Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 3

Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 7

THE SHARAN PROJECT

The primary objective of the charity is to ensure that South East Asian women who have been estranged from their families due to forced marriage, domestic violence or honour abuse have access to support, information and resources to help them become productive independent members of society.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

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
31/07/23		£58	£109	£-51	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/07/22		£168	£137	£31	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/07/21		£143	£94	£49	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/07/20	*	£54	£31	£24	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/07/19		£30	£23	£6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/07/18		£16	£38	£-22	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/07/17		£91	£121	£-30	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/07/16		£108	£54	£54	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/07/15	*	£25	£25	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/07/14	*	£24	£22	£2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/07/13		£4	£6	£-2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 12 years
(16 years as a company)

www.sharan.org.uk

info@sharan.org.uk

08445043231

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity

GiG Classification

Support for victims of domestic or sexual abuse
Emotional support, counselling or therapy

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups
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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
City Bridge Trust - Grant to The Sharan Project
£25,506	05/06/2020	£25,506 towards costs as outlined in your application excluding core costs.
Comic Relief - Our Girl - a prevention and awareness raising campaign project on forced marriage
£150,300	27/01/2016 18	The Department for Children, Schools and Families has estimated the prevalence of forced marriage (FM) in England as between 5,000 - 7,000 cases a year. FM predominantly impacts young women, and with its burden of physical/ emotional/ sexual abuses ....more The Department for Children, Schools and Families has estimated the prevalence of forced marriage (FM) in England as between 5,000 - 7,000 cases a year. FM predominantly impacts young women, and with its burden of physical/ emotional/ sexual abuses can lead to depression and suicide.The Sharan Project will use this grant to run training events and mini-campaigns designed to make colleges/universities more aware about the risks of FM. Campaigns will also be run in 5 local communities reaching a range of audiences. The project will utilise a film and graphic novel designed by award-winning film-makers and made in partnership with the government's FM Unit. The aim is that there will be fewer forced marriages and young people affected are more likely to get the support they need.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 35-64

AMRITPAL SINGH MAAN Appointed: 2024

GERRARD CAMPBELL Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired Chief Constable

JEFFREY PRESCOTT Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Accountant

KAI AKRAM Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Public Relations

KAREN TOWNSEND Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Public Sector Administrator

NUSRAT ZAMIR Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Paralegal At Metropolitan Police

PREITY MOHYAL Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Compliance Manager

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 25/09/2012, number: 1149094
Registered at Companies House on 01/07/2008, number: 06635024

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

11 returns made; AR20: 8 days late, AR15: 2 days late, AR14: 42 days late,

Main office

27 OLD GLOUCESTER STREET
LONDON
WC1N 3AX

Objectives

TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY HELPING VULNERABLE WOMEN WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED DUE TO HAVING BEEN FORCED TO LEAVE HOME BECAUSE OF A HOSTILE OR ABUSIVE FAMILY ENVIRONMENT (IN PARTICULAR, MEMBERS OF THE SOUTH ASIAN COMMUNITY). TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF SUCH PEOPLE AND ASSIST THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY, AND TO DO ALL SUCH OTHER THINGS AS ARE NECESSARY FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE OBJECTS.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).

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