Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 4
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

IMMIGRANT COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY (ICAP) 

icap works to promote good mental health and well being by providing professional, culturally-sensitive, counselling and psychotherapy to Irish people and other minority and marginalised communities in Britian. We also raise awareness of the psychological and social issues which impact on the mental health of these communities and promote healthier lifestyles and living strategies.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender
Established: 24 years

www.icap.org.uk

info@icap.org.uk

02072727906

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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£693£726£-33£93£900£82613.778
31/03/22£636£690£-54£68£933£86415711
31/03/21£709£615£93£46£987£89917.51114
31/03/20£654£682£-28£79£893£80814.21116
31/03/19£669£669£0£81£922£86415.5714
31/03/18*£676£660£16£58£922£86915.860
31/03/17£587£600£-13£70£906£86717.350
31/03/16£620£645£-25£83£919£88316.460
31/03/15£726£723£4£38£944£90715.160
31/03/14£679£754£-75£86£941£8801470
31/03/13£610£676£-66£77£1,016£98117.470
31/03/12*£624£724£-100£77£1,082£1,00316.660
31/03/11£773£703£71£50£1,182£1,01917.460
31/03/10£769£737£32£52£1,111£1,02216.680
31/03/09£838£796£42£48£1,093£1,00115.160
31/03/08£796£768£29£42£1,051£1,01515.970
31/03/07*£994£850£144£34£1,023£1,00214.160
31/03/06£869£735£134£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£818£583£235£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£634£491£144£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 16.3%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 12.8%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 11%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 7%
Liabilities/Income: 10%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 92%
Reserves/Spending: 13.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 2.9
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 7 employees
  • 8 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£29,719
DCMS£25,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation£5,450
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Next Steps Group
£10,000 28/10/2022
The funding will be used to hold a weekly in person psychosocial group for Irish people. The project aims to build resilience and improve mental wellbeing among members of the Irish community.
National Lottery Community Fund - Making Mondays
£9,719 24/09/2021
The funding is being used to deliver a weekly online art therapy group for Irish people who are aged over 55 years. The project will offer Art therapy with activities like drawing painting collage ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£25,000 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
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Immigrant Counselling & Psychotherapy
£5,450 23/07/2020
Grant to Immigrant Counselling & Psychotherapy meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
National Lottery Community Fund - Women and Wellbeing
£10,000 26/09/2019
12
Women and Wellbeing
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Immigrant Counselling & Psychotherapy
£14,836 18/04/2018
24
ICAP is a counselling and psychotherapy charity which provides culturally sensitive services, with specialisms in supporting survivors of abuse. It is seeking funding to research and develop new ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Meitheal
£9,980 29/11/2017
12
This project will run a range of wellbeing support sessions for Irish men, supporting them to address issues relating to mental ill health.
London Catalyst - Immigration Counselling and Psychotherapy (ICAP) - 1
£3,000 10/05/2016
Special Interest
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 39-80
  • ANN CONLON Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Student Counsellor
  • PADDY COONEY (Chair) Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Retired Health Service Manager/Social Worker
  • ROSS FINEGAN Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Partner, Private Equity Firm
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/02/2000, number: 1079353
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/02/2000, number: 03917115
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR18: 1 days late, AR12: 8 days late, AR07: 1 days late, AR04: 53 days late,
Main office

96
MORAY ROAD
LONDON
LONDON
N4 3LA

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE, IN PARTICULAR THOSE OF IRISH ORIGIN AND OTHER PERSONS OF ANY AGE, NATIONALITY, GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, POLITICAL OPINION, RELIGION OR ETHNIC ORIGIN WHO ARE IN NEED THEREOF THROUGH REASON OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS OR MENTAL ILL HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF A CONFIDENTIAL AND SKILLED COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND AND TO PROVIDE EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN COUNSELLING MATTERS

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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