Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 4
  • Spending declining: -1
  • Volatile income
  • spending growth: -1
  • No PartB
    • Large volunteers +3
    • Grant maker support: +1
    Overall GiG Score: 2 ?

    SOMALI YOUTH HELPLINE 

    Somali Youth Helpline provides: confidential telephone and email counselling; drop-in session, sign posting and referrals, training and parent/child sessions as well as training and tuition and mentoring.
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
    • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
    • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

    Financial issues to consider:

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

    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*£16£16£0n/an/an/an/an/a8
    31/03/22£16£16£0n/an/an/an/an/a10
    31/03/21£15£14£0n/an/an/an/an/a10
    31/03/20*£14£15£-1n/an/an/an/an/a6
    31/03/19£21£21£0n/an/an/an/an/a10
    31/03/18*£23£23£0£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/17*£24£17£7£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/16*£24£23£1£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/15*£21£20£1£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/14*£7£7£0£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/13£8£8£0£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/12£9£9£0£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/11*£11£11£0£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/10£14£13£1£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/09£7£2£5£0£0£0n/a00

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Established: 16 years

    www.syhelpline.org.uk

    syhelpline@gmail.com

    02030922946

    Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseX
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • Economic/Community Development/Employment
    • Education/Training
    • General Charitable Purposes
    • Other Charitable Purposes
    GiG Classification
    • Social & legal advocacy
    How it operates
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Ealing,
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    • Elderly/Old People
    • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
    Who works here?
    • Unknown number of employees
    • 8 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.

    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    John Lyon's Charity - SHAF grant to Somali Youth Helpline
    £4,000 18/06/2019
    12
    Somali Youth Helpline Holiday Club

    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Legal constitution
    • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 06/08/2008, number: 1125393
    • Registered at Companies House on 03/12/2019, number: 12345678
    Gift Aid
    • NOT 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
    • 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
    • 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; AR23: 1 days late, AR20: 5 days late, AR18: 1 days late, AR17: 5 days late, AR16: 1 days late, AR15: 12 days late, AR14: 40 days late, AR11: 120 days late,
    Main office

    THE RESOURCE CENTRE
    FEATHERSTONE TERRACE
    SOUTHALL
    UB2 5AL

    Objectives

    TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG SOMALI PEOPLE LIVING IN THE LONDON AND THE SURROUNDING TOWNS BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AS A MEANS OF:A ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING SOMALI YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILL, CAPACITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS;B ADVANCING EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENTC PROMOTING VOLUNTEERING FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, EALING.

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase
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