Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: -2

Support Score: 2

Spending declining: -1
Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

Narrow trustee age band: -2

Grant maker support: +2

Overall GiG Score: -3

SOMALI PARENTS NETWORK

Drop in sessions providing sign posting and bridging service.Emergency response: Intervention service for family in crisis.Group meeting consultation for parents, young people, including meetings to discuss particular issues and information sessions focusing on particular topics in addition to promote engagement and meeting with stakeholder.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

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
Spending is declining
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

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
30/06/23		£33	£27	£6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
30/06/22		£22	£31	£-9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
30/06/21		£28	£31	£-4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
30/06/20		£33	£24	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
30/06/19		£34	£32	£2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
30/06/18		£41	£41	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/06/17		£34	£35	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/06/16		£25	£41	£-15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/06/15	*	£56	£46	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/06/14		£55	£50	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/06/13		£55	£57	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 12 years

WWW.SOMALIPARENTNETWORK.COM

SOMALIPARENTSNET@BTCONNECT.COM

02088540404

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
Recreation

GiG Classification

Other specialist outpatient services

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Bexley, Greenwich, Lewisham,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
3 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
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,200	08/07/2020	"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 "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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Somali Parents Network
£10,000	11/06/2020	£10,000.00 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, in order to carry on providing support to Londoners

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 47-56

ABDI FARAH Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Secretary

ABDIFATAH ISMAIL Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Supervisor

ESSA MOHAMED Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Manager

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/10/2012, number: 1149416
Registered at Companies House on 22/06/2012, number: 08116226

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity 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
Investment
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

11 returns made; AR15: 12 days late,

Main office

131A KINGSMAN STREET
LONDON
SE18 5PS

Objectives

TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF PEOPLE LIVING IN THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF GREENWICH WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED ON THE GROUNDS OF THEIR ETHNIC ORIGIN, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY PEOPLE FROM THE SOMALI COMMUNITY AND TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF SUCH PEOPLE AND ASSIST THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY, IN PARTICULAR BY: 1.PROVIDING A LOCAL NETWORK GROUP THAT ENCOURAGES AND ENABLES THEM TO PARTICIPATE MORE EFFECTIVELY WITH THE WIDER COMMUNITY; 2.INCREASING, OR CO-ORDINATING, OPPORTUNITIES FOR THEM TO ENGAGE WITH SERVICE PROVIDERS, TO ENABLE THOSE PROVIDERS TO ADAPT SERVICES TO BETTER MEET THE NEEDS OF THAT COMMUNITY; AND 3.TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE BENEFICIARIES IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN SUCH WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY AND HELP MEET THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE ROYAL BROUGH OF GREENWICH

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