Finance Score: 7
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 14
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +14
Overall GiG Score: 24 ?

WE BELONG

We Belong is an innovative new organisation led by young people who migrated to the UK. We work with and for young migrants like ourselves, who are subject to a hostile environment in the country we and they call home. We fight to end the hostile environment around immigration, ensuring barriers preventing full integration for migrants are removed so that we can contribution to British society.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending since inception
  • 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 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
31/03/23£471£452£18
31/03/22£373£317£56
31/03/21£418£233£185
31/03/20£266£119£147
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 5 years

webelong.org.uk

info@webelong.org.uk

0208 059 4778

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Support for refugees & asylum seekers
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People

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
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£428,000
Unbound Philanthropy£240,000
Esmee Fairbairn£199,200
The Blagrave Trust£183,000
AB Charitable Trust£110,000
Barrow Cadbury Trust£95,035
Trust for London£90,000
Tudor Trust£90,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to We Belong
£30,000 30/01/2024
An unrestricted grant of £30,000 for 3 years (This grant is renewable - year 2 of up to 3 years). We Belong campaigns for equal access to education for young migrants and provides leadership ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to WE BELONG
£195,000 06/09/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs of a youth migrant led campaigning and support organisation
The Blagrave Trust - Young People in Policy Making Fund
£93,000 17/07/2023
We Belong Young People in Policy Making
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Supporting and mobilising young migrants for a better future
£198,000 06/03/2023
We Belong is a migrant youth-led organisation campaigning for the rights of young migrants, providing information, support and training. This grant will enable We Belong to expand their operations to ....more
Unbound Philanthropy - Grant to We Belong
£120,000 08/02/2023
24
For organizing and mobilizing immigrant youth to lead campaigns and raise publicsupport for a just immigration system
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to WE BELONG
£4,200 06/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to We Belong
£30,000 24/01/2023
An unrestricted grant of £30,000 for 3 years (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). We Belong campaigns for equal access to education for young migrants and provides leadership ....more
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Chasing status 2023-26
£75,000 22/10/2022
To continue to support We Belong's campaigning and youth development work.
Trust for London - We Belong
£90,000 29/06/2022
The funding is for We Belong’s Chasing Status Project as it implements, disseminates and activates the June 2022 legislative changes to the ten-year route to settlement. It hopes to have a ....more
The Blagrave Trust - Policy call-out
£90,000 31/05/2022
Young people in policy making
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to We Belong
£25,000 09/09/2021
An unrestricted grant of £25,000 (This grant is renewable - year 3 of 3 years). We Belong is a migrant youth-led organisation, campaigning for the rights of young migrants, developing young leaders ....more
Unbound Philanthropy - Grant to We Belong
£120,000 11/03/2021
For organizing and mobilizing immigrant youth to lead campaigns and raise public support for a just immigration system
Tudor Trust - Grant to We Belong
£90,000 25/02/2021
36
over three years as unrestricted funding for an organisation working to ensure that young migrants in the UK are treated fairly through support, campaigning and tackling inequalities
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Covid-19 Emergency Funding: Supporting young people who lack permanent immigration status
£30,000 24/02/2021
12
We Belong is a youth-led organisation, designed to support, train and advocate for young migrants who call the UK their home. This grant enables We Belong to continue providing emergency hardship ....more
Barrow Cadbury Trust - COVID-19 - We Belong
£20,035 30/09/2020
7
To support We Belong's outreach work in response to the pandemic.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 14/05/2020
3
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to We Belong
£25,000 15/10/2019
An unrestricted grant of £25,000 (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). We Belong works with and for young migrants living in the UK by campaigning for shorter and more affordable ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Mobilising young migrants for a better future
£180,000 14/10/2019
36
To support a new organisation led by young people who have migrated to the UK, to advocate for immigration reform.
Trust for London - We Belong
£80,000 02/10/2019
24
This funding is for the creation of a new post, Youth Parliamentary Officer. This young person will ideally have lived experience of migration and in recognition of their development needs, funding ....more
Unbound Philanthropy - Grant to We Belong
£120,000 23/07/2019
24
For organizing and mobilizing immigrant youth to lead campaigns and raise public support for a just immigration system
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed

  • JAMILLA HINDS-BROUGH Appointed: 2021
  • JOEL CARTER Appointed: 2019
  • KESHON DEVONTE SMITH Appointed: 2023
  • MAHERAJ AHMED LIAN (Chair) Appointed: 2022
  • MARAKANDAGE BUDDIKA UPENDRA PERERA Appointed: 2023
  • STEWART BRYCE MACLACHLAN Appointed: 2022
  • SUFINA AHMAD Appointed: 2020
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 10/07/2019, number: 1184348
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 policy and procedures
  • 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
  • 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
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE ALAN GOODWIN AND AIMEE REYNOLDS CHARITY on 07/05/2024
Main office

E C 1 Offices
338 City Road
LONDON
EC1V 2PY

Objectives

1)TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE ADVANCE IN LIFE THROUGH PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS. 2)TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).”

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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