Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 10
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

WARM HUT UK 

DROP IN SERVICE FOR AFRICAN MIGRANT COMMUNITIES AND SECOND GENERATION OF MIGRANTS.WE PROVIDE GENERAL ADVICE, INFORMATION, EDUCATION, WELFARE AND BENEFITS, HOMEWORK CLUB,TRAINING AND WORKSHOPS, INTERPRETATION AND TRANSLATION SERVICE. ARTS AND EMOTIONAL WELLBEING AND HOME WITH BEFRIENDING SERVICES. OPEN TO ALL COMMUNITIES, INCLUSIVE AND COHESION WITH SOCIAL AND LEISURE ACTIVITIES
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no 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:

  • There are only 4 trustees

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: 14 years

www.warmhut.org

info@warmhut.org

01617432016

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebookX
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*£310£310£0n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/03/22£176£176£0n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/03/21£276£234£42n/an/an/an/an/a23
31/03/20£156£130£26n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/19£152£124£28n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/18£112£111£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£154£136£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£135£134£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£121£106£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£55£50£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£44£41£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£23£21£2£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Congo, Congo (Democratic Republic), France, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 12 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£272,370
Henry Smith Charity£217,500
Tudor Trust£92,000
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation£60,000
DCMS£43,010
Sport England£27,245
Barrow Cadbury Trust£25,000
Forever Manchester£15,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - MH-Summer Club
£9,000 21/07/2023
The funding will be used to run activities and trips during the school summer holidays for young people aged between 11-15 years old living in Pendleton and Charlestown in Salford Manchester. The ....more
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - Grant to Warm Hut UK
£60,000 27/10/2022
30% of salary and running costs over 3-years for a charity supporting African migrant and refugee families in Salford, Gtr Manchester.
Sport England - Jubilee Fund - Nzango Dance
£5,606 18/08/2022
This project will introduce a new activity for the African Women in the organisation's community, the project would support and encourage participants to take part in Nzango dance sessions to help ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - ACE- War on Food Waste
£10,000 01/04/2022
This project will celebrate the Jubilee though a series of environmental projects to tackle food waste by bringing together older people and young people. Older people will share their cooking skills ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Warm Hut UK
£165,000 10/03/2022
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the salary of a Programme Manager and associated project costs for activities and support for African asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants in Salford, ....more
People's Health Trust - Bomoko Project (Together For Life)
£8,784 03/02/2022
This 18-month project delivers weekly wellbeing activities for older African migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in Wigan, who are mainly from French and Portuguese-speaking backgrounds. The ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - ‘Pensée Positive’ Programme
£233,370 12/12/2021
Warm Hut UK (Welcome Asylum Refugee Migrants) supports BAME people including asylum seekers and refugees from French speaking backgrounds living in Salford and across Greater Manchester. The group ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Climate Outreach Project (CCOP)
£10,000 25/10/2021
The funding is for a series of community outreach events with churches and faith groups focusing on engaging and inspiring African asylum seekers and refugee communities in Salford to participate in ....more
Sport England - COVID19 Return to Play
£3,010 21/09/2021
4
Funding under Sport England's Return to Play - Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID19 Return to Play. This project is a Movement & Dance project, with a focus on ....more
DCMS - ALB-Sport England-COVID19 Return to Play
£3,010 21/09/2021
Funding under Sport England's Return to Play - Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID19 Return to Play. This project is a Movement & Dance project, with a focus on ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Golden Age Project (GAP)
£10,000 25/03/2021
6
The funding will be used to support older people from the BAME community in Greater Manchester. The project aims to reduce isolation by providing a befriending service and running various activity ....more
Forever Manchester - Financial Wellbeing
£5,000 18/03/2021
Advice service for asylum seekers and refugees
Tudor Trust - Grant to Warm Hut UK
£2,000 06/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Sport England - TGC CF Keep Fit Together
£10,000 23/11/2020
11
The project will deliver tai-chi and walking classes for older women aged 60+.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Warm Hut UK
£52,500 23/10/2020
12
towards one year's running costs of a project providing mental health support and a financial literary programme for people from refugee and migrant backgrounds or BAME communities who have been ....more
Barrow Cadbury Trust - COVID-19 - Warm Hut UK
£25,000 21/09/2020
7
To provide additional befriending support to elderly asylum seekers and refugees
Forever Manchester - Food bank
£5,000 12/08/2020
Hot meal delivery service and hygiene aid
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£40,000 25/06/2020
"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
Forever Manchester - Oasis project
£5,000 15/05/2020
Outreach and welfare support for vulnerable people
Sport England - Nzango, traditional women's dance game
£8,629 06/02/2020
11
