Finance Score: -1

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 8

Spending declining: -1
No PartB

Grant maker support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 7

MERSEYSIDE REFUGEE SUPPORT NETWORK

Bringing together all refugee & asylum support agencies across Merseyside to network, share information, raise issues, campaign, and provide signposting. We also provide welfare/housing advocacy case work, we offer health and well being support and employment and training advice for individual refugees and asylum seekers to help with integration and settlement for life in UK.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

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
Spending is declining

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		£89	£56	£34	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	8
31/03/22		£76	£58	£18	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/21		£64	£52	£12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/20		£42	£38	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/19		£66	£72	£-6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/03/18		£60	£90	£-30	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£92	£60	£32	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	*	£55	£81	£-26	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£37	£34	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£57	£36	£21	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	*	£32	£18	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£28	£26	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£49	£64	£-15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£87	£61	£25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	*	£65	£63	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£46	£57	£-12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£57	£41	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	*	£11	£6	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£7	£7	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£11	£8	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 22 years

www.mrsnliverpool.org.uk

info@mrsnliverpool.org.uk

01517097557

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Services for refugees & asylum seekers

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides advocacy/advice/information

Where it operates

Knowsley, Liverpool City, Sefton, St Helens, Wirral,

Who it helps

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
Other Defined Groups

Who works here?

Unknown number of 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

Lloyds Bank Foundation	£52,250
Barrow Cadbury Trust	£16,500
CAF	£5,610

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Merseyside Refugee Support Network
£2,250	14/12/2022	One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Merseyside Refugee Support Network
£50,000	02/12/2021 24	Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Merseyside Refugee Support Network
Barrow Cadbury Trust - COVID-19 - Merseyside Refugee Support Network
£16,500	14/10/2020 5	To increase capacity to meet increased demand for support, and to secure the future of the charity
CAF - Grant to Merseyside Refugee Support Network (MRSN)
£5,610	26/06/2020 3	Grant to Merseyside Refugee Support Network (MRSN) to support the organisation through COVID19
John Moores Foundation - Grant to Merseyside Refugee Support Network
£14,356	01/01/2019	Towards the Refugee Advocacy and Integration Support Service
National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteer Interpreting Programme - Phase 1
£10,000	22/11/2012 12	This is a project by a charity in Liverpool. The organisation will use the funding to up skill refugees within the Liverpool area in order that they can train as interpreters and use their skills to ....more This is a project by a charity in Liverpool. The organisation will use the funding to up skill refugees within the Liverpool area in order that they can train as interpreters and use their skills to work with refugee communities within the local community, to help them access the relevant services. This will build stronger refugee and migrant worker communities and support the refugee communities.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Merseyside Refugee Support Network
£20,000	25/08/2011	the costs of the ESOL for Integration Programme including the salaries of Sessional Workers, room hire, resources, stationery and expenses, and project management and monitoring costs

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How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

MO TAHER Appointed: 2014

DR HARRIET GRAY (Chair) Appointed: 2013

EWAN ROBERTS

MRS JAN LUFF

SHELAH SEMOFF Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Local Authority Officer

SARAH BUAYE Appointed: 2024

SUSAN NEWALL Appointed: 2024

CARMEL DERSCH Appointed: 2015, Other trusteeship: SO THE CHILD MAY LIVE,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 18/07/2002, number: 1093033

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

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
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR16: 1 days late, AR13: 1 days late, AR09: 4 days late, AR06: 210 days late, AR04: 1 days late,

Main office

ST ANNE'S CENTRE
7 OVERBURY STREET
LIVERPOOL
L7 3HJ

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE REFUGEES OR ASYLUM SEEKERS IN MERSEYSIDE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER ALL THOSE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS CONCERNED WITH THEIR WELFARE AND ASSISTING THOSE ORGANISATIONS IN THEIR COMMUNICATIONS WITH LOCAL AND CENTRAL GOVERNMENTS AND OTHER AGENCIES OF THE STATE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

MERSEYSIDE

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