant from The Fore's RAFT Immediate Response Fund to Excel Women's Association, as part of The Fore's COVID-19 Response programme.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Excel Women's Association
£9,360 15/05/2020
(i) Collect food/medication from supermarkets/food banks/GPs/chemists & take to homes of vulnerable, isolated people (ii) Cook food for vulnerable people with mobility issues & those struggling to source faith-specific food (e.g Halal), ....more
Trust for London - Excel Women's Centre
£60,000 05/03/2020
36
The funding is to provide information, advice and guidance (IAG) sessions on welfare benefits, housing and health and wellness three times a week for refugee, migrant women and girls in Barking and Dagenham with language support if needed.
DCMS - Rosa Fund, Tampon Tax
£23,571 01/12/2017
To deliver employment support and training in Barking and Dagenham to unemployed, vulnerable, BAMER women, many of whom have fled war and suffered FGM. Workshops will take place over 12 months and 50 women will benefit.
National Lottery Community Fund - EAST LONDON ETHNIC MINORITY WOMEN'S HEALTH & WELLBEING PROJECT
£195,216 30/11/2016
36
This project aims to help disadvantaged black, Asian, and minority ethnic women to gain better access to self-help support. It will be delivered in a safe women-only space to empower and enable them to become independent and advocate for themselves, ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees:
  • EDNA ASHLEY Appointed: 2017
  • FATHA ALI Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Teacher
  • FATMA ASKER MIDWIFERY Appointed: 2011
  • RHODA ASHUR BA NURSING Appointed: 2011, Occupation: Nurse
  • RUKAYAT AKAJI SULEMAN Appointed: 2017
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/10/2011, number: 1144357
  • Registered at Companies House on 15/06/2009, number: 06934326
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
  • 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
11 returns made; AR22: 3 days late, AR21: 11 days late, AR20: 47 days late, AR16: 1 days late, AR15: 1 days late, AR14: 2 days late, AR13: 66 days late,
Main office

13 LONDON ROAD
BARKING
ESSEX
IG11 8AA

Objectives

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT GOOD HEALTH IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY SOMALI WOMEN AND THEIR FAMILIES WITHIN THE BARKING AND DAGENHAM AREA BY PROVIDING A CENTRE WHEREBY THEY CAN ACCESS ADVICE, TRAINING AND SUPPORT.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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