Overall GiG Score: 10 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 11
    • No conflicts policy: -1
    • Grant maker support: +11

    REFUGEE WOMEN CONNECT 

    Refugee Women Connect, previously known as MRANG, is set up to support women asylum-seekers, refugees and survivors of trafficking. We run an extensive outreach programme with weekly drop-ins where women can access a range of emotional and practical support and activities. We run an additional support group for perinatal women and a self-esteem support group. We also offer one-to-one casework.
    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

    Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

    • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
    • One or more trustees receive benefits from the charity
    Established: 18 years

    https://www.refugeewomenconnect.org.uk

    info@refugeewomenconnect.org.uk

    01513051070

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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£537£434£103£0£331£1383.81450
    31/03/22£435£521£-86n/an/an/an/an/a40
    31/03/21£608£457£151£0£314£551.51540
    31/03/20£402£375£27n/an/an/an/an/a60
    31/03/19£340£317£22n/an/an/an/an/a60
    31/03/18£293£281£12£0£0£0n/a00
    01/04/17£173£156£17£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/16£130£117£13£0£0£0n/a00
    05/04/15£93£98£-5£0£0£0n/a00
    05/04/14£87£77£10£0£0£0n/a00
    05/04/13£139£78£61£0£0£0n/a00
    05/04/12£108£99£9£0£0£0n/a00
    05/04/11£93£90£2£0£0£0n/a00
    05/04/10£73£66£8£0£0£0n/a00
    05/04/09£52£46£6£0£0£0n/a00
    05/04/08*£51£35£15£0£0£0n/a00
    05/04/07£35£28£7£0£0£0n/a00

    Financial Ratios
    Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
    Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
    Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
    Liabilities/Assets: 1%
    Liabilities/Income: 0%
    Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 42%
    Reserves/Spending: 3.8 months
    Net Current Assets/Spending: 9 months
    Quick Ratio: 123.8
    Asset Split ?
    What it does
    • Economic/Community Development/Employment
    • Education/Training
    • General Charitable Purposes
    • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
    • Other Charitable Purposes
    • Recreation
    • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
    • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
    Who works here?
    • 14 employees
    • 50 volunteers
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    • Other Defined Groups
    How it operates
    • Other charitable activities
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides services
    • Sponsors or undertakes research
    Where it operates
    • Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool City, Sefton, St Helens, Warrington,

