Finance Score: -1

Governance Score: -5

Support Score: 2

Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
Reasonable growth: +1
No PartB

No volunteer policy: -2
Static board: -3

Grant maker support: +2

Overall GiG Score: -4

THE LONDON MERIT ASSOCIATION

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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 including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
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
Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended
There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change

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
30/04/23		£288	£320	£-32	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
30/04/22	*	£373	£262	£111	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	41
30/04/21?	*	£387	£342	£45	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	40
31/03/20		£249	£223	£26	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	64
31/03/19		£195	£194	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	33
31/03/18	*	£112	£183	£-71	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	*	£148	£102	£45	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	*	£133	£113	£19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	*	£139	£119	£21	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£185	£166	£19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£136	£112	£24	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£73	£50	£23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£57	£72	£-15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£39	£24	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 15 years

www.londonmerit.org.uk

info@londonmerit.org.uk

02083503503

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Amateur Sport
Disability
Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage
General Charitable Purposes
Other Charitable Purposes
Religious Activities
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Services for females

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
10 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
City Bridge Trust - Grant to The London Merit Association
£9,900	15/05/2020	A grant of £9,900 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Home Office - Knife Crime Community Fund 2019-20
£30,000	01/04/2019	The fund was set up in 2017/18 to support community projects which reduce knife crime and have a positive impact on young people at risk of carrying a knife and committing crime. The fund was open to ....more The fund was set up in 2017/18 to support community projects which reduce knife crime and have a positive impact on young people at risk of carrying a knife and committing crime. The fund was open to voluntary and community sector groups and the Home Office made up to £800,000 available in 2017 to 2018.A second round of the fund was announced in the Serious Violence Strategy, launched by the Home Secretary on 9 April 2018.In 2018/19 were are increasing this fund to £1.56 million pound for 68 projects.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

CIHAT YILDIZ Appointed: 2019

ENVER GUNDOGDU

KENAN BOYRAZ Appointed: 2019

SEVKI YUKSEKKAYA Appointed: 2019

ISMAIL SIK Appointed: 2019

MUSA KARABAY Appointed: 2019, Other trusteeship: Suleymaniye humanitarian Trust,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 15/06/2009, number: 1130154

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
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
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Filing Record

14 returns made; AR22: 25 days late, AR21: 393 days late, AR18: 1 days late, AR17: 1 days late, AR16: 2 days late, AR15: 2 days late,

Main office

London Merit Association
4-5 Centre Way
Claverings Industrial Estate
London
N9 0AP

Objectives

TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF LONDON AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID RESIDENTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE RESIDENTS.IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE TRUSTEES SHALL HAVE POWER: TO ESTABLISH OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE AND TO MAINTAIN OR MANAGE OR CO-OPERATE WITH ANY STATUTORY AUTHORITY IN THE MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF SUCH A CENTRE FOR ACTIVITIES PROMOTED BY THE CHARITY IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS..

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON

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