Overall GiG Score: 14 ?
Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 13
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +13

ROOM TO HEAL 

Room to Heal is a community for refugees and asylum seekers who have survived torture and other forms of organised violence. They enable members to heal from their traumatic experiences, find renewed meaning in life and integrate into UK society
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

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: 15 years

www.roomtoheal.org

info@roomtoheal.org

02079232007

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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
31/12/22£359£343£16n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/12/21£312£358£-46n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/12/20£485£287£198n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/12/19£274£263£11n/an/an/an/an/a16
31/12/18£266£247£19£0£0£0n/a011
31/12/17£231£261£-30£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£223£207£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£214£167£47£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£152£135£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£118£115£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£107£101£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£63£74£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/10£75£56£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09£29£27£1£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 5 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,

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
Henry Smith Charity£296,700
City Bridge Trust£185,400
The Bromley Trust£90,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation£58,772
Barrow Cadbury Trust£46,400
Garfield Weston Foundation£45,000
Alan & Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund£40,000
DCMS£34,024
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Room to Heal
£188,500 21/09/2023
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the salary and on costs of the Operation Director at a project support for asylum seekers and refugees affected by torture, violence, persecution and/or ....more
The Bromley Trust - Unrestricted grant
£45,000 30/01/2023
Room to Heal supports refugees and asylum seekers who have survived the horrors of torture, trafficking and organised violence.This is a three year unrestricted grant towards their work.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Room to Heal
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Crowdfunder - Local Action Fund
£4,551 05/09/2022
Covid response
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Room to Heal
£50,000 08/04/2022
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Room to Heal
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Room to Heal - 25/11/21
£1,250 14/01/2022
Therapeutic programme: specialist therapy and community support for refugees and asylum seekers who have survived torture to improve their mental health and to reduce their social isolation.
London Catalyst - Room to Heal - 4
£3,750 16/11/2021
Evaluating remote group therapy for torture survivors during Covid-19 & using learnings to inform and develop future mental health services
London Catalyst - Room to Heal - 5
£1,300 16/11/2021
Hardship Fund
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Room to Heal
£10,000 09/09/2021
An unrestricted grant of £10,000 (This grant is renewable - year 3 of 3 years). Room to Heal provides holistic, community-based care for torture survivors
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Room to Heal
£9,964 29/01/2021
6
This funding is for refugees and asylum seekers who survived torture to meet urgent, basic day-to-day needs, including food & essentials, phone/data top-ups, taxi/travel fares (e.g. to hospital) ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£34,024 29/09/2020
"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
Barrow Cadbury Trust - COVID-19 - Room2Heal
£46,400 25/08/2020
6
To enable Room2Heal to continue providing its therapeutic and support services
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Room to Heal
£9,945 05/08/2020
The funding is for essential food and provisions to help torture survivors meet basic day-to-day needs during the ongoing pandemic. It's also for equipment, software, wifi and training so staff can ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Room to Heal
£6,522 23/07/2020
Grant to Room to Heal meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Room to Heal
£185,400 21/05/2020
£185,400 over 5 years (£36,000, £36,600, £37,100, £37,600, £38,100) for a 0.6 fte Caseworker and a 0.4 fte Psychotherapist and associated running costs to provide individual and group ....more
Alan & Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund - Room to Heal - core costs
£20,000 21/05/2020
Core costs
Alan & Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund - Room to Heal - core costs
£20,000 21/05/2020
Core costs
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Room to Heal
£10,465 23/04/2020
The funding is for staff costs, laptops, mobiles and associated costs, to enable us to change the way we deliver therapy and casework support. Previously we supported survivors face-to-face, now we ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£45,000 20/03/2020
Restoring life after violence - supporting torture survivors to rebuild their lives through a holistic, community-based programme of care
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Room to Heal
£108,200 19/03/2020
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the salary of the Operation Director at a project providing support to asylum seekers and refugees affected by torture, violence, persecution and/or ....more
The Bromley Trust - Unrestricted grant
£45,000 06/01/2020
36
