Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: -2

Support Score: 10

Strong growth: +2
Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1
Only 4 Trustees: -1

Grant maker support: +10

Overall GiG Score: 8

UNIQUE COMMUNITY CHARITY

Advice and Information serviceWomen's club (for women who are suffering or suffered from domestic violence)Brent Youth TheatrePerforming Arts Classes in Brent Support Group (moral support and co-counselling)Interpreting and Translation serviceRecreational activities/events for all agesTraining, seminars and meetings for volunteers, project users and clients

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
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
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Established: 25 years

www.uniquecommunity.org

admin@uniquecommunity.org

02030262516

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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		£192	£189	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	18
31/03/22		£84	£94	£-10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15
31/03/21		£93	£52	£41	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/03/20		£29	£37	£-9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	12
31/03/19		£29	£18	£11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	9
31/03/18		£9	£15	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£20	£16	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£14	£22	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£23	£16	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£29	£27	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£21	£31	£-10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£25	£24	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£34	£24	£9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	*	£36	£37	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£37	£37	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	*	£35	£37	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£28	£24	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£24	£23	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£23	£21	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£17	£20	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Amateur Sport
Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage
General Charitable Purposes
Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
Other Charitable Purposes
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout London,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
18 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

John Lyon's Charity	£62,720
Mercer's Charitable Foundation	£55,675
BBC Children in Need	£30,000
London Borough of Hounslow	£24,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£14,560
The London Community Foundation	£9,050
City Bridge Trust	£8,440

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Mercer's Charitable Foundation - Grant to Unique Community Charity
£55,675	04/10/2023	The Stork Project, a weekly theatre project for migrant (refugee, asylum seeker, immigrants) communities.
John Lyon's Charity - Uplift grant to Unique Community Charity
£1,720	17/12/2022	Cost-of-Living Uplift
London Borough of Hounslow - Grant to Family Lives
£24,000	01/12/2022	Helping inactive/isolated families form better, healthier, happier relationships and connect to their community through fun and sustainable activities.
National Lottery Community Fund - Snakes & Ladders: Stories of Survival in Times of Turmoil
£9,550	28/01/2022	The funding will be used to deliver a community heritage project founded on oral histories gathered from across Brent to create an original musical a short animation comic book and a final ....more The funding will be used to deliver a community heritage project founded on oral histories gathered from across Brent to create an original musical a short animation comic book and a final exhibition. The project aims to improve mental health and wellbeing and develop interpersonal skills and empathy capacity in the children and young people in Brent.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Unique Community Charity
£9,050	09/02/2021 6	The funding is for the consistent presence of an arts therapist in all sessions to support the mental health and wellbeing of the children and young people attending our sessions.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Unique Community Charity
£30,000	21/12/2020	This project will deliver weekly a youth inclusive arts service to children and young people from low income families. The creative sessions will help to make them feel more positively empowered, ....more This project will deliver weekly a youth inclusive arts service to children and young people from low income families. The creative sessions will help to make them feel more positively empowered, less isolated and maintain positive peer relationships.
John Lyon's Charity - SHAF grant to Unique Community Charity
£5,400	20/07/2020 12	I Am Not My Box
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to Unique Community Charity
£51,600	18/06/2020 36	Brent Youth Theatre
National Lottery Community Fund - Homes of Hope
£5,010	22/05/2020 6	The funding will be used to deliver inter-generational activities including a letter writing project weekly interactive video sessions and art activities between Care Home Residents and Brent Youth ....more The funding will be used to deliver inter-generational activities including a letter writing project weekly interactive video sessions and art activities between Care Home Residents and Brent Youth Theatre service to overcome loneliness.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Unique Community Charity
£8,440	04/05/2020	A grant of £8,440 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
John Lyon's Charity - SHAF grant to Unique Community Charity
£4,000	29/06/2019 12	The Mermaid that Saved the Cow, Brent Youth Theatre
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Choir & Dance
£9,930	27/02/2019 12	The project will run weekly choir and dance sessions for adults. The aim is to bring people from different backgrounds together and build social networks.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

ASTA MARSHALL Appointed: 2018

LIUDMILA MALINOVSKAIA Appointed: 2018

ERINA DAVIDENKO (Chair) Appointed: 2018

REBECCA BINCAN Appointed: 2020

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 31/08/1999, number: 1077222

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR10: 38 days late, AR08: 26 days late, AR05: 57 days late,

Main office

Seeds
Empire Way
London
HA9 0RJ

Objectives

1. TO ADVANCE ARTS, CULTURE, AND HERITAGE IN GREATER LONDON BOROUGHS BY PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE WHO MIGHT OTHERWISE BE EXCLUDED DUE TO THE LACK OF FINANCIAL AND MATERIAL RESOURCES, POOR HEALTH AND UNDER ACHIEVEMENT.2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF DISADVANTAGED YOUNG PEOPLE, BY PROVIDING TRAINING, LEISURE, AND OTHER ACTIVITIES IN GREATER LONDON BOROUGHS IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES THINK FIT. 3. TO RELIEVE POVERTY AMONGST PEOPLE FROM REFUGEE AND MIGRANT COMMUNITIES IN GREATER LONDON BOROUGHS WHO ARE AFFECTED BY FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, SOCIAL EXCLUSION, POOR HEALTH, AND LOW ACHIEVEMENT IN EDUCATION BY PROVISION OF TRAINING, ADVICE & INFORMATION, AND BY ENGAGING THEM IN LEARNING, ART, MUSIC AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES. 4. TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN THE DIVERSE COMMUNITIES OF THE GREATER LONDON BOROUGHS BY INITIATING PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES AIMED AT PROMOTION OF CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION, UNDERSTANDING, AND FRIENDSHIP AMONGST DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES.5. TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY, BY THE PROVISION OF TRAINING, PERFORMANCE, MUSIC, AND OTHER PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES.6. TO RELIEVE THE AGED, PARTICULARLY THOSE FROM THE RUSSIAN COMMUNITY.7. TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE PUBLIC HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

GREATER LONDON BOROUGHS

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