Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 0
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Static board: -3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: -7 ?

CARE FOR ZAMBIA 

Funding Mutende Children's Village, a child-care facility in Chingola, Zambia. We also financially support the Mutende Project Primary School, where younger children from our facility attend and subsidised fee-paying children from the local community.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • The Board composition appears to be rather static

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 6 years

www.mutende.com

marian@schoolsmailing.co.uk

07500860234

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Where it operates
  • Zambia,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 15 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 09/11/2017, number: 1175648
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

16 SHELLARDS ROAD
LONGWELL GREEN
BRISTOL
BS30 9DU

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN ZAMBIA, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY FUNDING AND OVERSEEING THE RUNNING OF A CHILDREN'S ORPHANAGE AND A PRIMARY SCHOOL IN LLULAMBA, CHINGOLA, ZAMBIA.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
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