    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£276,000
    Esmee Fairbairn£177,750
    Tudor Trust£120,000
    DCMS£53,552
    Comic Relief£40,000
    Barrow Cadbury Trust£35,270
    Access to Justice Foundation£25,000
    Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    J J Charitable Trust - Core costs
    £5,000 10/10/2023
    Core costs
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Refugee Women Connect
    £5,250 06/02/2023
    Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
    Rosa UK - VftF R5-REFWOMCON-2022
    £7,000 15/12/2022
    £7,000 has been awarded to Refugee Women Connect to support women to raise awareness of the impact of the cost of living crises on women asylum seekers. The organisation will use press and social ....more
    Sam and Bella Sebba Charitable Foundation - Grant to Refugee Women Connect
    £4,000 19/10/2022
    Towards cost of living crisis
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
    £20,000 05/08/2022
    Support and empowering women asylum seekers and refugees
    John Moores Foundation - Grant to Refugee Women Connect
    £15,000 28/04/2022
    Towards running costs
    Tudor Trust - Grant to Refugee Women Connect
    £120,000 22/02/2022
    36
    over three years as unrestricted funding for a charity supporting women asylum-seekers, refugees and survivors of trafficking across Merseyside
    National Lottery Community Fund - Inclusion and wellbeing
    £276,000 18/11/2021
    Refugee Women Connect formerly MRANG offers support to women refugees and asylum seekers in Merseyside. They run an outreach programme with weekly drop-ins where women can access a range of emotional ....more
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Refugee Women Connect
    £157,500 21/10/2020
    36
    Towards Unrestricted core costs to help to build women's leadership and advocacy within the refugee sector.
    AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Refugee Women Connect
    £15,000 08/10/2020
    An unrestricted grant of £15,000. Refugee Women Connect work with women seeking asylum, and women refugees and trafficking survivors in Merseyside and Cheshire, helping them to reduce social ....more
    Barrow Cadbury Trust - COVID-19 - Refugee Women Connect
    £35,270 07/10/2020
    6
    To provide project funding for additional capacity to enable Refugee Women Connect to deliver support to vulnerable refugee women housed temporarily in hotels.
    Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
    £25,000 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
    Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Refugee Women Connect
    £7,500 24/07/2020
    Grant to Refugee Women Connect meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
    DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
    £53,552 25/06/2020
    "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
    Comic Relief - Refugee Women Connect Recovery Funding
    £40,000 23/06/2020
    6
    COVID19 Recovery funding
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Refugee Women Connect
    £15,000 05/05/2020
    6
    towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 fast response grant
    John Moores Foundation - Grant to Refugee Women Connect (formerly MRANG)
    £15,000 01/11/2018
    Towards running costs
    Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Refugee Women Connect
    £75,000 16/10/2018
    36
    Core management and running costs to support women who are claiming asylum or have been granted refugee status, and have experienced traumatic events that include, trafficking, sexual violence and ....more
    AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Refugee Women Connect
    £10,000 03/07/2018
    £10,000 towards core funding. Refugee Women Connect supports women asylum seekers, refugees and survivors of trafficking. It provides programmes including weekly multi agency drop-ins, group ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - Reaching Out
    £378,698 19/04/2017
    35
    This is the development and expansion of work by Merseyside Asylum Seekers and Refugees Pre and Post-Natal Support Group. The project aims to support women who are vulnerably housed and socially ....more
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Refugee Women Connect
    £90,000 04/04/2017
    36
    Towards unrestricted core costs of an organisation supporting women refugees and asylum seekers across the North West of England.
    Comic Relief - Pre and Post Natal Mental Wellbeing Project
    £147,794 28/09/2016
    54
    Asylum seekers and refugees in Merseyside are at high risk of suffering from maternal mental health issues. This project will provide peer support, group workshops, one-to-one support and trained ....more
    DCMS - Pre and Post Natal Mental Wellbeing Project
    £29,225 28/09/2016
    Asylum seekers and refugees in Merseyside are at high risk of suffering from maternal mental health issues. This project will provide peer support, group workshops, one-to-one support and trained ....more
    DCMS - Pre and Post Natal Mental Wellbeing Project
    £29,225 28/09/2016
    Asylum seekers and refugees in Merseyside are at high risk of suffering from maternal mental health issues. This project will provide peer support, group workshops, one-to-one support and trained ....more
    DCMS - Pre and Post Natal Mental Wellbeing Project
    £29,225 28/09/2016
    Asylum seekers and refugees in Merseyside are at high risk of suffering from maternal mental health issues. This project will provide peer support, group workshops, one-to-one support and trained ....more
    DCMS - Pre and Post Natal Mental Wellbeing Project
    £29,225 28/09/2016
    Asylum seekers and refugees in Merseyside are at high risk of suffering from maternal mental health issues. This project will provide peer support, group workshops, one-to-one support and trained ....more
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Merseyside Refugee & Asylum Seeker's Pre & Post Natal Support Group
    £90,000 11/06/2015
    36
    towards three years' salary of the Director at a project providing pre and postal natal support to female refugees and asylum seekers in Merseyside
    Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Merseyside Refugee & Asylum Seekers Pre & Post Natal Support Group
    £75,000 07/01/2015
    36
    The Family Support Worker supports women who are claiming asylum or have been granted refugee status, and have experienced traumatic events that include, trafficking, sexual violence, domestic ....more
    Tudor Trust - Grant to Merseyside Refugee and Asylum Seekers Pre and Post Natal Support Group
    £50,000 25/04/2014
    24
    over two years as continuation funding towards salaries at an organisation providing support to refugee and asylum-seeking women in Liverpool
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Merseyside Asylum Seekers & Refugee Pre & Post Natal Support Group
    £43,400 12/09/2012
    24
    towards two years' continuation funding of the salary and on costs of a Family Support and Child Development Worker at a project providing support to refugees and asylum seekers in Liverpool
    Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Merseyside Refugee & Asylum Seekers Pre & Post Natal Support Group
    £24,000 29/03/2012
    the salary costs of the Trafficking Support Worker
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (6)
    Current Trustees appointed
    Gender Split
    Based on 5/6 persons

    Age Range of Trustees:
    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 05/04/2006, number: 1113574
    Gift Aid
    • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Complaints handling
    • Financial reserves policy and procedures
    • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
    • Internal risk management policy and procedures
    • Paying staff
    • Risk management
    • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
    • Volunteer management
    Filing Record
    17 returns made; AR08: 134 days late,
    Main office

    Cotton Exchange
    111H Bixteth Street
    Liverpool
    L3 9LQ

    Objectives

    1. TO RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AMONGST PRE AND POST-NATAL ASYLUM SEEKERS AND REFUGEES AND THEIR FAMILIES, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, REPRESENTATION, ADVOCACY AND OTHER SUCH SERVICES AS THE GROUP SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, OTHER STATUTORY AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND ASYLUM SEEKERS IN ORDER TO ASSIST THEIR INCLUSION INTO THE WIDER COMMUNITY.3. TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL, RECREATIONAL AND SUPPORT FACILITIES FOR PRE AND POST-NATAL ASYLUM SEEKERS AND REFUGEES AND THEIR FAMILIES.

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE MERSEYSIDE.

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase
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