Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 7

No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1

Grant maker support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 6

EASE EMPOWERING ACTION AND SOCIAL ESTEEM LIMITED

EASEs Mission - Improve individual, family and community wellbeingEASEs Vision - A resilient, united communityEASE provides services and activities for children, young people and adults toIncrease personal skills and improve life circumstancesReduce isolationIncrease community cohesionTo achieveImproved confidence and self esteem, networks and work and life skills.

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

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		£324	£256	£68	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/22		£211	£194	£17	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/21		£186	£174	£12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/03/20		£309	£264	£44	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/03/19		£211	£217	£-6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/03/18		£251	£247	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£356	£273	£83	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£218	£226	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£253	£137	£116	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£212	£190	£22	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£214	£226	£-12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£270	£265	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11?		£420	£405	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
20/03/10	*	£381	£381	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
20/03/09		£170	£205	£-35	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
20/03/08	*	£199	£192	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
20/03/07	*	£105	£80	£25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
20/03/06	*	£75	£83	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
20/03/05		£63	£51	£12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
20/03/04	*	£26	£24	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 21 years

www,empowering-action.org.uk

michelle.bailey@empowering-action.org.uk

02085756139

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Community services

How it operates

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

Where it operates

Brent, Ealing, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Defined Groups

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
6 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Ease Empowering Action And Social Esteem Limited
£2,250	14/12/2022	One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
John Lyon's Charity - Uplift grant to E.A.S.E (Empowering Action and Social Esteem) Ltd
£7,000	05/12/2022	Cost-of-Living Uplift
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Ease Empowering Action And Social Esteem Limited
£50,000	25/02/2022 24	Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Ease Empowering Action And Social Esteem Limited
John Lyon's Charity - COVID-19 grant to E.A.S.E (Empowering Action and Social Esteem) Ltd
£5,000	05/01/2020 12	COVID-19: LCR Wave 2 - Crisis Response
Co-Operative Group - Grant to EASE (Empowering Action and Social Esteem) Ltd
£2,938	04/08/2017	Our English class for speakers of other languages and special courses for women improve self-confidence and wellbeing.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Empowering Action & Social Esteem
£20,000	29/05/2014	EASE provides children's and family services, information and signposting, employment support and low level advocacy for residents of Copley Close and surrounding areas. It is seeking core funding to ....more EASE provides children's and family services, information and signposting, employment support and low level advocacy for residents of Copley Close and surrounding areas. It is seeking core funding to extend the director's hours

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees:

BARJINDERPAL LAL Appointed: 2015

SHARON ALI (Chair) Appointed: 2011

ANDREW PAUL BRATTLE Appointed: 2004, Occupation: Administrator

ANDREW LEE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Solicitor

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 13/08/2003, number: 1098965
Registered at Companies House on 21/09/2001, number: 04291837

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Other Regulators

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
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

20 returns made; AR10: 35 days late, AR08: 100 days late, AR07: 34 days late, AR06: 1 days late, AR04: 5 days late,

Main office

HANWELL COMMUNITY CENTRE
WESTCOTT CRESCENT
HANWELL
LONDON
W7 1PD

Objectives

TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND ADVANCE EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION OF TRAINING COURSES AND YOUTH ACTIVITIES TO PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP, OR DISTRESS BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE LONDON BOROUGHS OF EALING, HOUNSLOW, BRENT, HARROW, HILLINGDON

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