Overall GiG Score: 1 ?
Finance Score: -7
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 6
  • Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6

INTEGRATION SUPPORT SERVICES 

- Signposting and providing practical support and advice to migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and ethnically diverse groups in Essex and Hertfordshire- ESOL classes and other learning and training opportunities- Activities for families- Events and activities to promote community cohesion and cultural understanding- Volunteering opportunities.
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 including the Government and a Community Foundation and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 4 trustees
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended
  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 17 years

www.iss.org.uk

info@iss.org.uk

01279 639442

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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
31/03/23£98£126£-28n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/22*£182£164£18n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/21*£187£168£19n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/20£198£156£42n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/19£111£111£0n/an/an/an/an/a22
31/03/18£130£116£14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£111£101£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£116£113£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£116£121£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£102£111£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£87£86£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£88£138£-51£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£212£146£66£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£125£86£39£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£43£42£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£31£28£4£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 10 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Essex, Hertfordshire,

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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Integration Support Services
£120,000 06/10/2023
This project will provide fun activity clubs, trips and advice and support for young refugees and asylum seekers to raise their expectations, ensure their voices are heard and to enable better ....more
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Integration Support Services
£3,700 01/06/2022
to develop the website and access an online HR platform for an organisation support people from ethnic minority communities in West Essex
Essex Community Foundation - Summer Students
£3,400 16/07/2021
to provide English Language classes to unaccompanied minors for 9 weeks before they start school in September
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Integration Support Services
£20,000 15/07/2021
to help cover the cost of delivering ESOL classes for adult learners to migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and BAME community members in West Essex as demand increases following relaxation of COVID19 ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Integration Support Services
£81,668 26/06/2019
36
This project provides a family support club for children and families from the migrant and refugee community in Harlow. Through activity sessions, it seeks to improve physical health, reduce ....more
Essex Community Foundation - To Support our core costs to run our main activites
£10,000 15/04/2019
11
Towards the running costs of a charity providing support to migrant communities in West Essex
National Lottery Community Fund - Pathway to Integration
£395,370 01/02/2019
60
Pathway to Integration
National Lottery Community Fund - Young Mentors
£9,915 24/01/2018
12
This project will recruit and engage young volunteers in providing support to vulnerable young migrants and refugees through a range of social activities including a sailing experience in order to ....more
Essex Community Foundation - Young Mentors
£5,000 13/09/2017
12
To set up a Young Mentors scheme matching young volunteers with young asylum seekers
National Lottery Community Fund - Bilingual Family Support Project
£286,706 03/11/2014
48
Not Available
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Integration Support Services
£40,000 29/01/2014
The charity supports the integration of migrant, refugee and other excluded BME communities. Clients are supported to gain access to social networks to reduce isolation and to advice, training and ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Integration Support Service
£2,000 31/01/2012
towards a trip to Bognor Regis for a group of disadvantaged BAME families from Essex
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Integration Support Services
£20,000 06/09/2011
Towards support for migrants and refugees in a particular migration hotspot.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 27-57
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 17/08/2007, number: 1120609
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/07/2007, number: 06308078
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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
16 returns made; AR22: 58 days late, AR21: 60 days late,
Main office

Latton Bush Centre
Office 37
Southern Way
Harlow
Essex

Objectives

1 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONGST THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM AND THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS, OTHER MIGRANTS AND THEIR FAMILIES, PRINCIPALLY THOSE IN ESSEX AND HERTFORDSHIRE PARTICULARLY BY THE PROVISION OF LEGAL AND OTHER ADVICE.2 TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM AND THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS, OTHER MIGRANTS AND THEIR FAMILIES, PRINCIPALLY THOSE RESIDENTS IN ESSEX AND HERTFORDSHIRE.3 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL ABOUT THE ISSUES RELATING TO REFUGEES, THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM AND MIGRANTS, TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY COHESION, SOCIAL INCLUSION AND A BETTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN COMMUNITIES.4 THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN ESSEX AND HERTFORDSHIRE TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THOSE PERSONS 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:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, ESSEX

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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