Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 12
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Grant maker support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

REFUGEE WORKERS' CULTURAL ASSOCIATION 

Information Advice and GuidenceTranslating and Interpreting servicesHealth Awereness sessionsConferancesCultural ActivitiesOut-going TripsCommunity Events Parenting supportSports activitiesYouth ActivitiesSchool support classes covering GCSE maths, physics, turkish and stats classes.
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:

  • 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

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£186£179£7n/an/an/an/an/a35
31/03/22£123£118£5n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/21£207£162£45n/an/an/an/an/a28
31/03/20£60£56£4n/an/an/an/an/a26
31/03/19£56£54£2n/an/an/an/an/a16
31/03/18£46£51£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17*£38£51£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16*£41£33£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£33£30£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14*£39£37£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13*£43£43£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12*£52£62£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£81£65£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£69£81£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£88£80£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£58£61£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£42£42£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£34£34£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£15£15£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£52£51£1£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 24 years

www.rwca.org.uk

02072499983

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Social & legal advocacy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 35 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£82,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation£52,250
DCMS£46,502
City Bridge Trust£42,356
National Lottery Community Fund£39,770
Greater London Authority£26,464
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
Sport England£8,440
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - RWCA Birlikta
£9,940 08/09/2023
The funding will be used to provide monthly support sessions for local Turkish and Kurdish families to address isolation among older residents and youth involvement in crime. This includes advice and ....more
Greater London Authority - Voice for All
£26,464 08/07/2023
Refugee Workers Cultural Association aims to empower the Kurdish and Turkish communities by providing them with the knowledge, tools, and support necessary to exercise their civic and democratic ....more
Trust for London - Refugee Workers Cultural Association
£61,000 08/02/2023
The funding is for work around Turkish/Kurdish speaking employees and employers in various low-wage industries, but especially the service sector. It will target exploitative and/or illegal ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Refugee Workers Cultural Association
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Sport England - Jubilee Fund - Mindfull Fitness and Yoga
£8,440 15/11/2022
This project will provide yoga and exercise sessions for refugees and the Turkish and Kurdish community in North London.
National Lottery Community Fund - Healing Through Art
£9,980 08/07/2022
Funding will be used to deliver a 14 week art therapy programme for women that have grown up in traumatic family circumstances. The project aims to support women from the Turkish and Kurdish ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 03/06/2022
RWCA core/revenue funding
Trust for London - Refugee Workers Cultural Association
£21,000 13/10/2021
12
The funding is for a pilot project aimed at Turkish and Kurdish workers in various industries at the national minimum wage or less. It will conduct research identifying prevalent exploitative ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Refugee Workers Cultural Association
£50,000 08/09/2021
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Refugee Workers Cultural Association
National Lottery Community Fund - Cooking for the Community
£10,000 07/05/2021
The funding will be used to establish staffing at a community kitchen so hot meals can be cooked and distributed to people in need. The problem aims to tackle food poverty in the local area.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Refugee Workers' Cultural Association
£9,940 08/12/2020
0
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Refugee Workers' Cultural Association
£28,916 05/08/2020
towards the cost of the 'Life & Covid-19' programme, supporting migrant communities through online classes (women's self-defence and music), befriending and the provision of language translated ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£46,502 29/07/2020
"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
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Refugee Workers Cultural Association
£3,500 13/04/2020
A grant of £3,500 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
National Lottery Community Fund - Gambling - Time to Stop
£9,850 24/10/2019
12
Gambling - Time to Stop
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 28/03/2000, number: 1080041
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
  • 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; AR17: 2 days late, AR16: 3 days late, AR14: 4 days late, AR13: 5 days late, AR12: 2 days late, AR10: 71 days late, AR05: 63 days late,
Main office

WEDGE HOUSE
WHITE HART LANE
London
N17 8HJ

Objectives

1) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS OF MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY, PARTICULARLY THOSE OF KURDISH OR TURKISH DECENT WHO ARE RESIDENT IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH FREE AND CONFIDENTIAL ADVICE, ASSISTANCE, REPRESENTATION, COUNSELLING, TRANSLATING AND INTERPRETING SERVICES IN MATTERS OF ASYLUM, IMMIGRATION, MONEY DEBTS, WELFARE BENEFITS, HOUSING, HEALTH, EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT2) BY THE PROVISION FOR SUCH PERSONS OFA) FACILITIES FOR THEIR EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING;B) FACILITIES TO PROMOTE THEIR HEALTH ( INCLUDING THE PROVISIONS OF TRANSLATORS AND INTERPRETERS AT CLINICS AND SURGERIES);C) FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR THEIR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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