Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 10
  • No PartB
    • Grant maker support: +10
    Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

    ROSMINI CENTRE WISBECH 

    Rosmini Centre Wisbech is a fully inclusive charity for the needs of the local community, actively promoting community cohesion through a range of activities and services within four progammes: Education, Art, Health and Leisure, in partnership with, and signposting other statutory and voluntary organisations in the area. It's ethos of service through friendship is inspired by Antonio Rosmini.
    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

    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: 16 years

    http://rosminicentrewisbech.org

    anita@rosmini-wisbech.org

    01945474422

    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
    31/03/23£457£308£149n/an/an/an/an/a35
    31/03/22£396£295£101n/an/an/an/an/a24
    31/03/21*£334£247£87n/an/an/an/an/a34
    31/03/20£422£343£79n/an/an/an/an/a142
    31/03/19£434£550£-116n/an/an/an/an/a142
    31/03/18£253£273£-20£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/17?*£235£258£-23£0£0£0n/a00
    30/04/16?*£218£185£33£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/15?£190£185£5£0£0£0n/a00
    30/04/14£162£174£-13£0£0£0n/a00
    30/04/13£203£181£22£0£0£0n/a00
    30/04/12£139£165£-25£0£0£0n/a00
    30/04/11£212£186£26£0£0£0n/a00
    30/04/10£145£113£32£0£0£0n/a00
    30/04/09*£441£115£327£0£0£0n/a00

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Listed activities
    • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
    • Economic/Community Development/Employment
    • Education/Training
    • General Charitable Purposes
    • Other Charitable Purposes
    • Recreation
    • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
    How it operates
    • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
    • Provides human resources
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Peterborough City,
    Who it helps
    • Other Defined Groups
    • The General Public/Mankind
    Who works here?
    • Unknown number of employees
    • 35 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£198,739
    Cambridgeshire Community Foundation£87,426
    Barrow Cadbury Trust£38,500
    The Fore£5,000
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Cambridgeshire Community Foundation - Community Sharing and Caring.
    £82,676 19/07/2023
    to provide a Lunch Club, Friendship Group and Conversational English Language Group to address food poverty, reduce social isolation and engage volunteers, particularly those from migrant communities
    Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
    £1,500 28/11/2022
    Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
    National Lottery Community Fund - Supporting Integration
    £198,739 11/02/2022
    The project is using funding to support migrant community members to fully integrate within the local community. The project aims to improve the capabilities and life chances of migrant community ....more
    Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
    £500 23/11/2021
    Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
    Barrow Cadbury Trust - COVID-19 - Rosmini Centre Wisbech
    £38,500 14/10/2020
    5
    To continue provision and increase capacity for Information, Advice and Guidance support to migrant workers in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Lincolnshire.
    The Fore - RAFT COVID-19 response grant to Rosmini Centre Wisbech
    £5,000 03/06/2020
    36
    Grant from The Fore's RAFT Immediate Response Fund to Rosmini Centre Wisbech, as part of The Fore's COVID-19 Response programme.
    CAF - Grant to Rosmini Centre Wisbech
    £3,500 28/04/2020
    3
    Grant to Rosmini Centre Wisbech to support the organisation through COVID19
    Cambridgeshire Community Foundation - Grant to Rosmini Centre Wisbech
    £4,750 01/04/2020
    3
    to contact 250 vulnerable clients on a weekly basis to offer practical support such as food parcels and to help them access help with heating costs
    Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Rosmini Centre Wisbech
    £120,000 12/09/2018
    36
    towards three years' running costs of a project providing a range of advice, activities and support for migrants and disadvantaged people in Cambridgeshire
    National Lottery Community Fund - Promoting community cohesion and addressing inequalities in Fenland an
    £221,669 01/11/2017
    48
    This is the continuation of a community-run project which helps build community cohesion and alleviate significant social issues in the rural district of Fenland and an expansion into the ....more
    National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Rosmini Centre Wisbech
    £41,000 09/03/2017
    The positive role of Gypsy, Traveller and Migrant Communities in shaping Fenland's Heritage
    Comic Relief - Communities Together
    £40,000 30/11/2016
    24
    The Rosmini Centre is based in Wisbech in the disadvantaged rural Fenland district of north Cambridgeshire. A busy community centre, it provides services and activities for Eastern European migrant ....more
    Sport England - 'RCW'-SPORT.com
    £9,969 01/05/2015
    Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled ''RCW'-SPORT.com'. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on beneficiaries from a BAME ....more
    Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to The Rosmini Centre Wisbech
    £54,096 04/02/2015
    36
    The charity runs a community centre and provides a range of support, with many services users being from migrant communities. Their employment support gives people skills and confidence to move ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - Promoting community cohesion and addressing inequalities in Wisbech.
    £199,995 18/01/2012
    60
    The organisation will continue and expand the work of Rosmini Centre Wisbech (RCW) to develop its range of support, information and guidance for the migrant communities in the area. RCW will recruit ....more
    Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to The Rosmini Centre Wisbech
    £45,700 19/09/2011
    the salary costs of the Centre Development Manager and the Migrant Co-ordinator
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (5)
    Current Trustees appointed

    Age Range of Trustees: 52-81
    • JOHN MCGILL (Chair) Appointed: 2008, Occupation: Company Proprietor
    Legal constitution
    • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 05/02/2008, number: 1122617
    • Registered at Companies House on 19/04/2007, number: 06219210
    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
    • 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
    • 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
    15 returns made; AR21: 16 days late, AR17: 0 days late, AR16: 19 days late, AR09: 68 days late,
    Main office

    ROSMINI CENTRE
    69A QUEENS ROAD
    WISBECH
    PE13 2PH

    Objectives

    1 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF PEOPLE IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS OF THE FENLAND SOUTH HOLLAND AND WEST NORFOLK (THE AREA) WITH LIMITED ENGLISH LANGUAGE, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND OTHER SKILLS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS IN NEED THEREOF IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING MIGRANT WORKERS SO AS TO ADVANCE THEM IN LIFE AND IN THE CASE OF MIGRANT WORKERS TO ASSIST THEM TO ADAPT TO A NEW COMMUNITY AND ENHANCE THEIR PROSPECTS OF OBTAINING EMPLOYMENT.2 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND RAISE AWARENESS OF THE PUBLIC IN THE AREA ABOUT THE ISSUES RELATING TO MIGRANT WORKERS TO HELP PROMOTE MUTUAL GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN THEM AND COMMUNITY COHESION.3 TO RELIEVE PEOPLE IN NEED IN THE AREA BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE HOUSING, HEALTH, EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND WELFARE BENEFIT RIGHTS.

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    THE FENLAND SOUTH HOLLAND AND WEST NORFOLK

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase
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