Finance Score: -7
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 11
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess reserves: -4
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -5
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

NISHKAM CIVIC ASSOCIATION 

The NCA facilitates personal, community, civic and sustainable transformation, guided by the practice of selfless service, for the wellbeing of communities, the environment and all creation. We draw upon the universal values from our rich heritage of empowerment, self-reliance and inclusivity to offer active learning, selfless volunteering, partnership working and cultural sensitivity.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return

Financial issues to consider:

  • This charity has substantial assets and unrestricted reserves of £2,782,837 available, equivalent to 42 months of spending and so may not be able to utilise additional funding
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised

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£697£792£-94£238£3,447£2,78342.22020
31/03/22£445£576£-132n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/21£597£484£112£54£3,674£3,05975.8820
31/03/20£448£493£-45n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/19£395£458£-62n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/18£368£476£-108£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£412£449£-37£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£969£496£473£187£3,814£3,33380.6150
31/03/15£461£506£-45£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£403£434£-31£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13*£388£428£-40£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£418£461£-43£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11*£430£486£-56£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£463£696£-232£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£788£639£149£429£5,425£5,425101.9100
31/03/08*£379£579£-200£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07?*£605£618£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£564£89£475£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 55.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 30.3%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 10%
Liabilities/Income: 53%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 81%
Reserves/Spending: 42.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 0 months
Quick Ratio: 0.5
Asset Split ?
Established: 21 years

ncauk.org

info@ncauk.org

01215154229

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Other facilities management and maintenance
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Birmingham City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 20 employees
  • 20 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
National Lottery Community Fund£395,418
Tudor Trust£100,000
Access to Justice Foundation£89,059
DCMS£85,338
National Lottery Heritage Fund£59,000
UK Community Foundations£18,960
Power to Change£10,000
Sport England£9,114
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Power to Change - Nishkam Civic Association (RCF)
£10,000 12/12/2022
Grant to Nishkam Civic Association (RCF)
National Lottery Community Fund - South Asian Family Support Hub
£50,001 30/09/2022
The funding will help to support the South Asian Family Support Hub (SAFSH) project which is an additional support project which offers advice and guidance on matters relating to welfare benefits ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Improving Outcomes Through Legal Support (IOTLS) grant
£40,360 23/05/2022
The funding programme aims to support organisations working to sustain and improve access to early social welfare and family legal support and advice, to enable users to resolve these problems as ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Safety Net (Part 2)
£220,517 24/03/2022
The funding will support an advice and advocacy project the South Asian Family Support Hub (SAFSH) which is now rebranded as the Community Safety Net (CSN). The continuation funding sought is for ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Nishkam Civic Association
£100,000 28/02/2022
36
over three years towards the running costs of a South Asian Family Support Hub in the Perry Barr area of Birmingham
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Safety Net (Part 1)
£124,900 29/10/2021
The funding will be used by the group to support and continue its benefits and welfare advice service now renamed the ‘Community Safety Net’ (CSN). The project will identify the most vulnerable ....more
Sport England - COVID19 Return to Play
£9,114 07/09/2021
6
Funding under Sport England's Return to Play - Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID19 Return to Play. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on ....more
UK Community Foundations - BAME Infrastructure Fund
£18,960 15/10/2020
Restricted funding for COVID-19 Relief (led by people of Black, Asian and/or Minority Ethnic Heritage)
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£48,699 05/10/2020
A flexible grant as part of wave 1 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID19
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£85,338 29/09/2020
"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
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Nishkam Civic Association
£59,000 09/07/2020
COVID19 : Nishkam Civic Association
Birmingham City Council - Living well with Dementia
£5,000 03/02/2020
Provision of art & craft activities, trips, tea & coffee mornings for dementia sufferers plus support for carers and much more
National Lottery Community Fund - Advocacy Support & Empowerment PLUS
£322,442 21/03/2018
36
Support will be provided to people in Birmingham, with a specific focus on black, Asian and minority ethnic communities. This project aims to reduce levels of unmanageable debt by advising people on ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Nishkam on the Net
£9,962 04/01/2017
12
This group will use the funding to provide Information Technology learning sessions for people from the ethnic minority community who use English as a second language, improving their chances in life.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Nishkam Civic Association
£80,000 31/08/2016
The Birmingham & Black Country Sikh Migration Story
National Lottery Community Fund - Birmingham Community Advice
£346,968 25/04/2013
24
The aim of this project is to establish a consortium of local advice organisations specialising in law to offer expertise on debt, welfare benefits, housing and employment to people across ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Niskham Advice and Advocacy Centre
£278,676 21/11/2012
61
This new project will provide a free impartial and confidential debt and advocacy service for disadvantaged people from Black Minority and Ethnic communities. Free, twice weekly, open, housing, debt ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Nishkam Civic Association
£32,500 27/04/2012
the Nishkam Advice & Advocacy Project costs including the salary and on costs of a Project Co-ordinator and Welfare Adviser
National Lottery Community Fund - Older peoples Community Inclusion Project
£10,000 01/03/2012
12
This is a project by a charity in Handsworth, Birmingham. The group will use funding to purchase a wheelchair friendly minibus for vulnerable older people from diverse ethnic backgrounds. This will ....more
Sport England - Renovation of Culturally Sensitive Sport & Wellbeing Centre
£50,000 26/01/2012
Funding under Sport England's Inspired Facilities funding programme for a Capital project titled 'Renovation of Culturally Sensitive Sport & Wellbeing Centre'. This project lists its main ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 47-83
  • PAMJIT KAUR BAHIA Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired Clinical Continuing Healthcare Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/10/2003, number: 1100307
  • Registered at Companies House on 21/02/2002, number: 04378505
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
  • 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
18 returns made; AR13: 1 days late, AR11: 22 days late, AR10: 2 days late, AR09: 44 days late, AR08: 1 days late, AR07: 182 days late, AR05: 51 days late,
Main office

6 SOHO ROAD
BIRMINGHAM
B21 9BH

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE SIKH COMMUNITY IN BIRMINGHAM AND THE WEST MIDLANDS, AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE SIKH COMMUNITY, BY THE PROPAGATION OF THE SIKH FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEACHINGS OF THE TEN SIKH GURUS AND THE SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB JI THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND POVERTY, THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH AND THE PROVISIONS OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE SAID COMMUNITY

Defined Area of Benefit:

BIRMINGHAM AND THE WEST MIDLANDS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
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