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Nzango, traditional women's dance game. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Warm Hut UK
£10,000 10/10/2019
An unrestricted grant of £10,000. Warm Hut supports refugees and asylum seekers in Salford and surrounding areas, including supporting emotional wellbeing, practical and social support and ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Warm Hut UK
£90,000 26/06/2019
36
over three years as continuation core funding for a charity working with migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Salford
The MSE Charity - Grant to Warm Hut
£5,000 15/04/2019
Finances and resettlement project to support migrants and refugees in Manchester.
National Lottery Community Fund - DEMENTIA FRIENDLY
£10,000 27/03/2019
12
The organisation will deliver activities for local people who have dementia, with the aim of reducing isolation and improving health and wellbeing.
DCMS - Tampon Tax Community Fund
£9,000 04/01/2019
FGM is a human rights violation and affects girls and women, not only immediately after they have been mutilated but for the rest of their lives. FGM is very damaging and harmful to women as well as ....more
MACC - Warm Hut UK Community Safety Project
£5,000 02/10/2018
We are planning to run a 6-month project to address several crime prevention issues in the community we live in. The first two week, we will engage young people aged 16-21 in Cheetham Hill, Cheethood ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Warm Hut UK
£10,000 03/07/2018
£10,000 towards the Advice Worker. Warm Hut supports refugees and asylum seekers in Salford and surrounding areas with activities including supporting emotional wellbeing, practical and social ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Warm Hut UK
£120,000 13/06/2018
36
towards three years' salary of the Project Manager at a project in Salford providing information and advice services for African asylum seekers and refugees
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Warm Hut UK
£15,000 18/04/2018
12
This request would enable the charity to develop, pilot and evaluate a more structured volunteering offer that combines a holistic package of support with training and practical work-related ....more
Ministry of Defence - Financial Assistance/Support
£2,500 01/04/2018
Objective is to provide support in the delivery of events in support of Armed Forces Day. Armed Forces Day is a chance to show support for the men and women who make up the Armed Forces community: ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Ngoma Y'AFrica (Music from Africa in Swahili)
£10,000 11/11/2016
12
This project will use the funding to organise various N’Goma Africa community events in Salford. This will enable the organisation to stage a Kizumba festival, a fashion catwalk event and a ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - My Y.E.A.R Project (Youth Empowered Against Radicalisation)
£10,000 19/10/2016
12
This project will use the funding to work with young people and their families from African heritage in East Salford who are at risk of radicalisation through weekly sessions for 24 weeks through ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Warm Hut UK
£90,000 20/04/2016
36
over three years towards core costs, including the salary of a programme manager, at a Salford-based charity working with BAME people particularly recent migrants, refugees and asylum seekers
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Warm Hut UK
£12,853 16/12/2015
12
supporting refugees, asylum seekers and migrants through advice, advocacy, activities, training and workshops The grant will fund PQASSO accreditation and introduce a case management system which ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - It's first my issue.
£10,000 12/08/2015
12
The organisation will use the funding to record life experiences of ten men who are married or partners of women who have under gone FGM from local French speaking African communities. This will ....more
MACC - Tumayini Project
£10,000 05/12/2014
To run the “Tumayini Project” to break isolation of Refugee older people from Non English Speaking background living in Manchester.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Warm Hut UK
£60,000 24/11/2014
The Nimba tales
National Lottery Community Fund - The Awaa Project
£10,000 25/06/2014
12
Not Available
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Warm Hut UK
£30,000 23/06/2014
Towards the salary of an outreach worker and volunteer expenses to offer practical support and emotional wellbeing activities to isolated older people from refugee backgrounds who are accused of ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Warm Hut UK
£25,000 31/05/2013
A self help organisation, providing peer support to those who have been through the asylum process, especially older people and women, enabling them to overcome the social barriers facing them and ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 15/10/2010, number: 1138445
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
  • 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
  • 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
12 returns made; AR23: 9 days late,
Main office

SUITE E5
8TH FLOOR
ST JAMES'S HOUSE
Pendleton Way
SALFORD

Objectives

-TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS AND MIGRANTS AND THEIRDEPENDANTS LIVING (TEMPORARILY OR PERMANENTLY) IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY:- RELIEVING THEIR NEEDS AND HELPING THEM ADAPT TO THEIR COMMUNITY, IN PARTICULARBY PROVIDING A DROP-IN SERVICE PROVIDING ADVICE, ADVOCACY, PRACTICAL ASSISTANCEAND SIGNPOSTING/LIASING WITH OTHER ORGANISATIONS THAT CAN ACHIEVE THESE AIMS.- TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFAREFOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OFSUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIALHARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OFLIFE.- FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSES DEEMED CHARITABLE BY THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALESAS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE UNITED KINGDOM

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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