Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 6
  • Strong growth: +2
  • 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: +6
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

THE MENTOR RING

The Mentor Ring delivers a variety of mentoring projects, bespoke mentoring, peer mentoring and befriending services to individuals of all ages, backgrounds and ethnicities, in the areas of Education, Employment, Health and Community Cohesion events, helping to overcome significant social and cultural barriers in Wales, London Borough of Bexley and Kent.
Analysis by Giving is Great

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 including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

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£66£100£-34n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/23£114£104£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£74£81£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£95£71£24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20?£85£55£30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£32£28£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£29£48£-19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£66£52£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15?£89£87£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/13£29£20£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 12 years

www.mentorring.org.uk

info@mentorring.org.uk

02921321073

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Other education support
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • 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£29,180
Postcode Community Trust£24,840
The Foyle Foundation£5,000
True Colours Trust£3,500
Woodward Charitable Trust£1,450
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
True Colours Trust - Towards activities and days out for disabled children and their families
£3,500 13/09/2023
Towards activities and days out for disabled children and their families.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards a summer play scheme
£750 06/06/2023
Summer Play Scheme
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000 29/11/2022
towards a community-based peer group mentoring project for young disadvantaged people
Postcode Community Trust - Storytelling Project
£24,840 27/08/2022
We used this grant to deliver a storytelling project to deprived children in Cardiff to encourage artistic participation and reading.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Summer Playscheme
£700 16/05/2022
Summer Playscheme
National Lottery Community Fund - Greetings
£9,800 03/09/2021
The funding is being used to offer coffee morning sessions in Islington Barking and Eastham with peer mentoring and support alongside training and workshops to support people in the wider community. Topics will include topics such as recycling ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - COVID-19 - Journey through Mentoring
£9,400 26/08/2021
The Mentor Ring in Cardiff will use £9400 to provide volunteer-led mentoring for people from Black Asian Minority and Ethnic communities who need support with health and wellbeing issues related to Covid-19.
National Lottery Community Fund - COVID-19 - Together We Thrive
£9,980 12/05/2020
3
The Mentor Ring Limited in Cardiff will use £9980 to provide online and telephone emotional support for vulnerable black Asian and minority ethnic people who are isolated due to COVID-19. Bydd y Mentor Ring Limited yng Nghaerdydd yn defnyddio ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Mentoring Matters
£99,930 17/05/2018
24
The project will build on and enhance the existing activities by increasing the mentoring support to include people aged 16-35. Community-based individual and group mentoring support will be provided to young people from the more disadvantaged ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Shining Stars
£4,673 24/07/2017
12
Project Summary : The Mentor Ring Limited in Cardiff will use the grant to support children with physical and learning disabilities to experience activities with their peers and to develop confidence and have fun together. What Money is for : ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Mentor matters
£119,273 15/05/2013
48
The project will provide mentoring support to the communities of Butetown, Grangetown and Riverside and other local Communities First areas across Cardiff. Support will cover a wide range of matters including health, education, bereavement, family ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 34-83
  • CHETNA SINHA Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Solicitor
  • DR SUNIL PULAPAKA Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Consultant Camhs & Nd Service
  • DR TANIA GHAFARI Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Forensic Psychiatrist
  • DR YUSUF RANGOONWALA Appointed: 2016
  • JESSICA LEIGH HOOPER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Organisational Development And Engagement Manager
  • JOAN SIMON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired
  • JOHN GAMBLIN Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired Nhs Programme Manager
  • JOHN KENNETH NEWTON Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Retired, Previously Assistant Director Of Finance
  • RAJANI DEVI PONNADA Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Physiotherapist
  • SEAN NEWTON (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Nhs Engagement Manager Wales
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 05/11/2012, number: 1149605
  • Registered at Companies House on 17/12/2010, number: 07472750
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
  • Investing charity funds 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
10 returns made; all on time
Main office

BUTETOWN COMMUNITY CENTRE
2ND FLOOR
LOUDOUN SQUARE
CAERDYDD
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Objectives

To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by working with people who are socially excluded on the grounds of their ethnic and cultural background, poverty, geographic isolation and health issues to relieve the needs of such people and assist them to integrate into society, in particular by the provision of mentoring, education and training.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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