Overall GiG Score: 9 ?
Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 11
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
  • Static board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +11

AFGHAN ASSOCIATION PAIWAND LTD 

Paiwand (meaning unity) is a charity committed to improving the lives of refugees in the UK and to fostering happier communities.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • 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:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
  • The Board composition appears to be rather static

Financial issues to consider:

  • Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended
Established: 13 years
(15 years as a company)

www.paiwand.com

info@paiwand.com

02089058770

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseFacebookInstagramX
UN SDGs
?

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£747£669£78£0£656£3526.34517
31/03/22*£799£565£234£0£578£3246.92920
31/03/21*£617£477£140£1£344£2045.12515
31/03/20£537£474£63£0£205£1263.22520
31/03/19£522£460£62£5£141£681.82330
31/03/18*£715£770£-54£1£79£490.8550
31/03/17£759£734£25£5£133£911.5730
31/03/16£646£662£-17£2£108£861.6700
31/03/15£470£468£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£497£473£24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£424£396£27£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12*£393£418£-25£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 12%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 10%
Liabilities/Income: 9%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 54%
Reserves/Spending: 6.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 11 months
Quick Ratio: 9
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • Recreation
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 45 employees
  • 17 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Barnet, Brent, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Haringey, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow,

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£499,373
Henry Smith Charity£297,000
Trust for London£160,000
John Lyon's Charity£102,780
AB Charitable Trust£55,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation£52,250
DCMS£31,996
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
John Lyon's Charity - Uplift grant to Afghan Association Paiwand
£3,000 17/12/2022
Cost-of-Living Uplift
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Afghan Association Paiwand
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Trust for London - Afghan Association Paiwand
£10,000 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-02.02.2021-8984
National Lottery Community Fund - Building Hope for Afghans in Northwest London
£499,373 23/09/2022
This funding will enable the group to continue their vital work supporting refugees and asylum seekers across North West London and will be used to improve the organisation’s internal capabilities.
Indigo Trust - Supporting refugees and asylum seekers in the UK
£2,000 22/12/2021
Supporting refugees and asylum seekers in the UK
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Afghan Association Paiwand
£120,000 07/12/2021
36
towards three years' running costs of an organisation providing additional counselling and wellbeing support for newly arrived refugees and asylum seekers, and families, from Afghanistan in the UK.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Paiwand
£20,000 07/10/2021
An unrestricted grant of £20,000 per year for 3 years (This grant is renewable - year 1 of up to 3 years). Paiwand provides a range of services including community advocacy, counselling, immigration ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Afghan Association Paiwand
£177,000 23/09/2021
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs a project providing a culturally sensitive advocacy and counselling service for refugees and asylum seekers with mental health problems ....more
Trust for London - Afghan Association Paiwand
£150,000 11/06/2021
36
The funding is to improve AAP's existing immigration service over the next three years. It will cover salaries for the Immigration Manager and costs for items such as training and IT equipment, ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Recovery grant to Afghan Association Paiwand
£50,000 03/12/2020
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Afghan Association Paiwand, awarded under the Foundation's Racial Equity funding stream. Part of the Covid Recovery Fund to support ....more
DCMS - DCMS VSCE CMC Covid Funding
£31,996 03/12/2020
The Community Match Challenge is an £85M fund aimed at supporting the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) in their COVID response. Awards were made to philanthropists, foundations and ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Afghan Association Paiwand
£15,000 02/07/2020
A restricted grant of £15,000 towards the Community Advocacy project. The Community Advocacy project works with refugees, asylum seekers and migrants to provide holistic, client centred advice and ....more
John Lyon's Charity - COVID-19 grant to Afghan Association Paiwand
£9,780 22/05/2020
12
COVID-19: LCR Wave 2 - Staff Equipment
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to Afghan Association Paiwand
£90,000 13/11/2019
36
Stag Lane Saturday School
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Afghan Association Paiwand
£20,000 27/06/2019
An unrestricted grant of £20,000. Afghan Association Paiwand aims to support refugees & migrants to integrate, and provides services including free English classes, housing, advocacy and ....more
London Borough of Barnet - Grant to Afghan Association Paiwand
£5,000 01/11/2018
Quality assurance of Saturday schools
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Afghan Association Paiwand
£170,500 12/09/2018
36
towards three years' continuation funding of a project providing a culturally sensitive advocacy and counselling service for refugees and asylum seekers with mental health problems in the London ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Hub
£390,517 31/05/2018
36
This project will offer a range of support to disadvantaged refugees and migrants. It will support with integration into the community and act as a single point of contact receiving referrals from ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Core funding
£65,000 02/03/2018
12
Afghan Association Paiwand helps refugees, asylum seekers and people who migrate to the UK to settle and thrive in their new home. This grant will provide the organisation with core funding to ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Afghan Association Paiwand
£20,000 23/01/2018
£20,000 towards the post of Advocacy Service Manager. Afghan Association Paiwand aims to support refugees & migrants to integrate, and provides services including free English classes, housing, ....more
Trust for London - Afghan Association Paiwand
£104,000 04/10/2017
36
The funding is to support and ensure the most vulnerable refugees and migrants have access to immigration advice and support. This includes those with language difficulties, severe health issues and ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Afghan Association Paiwand
£15,000 24/01/2017
£15,000 towards Paiwand's advocacy team. Afghan Association Paiwand aims to support refugees & migrants to integrate, and provides services including free English classes, housing, advocacy and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Upgrading Paiwand's support for clients and volunteers
£10,000 19/10/2016
12
This project will use the funding to upgrade their office facilities to enable them to offer more supportive activities for migrants. They will also upgrade their database to better understand the ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Afghan Association Paiwand
£90,000 22/09/2016
36
£90,000 over three years (3 x £30,000) for the costs of ESOL pre-entry level 1 and 2 classes and including the costs of achieving City & Guilds accreditation.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Afghan Association Paiwand
£15,000 22/04/2016
Kitchen equipment for a charity in London
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Afghan Association Paiwand
£73,627 17/03/2016
36
Afghan Association Paiwand provides community support services across NW London. The grant will fund Future First, a structured employability and apprenticeship project for young refugees and asylum ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Afghan Association Paiwand
£104,700 17/09/2015
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing a culturally sensitive advocacy and counselling service for refugees and asylum seekers with mental health problems in the London Boroughs of ....more
AB Charitable Trust - Rights-based support for refugees communities.
£15,000 26/06/2015
£15,000 towards Paiwand's advocacy team
National Lottery Community Fund - Health and happiness 2
£464,130 23/09/2014
35
Not Available
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Afghan Association Paiwand
£33,200 28/03/2013
Afghan Association Paiwand provides a range of services for Afghan and other refugee communities across North London. This project is a mentoring project supporting disadvantaged young refugees ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Working in Harmony: Strengthening partnership working
£262,738 25/09/2012
Strengthening the partnership between the supplementary school run by Afghan Association Paiwand in Barnet and mainstream schools to the benefit of the children and organisations.
National Lottery Community Fund - Sehat Wa Saadat (Health and Happiness)
£478,960 11/02/2010
60
This project offers advice, information and education to marginalised members of the local Afghan community. Based in Northwest London the initiative provides services including ESOL classes, social ....more
Show more rows

