Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 15
  • Fundraising costs high: -2
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +15
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ACROSS BORDERS (CFAB) 

Children and Families Across Borders (CFAB - formerly International Social Service UK) is the UK arm of the international ISS network. CFAB works to ensure the identification, care and protection of all children separated across borders - including children in care, unaccompanied children and the victims of trafficking - where possible reuniting them with their families in the UK and overseas.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased 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 including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are 15 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

  • Fundraising costs are high relative to funds raised
Established: 23 years

www.cfab.org.uk

info@cfab.org.uk

0207 735 8941

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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£1,320£1,041£279£205£1,111£8219.51916
31/03/22£835£850£-15£128£832£6599.3183
31/03/21£1,172£879£293£102£847£6528.9156
31/03/20£668£723£-55£115£554£3866.4145
31/03/19£763£778£-15£141£609£3896143
31/03/18£824£699£126£142£624£3836.6120
31/03/17£897£716£181£170£498£4968.3100
31/03/16£949£807£142£224£318£3154.7130
31/03/15£950£894£56£206£176£1311.8140
31/03/14£812£889£-77£192£120£941.3130
31/03/13£892£884£7£202£197£1592.2120
31/03/12£1,143£1,250£-107£399£190£1691.6130
31/03/11£997£869£128£191£296£1792.5130
31/03/10£707£805£-98£167£169£1712.5100
31/03/09£1,055£813£242£194£267£1812.7140
31/03/08£663£691£-28£188£25£-36-0.6130
31/03/07?*£709£639£70£151£53£-56-1.1120
31/03/05£518£537£-19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£430£419£11£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 22%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 19.7%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 20%
Highest pay band: £90,000-£100,000
Liabilities/Assets: 17%
Liabilities/Income: 17%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 74%
Reserves/Spending: 9.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 13 months
Quick Ratio: 5.2
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 19 employees
  • 16 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
Esmee Fairbairn£358,265
Home Office£120,824
Henry Smith Charity£120,000
Dulverton Trust£118,507
City Bridge Trust£99,800
BBC Children in Need£80,500
DCMS£49,832
Rank Foundation£40,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Dulverton Trust - Family Reunification Support Project
£32,699 07/02/2024
Family Reunification Support Project
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Children and Families Across Borders CFAB
£200,000 01/11/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs to support CFAB’s policy and public affairs work
Rank Foundation - CoL Core Grant CFAB 2023 - Full
£20,000 27/04/2023
Children and Families Across Borders received a Cost of Living Core Grants to help cover staffing costs for their Advice Line.
Masonic Trust - MCF Large Grant
£20,000 16/03/2023
Grant to support the family reunification project, helping unaccompanied minors to adjust to life in the UK.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Children and Families Across Borders CFAB
£4,500 27/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Children and Families Across Borders
£120,000 25/08/2022
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the 'Family Reunification Project', which supports unaccompanied minors who arrive in the UK to live with relatives, across the UK.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Children and Families Across Borders (CFAB)
£15,000 21/04/2022
An unrestricted grant of £15,000. CFAB aims to identify and reunite children who have been separated from families across international boarders, including delivering advice, casework, and support ....more
Rank Foundation - GOLDEN AWARDS CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ACROSS BORDERS (CFAB) 2022
£20,000 23/03/2022
The Golden Award was given to Children and Families Across Borders to help tell the story of young people affected by separation from parents / family.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Children and Families Across Borders
£80,500 03/02/2022
This project will deliver work to protect vulnerable children in England separated from their families across international borders and support them to improve physical health and psychological ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 03/09/2021
Core costs
The Bromley Trust - Unrestricted Funding
£30,000 05/07/2021
36
CFAB identifies and protects children and families in the UK who are separated across international borders as a result of trafficking, abduction, conflict, migration, divorce and asylum. This is a ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Children and Families Across Borders
£9,300 01/07/2021
refurbishment of office for a charity supporting disadvantaged young poeple in London
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Children and Families Across Borders (CFAB)
£10,000 08/10/2020
An unrestricted grant of £10,000. Children and Families Across Borders (CFAB) identifies and reunites children who have been separated across international borders with their families.
Barrow Cadbury Trust - COVID-19 - Children and Families Across Borders
£17,000 07/10/2020
5
To provide emergency support to asylum seekers and their families during the crisis.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£49,832 15/09/2020
"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
Home Office - Covid-19 Support for Domestic Abuse Charities
£53,556 07/08/2020
Organisations providing services and support for vulnerable people, for which there will be increased demand as a result of the COVID-19 crisis
