Finance Score: 6
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 15
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 24 ?

REFUGEE AND MIGRANT NETWORK SUTTON

Provision of advice by trained and qualified staff and volunteers on immigration, housing, welfare benefits, health, education and training, debt and money management and employment. Provision of English language tuition, with creche facilities, to improve clients' access to information and prospects of employment.Provision of relief to destitute refugees and migrants.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • 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£62£66£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£22£55£-33n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£53£54£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£65£53£12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£67£42£25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£38£35£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£26£29£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£18£32£-14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£18£27£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£4£28£-24n/an/an/an/an/an/a

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

www.rmns.org.uk

office@rmns.org.uk

02086692322

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Support for refugees & asylum seekers
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Sutton,
Who it helps
  • 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£259,422
City Bridge Trust£64,350
Lloyds Bank Foundation£52,250
Trust for London£31,000
DCMS£3,155
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - RMNS Future
£249,906 07/03/2023
This funding will enable the project to deliver their advice services ESOL lessons drop-in advice sessions and their One2One mentoring programme to refugees asylum seekers and migrants living within the London Borough of Sutton.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Refugee and Migrant Network Sutton
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Trust for London - Refugee and Migrant Network Sutton
£1,000 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-02.06.2020-8637
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Refugee and Migrant Network Sutton (RMNS)
£64,350 16/08/2022
36
£64,350 over two years (£31,390; £32,960) towards an immigration advice service and ESOL classes up to level 3, covering 0.5 FTE Advice Worker, 0.1 FTE Admin Assistant, 0.1 FTE Outreach and Marketing Worker, drop-in activities, and related ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Refugee and Migrant Network Sutton
£50,000 21/07/2022
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Refugee and Migrant Network Sutton
National Lottery Community Fund - RMNS renewal
£9,516 08/10/2021
The funding will be used to support refugee and migrant people. The project aims to offer advice and creative activities through one to one tailored activities.
Trust for London - Refugee and Migrant Network Sutton
£30,000 14/10/2020
36
The funding is for a continued contribution to the salaries of the advice worker and administrative assistant and the overheads (chiefly rent of the office and administrative costs) necessary for the immigration advice work, which RMNS is uniquely ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£3,155 24/08/2020
"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
National Lottery Community Fund - Resilience for refugees and migrants
£92,164 12/07/2017
36
This group will develop their project which aims to increase the knowledge, understanding and resilience of the refugee and migrant community through the provision of an immigration advice service and English classes. The project will increase the ....more
Trust for London - Refugee and Migrant Network Sutton
£30,800 22/02/2017
36
The funding is towards 50% of the part-time post of Advice Worker with associated overheads. This will enable us to continue to provide free, qualified advice to refugees, asylum seekers and migrants on issues of immigration, housing, welfare, ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 37-78
  • ANN MORRISON Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Retired Civil Servant
  • BRIONY THOMAS Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired
  • DEBORAH WROE Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Lecturer
  • JOHN BRANFORD Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired
  • LISA WEBSTER Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Accountant
  • LORRI DAWSON (Chair) Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Teacher
  • NAMRATA CHOWDHARY Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Self Employed
  • OLWEN EDWARDS Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Charity Trustee
  • SULTAN MAHMOD MAHMOODI Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Program Management
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/01/2013, number: 1150500
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/04/2012, number: 08026861
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
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
10 returns made; all on time
Main office

Granfers Community Centre
Granfers Community Centre
73-79 Oakhill Road
SUTTON
Surrey
SM1 3AA

Objectives

FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY OF REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS WHO ARE RESIDENT OR WHO ARE INTENDING TO RESIDE IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF SUTTON BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH FREE AND CONFIDENTIAL ADVICE, ASSISTANCE, REPRESENTATION, COUNSELLING, TRANSLATING AND INTERPRETING SERVICES IN SUCH MATTERS AS ASYLUM, IMMIGRATION, MONEY, DEBTS, WELFARE BENEFITS, HOUSING, HEALTH, EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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