Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 12
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

BELONG NOTTINGHAM

Our charity focusses on the social and economic integration of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants of mostly but not exclusively of African background.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
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£421£413£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/22?*£514£549£-35£0£26£130.31024
31/03/21£406£328£78n/an/an/an/an/an/a
?31/03/20£213£223£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
?31/03/19£220£209£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18*£159£169£-10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17*£93£85£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Balance Sheet History
Established: 10 years

www.belongnottingham.co.uk

enquiries@belongnottingham.co.uk

01159790015

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebookX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • Recreation
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Support for refugees & asylum seekers
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Nottingham City, Nottinghamshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young 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 Heritage Fund£101,255
Lloyds Bank Foundation£52,250
Barrow Cadbury Trust£49,986
AB Charitable Trust£40,000
DCMS£15,000
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
Sport England£9,975
BBC Children in Need£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Belong Nottingham
£25,000 18/04/2024
An unrestricted grant of £25,000 per year for three years (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Belong Nottingham is a refugee community organisation which supports refugees, migrants and people seeking asylum through skills and ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Belong Nottingham
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Sport England - Jubilee fund - New activities for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants
£9,975 05/07/2022
This project will welcome children and young people with SEN, behavioural challenges, and physical conditions from the wider community, to support integration and inclusion. Taster sessions will be delivered and a programme of sustained activity ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Belong Nottingham
£86,855 01/03/2022
Jacob Wainwright - Shedding Light on a Misunderstood Individual
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Belong Nottingham
£50,000 08/12/2021
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Belong Nottingham
National Lottery Community Fund - Covid Employment Recovery Project
£10,000 10/09/2021
The funding will be used to employ an employability coach to work with refugees and migrants who have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. The project aims to promote employment prospects and volunteering and training as a means of ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Belong Nottingham
£15,000 21/01/2021
An unrestricted grant of £15,000. Belong Nottingham support the social and economic integration of refugees and asylum seekers in Nottingham.
Barrow Cadbury Trust - COVID-19 - Belong Nottingham
£49,986 30/09/2020
6
To support refugees and asylum seekers with employment advice, health advice and activities for social interaction
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Belong Nottingham
£14,400 03/09/2020
COVID19 BELONG NOTTINGHAM
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 01/09/2020
"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
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Belong Nottingham
£5,000 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This project will provide tablets and data packages for isolated refugee and asylum seekers during Covid 19. This will enable young people to access educational support and alleviate the mental stress of isolation during lockdown and ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£5,000 20/05/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Skills for Enterprise & Employment
£10,000 11/01/2019
12
This funding will be used to deliver business start-up and employability skills training for people seeking asylum. The project aims to improve life chances.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Belong Nottingham
£113,306 23/10/2018
36
This project will support children and young people who are refugee and asylum seekers. The aim is to increase confidence with expressing their views, increasing attainment at schools and to enable them to explore and express their feelings.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Belong Nottingham
£73,000 19/04/2018
David Livingstone - The African Perspective
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

  • GODSWILL CHISASA Appointed: 2023
  • JOSEPH KAMOGA Appointed: 2009
  • JUDITH KOBUTUNGI (Chair) Appointed: 2009
  • LYNDA NYANDU Appointed: 2023
  • MOHAMMED ABDULRHAMAN MOHAMMED Appointed: 2023
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 10/02/2015, number: 1160407
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds 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
8 returns made; AR22: 88 days late, AR18: 1 days late, AR17: 1 days late,
Main office

Unit C
Tennyson Hall
Forest Road West
Nottingham
NG7 4EP

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE OF AFRICAN ORIGIN LIVING IN THE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE AREA BY:(1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING(2) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY SICKNESS AND DISTRESS(3) THE PROMOTION OF GOOD HEALTH (4) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION.(5) TO SUPPORT YOUNG PEOPLE TO DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS (6) TO UNDERTAKE ANY OTHER ACTIVITIES DEEMED CHARITABLE BY LAW IN ENGLAND AND WALES AS DEEMED NECESSARY BY THE TRUSTEES

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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