Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 6
  • Spending declining: -1
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 3 ?

SANGAM FOUNDATION

To promote any charitable purpose for the benefits of the wider community by advancing education, protecting health, relieving poverty, distress and sickness, to promote cultural activities and generally undertake any charitable activities.To give advice in social welfare, immigration, debt etc and counselling for victims of domestic violence and mental health.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Spending is declining
  • Income has been volatile recently
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23*£183£137£46n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£213£319£-106n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£299£312£-13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£327£312£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£333£314£19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£282£269£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£264£287£-23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16*£320£304£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15*£253£285£-32n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£342£293£49n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£427£311£115n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£231£247£-16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£182£256£-74n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£235£291£-56n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09*£282£264£17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 18 years

www.sangamcentre.org.uk

info@sangamcentre.org.uk

02089527062

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • Recreation
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Support for victims of domestic or sexual abuse
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Barnet,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
DCMS£72,476
Tudor Trust£32,000
City Bridge Trust£24,581
GMSP Foundation£10,000
The London Community Foundation£9,958
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Tudor Trust - Grant to Sangam Association of Asian Women
£2,000 01/03/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Sangam Association of Asian Women
£9,958 15/12/2020
4
Similar to the approach taken with our Counselling project , also funded by the LCRF, Sangam would like to provide a free Immigration service that can help more people disproportionately affected by Covid afford the support they need to make their ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Sangam Association of Asian Women
£30,000 28/09/2020
12
over one year towards core costs for a charity running advice and counselling services for the whole community in Burnt Oak, London Borough of Barnet
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Sangam Association of Asian Women
£24,581 11/09/2020
towards the costs outlined in the revised budget agreed during assessment to deliver your core counselling service, including staff costs for a Counsellor (3 dpw), Centre Development Manager (1 dpw) and counselling supervisor, monitoring, laptops ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£72,476 05/08/2020
"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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
GMSP Foundation - Grant to Sangam
£10,000 06/04/2020
Support towards Sangam's service continuation, innovation and expansion
National Lottery Community Fund - ASIAN BEREAVEMENT COUNSELLING SERVICE
£10,000 13/07/2018
12
The funding will be used to deliver therapy sessions for Asian women dealing with bereavement. The project aims to provide support and improve mental wellbeing.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Sangam Association of Asian Women
£182,800 20/09/2017
£182,800 (£61,200, £59,800, £61,800) for a f/t Debt Advice case worker, training delivery and recruitment and support of volunteers.
London Borough of Barnet - Grant to Sangam Assoc Of Asian Women
£2,500 04/07/2017
12
Arts / multi-media workshops for older & disabled people
National Lottery Community Fund - Sangam Group Therapy Project
£10,000 15/07/2015
12
Group therapy sessions for people who have experienced domestic violence to help them cope with the resulting anxiety and depression.
National Lottery Community Fund - Sangam Outreach Counselling Service
£10,000 29/08/2013
12
Sangam Outreach Counselling Service
National Lottery Community Fund - Young Dragons
£10,000 17/03/2011
12
This is a project by a charity in Barnet. The group will use funding to run a series of workshops providing business and life skills to local young people from BME backgrounds who are not in employment, education or training. This will improve the ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Domestic Violence Counselling Service
£118,624 07/12/2010
36
This project provides crisis and ongoing emotional support to victims of domestic violence in the London Boroughs of Barnet, Brent and Harrow. Targeting mainly Asian women, the scheme provides advocacy and support with a Counselling Practitioner, ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 59-74
  • HEERAL GUDKA Appointed: 2022
  • PIYUSHA VIRANI Appointed: 2007, Occupation: Housewife
  • PARUL GAJJAR Appointed: 2017, Occupation: House Wife
  • SHOBHNA PATEL Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director
  • SUDHA SANGHANI (Chair) Appointed: 2007, Occupation: Housewife
  • SUCHITRA KABRA Appointed: 2017, Occupation: House Wife
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 16/05/2007, number: 1119239
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/04/2007, number: 06209806
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • 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
16 returns made; AR23: 125 days late, AR16: 30 days late, AR15: 1 days late, AR09: 25 days late,
Main office

210 BURNT OAK BROADWAY
EDGWARE
MIDDLESEX
HA8 0AP

Objectives

2.1 The Company’s Objects are:to promote any charitable purposes for the benefit of the community, including:2.1.1 the advancement of education;2.1.2 the protection of good mental and physical health;2.1.3 the relief of poverty, sickness and distress;2.1.4 the provision of facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation with the objective of improving the conditions of life for residents,particularly but not exclusively by the provisions of grant funding.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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