Room to Heal supports refugees and asylum seekers who have survived the horrors of torture, trafficking and organised violence.This is a three year unrestricted grant towards their work.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Room to Heal
£10,000 10/10/2019
An unrestricted grant of £10,000 (this grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Room to Heal uses therapeutic assistance to support refugees who have experienced torture with support ranging ....more
London Catalyst - Room to Heal - 2
£3,000 07/02/2019
The ?Healing Trauma - Bridge to Community? enables us to increase the individual, trauma-focused psychotherapy that we can offer.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Room To Heal
£7,400 05/02/2019
installation of soundproof divisions in a buildings for a charity which works with disadvantaged minority communities in London
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards the costs of the caseworker
£500 13/11/2018
Towards the costs of the caseworker.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 18/10/2018
Creative survival - supporting survivors of torture and organised violence to rebuild their lives through a holistic, community-based programme of care.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Room to Heal
£10,000 15/10/2018
£10,000 towards core costs. Room to Heal uses therapeutic assistance to support refugees who have experienced torture with support ranging from physical and psychological therapy and access to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Platform 11 - participatory arts project
£9,380 14/05/2018
12
The funding will be used to deliver a range of creative storytelling workshops and activities which will tell the stories of the experiences faced by asylum seekers. The project aims to equip them ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Room to Heal
£74,790 22/03/2018
36
Room to Heal is requesting funding towards its core costs to support its holistic programme of therapeutic and community support for refugees and asylum seekers who are survivors of torture and abuse
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Invest grant to Room to Heal
£24,930 22/03/2018
12
Continutation grant over one year to Room to Heal under the Invest funding programme
London Catalyst - Room to Heal - 1
£3,000 30/11/2017
'Healing Trauma - Bridge to Community'
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Room to Heal
£10,000 31/10/2017
£10,000 towards core costs. Room to Heal uses therapeutic assistance to support refugees who have experienced torture with support ranging from physical and psychological therapy and access to ....more
AB Charitable Trust - Therapy and casework for torture survivors
£10,000 25/10/2016
£10,000 towards core costs
Tudor Trust - Grant to Room to Heal
£7,500 23/06/2016
12
as a development grant towards the development and installation of a new database_x000D_ _x000D_
Comic Relief - Healing the shattered self - a community-based, integrated programme for torture survivors
£120,000 16/03/2016
36
Torture devastates a person’s capacity for a flourishing life. The trauma of exile compounds the situation, and often entails losing one’s home, family and society. This is further exacerbated by ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Room to Heal
£70,000 23/07/2015
24
over two years as continuation funding towards core salaries at an organisation offering therapeutic and practical support to refugees and asylum seekers in Islington, North London_x000D_ _x000D_
AB Charitable Trust - Holistic, healing community for torture survivors
£10,000 26/06/2015
£10,000 towards core costs
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Room to Heal
£120,000 15/05/2014
36
£120,000 over three years (£40,000; £40,000; £40,000) towards the salary costs of specialist therapeutic and support staff, therapeutic retreats and clinical supervision for therapeutic staff.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Therapeutic gardening sessions for torture victims
£1,000 04/02/2014
Towards therapeutic gardening sessions for those who have survived torture and human rights violations.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Room to Heal
£30,200 29/01/2014
This therapeutic community provides counselling and wider emotional and practical support to refugee and asylum seeker survivors of torture. Its caseworkers help clients access services, secure ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 29-45
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 27/03/2009, number: 1128857
  • Registered at Companies House on 07/11/2008, number: 06744055
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Filing Record
14 returns made; all on time
Main office

Mildmay Community Centre
Woodville Road
LONDON
N16 8NA

Objectives

1) TO PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS) THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS: (A) RELIEVING NEED AMONG THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE; (B) OBTAINING REDRESS FOR THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE; (C) RESEARCH INTO HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES; (D) RAISING AWARENESS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES; (E) PROMOTING RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AMONG INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANISATIONS; (F) PROVIDING TECHNICAL ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AND OTHERS ON HUMAN RIGHTS MATTERS; (G) CONTRIBUTING TO THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS LAW; (H) COMMENTING ON PROPOSED HUMAN RIGHTS LEGISLATION; (I) PROMOTING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS; (J) INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY OF HUMAN RIGHTS; AND (K) ELIMINATING INFRINGEMENTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS. 2) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE WORLD

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase

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