Finance Score: 5

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 10

Future income +5
No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1

Large volunteer base +3
Overall weighted support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 14

WOMEN TODAY - NORTH EAST

Women Today as an organisation is designed to support Black African Women in the North East. We meet the needs of African women in the areas of social and emotional well-being. We aim to provide activities and awareness of good health, equality of opportunity and social inclusion initiatives, which promote social inclusion whilst recognising cultural diversity and sensitivity.

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Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
Why are there only 4 trustees?

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
31/05/23	*	£79	£65	£15	n/a
31/05/22		£0	£0	£0	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 4 years

https://womentodayne.co.uk/

locardia@womentodayne.uk

07588642691

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Practical support, advice & companionship

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin

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 Community Fund	£141,118
Smallwood Trust	£84,999
Rosa UK	£17,240
Woodward Charitable Trust	£600

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
£600	27/10/2023	Core costs
Smallwood Trust - Protecting frontline services for women 18+
£59,999	29/09/2023 36	Frontline organisations led by women, to protect essential services for women most impacted by the cost-of-living-crisis.
Smallwood Trust - Funding used to support organisational needs to strengthen role as distributor of grants to individuals
£18,000	05/04/2023 33	This initiative seeks to shift grant making power directly to local women’s organisations and services. Smallwood provides a block grant of £90,000, a percentage of which the organisation uses to run the programme (shown here), and the remainder ....more This initiative seeks to shift grant making power directly to local women’s organisations and services. Smallwood provides a block grant of £90,000, a percentage of which the organisation uses to run the programme (shown here), and the remainder is awarded as hardship grants to individual women 18+, who are further supported by the organisation's specialist services. Percentages are agreed with Smallwood in advance.
Smallwood Trust - Funding used to support organisational needs to strengthen role as distributor of grants to individuals
£7,000	16/12/2022 12	A one-off payment (Uplift Grant) to support organisation's operations and overheads, as well as the provision of grants to service users during the cost-of -living crisis
National Lottery Community Fund - Women Today Reaching Communities
£141,118	20/10/2021	The project will use the funding to provide support guidance and activities to black African women in Tees Valley predominantly Middlesbrough. This includes weekly women’s groups one-to-one support for women in crisis food parcel service mental ....more The project will use the funding to provide support guidance and activities to black African women in Tees Valley predominantly Middlesbrough. This includes weekly women’s groups one-to-one support for women in crisis food parcel service mental health support groups and community outreach work. This aims to reduce isolation and help improve wellbeing.
Rosa UK - WTF-WTNE-2021
£17,240	28/06/2021	£17,240 has been awarded to Women Today to fund a culturally appropriate counsellor for African women who have migrated to the UK.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

CATHERINE PFUNGWA CHITIGA Appointed: 2023

LOCARDIA CHIDANYIKA (Chair) Appointed: 2021

LORAINE FORE Appointed: 2021

SAMUEL MASAMBA Appointed: 2021

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 13/01/2021, number: 1193104

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Paying staff
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

2 returns made; AR23: 2 days late,

Main office

5 Exchange walk
Wilson Street
Middlesbrough
TS1 1RY

Objectives

TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AMONG AFRICAN WOMEN RESIDING IN THEUK, WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, OR AT RISK OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION, ON THE GROUNDS OF THEIRSOCIAL AND ECONOMIC POSITION, BY ANY MEANS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR DISCRETION SHALLDETERMINE.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, ORPART OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF BEING A MEMBER OF A SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVEDCOMMUNITY’

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