Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 4
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 4 ?

DIVERSITY LIVING SERVICES (DLS) 

POVERTY RELIEF AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION PREVENTION.ADVICE, ADVOCACY, GUIDANCE, COUNSELLING, INFORMATION PROVISION.RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT AND ORGANISING TRAINING, VOLUNTEERING SCHEMES AND WORK EXPERIENCE. IMPLEMENTING COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES AND DEVELOPING CAPACITY AND SKILLS.WORK WITH PARENTS, SUPPORT YOUNG PEOPLE NEETS AND EDUCATION OF BME SCHOOL CHILDREN.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently

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
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 21 years

https://www.diversityliving.org.uk

contact@diversityliving.org.uk

02088036161

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UN SDGs
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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£148£110£37n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/22£13£56£-44n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/21*£144£114£30n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/20£158£154£5n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/03/19£85£119£-33n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/03/18£104£66£38£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17*£10£13£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£10£3£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/14£8£8£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£8£8£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12?£78£76£3£0£0£0n/a00
11/12/10£85£98£-12£0£0£0n/a00
11/12/09£99£98£2£0£0£0n/a00
11/12/08£9£3£6£0£0£0n/a00
11/12/07£18£17£0£0£0£0n/a00
11/12/06£22£18£4£0£0£0n/a00
11/12/05£24£23£1£0£0£0n/a00
11/12/04£39£42£-3£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 4 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
Greater London Authority£19,410
National Lottery Community Fund£9,218
The London Community Foundation£8,785
City Bridge Trust£1,980
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Greater London Authority - Inclusive Digital Access
£5,410 31/07/2023
This project will provide targeted and personalised digital skills training, advice and information provision to BAME people of Enfield, with the aim to improve their access to various online ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - BAME Communities Celebrate The Coronation of His Majesty The King
£9,218 17/03/2023
The funding will be used to host a one day music concert to help celebrate the Coronation of King Charles III. The project aims to bring people together in celebration and build new relationships.
Greater London Authority - Grant to Horniman Museum and Gardens
£14,000 01/12/2020
Enhancing SE23
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Diversity Living Services
£1,980 24/04/2020
A grant of £1,980 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Diversity Living Services (DLS)
£8,785 22/04/2020
The duration of this project is 6 months and will be delivered by the Project Coordinator, two community workers e. They will work 14 hours a week. The main project activities are: •Identifying ....more
Greater London Authority - Citizen Led Engagement Programme
£11,999 26/03/2019
Citizen-Led is a peer research project designed to enhance engagement with communities whose voice and influence over public policy has previously been unheard. 
National Lottery Community Fund - Stand up for your good health and wellbeing
£350,954 17/05/2017
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This project aims to promote health and wellbeing for disadvantaged Black Asian Minority Ethnic communities living in deprived areas in the London Borough of Enfield through a range of activities ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 33-68
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/08/2003, number: 1098916
  • Registered at Companies House on 12/06/2002, number: 04459816
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR21: 1 days late, AR17: 2 days late,
Main office

Suite 6
3rd floor
St. Georges Chambers
Edmonton Green
London

Objectives

4. THE CHARITY?S OBJECTS (?OBJECTS?) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING: A)TO PROMOTE EQUALITY & DIVERSITY AND TO ELIMINATE DISCRIMINATION IN RELATION TO BLACK, ASIAN AND OTHER ETHNIC MINORITY COMMUNITIES, INCLUDING REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS AND MIGRANTS , BY SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY: B)TO PROMOTE EQUALITY & DIVERSITY AND TO ELIMINATE DISCRIMINATION IN RELATION TO BLACK, ASIAN AND OTHER ETHNIC MINORITY COMMUNITIES, INCLUDING REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS AND MIGRANTS, BY SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY: (I) EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT MORAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES AND BY PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ADVICE ON THE SAME; (II) RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT AND PROMOTING TRAINING AND WORK EXPERIENCE SCHEMES FOR MEMBERS OF SUCH COMMUNITIES; (III) PROVIDING COUNSELLING AND ADVOCACY; (IV) PROMOTING CO-OPERATION BETWEEN VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS WORKING IN THIS AREA IN BOTH THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IN EUROPEAN UNION; (V) PROMOTING SOCIAL INCLUSION AND INTEGRATION OF THE ABOVE COMMUNITIES; (VI) IMPLEMENTING COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH BLACK, ASIAN AND ETHNIC MINORITY COMMUNITIES AS THE COMMITTEE DETERMINE; (VII) DEVELOPING THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF MEMBERS OF BLACK, ASIAN AND OTHER ETHNIC MINORITY COMMUNITIES IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT SO THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY AND HELP MEET THEIR NEEDS AND PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY; AND (VIII) SUCH OTHER MEANS THAT FURTHER THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY C)TO ASSIST IN THE TREATMENT AND CARE OF BLACK AND ETHNIC MINORITY PERSONS, INCLUDING REFUGEES, MIGRANTS AND ASYLUM SEEKERS, SUFFERING FROM MENTAL OR PHYSICAL ILLNESS OF ANY DESCRIPTION OR IN NEED OF REHABILITATION AS A RESULT OF SUCH ILLNESS. D)TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF BLACK AND ETHNIC MINORITY PATIENTS BY PROVIDING ADVOCACY, COUNSELLING, ADVICE AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES, SUPPORT SERVICES AND EQUIPMENT NOT NORMALLY PROVIDED BY THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES. E)TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN HEALTH CARE BY THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, LECTURES, FORA AND BY THE PUBLICATION OF NEWSLETTERS DEVOTED TO HEALTHCARE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNITED KINGDOM AND IN EUROPEAN UNION

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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