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 39-58
  • SAMI RAHMANZAI Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Marketing And Management Consultant
  • SAYED SHAH Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Self Employed
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/01/2011, number: 1139972
  • Registered at Companies House on 27/06/2008, number: 06632483
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 charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management 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; AR22: 58 days late, AR21: 36 days late, AR18: 14 days late, AR12: 90 days late,
Main office

11 High Street
Edgware
HA8 7EE

Objectives

1) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SUFFERING THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SERVICES AND ADVICE IN THE AREAS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, BENEFIT ENTITLEMENT, HEALTHCARE, INTERPRETATION AND TRANSLATION, EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT, PRIMARILY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, IN GREATER LONDON.2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION; SUPPLEMENTARY AND LANGUAGE CLASSES; AND VOCATIONAL COURSES AS WELL AS THE PROVISION OF ADVICE ABOUT SUCH COURSES.3) THE RELIEF OF SUFFERING CAUSED BY BEREAVEMENT, WAR, POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS PROSECUTION, SEXUAL DISCRIMINATION AND NATURAL DISASTER.

Defined Area of Benefit:

PRIMARILY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN GREATER LONDON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
Authorised officials of this charity can add information to this page (including a Donate Now button) for no cost

Tips for Selecting Charities

Which areas of philanthropy are most effective?
The text of this post is taken from an article on the Effective Altruism forum. It suggests that you can achieve the most impact by supporting causes that fight extreme poverty, improving animal welfare....more
Our Top Tips for Philanthropy
Here are some ideas to help you gain more satisfaction from your philanthropy and confidence that the causes you have selected are impactful. Engage your brain, as well as your heart You....more
How to become a Philanthropist
In this Blog we outline a strategy to help people who are new to philanthropy and for those who feel dissatisfied with the impact they are having. Effective philanthropy is immensely rewarding for donors,....more

Giving is Great