Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -5
Support Score: 9
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Static board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

ROJ WOMEN ASSOCIATION - KURDISH AND TURKISH WOMEN'S CENTRE 

We pursue Kurdish women empowerment in London and in Kurdish regions by means of:a) seminars to raise awareness of their own rights,b) language courses and other training to enhance their employability, c) provision of facilities for community recreation,d) psychological support and legal advice for victims of domestic violence and forced marriage.e) training of women's activists.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 3 trustees
  • The Board composition appears to be rather static

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://www.rojwomen.org.uk

info@rojwomen.org.uk

02033258444

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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*£154£142£12n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/22£158£143£14n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/21£144£123£21n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/03/20£77£46£31n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/19£20£20£-1n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/03/18£26£15£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17*£9£21£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16*£35£24£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£25£22£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£22£17£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£24£24£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£2£9£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£13£6£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£3£1£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£1£0£0£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 3 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
City Bridge Trust£136,100
DCMS£95,451
Rosa UK£77,150
Sport England£9,896
National Lottery Community Fund£9,200
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Rosa UK - RISE R2-ROJWA-2023
£18,400 18/05/2023
Cost of Living Grant
Hackney CVS - Hackney Giving Earthquake response funding
£650 08/03/2023
Cost of living support for people in Hackney who have been affected by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria. 
Sport England - Jubilee Fund - Overcome depression and isolation together
£4,216 05/12/2022
This project will target older and vulnerable Turkish and Kurdish speaking women from the local community through the provision of specific yoga sessions. The sessions will be run twice weekly for 40 ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Roj Women Association
£86,200 23/08/2022
24
£86,200 over two years (£43,100 x 2) for an Older Persons project, covering 0.6FTE Older Peer Project Officer, 0.4FTE Project Co-ordinator, project activities and related overheads.
Sport England - Jubilee Fund - Health and Wellbeing Project
£5,680 09/08/2022
This project will aim to improve participants' health through structured yoga and fitness sessions. Walking participants will build strength, flexibility, wellbeing, prevent excess weight gain/help ....more
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Roj Women's Assocation
£1,000 07/06/2022
Small Grant Unrestricted Core Costs
Rosa UK - RISE R1-ROJWA-2022
£40,000 19/05/2022
£40,000 has been awarded to Roj Women to work with a business consultant to work with the board and leadership team to review governance.
Rosa UK - WTF-ROJWA-2021
£18,750 28/06/2021
£18,750 has been awarded to Roj Women's Association to fund a bilingual specialist domestic violence advice and casework support.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Roj Women Association
£49,900 22/03/2021
towards core salaries of a part time Co-ordinator and Business Development Officer and Older Person’s support worker and a contribution to management costs, premises costs and volunteer expenses as ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£95,451 09/10/2020
"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
National Lottery Community Fund - Women Only Textile Project
£9,200 13/03/2020
7
The funding will be used to purchase new equipment for their textiles programme which benefits women from the Turkish and Kurdish community. The project aims to create employment opportunities.
National Lottery Community Fund - Working with Kurdish and Turkish Women
£141,180 19/12/2018
36
The project will support Kurdish and Turkish Women to combat isolation and mild mental health issues by proving a walking group. It will also support a Women Only Advice and Domestic Violence Service ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Roj Women Association
£10,000 13/09/2018
£10,000 over 12 months for working capital to develop Roj Women's Kurds & Whey trading subsidiary.
National Lottery Community Fund - For A Life Free of Violence
£9,870 14/03/2018
12
This project will deliver a programme of engagement activities that are designed to support women from the Kurdish and Turkish community who are survivors of abuse. This will raise awareness of the ....more
DCMS - Rosa Fund, Tampon Tax
£5,150 01/12/2017
To employ a worker for 2 days a week for 36 weeks to offer 20 Kurdish and Turkish women living in four boroughs in North London (Enfield, Haringey, Islington and Hackney) a domestic violence advice ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 20/08/2008, number: 1125572
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 risk management policy and procedures
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
15 returns made; AR23: 9 days late, AR17: 39 days late, AR16: 2 days late, AR09: 166 days late,
Main office

SELBY CENTRE
SELBY ROAD
TOTTENHAM
LONDON
N17 8JL

Objectives

A TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING AND TO RELIEVE UNEMPLOYMENT OF KURDISH AND TURKISH WOMEN FROM SYRIA, IRAQ, TURKEY AND IRAN.B TO RELIEVE THE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OF KURDISH AND TURKISH WOMEN; ANDC TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR KURDISH AND TURKISH WOMEN WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY AND DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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