Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 8
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

CENTRAL AFRICA REFUGEE LINK, WEST MIDLANDS 

General Support (floating support)Mental Health support and awarenessYouth Programme (replaced our Parenting Programme)Saturday Homawork Club
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • 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
Established: 19 years

www.carelinkwestmidlands.org.uk

office@carelinkwestmidlands.org.uk

07881563472

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
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
30/09/22£80£83£-3n/an/an/an/an/a5
30/09/21£83£53£30n/an/an/an/an/a10
30/09/20£67£63£4n/an/an/an/an/a5
30/09/19£31£20£11n/an/an/an/an/a5
30/09/18£40£34£6£0£0£0n/a05
30/09/17£57£57£0£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/16£39£44£-5£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/15£85£89£-5£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/14£117£111£6£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/13£78£80£-2£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/12£44£39£5£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/11£44£42£2£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/10£44£40£4£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/09£36£33£3£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/08£22£24£-2£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/07£22£19£3£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/06£26£18£8£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Sandwell,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • 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
Lloyds Bank Foundation£52,250
National Lottery Community Fund£19,553
Power to Change£10,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£5,000
Heart Of England Community Foundation£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Care Link West Midlands
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 18/03/2022
Connecting Young People to Opportunities
National Lottery Community Fund - Refugee in the Green Home
£9,880 25/10/2021
The organisation will use the funding is to deliver five climate change / environmental awareness workshops to African refugee families to educate about environment protection. The project will ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Renew grant to Care Link West Midlands
£50,000 23/06/2021
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Care Link West Midlands.
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Grant to Care Link West Midlands
£5,000 22/03/2021
In order to provide COVID related support to BME households in Sandwell. Varied forms of support will be offered dependant on the needs of the 57 refugees identified as in need of help which will ....more
Power to Change - C-19 CCLORS - Care Link West Midlands
£10,000 16/09/2020
Grant to C-19 CCLORS - Care Link West Midlands
National Lottery Community Fund - Befriending Elderly Refugees with Health problems during Coronavirus Outbreak
£9,673 15/05/2020
11
The group will use the funding to provide support for refugee women aged over 60 who have been affected by the COVID-19 crisis. This will support vulnerable people and help them to access basic ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Care Link West Midlands
£11,160 11/07/2017
12
Resources to enable a charity that supports refugees and asylum seekers to Development of Need Assessment Diagnostic. This will strengthen their infrastructure and potential to tender for service ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Central Africa Refugee Link, West Midlands
£10,000 29/06/2015
Discovering soldiers of African and West Indian origin who served in WWI
Woodward Charitable Trust - Continuation of homework club for poorly performing refugee children
£500 09/02/2015
Towards continuing the homework club for poorly performing refugee children.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards helping immigrant children improve their academic skills
£1,000 05/08/2013
Towards helping immigrant children improve their academic skills at a Saturday homework club.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Care Link West Midlands
£37,200 28/03/2013
This charity will address the high levels of homelessness experienced by refugees particularly once their status to remain has been confirmed. They will achieve this by establishing links with local ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Young People Connecting To Opportunities
£175,000 13/12/2012
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This project is based on work carried out during 2010 to 2011 as part of a young people life skills project. It aims to encourage the social integration of young French speaking African refugees ....more
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards a summer playscheme for vulnerable children
£500 18/05/2012
Towards a summer playscheme for vulnerable children in Smethwick.
National Lottery Community Fund - Young People Matter
£10,000 17/06/2010
12
This group will use funding to provide general support and guidance to aid individuals from a range of cultural backgrounds. This will give the beneficiaries more opportunities and skills to become ....more
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards summer playscheme for refugee/asylum see
£500 27/05/2010
Towards a summer playscheme for refugee/asylum seeker children aged between 5-13 years old.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 44-64
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 17/05/2005, number: 1109505
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/04/2007, number: 06218206
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
17 returns made; all on time
Main office

91 Hurst Road
Smethwick
B67 6LY

Objectives

3.1. TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF PERSONS FROM CENTRAL AFRICAN FRENCH SPEAKING COUNTRIES WHO ARE SEEKING ASYLUM OR WHO ARE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS LIVING IN THE WEST MIDLANDS REGION (HEREINAFTER, THE 'BENEFICIARIES').3.2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THOSE PERSONS DEFINED IN OBJECT 3.1 AS BENEFICIARIES BY ANY CHARITABLE MEANS THAT THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.3.3. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL ABOUT ISSUES RELATING TO REFUGEES AND THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM.3.4. THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP TO THOSE PERSONS DEFINED IN OBJECT 3.1 AS BENEFICIARIES BY ANY CHARITABLE MEANS THAT THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.3.5. THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THOSE PERSONS DEFINED IN OBJECT 3.1, WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WEST MIDLANDS REGION

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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