Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 9

Low unrestricted reserves: -2
Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -3 times
Strong growth: +2

Good trustee age range: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +9

Overall GiG Score: 12

WANDSWORTH COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT NETWORK

THE PROMOTION OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR IN THE WANDSWORTH AREA FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

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:

Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
Accounts have been filed late on 3 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended

Established: 20 years

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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	*	£907	£953	£-46	£0	£225	£143	1.8	16	12
31/03/22		£780	£651	£129	£0	£271	£101	1.9	13	12
31/03/21	*	£403	£394	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	8
31/03/20	*	£321	£347	£-26	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/19		£259	£248	£11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/18	*	£224	£154	£69	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£224	£154	£69	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£176	£158	£18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	*	£144	£134	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	*	£137	£159	£-23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£118	£134	£-17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£134	£138	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£172	£129	£43	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	*	£105	£129	£-24	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	*	£134	£128	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	*	£112	£97	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£203	£189	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£203	£189	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 9%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 72%
Liabilities/Income: 62%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 63%
Reserves/Spending: 1.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 1.1

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

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

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides human resources
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Wandsworth,

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

Who works here?

16 employees
12 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	£349,388
Lankelly Chase Foundation	£144,180
The London Community Foundation	£37,432
The Wimbledon Foundation	£10,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Community-Led Healthcare Systems
£349,388	11/02/2022	The project is using funding to embed their community-led health and wellbeing project across Wandsworth. The project aims to support people through targeted healthcare messaging to access early ....more The project is using funding to embed their community-led health and wellbeing project across Wandsworth. The project aims to support people through targeted healthcare messaging to access early health care screenings diagnostics and health pathways. They also aim to train Community Health coaches and accredited Systemic Family Therapists as well as hosting forums and conferences on key issues such as BAME mental health physical health and youth provision.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Wandsworth Community Empowerment Network
£28,000	30/03/2021 11	The funding is to identify and employ 2 people from our core network partners, to embed alongside our staff team, so that they can train and upskill to be change agents within their own hubs and ....more The funding is to identify and employ 2 people from our core network partners, to embed alongside our staff team, so that they can train and upskill to be change agents within their own hubs and clusters.
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Wandsworth Community Empowerment Network/WCEN
£85,000	09/12/2020	Wandsworth Community Empowerment Network/WCEN
The Wimbledon Foundation - Community Support Programme
£10,000	28/07/2020	The funding is to continue the support to enable us to provide hands on support to voluntary, community and faith groups who are on the frontline of providing self-help support to their own ....more The funding is to continue the support to enable us to provide hands on support to voluntary, community and faith groups who are on the frontline of providing self-help support to their own communities. We are in contact with over 40 groups who require our support, specifically around building their own capacity to meet needs.
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Wandsworth Community Empowerment Network/WCEN
£19,727	22/06/2020	Wandsworth Community Empowerment Network/WCEN
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Wandsworth Community Empowerment Network
£9,432	04/06/2020	The funding is to enable us to provide hands on support to voluntary, community and faith groups who are on the frontline of providing self-help support to their own communities. We are in contact ....more The funding is to enable us to provide hands on support to voluntary, community and faith groups who are on the frontline of providing self-help support to their own communities. We are in contact with over 40 groups who require our support, specifically around building their own capacity to meet needs.
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Wandsworth Community Empowerment Network
£39,453	11/12/2019	To backfill the time of an individual while they work full-time for six months on the Ethnicity and MH Improvement Programme at South West London and St George's MH Trust
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Wandsworth Community Empowerment Network
£9,976	30/07/2018 12	This project will provide drama and dance workshops to children and young people with mental health issues. This will help young people to feel emotionally well, gain essential skills and improve ....more This project will provide drama and dance workshops to children and young people with mental health issues. This will help young people to feel emotionally well, gain essential skills and improve their relationships.
National Lottery Community Fund - Wandsworth Coproduction
£463,205	29/11/2017 36	The project aims to use community-centred, co-production working to build the skills and abilities of local people to undertake early intervention and prevention services. Working in partnership with ....more The project aims to use community-centred, co-production working to build the skills and abilities of local people to undertake early intervention and prevention services. Working in partnership with public agencies, they will work together to improve health and wellbeing in diverse communities. Events and conferences will be held to share knowledge and encourage communities to introduce conversations in their neighbourhoods and identify issues and volunteers who could train and support the community.
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Wandsworth Community Empowerment Network
£249,829	16/03/2016 24	To use coproduction as a methodology to build a whole system, community-centred approach to addressing inequalities in health and social care, through shifting early intervention and prevention ....more To use coproduction as a methodology to build a whole system, community-centred approach to addressing inequalities in health and social care, through shifting early intervention and prevention initiatives into enabled social networks.
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Evaluation of WCEN project
£10,000	10/12/2015 24	Additional grant to support the evaluation of the existing co-production initiative

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How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Trustees:

GEETHA MAHESHWARAN (Chair) Appointed: 2018

JOAN ROBINSON Appointed: 2003, Occupation: Educator

JUSTIN O'KELLO Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Manager

MOHAMED ALI Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Youth Worker

NATALIE GIBSON-WILSON, Occupation: Manager

REV DELROY POWELL Appointed: 2018

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 18/10/2004, number: 1106354
Registered at Companies House on 01/05/2003, number: 04750617

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; AR23: 28 days late, AR21: 59 days late, AR20: 58 days late, AR18: 1 days late, AR15: 6 days late, AR14: 339 days late, AR10: 181 days late, AR09: 270 days late, AR08: 140 days late, AR07: 131 days late,

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WANDSWORTH COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT
NETWORK
UNIT 44
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CHARLOTTE DESPARD AVENUE
LONDON

Objectives

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED ARE:3.1 THE PROMOTION OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR IN THE WANDSWORTH AREA FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:3.1.1 PROVIDING A FORUM IN WHICH REPRESENTATIVES FROM LOCAL VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY GROUPS IN THE WANDSWORTH AREA, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE, POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, CAN COME TOGETHER AND EXPRESS VIEWS ON MATTERS OF LOCAL INTEREST, AND THE CONVEYING OF SUCH VIEWS TO LOCAL PLANNERS AND DECISION-MAKERS.3.1.2 PROVIDING TRAINING, CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS ON SUBJECTS RELEVANT TO THE EFFICIENCY OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR;3.1.3 IDENTIFYING NEEDS IN THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR AND ESTABLISHING PROJECTS OR POLICIES TO ADDRESS THEM;3.1.4 ASSISTING IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF FUNDING PROGRAMMES TO CHARITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS, MONITORING FOR GRANTS, RECOMMENDING GRANTS, ASSISTING IN APPLICATIONS FOR GRANTS;3.1.5 PROVIDING INFORMATION TO THE PRESS AND THE PUBLIC ON THE OPERATION OF, OR PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED BY, THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR;3.1.6 ACTING AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR IN RELATION TO GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND LEGISLATION.VOLUNTARY SECTOR' MEANS CHARITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS.CHARITIES ARE ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS ARE INDEPENDENT ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR PURPOSES THAT ADD VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE, OR A SIGNIFICANT SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY, AND WHICH ARE NOT PERMITTED BY THEIR CONSTITUTION TO MAKE A PROFIT FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION. VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DO NOT INCLUDE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OR OTHER STATUTORY AUTHORITIES.3.2 THE PROMOTION OF SUCH OTHER PURPOSES BEING EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE TO BE CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THE OBJECTS SET OUT IN CLAUSE 3.1.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON BOROUGH OF WANDSWORTH

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