Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 6
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

EUROPEAN NETWORK ON STATELESSNESS

ENS is a network of non-governmental organisations, academic initiatives and individual experts committed to address statelessness in Europe. We are dedicated to strengthening the voices of stateless persons in Europe & to advocate for full respect of their human rights.We aim to reach our goals by conducting & supporting legal & policy development, awareness raising & capacity building activities
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income 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
31/12/23£432£547£-115n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/22£588£597£-9£0£350£2164.395
31/12/21£457£417£40n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/20£505£361£144£0£319£1404.760
31/12/19£305£290£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/18£305£245£60n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/17£253£222£31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/16£227£211£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/15£231£177£53n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 14%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Balance Sheet History
Established: 10 years

www.statelessness.eu

info@statelessness.eu

02045266653

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebookX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • 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
  • Makes grants to individuals
  • Makes grants to organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia And Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Islington, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, ....more
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Covid-19 Emergency Funding
£15,000 01/04/2021
The European Network on Statelessness is a civil society alliance of over 140 members committed to ending statelessness in Europe and ensuring that stateless people living in Europe are protected. This grant provides core support to aid the ....more
Comic Relief - Routes to safety for stateless refugees
£363,711 17/03/2020
48
To be stateless is not to be recognised as a national by any country in the world. Caused by state succession, gaps in nationality laws, discrimination, displacement, and nationality stripping, statelessness is a legal anomaly with devastating ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Protecting children from harmful hostile environment policies by reducing statelessness
£60,000 09/12/2019
18
To reduce childhood statelessness through specific legal pathways, and to support children and young people with insecure status to access their right to a nationality.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed

  • ALLAN LEAS (Chair) Appointed: 2014
  • ALEKSANDRA SEMERIAK GAVRILENOK Appointed: 2023
  • ALEXIA SAVVA Appointed: 2024
  • CAN JONATHAN YUREGIR Appointed: 2021
  • CECILE CLERC Appointed: 2024
  • CHRISTIANA BUKALO Appointed: 2021
  • GABOR GYULAI Appointed: 2014
  • JEAN DENISE LAMBERT Appointed: 2019
  • MAURICE WREN Appointed: 2014
  • PETER GREIG Appointed: 2021
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 01/09/2014, number: 1158414
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • Investment
  • 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
9 returns made; all on time
Main office

28 Stainforth Road
LONDON
E17 9RD

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE RIGHT TO A NATIONALITY AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF STATELESS PERSONS (AS DEFINED) AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS AND COUNCIL OF EUROPE TREATIES, IN PARTICULAR THOSE CONTAINED WITHIN:(I) THE 1966 INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS;(II) THE 1966 INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS;(III) THE 1954 UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION RELATING TO THE STATUS OF STATELESS PERSONS;(IV) THE 1961 UNITED CONVENTION ON THE REDUCTION OF STATELESSNESS;(V) THE 1989 CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD;(VI) THE 1979 CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN;(VII) THE 1965 INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION;(VIII) THE 1950 EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS;(VIIII) THE 1997 EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON NATIONALITY; AND(X) THE 2006 EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON THE AVOIDANCE OF STATELESSNESS IN RELATION TO STATE SUCCESSION.THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BY MEANS OF ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES:(A) MONITORING ABUSES OF SUCH HUMAN RIGHTS;(B) OBTAINING REDRESS FOR THE VICTIMS OF SUCH HUMAN RIGHTS;(C) RELIEVING NEED AMONG THE VICTIMS OF SUCH HUMAN RIGHTS;(D) RESEARCH INTO ISSUES AFFECTING SUCH HUMAN RIGHTS;(E) EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT SUCH HUMAN RIGHTS;(F) PROVIDING TECHNICAL ADVICE TO GOVERNMENTS AND OTHERS ON MATTERS CONCERNING SUCH HUMAN RIGHTS;(G) CONTRIBUTING TO THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAW AFFECTING SUCH HUMAN RIGHTS;(H) COMMENTING ON PROPOSED LEGISLATION AFFECTING SUCH HUMAN RIGHTS;(I) RAISING AWARENESS OF ISSUES CONCERNING SUCH HUMAN RIGHTS;(J) PROMOTING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR SUCH HUMAN RIGHTS;(K) PROMOTING RESPECT FOR SUCH HUMAN RIGHTS AMONG INDIVIDUALS AND CORPORATIONS;(L) INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY OF SUCH HUMAN RIGHTS;(M) ELIMINATING INFRINGEMENTS OF SUCH HUMAN RIGHTS.IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS AND TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE CHARITY TRUSTEES SHALL HAVE POWER TO ENGAGE IN POLITICAL ACTIVITY PROVIDED THAT THE CHARITY TRUSTEES ARE SATISFIED THAT THE PROPOSED ACTIVITIES WILL FURTHER THE PURPOSES OF THE CIO TO AN EXTENT JUSTIFIED BY THE RESOURCES COMMITTED AND THE ACTIVITY IS NOT THE DOMINANT MEANS BY WHICH CIO CARRIED OUT ITS OBJECTS.STATELESS PERSONS MEANS PERSONS WHO ARE NOT CONSIDERED AS A NATIONAL BY ANY STATE UNDER THE OPERATION OF ITS LAW (WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE 1954 CONVENTION RELATING TO THE (STATUS OF STATELESS PERSONS), OR AT RISK OF STATELESSNESS ACCORDING TO THIS DEFINITION.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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