Finance Score: 7

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 10

Strong growth: +2
Future income +5
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Award winner
Grant maker support: +10

Overall GiG Score: 23

THE VAVENGERS

The Vavengers is a charity committed to ending FGM and all other forms of GBV. We do this through education, campaigning and direct support. We are a survivor-led organisation, standing with and for every woman affected by Violence Against Women and Girls and we will help end it together.

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Positives:

The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
This charity is a recent Award Winner
There has been strong growth in spending since inception
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Over half the Board have joined recently

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	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
04/04/23	£323,376	£287,109	£36,267	10
04/04/22	£83,642	£88,207	£-4,565	10
04/04/21	£81,488	£63,338	£18,150	5
04/04/20	£37,623	£21,331	£16,292	1

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 5 years

https://www.thevavengers.co.uk/

info@thevavengers.co.uk

07984337818

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training
Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Community services

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
Other Defined Groups

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
10 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation	£191,200
Home Office	£54,586
The Clothworkers Foundation	£7,800
London Catalyst	£1,500

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation - Grant to The Vavengers
£120,000	06/07/2023	Towards core funding
Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation - Grant to Vavengers
£1,200	19/10/2022	Towards cost of living crisis
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to The Vavengers
£7,800	12/10/2022	Purchase of laptops for a charity which works with FGM/C survivors in London
Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation - Grant to the The Vavengers
£70,000	23/07/2021	Towards core funding
London Catalyst - The Vavengers - 1
£1,500	11/05/2021	The Reaching Out To You Community Project (ROTYC)
Home Office - Covid-19 Support for Domestic Abuse Charities
£12,317	06/07/2020	Organisations providing services and support for vulnerable people, for which there will be increased demand as a result of the COVID-19 crisis
Home Office - THE VAVENGERS
£12,317	01/04/2020	This grant is intended to provide funding to organisations whose primary purpose is to improve the response to DA, either through providing support to victims who have experienced DA, or through ....more This grant is intended to provide funding to organisations whose primary purpose is to improve the response to DA, either through providing support to victims who have experienced DA, or through providing support to front-line services, including other charitable organisations or the statutory sector, to better respond to victims.
Home Office - THE VAVENGERS
£29,952	01/04/2020	The purpose of this funding is to provide additional funds for DA charities to help them cope with the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic/lockdown; to enable them to continue to meet their usual ....more The purpose of this funding is to provide additional funds for DA charities to help them cope with the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic/lockdown; to enable them to continue to meet their usual levels of demand, to keep pace with rising levels of demand during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic and to remain solvent such that they can continue to provide support both during and after the pandemic. This will all help to safeguard victims of DA and provide essential emergency support to those affected by COVID-19.

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

HODAN ALI WARSAME Appointed: 2021

MABEL EVANS (Chair) Appointed: 2021

MILOSZ MIESZKO PALEJ Appointed: 2022

NAJMO FIYASKO Appointed: 2022

ROSE VIOLET BONHAM CARTER Appointed: 2022

SORAYA ABDULKADIR MOHAMED ALI Appointed: 2022

FREDERICK THOMAS INGHAM CLARK Appointed: 2023, Other trusteeships: THE CLOTHWORKERS' FOUNDATION, FOOD4HEROES CIO,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 01/07/2019, number: 1184202

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
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

4 returns made; all on time

Main office

The Vavengers
3rd Floor 86-90
Paul Street
London
EC2A 4NE

Objectives

THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:USING THE ARTS AS A VEHICLE TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND RAISE AWARENESS OF GENDER BASED VIOLENCE, IN PARTICULAR FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION; CREATING PUBLIC ART AND ARTS ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS TO CULTIVATE A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY

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