Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 3
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

THE SHARAN PROJECT 

The primary objective of the charity is to ensure that South East Asian women who have been estranged from their families due to forced marriage, domestic violence or honour abuse have access to support, information and resources to help them become productive independent members of society.
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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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive benefits from the charity

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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
31/07/22£168£137£31n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/07/21£143£94£49n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/07/20*£54£31£24n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/07/19£30£23£6n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/07/18£16£38£-22£0£0£0n/a08
31/07/17£91£121£-30£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/16£108£54£54£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/15*£25£25£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/14*£24£22£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/13£4£6£-2£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 12 years
(15 years as a company)

www.sharan.org.uk

info@sharan.org.uk

08445043231

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
GiG Classification
  • Services for females
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 8 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 Sharan Project
£25,506 05/06/2020
£25,506 towards costs as outlined in your application excluding core costs.
Comic Relief - Our Girl - a prevention and awareness raising campaign project on forced marriage
£150,300 27/01/2016
18
The Department for Children, Schools and Families has estimated the prevalence of forced marriage (FM) in England as between 5,000 - 7,000 cases a year. FM predominantly impacts young women, and with ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 35-64
  • KAI AKRAM Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Public Relations
  • KAREN TOWNSEND Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Public Sector Administrator
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 25/09/2012, number: 1149094
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/07/2008, number: 06635024
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
10 returns made; AR20: 8 days late, AR15: 2 days late, AR14: 42 days late,
Main office

27 OLD GLOUCESTER STREET
LONDON
WC1N 3AX

Objectives

TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY HELPING VULNERABLE WOMEN WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED DUE TO HAVING BEEN FORCED TO LEAVE HOME BECAUSE OF A HOSTILE OR ABUSIVE FAMILY ENVIRONMENT (IN PARTICULAR, MEMBERS OF THE SOUTH ASIAN COMMUNITY). TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF SUCH PEOPLE AND ASSIST THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY, AND TO DO ALL SUCH OTHER THINGS AS ARE NECESSARY FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE OBJECTS.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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