Finance Score: -10

Governance Score: 2

Support Score: 11

Accounts overdue -5
Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1
Good trustee age range: +3

Grant maker support: +11

Overall GiG Score: 3

REFUGEE WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION

We provide IAG services to Refugee/Migrant women living in London covering immigration, welfare benefit, housing, education, training and employment. We provide training in ESOL Skills for Life (all levels), ESOL for Work (all levels), Jobsearch for Health Professionals, Childcare Cache Level 2 & 3, Childminding and Business Skills, Business Start Up courses & Capacity Building to women org.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

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
Latest accounts are overdue for filing
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

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
31/03/22		£100	£136	£-36	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/03/21		£233	£160	£73	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1
31/03/20		£104	£171	£-67	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/19		£217	£176	£41	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/18		£166	£165	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	3
31/03/17	*	£166	£159	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	*	£310	£254	£55	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£274	£259	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	*	£198	£190	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£153	£168	£-15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£146	£160	£-14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£167	£192	£-25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	*	£139	£234	£-95	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	*	£201	£323	£-122	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	*	£193	£352	£-159	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£312	£288	£24	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	*	£566	£611	£-44	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£782	£869	£-87	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£710	£736	£-26	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 28 years

www.refugeewomen.org.uk

rwa@refugeewomen.org.uk

02079232412

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Education/Training

GiG Classification

Services for females

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout London,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
4 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

Trust for London	£86,037
Barrow Cadbury Trust	£50,000
DCMS	£49,600
National Lottery Community Fund	£49,416
Access to Justice Foundation	£42,196

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Access to Justice Foundation - Community Justice Fund Wave Three
£12,196	22/11/2022	Wave three of the Community Justice Fund aims to support organisations delivering social welfare advice services to people most impacted by the cost-of-living crisis.
Trust for London - Refugee Women's Association
£6,618	29/09/2022	This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-05.10.2021-9338
National Lottery Community Fund - Reaching for a Digital Future
£49,416	24/03/2022	The project is using funding toward the ‘Reaching for a Digital Future’ which supports refugee and migrant women living in Hackney. Beneficiaries will receive a blended delivery of one-to-one and ....more The project is using funding toward the ‘Reaching for a Digital Future’ which supports refugee and migrant women living in Hackney. Beneficiaries will receive a blended delivery of one-to-one and group advice through workshops on digital literacy alongside offering free IAG advice/tribunal representations to not only become more digitally aware and included but provide beneficiaries with a holistically packaged offer of support.
Trust for London - Refugee Women's Association
£79,419	09/02/2022	The funding is for RWA to continue supporting refugee, asylum seeking and migrant women by providing essential advice, advocacy and support and to do this they need to increase staff capacity and ....more The funding is for RWA to continue supporting refugee, asylum seeking and migrant women by providing essential advice, advocacy and support and to do this they need to increase staff capacity and increase staff hours of work so that they can could IAG and training & deliver essential services.
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£30,000	09/08/2021	A flexible grant as part of wave 2 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID87
Barrow Cadbury Trust - COVID-19 - Refugee Women's Association
£50,000	14/10/2020 6	To enable RWA to continue and increase its advice services and establish a digital training facility for its clients.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£49,600	05/10/2020	"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 "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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 41-67

ROYA JAHANBIN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired

ELIKA NASIRI Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Marketing Executive

LIZ HUGHES Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Community Worker

SANAZ ROOHI Appointed: 2012, Occupation: None

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 04/10/1996, number: 1058459
Registered at Companies House on 14/12/1994, number: 03001560

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

19 returns made; AR17: 2 days late, AR16: 1 days late, AR14: 1 days late, AR10: 3 days late, AR09: 21 days late, AR08: 1 days late, AR07: 245 days late, AR06: 596 days late, AR05: 911 days late, AR04: 45 days late,

Main office

REFUGEE WOMENS ASSOCIATION
18-22 ASHWIN STREET
LONDON
E8 3DL

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR EMPLOYMENT, IN PARTICULAR AMONGST WOMEN WHO ARE REFUGEE'S, ASYLUM SEEKERS, DISPLACED OR EXILED PERSONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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