Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 6
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

LAMBETH SOMALI COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION 

Providing much needed assistance to the Somali Community Members reside in Lambeth.we run variety of activities including education programmes for children, advice and bilingual advocay for mainly womens and elderly people. similarly we oraganise workshops about heath, environment, citzenship and other activities.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

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

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*£41£50£-9n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/22£40£42£-2n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/21£58£31£27n/an/an/an/an/a7
31/03/20*£27£24£3n/an/an/an/an/a7
31/03/19£24£29£-5n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/18£26£25£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£21£23£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£21£23£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15*£29£33£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£26£35£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£42£31£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£24£26£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£40£47£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£71£58£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£50£35£14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£44£47£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£64£58£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£110£108£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£94£96£-2£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 20 years

www.lamsom.org.uk

lamsom@lamsom.org.uk

02077386372

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Services for females
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Lambeth,
Who it helps
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 5 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£37,484
Walcot Foundation£35,225
DCMS£8,185
Sport England£6,050
Garfield Weston Foundation£5,000
The London Community Foundation£3,750
Tudor Trust£1,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Women's Positive Changes Project
£8,700 25/08/2023
The funding will be used to deliver weekly activities and mental health peer support for women from the Somali community. The project aims to improve their health and wellbeing and reduce feelings of ....more
Walcot Foundation - Learning after Covid-19 (LAC) Project
£18,000 16/03/2023
The Learning After Covid-19 (LAC) Project will provide Somali low-income Lambeth resident families with a supplementary school, welfare rights advice and employment support. Children ranging from 5 ....more
Walcot Foundation - Cost of Living Top-Up Grant
£1,500 18/11/2022
Cost of Living Top Up Grant awarded to support small/medium-size organisations with additional costs incurred due to the cost of living crisis.
National Lottery Community Fund - Learn After Covid
£8,900 08/04/2022
The funding will be used to support Somali school-age children from low-income families residing in Lambeth who have additional needs with extracurricular one-to-one support and tutoring. The project ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Lambeth Somali Community Association
£1,000 21/03/2022
as a staff grant providing unrestricted funding to a charity supporting Somali people in Lambeth
Walcot Foundation - Learning after Covid-19 (LAC) Project
£15,725 16/11/2021
The Learning After Covid-19 (LAC) Project will provide Somali low-income Lambeth resident families with a supplementary school, welfare rights advice and employment support. Children ranging from 5 ....more
Sport England - COVID19 Return to Play
£6,050 08/07/2021
11
Funding under Sport England's Return to Play - Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID19 Return to Play. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 05/03/2021
Reach the Needy
National Lottery Community Fund - COVID-19 and Community Needs
£9,884 05/02/2021
11
The funding will be used to organise a vaccination awareness programme. The project aims to mitigate risk of catching the virus and to safeguard health during the current Covid-19 pandemic.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£8,185 09/07/2020
"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
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Lambeth Somali Community Association
£3,750 09/04/2020
We are trying to support many elderly that are confined to their houses and families with children that are either in isolation or getting little income as their members who were working on zero ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - "Together we can make difference"
£10,000 12/09/2019
12
The funding will be used to deliver a series of workshops and events for the voluntary and community groups who reside at the community centre. The project aims to bring people together from ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Lambeth Somali Com Association
£21,840 11/11/2016
36
This project will deliver educational support for disabled Somali children and those experiencing local deprivation. The children and young people will gain academic skills, confidence and improve ....more
Walcot Foundation - Employment Support and Welfare Advice service
£19,315 17/07/2012
Employment Support and Welfare Advice service
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 22-52
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 26/03/2004, number: 1102904
  • Registered at Companies House on 21/11/2002, number: 04597226
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment 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
  • 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
19 returns made; AR23: 10 days late, AR20: 1 days late, AR15: 32 days late, AR10: 133 days late, AR07: 37 days late, AR05: 1 days late,
Main office

ANNEX BUILDING
13-15 STOCKWELL ROAD
LONDON
SW9 9AU

Objectives

(A) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY OF SOMALIS IN LAMBETH AND SURROUNDING AREAS BY THE PROVISION OF AN INFORMATION AND ADVICE SERVICE. (B) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION OF SOMALI CHILDREN IN LAMBETH AND SURROUNDING AREAS.(C )TO PROVIDE RECREATIONAL FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PERSONS RESIDENT IN LAMBETH AND SURROUNDING AREAS, PARTICULARLY PERSONS OF SOMALI ORIGIN WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR SUCH PERSONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

SOMALIS IN LAMBETH AND SURROUNDING AREAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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