Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 8
  • No PartB
    • Grant maker support: +8
    Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

    BARAKA COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION 

    The organisation is for the benefit of children & young people. Our current activities include football sessions, study support projects, fitness sessions, advice on education & employment, Healthy and well-being, residential weekends & day trips.
    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

    Financial issues to consider:

    • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
    Established: 23 years

    www.bararaka.london

    info@baraka.london

    02089640606

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    UN SDGs
    ?

    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£356£269£87n/an/an/an/an/a12
    31/03/22£244£258£-14n/an/an/an/an/a6
    31/03/21£247£166£81n/an/an/an/an/a8
    31/03/20£157£161£-4n/an/an/an/an/a8
    31/03/19£250£195£55n/an/an/an/an/a16
    31/03/18£217£196£20£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/17£141£133£8£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/16£92£86£6£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/15£87£78£10£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/14£73£69£4£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/13£32£57£-25£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/12£53£33£21£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/11£27£29£-2£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/10£28£28£0£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/09£22£22£0£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/08£31£27£3£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/07£12£12£0£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/06£13£31£-18£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/05£27£18£9£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/04£23£13£10£0£0£0n/a00

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Listed activities
    • Education/Training
    • Recreation
    • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
    How it operates
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides human resources
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Brent, City Of Westminster, Hammersmith And Fulham, Kensington And Chelsea,
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    • Elderly/Old People
    • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
    Who works here?
    • Unknown number of employees
    • 12 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£168,000
    Garfield Weston Foundation£40,000
    National Lottery Community Fund£19,939
    Westminster Foundation£17,546
    DCMS£15,000
    The Clothworkers Foundation£9,200
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    National Lottery Community Fund - Enhancing ICT skills
    £9,950 08/09/2023
    The funding will be used to deliver ICT skills training and online support to children and young people from Somali and ethnic minoritycommunities. The project aims to improve skills and aspirations ....more
    John Lyon's Charity - Uplift grant to Baraka Community Association
    £10,000 11/01/2023
    Cost-of-Living Uplift
    The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Baraka Community association
    £9,200 25/05/2022
    purchase of a vehicle for a charity supporting disadvantaged young people in London
    National Lottery Community Fund - Go Inspire Girls Project’
    £9,989 22/12/2021
    The funding will be used to deliver a rolling program of girls only multi physical sporting and healthy living activities programme for Somali other Muslim and BAME girls aged between 11 – 25 years ....more
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
    £20,000 05/11/2021
    Inspire to Lead Youth Programme
    John Lyon's Charity - Recovery grant to Baraka Community Association
    £150,000 16/06/2021
    Core Costs
    John Lyon's Charity - SHAF grant to Baraka Community Association
    £4,000 09/06/2021
    Residential at Hindleap Warren
    Westminster Foundation - Covid 19 response Fund
    £17,546 28/07/2020
    6
    Covid 19: Tutoring for BAME students
    DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
    £15,000 08/07/2020
    "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
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
    £20,000 05/06/2020
    Inspire to Lead
    John Lyon's Charity - SHAF grant to Baraka Community Association
    £4,000 29/06/2019
    12
    Ride My Life Out of Trouble
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Baraka Community Association
    £2,500 31/05/2019
    0
    towards a two-night trip to an Outdoor Centre in East Sussex for children from London
    National Lottery Community Fund - Inspire Me into Entrepreneurship
    £10,000 18/04/2019
    12
    The project will deliver entrepreneurship workshops for young women. The aim is to support service users in career development.
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Baraka Youth Association
    £2,500 11/06/2018
    0
    towards a four-night trip to an outdoor activity centre in Sussex for a group of disadvantaged children from the London Borough of Kensington & Chelsea
    Sport England - TIED Forget Cultural barriers-Go Active Somalia&Muslim Girls
    £9,990 22/03/2018
    14
    Funding under Sport England's Tackling Inactivity and Economic Disadvantage Small Award funding programme for a Revenue project titled TIED Forget Cultural barriers-Go Active Somalia&Muslim ....more
    DCMS - ALB-TIED Forget Cultural barriers-Go Active Somalia & Muslim Girls
    £9,990 22/03/2018
    Funding under Sport England's Tackling Inactivity and Economic Disadvantage Small Award funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'TIED Forget Cultural barriers-Go Active Somalia & Muslim ....more
    Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Children's participation project
    £21,000 08/12/2017
    13
    Baraka Community Association is a long standing local community group in North Kensington working with Somali and East African groups. This application is to support the community affected by the ....more
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Baraka Youth Association
    £2,500 07/07/2015
    towards a week long residential trip to an outdoor activity centre for a group of disadvantaged children from London
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (7)

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 26/07/2001, number: 1087721
    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
    • 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; all on time
    Main office

    6 Canal Side House
    383 Ladbroke Grove
    Ladbroke Grove
    North Kensington

    Objectives

    A) PRIMARILY TO ADVANCE THE WELFARE OF ASYLUM-SEEKER AND REFUGEE IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES, MAINLY OF SOMALIAN ORIGIN BUT ALSO INCLUDING OTHER VULNERABLE RECENTLY ARRIVED/SETTLED ETHNIC MINORITY COMMUNITIES IN LONDON, CONCENTRATING PARTICULARLY ON THOSE WHO LIVE IN THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA; IN THE CITY OFWESTMINSTER; IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM AND IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BRENT.

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA, THE CITY OF WESTMINSTER, THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM AND THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BRENT

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase
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