Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 6
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

AFRICAN WOMEN'S HEALTH GROUP 

Training for African women and children in ESL, cookery, Arabic language, IT and personal health matters. There is a homework class for schoolchildren on Sundays. Advice, information and language support on personal health and related matters given to women and support in contacting schools in respect of their children's education and further development.
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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are 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
Established: 32 years

www.africanwomenshealthgroup.com

awgh_halima1@hotmail.co.uk

01142421910

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
30/06/23£102£102£0n/an/an/an/an/a5
30/06/22£99£99£-1n/an/an/an/an/a5
30/06/21£84£59£25n/an/an/an/an/a5
30/06/20£74£54£20n/an/an/an/an/a5
30/06/19£73£63£10n/an/an/an/an/a10
30/06/18£68£48£19£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/17£45£43£2£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/16£40£36£4£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/15£30£30£1£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/14£21£10£11£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/13£19£18£0£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/12£15£15£0£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/11£20£18£2£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/10£18£17£1£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/09£12£9£3£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/08£7£9£-2£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/07£12£15£-2£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/06£26£23£2£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/05*£20£19£0£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/04*£10£11£0£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
Where it operates
  • Sheffield City,
Who it helps
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 5 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
National Lottery Community Fund£154,483
DCMS£29,535
BBC Children in Need£2,975
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - SHARING SKILLS & MOVING FORWARD
£154,483 27/10/2021
This project works with vulnerable Black Asian and Minority Ethnic women in economically deprived areas with the aim of tackling loneliness and poor mental and physical health. It supports these ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£22,000 22/09/2020
"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 ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£4,560 14/07/2020
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 ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to African Women's Health Group
£2,975 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - The grant will fund technology to access an online homework club. Young people are from BME communities with no access to online education during Covid-19 resulting in poor educational ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£2,975 28/05/2020
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 ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to African Women's Health Group
£29,820 15/03/2019
36
This project will deliver a homework club for young people with limited English language skills and living in deprived communities. Young people will have improved aspirations, build better ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - African Women’s Health Group: Breaking Down Barriers Together
£119,335 19/05/2017
36
The aim of the project is to tackle the social isolation and poor mental and physical health experienced by people who attend the service. This will be delivered though four core activities – ESOL ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 20/08/1992, number: 1013817
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • 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
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR05: 234 days late, AR04: 599 days late,
Main office

SUBUD CENTRE
SWARCLIFFE ROAD
DARNALL
SHEFFIELD
S9 3FA

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD (THE AREA OF BENEFIT) IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY FOR AFRICAN AND ASIAN WOMEN IN THE FIELDS OF PERSONAL HEALTH, NUTRITION, FAMILY PLANNING AND COMMUNICATION SKILLSTO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT FOR THE CHILDREN OF SUCH WOMEN AND TO RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AMONGST THE SAID WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN

Defined Area of Benefit:

CITY OF SHEFFIELD

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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