Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 5

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 13

THE MENTOR RING

The Mentor Ring provides mentoring support and guidance to people from ethnic backgrounds, helping them to overcome significant barriers to social inclusion. The Mentor Ring helps individuals from ethnic communities to tackle their personal challenges, whether it is in health & wellbeing, education, training, employment or settling in the UK and reach their potential.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

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

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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	£114	£104	£10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	8
31/03/22	£74	£81	£-7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	18
31/03/21	£95	£71	£24	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	12
31/03/20	£85	£55	£30	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	18
31/03/19	£56	£52	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	12
31/03/18	£32	£28	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£29	£48	£-19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	£66	£52	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15?	£89	£87	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/13	£29	£20	£9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 12 years

www.mentorring.org.uk

info@mentorring.org.uk

02921321073

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
Other Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Technical, vocational and continuing education

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
The General Public/Mankind

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years

National Lottery Community Fund	£29,180
The Foyle Foundation	£5,000
True Colours Trust	£3,500
Woodward Charitable Trust	£1,450

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
True Colours Trust - Towards activities and days out for disabled children and their families
£3,500	13/09/2023	Towards activities and days out for disabled children and their families.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards a summer play scheme
£750	06/06/2023	Summer Play Scheme
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000	29/11/2022	towards a community-based peer group mentoring project for young disadvantaged people
Woodward Charitable Trust - Summer Playscheme
£700	16/05/2022	Summer Playscheme
National Lottery Community Fund - Greetings
£9,800	03/09/2021	The funding is being used to offer coffee morning sessions in Islington Barking and Eastham with peer mentoring and support alongside training and workshops to support people in the wider community. ....more The funding is being used to offer coffee morning sessions in Islington Barking and Eastham with peer mentoring and support alongside training and workshops to support people in the wider community. Topics will include topics such as recycling gardening/planting information on diabetes and Covid health eating/diet/nutrition and yoga and meditation.
National Lottery Community Fund - COVID-19 - Journey through Mentoring
£9,400	26/08/2021	The Mentor Ring in Cardiff will use £9400 to provide volunteer-led mentoring for people from Black Asian Minority and Ethnic communities who need support with health and wellbeing issues related to ....more The Mentor Ring in Cardiff will use £9400 to provide volunteer-led mentoring for people from Black Asian Minority and Ethnic communities who need support with health and wellbeing issues related to Covid-19.
National Lottery Community Fund - COVID-19 - Together We Thrive
£9,980	12/05/2020 3	The Mentor Ring Limited in Cardiff will use £9980 to provide online and telephone emotional support for vulnerable black Asian and minority ethnic people who are isolated due to COVID-19. Bydd y ....more The Mentor Ring Limited in Cardiff will use £9980 to provide online and telephone emotional support for vulnerable black Asian and minority ethnic people who are isolated due to COVID-19. Bydd y Mentor Ring Limited yng Nghaerdydd yn defnyddio £9980 i ddarparu cefnogaeth emosiynol ar-lein ac dros y ffôn i bobl dduon Asiaidd a lleiafrifoedd ethnig sydd wedi'u hynysu oherwydd COVID-19.
National Lottery Community Fund - Mentoring Matters
£99,930	17/05/2018 24	The project will build on and enhance the existing activities by increasing the mentoring support to include people aged 16-35. Community-based individual and group mentoring support will be provided ....more The project will build on and enhance the existing activities by increasing the mentoring support to include people aged 16-35. Community-based individual and group mentoring support will be provided to young people from the more disadvantaged communities of Cardiff, particularly those who are struggling with mental or emotional health issues that increase the risk of social and economic exclusion. The grant, over two years, will fund salaries, project running costs, activities, events and overheads.
National Lottery Community Fund - Shining Stars
£4,673	24/07/2017 12	Project Summary : The Mentor Ring Limited in Cardiff will use the grant to support children with physical and learning disabilities to experience activities with their peers and to develop ....more Project Summary : The Mentor Ring Limited in Cardiff will use the grant to support children with physical and learning disabilities to experience activities with their peers and to develop confidence and have fun together. What Money is for : This grant for £4,673 will fund venue hire, volunteer expenses, sessional workers, publicity, refreshments, transport, arts, crafts and sports equipment and a telephone.
National Lottery Community Fund - Mentor matters
£119,273	15/05/2013 48	The project will provide mentoring support to the communities of Butetown, Grangetown and Riverside and other local Communities First areas across Cardiff. Support will cover a wide range of matters ....more The project will provide mentoring support to the communities of Butetown, Grangetown and Riverside and other local Communities First areas across Cardiff. Support will cover a wide range of matters including health, education, bereavement, family breakdown and career development. The project will allow the organisation to meet an increasing demand for mentoring support. The grant will fund salaries, staff/volunteer expenses, recruitment, overheads, training, marketing and accountancy.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees:

DR SUNIL PULAPAKA Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Consultant Camhs & Nd Service

DR YUSUF RANGOONWALA Appointed: 2016

JESSICA LEIGH HOOPER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Organisational Development And Engagement Manager

JOAN SIMON Appointed: 2023

RAJANI DEVI PONNADA Appointed: 2023

CHETNA SINHA Appointed: 2023, Other trusteeships: ROYAL COMMONWEALTH SOCIETY OF WALES, BHAKTI DHAM WALES, ETHNIC MINORITY WELSH WOMEN ACHIEVEMENT ASSOCIATION,

JOHN GAMBLIN Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired Nhs Programme Manager

SEAN NEWTON (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Nhs Engagement Manager Wales

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 05/11/2012, number: 1149605
Registered at Companies House on 17/12/2010, number: 07472750

Gift Aid

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
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

10 returns made; all on time

Main office

Butetown Community Centre
2nd Flr
Butetown
Cardiff
Butetown

Objectives

To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by working with people who are socially excluded on the grounds of their ethnic and cultural background, poverty, geographic isolation and health issues to relieve the needs of such people and assist them to integrate into society, in particular by the provision of mentoring, education and training.

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