Overall GiG Score: 19 ?
Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 12
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +12

HACKNEY CARIBBEAN ELDERLY ORGANISATION 

Social care agency for elders, Caribbean in particular resident in Hackney. A diverse and welcoming organisation providing social and cultural support. health and welfare information, lunch service, Advocacy and Outreach, assistance for elders with dementia via Mental Wellbeing program and expenditure advice via the Take care of the Pennies service.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • 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 well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

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: 28 years

www.hceo.org.uk

info@hackneycaribbean.co.uk

02079233536

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
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
31/03/23£268£234£34n/an/an/an/an/a13
31/03/22£256£235£21n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/03/21£265£211£53n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/20£250£97£153n/an/an/an/an/a11
31/03/19£130£148£-18n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/18£159£180£-21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£187£187£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£126£88£38£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£190£201£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£198£187£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£172£146£27£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£155£147£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£117£135£-18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£111£132£-21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£152£108£45£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£129£106£23£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£82£103£-21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£98£88£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£81£89£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£73£73£0£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Disability
Who works here?
  • 13 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Hackney,

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£730,935
City Bridge Trust£180,000
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington£150,000
Hackney Council£16,031
DCMS£9,950
Hackney CVS£5,000
Mercer's Charitable Foundation£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - A-G-E Project
£288,053 17/08/2023
Funding will be used to support the wellbeing of elderly people from the African and Caribbean community aged over 55 in Hackney. This includes a lunch club dementia and advocacy support and other ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Hackney Caribbean Elderly Organisation
£180,000 27/01/2023
36
£180,000 over three years (£56,500, £60,000, £63,500) for a 0.4 FTE Triage Worker and 0.4 FTE Advocacy Worker to support people over the age of 65 in Hackney with dementia, as well as associated ....more
Hackney CVS - Hackney Giving and LBH Cost of Living
£5,000 08/12/2022
to run a lunch club one day a week for 20 weeks.
The Grocers' Charity - 2022-Hackney Caribbean Elderly Organisation
£2,500 22/06/2022
Towards core costs to expand services to elders in the Hackney Caribbean community, such as a befriending programme, exercise and creative sessions.
Hackney Council - Grant to Hackney Caribbean Elderly Organisation
£16,031 13/05/2022
The Cultural Arts and Events Project will provide structured, age appropriate activities including Cultural Arts Workshops and external Events for older people including Singing, Music, Creative ....more
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Grant to Hackney Caribbean Elderly Organistation
£100,000 01/12/2021
36
A three-year contribution to support transformation of the organisation's service provision, and to tackle inequality, loneliness and isolation in older people.
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Befriending
£9,500 19/11/2021
The funding will be used to deliver a befriending telephone service & face to face support for lonely or isolated older people at home. The project aims to support older people in accessing ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,950 03/07/2020
"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
Mercer's Charitable Foundation - COVID19 Rapid Response Fund Grant to Hackney Caribbean Elderly Organisation (HCEO)
£5,000 27/03/2020
12
The money will go towards the community response to Covid-19, providing food and other essential items to older people who the organisation is in touch with.
National Lottery Community Fund - AGEING, GROWING, ENGAGING
£433,382 30/05/2019
36
The project will use the funding to support a three year wellbeing programme for elderly people from predominately the BME community in Hackney.
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Grant to Hackney Caribbean Elderly Organisation (HCEO)
£50,000 30/04/2019
23
Arts for Elderly Engagement
National Lottery Community Fund - Isolation Prevention Project
£10,000 18/10/2017
12
This project will bring elderly people with profound health conditions together to take part in various activities to reduce isolation and loneliness.
London Catalyst - Hackney Caribbean Elderly Organisation - 3
£4,000 16/03/2016
Provision of service to vulnerable elderly people in the community
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Hackney Caribbean Elderly Organisation
£25,000 30/04/2012
the salary costs of the Project Co-ordinator, Session Facilitator and volunteer expenses
National Lottery Community Fund - Advocacy and Outreach for Caribbean Elders
£220,770 13/10/2010
60
This project in Hackney will work with Caribbean elders' to help them access accurate information and take up services that contribute to their health and well being, supporting them to live ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 55-82
  • IVOR JOHN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/08/1996, number: 1057603
  • Registered at Companies House on 28/06/1996, number: 03218456
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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; AR06: 238 days late, AR05: 600 days late, AR04: 975 days late,
Main office

39 LESWIN ROAD
STOKE NEWINGTON
LONDON
N16 7NX

Objectives

THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF ELDERS LIVING IN AND/OR WITH A CLOSE ASSOCIATION WITH THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY PARTICULARLY ELDERS OF CARIBBEAN DESCENT (ELDERS ARE DEFINED AS INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE RETIRED DUE TO THEIR AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY)

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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