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Children and Families Across Borders CFAB
£135,000 22/07/2020
36
Towards Project costs Towards Unrestricted core costs
Dulverton Trust - Post Placement Support
£75,808 10/06/2020
Post Placement Support
Dulverton Trust - Helping vulnerable children find their families - Big Give Christmas Challenge 2020
£10,000 10/06/2020
Helping vulnerable children find their families - Big Give Christmas Challenge 2020
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Children and Families Across Borders CFAB
£18,765 28/04/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
The Bromley Trust - Unrestricted grant
£10,000 24/04/2020
12
CFAB identifies and protects children and families in the UK who are separated across international borders as a result of trafficking, abduction, conflict, migration, divorce and asylum. This is a ....more
Home Office - CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ACROSS BORDERS
£13,713 01/04/2020
The purpose of this funding is to provide additional funds for DA charities to help them cope with the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic/lockdown; to enable them to continue to meet their usual ....more
Home Office - CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ACROSS BORDERS
£53,556 01/04/2020
This grant is intended to provide funding to organisations whose primary purpose is to improve the response to DA, either through providing support to victims who have experienced DA, or through ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Children and Families Across Borders
£99,800 30/10/2019
24
£99,800 over two further and final years (£49,200; £50,600) to cover the costs of a FTE Social Worker and Caseworker and associated programme and running costs.
Dulverton Trust - Post-placement support for vulnerable children in kinship care
£40,963 25/10/2018
Post-placement support for vulnerable children in kinship care
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to Children and Families across Borders
£60,000 24/09/2018
36
Towards improving the lives of unaccompanied children arriving in the UK by piloting a programme of tailored post-placement support to families for up to 12 months.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Children and Families Across Borders
£120,000 12/09/2018
36
towards three years' salary and running costs of a National project providing support to unaccompanied children arriving in the UK living with extended family
The Bromley Trust - Unrestricted grant
£20,000 17/07/2018
24
CFAB identifies and protects children and families in the UK who are separated across international borders as a result of trafficking, abduction, conflict, migration, divorce and asylum. This is a ....more
John Ellerman Foundation - Towards the salary of a new Membership & Business Development Manager
£98,744 25/01/2018
36
Towards the salary costs of a Business Development Manager to enable them to reunite more children with their families after separation due to conflict, trafficking, abduction, migration or family ....more
The Bromley Trust - Unrestricted grant
£10,000 07/06/2017
12
CFAB identifies and protects children and families in the UK who are separated across international borders as a result of trafficking, abduction, conflict, migration, divorce and asylum. This is a ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Children and Families Across Borders CFAB
£141,475 21/12/2016
36
Towards a programme of research, policy engagement and support for practitioners to protect the rights of children from overseas subject to child protection plans and in the care system.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Children and Families Across Borders
£135,000 18/03/2016
36
£135,000 over 3 years (3 x £45,000) to cover the costs of a Social Worker and Caseworker, and associated programme and running costs.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (15)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 14/15 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 39-83
  • ANGIE GARVICH Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Charity Managing Director
  • ANITA KARA Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Company Director
  • ANNA NASH Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Global Head Of Pr
  • HIRSCH SHARMA Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Accountant And Boardroom Consultant
  • JAMES COX Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Independent Social Worker
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/03/2001, number: 1085541
  • Registered at Companies House on 03/07/2000, number: 04025539
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
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
  • 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
19 returns made; AR07: 247 days late,
Main office

134/136 Buckingham Palace Road
London
SW1W 9SA

Objectives

FOR THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED AS A RESULT OF VOLUNTARY OR FORCED MIGRATION OR OTHER SOCIAL PROBLEMS OF AN INTERNATIONAL CHARACTER BY ASSISTING SUCH PERSONS WHO HAVE TO OVERCOME PERSONAL OR FAMILY DIFFICULTIES, THE SOLUTION OF WHICH REQUIRES CO-ORDINATED ACTIONS IN SEVERAL COUNTRIES, OR IN SOME CASES, ACTION ONLY IN THE COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE OF THE PERSONS CONCERNED AND BY STUDYING FROM AN INTERNATIONAL STANDPOINT THE CONDITIONS AND CONSEQUENCES OF MIGRATION IN RELATION TO INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY LIFE AND, AS A RESULT OF SUCH STUDIES, BY MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS OR UNDERTAKING ANY OTHER APPROPRIATE ACTION

Defined Area of Benefit:

UK AND OVERSEAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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