Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 3

Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -4 times
Strong growth: +2
No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1

Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 0

THE ST ALBANS MOROCCAN (WIDADIA) COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

1) Provide social, education activities for the Moroccan community. 2) Arrange programmes of various sporting activities. 3) Provide activities such as lunch club for senior citizens. 4) Provide community interpreting and translations service, about social welfare, educational and employment beneficial to the local community and the Moroccan community in particular. 5) To arrange and provide eithe

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:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Accounts have been filed late on 4 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended

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
31/01/23	*	£10	£10	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/01/22	*	£10	£9	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/01/21		£5	£5	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/01/20?	*	£3	£3	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/19	*	£3	£3	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/18		£6	£5	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/17	*	£4	£4	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/16	*	£5	£4	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/15	*	£4	£4	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/14	*	£5	£5	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/13	*	£5	£5	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/12		£5	£5	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/11	*	£8	£7	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/10		£8	£1	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/09	*	£7	£7	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/08?	*	£5	£5	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/05		£0	£0	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 28 years

ramdani3@talktalk.net

01727833496

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Accommodation/Housing
Amateur Sport
Disability
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
Other Charitable Purposes
Religious Activities
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Social clubs and similar

How it operates

Makes Grants to Organisations
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Hertfordshire,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Defined Groups
People With Disabilities

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - ongoing project
£10,000	16/12/2022	The funding will be used to contribute to running costs. The project aims to continue to deliver their services of providing social education and welfare to Moroccan and Arab communities.
National Lottery Community Fund - St Albans Moroccan Community{widadia] organisation
£10,000	27/08/2021	The funding will be used to refurbish the group's flood damaged centre and to deliver a range of community activities. The project aims to support people from the Moroccan community with their ....more The funding will be used to refurbish the group's flood damaged centre and to deliver a range of community activities. The project aims to support people from the Moroccan community with their education skills and wellbeing.
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Grant to St Albans Moroccan Community
£4,387	18/08/2021	since the beginning of the pendamic the Moroccan Community have been in contact with our member to take all the nesserly action to protect them selves and theire families by respecting the government ....more since the beginning of the pendamic the Moroccan Community have been in contact with our member to take all the nesserly action to protect them selves and theire families by respecting the government guidance we have encouriging the old people to book the appointment to have the vaccine as soon as possible we we also made the transport available for them when needed.. we offer to do shoping for the old and people in isolation . up to 95% of over 50s has been vaccinated we are encouraging over 30s to book their covid vaccine Appointment most people don't know they're infected until they have infected others. food for the vulnerable people including luncheon club.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)

Current Trustees appointed

ABDELOIOAHAB RAMDANI MALE Appointed: 2020

ABDENNASSER RAMDANI MALE Appointed: 1996

ALI DANBA Appointed: 2011

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 24/07/1996, number: 1057072

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

17 returns made; AR23: 38 days late, AR22: 42 days late, AR20: 74 days late, AR19: 380 days late, AR17: 24 days late, AR16: 389 days late, AR15: 5 days late, AR14: 109 days late, AR13: 474 days late, AR11: 366 days late, AR09: 262 days late, AR08: 250 days late,

Main office

St. Albans City & District Council
Civic Centre
St. Peters Street
St. Albans
AL1 3JE

Objectives

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN ST ALBANS AND THE SURROUNDING AREA AND IN PARTICULAR FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO ARE MOROCCAN OR ARE OF MOROCCAN DESCENT IN THE FOLLOWING CHARITY WAYS (1) FOR THE RELIEF OF THOSE WHO ARE SUFFERING BY REASONS OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS OR WHO ARE OTHERWISE IN NEED, IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, ADVICE AND REPRESENTATION. (2) FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE ENGLISH AND ARABIC LANGUAGES AND OTHER SUBJECT; (3) TO WORK TOWARDS SEEKING EQUALITY OF ACCESS AND EQUALITY IN UTILISATION OF SERVICES DELIVERED BY THE STATUTORY BODIES; (4) FOR THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATIONS FOR THE PUBLIC AND IN PARTICULAR FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE INTRESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THOSE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC FOR WHOM THE FACILITIES ARE AVAILABLE TO USE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

HERTFORDSHIRE AND SURROUNDING AREA

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