Overall GiG Score: 17 ?
Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 13
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +10

LEARN ENGLISH AT HOME 

LEAH works with ethnic minority adults who are socially isolated due to their lack of English language. We provide: one to one English as a second language tuition in the client's home; small group classes in community settings; trips and social activities; and information about local statutory and voluntary provision, embedded into all our services.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • 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
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly female

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: 11 years

www.leah.org.uk

info@leah.org.uk

02082556144

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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£380£373£8n/an/an/an/an/a125
31/03/22£427£309£118n/an/an/an/an/a110
31/03/21£335£281£54n/an/an/an/an/a105
31/03/20£397£321£75n/an/an/an/an/a120
31/03/19£195£194£0n/an/an/an/an/a127
31/03/18£237£177£60£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£208£195£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16*£234£203£32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£205£200£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
Who works here?
  • 125 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,

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£437,935
Henry Smith Charity£160,000
The Rayne Foundation£54,000
Trust for London£53,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£45,000
The Bromley Trust£36,000
DCMS£29,657
AB Charitable Trust£25,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Trust for London - Learn English at Home
£3,000 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-02.06.2020-8642
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£25,000 05/08/2022
LEAH - Core Application
The Bromley Trust - Unrestricted grant
£36,000 17/01/2022
Learn English at Home (LEAH) empowers ethnically diverse adults, including refugees and asylum seekers, with limited English to move forward independently. LEAH's volunteers deliver free holistic ....more
Cheshire Community Foundation - Learn for Life
£4,000 18/10/2021
Learn English at Home clients will receive the new ‘Learning for Life’ blended delivery of free English language, digital awareness, health and wellbeing tuition and service engagement support. ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - 1:1 English service engagement and transition support project expansion
£437,935 12/08/2021
The group is using funding to continue and expand the weekly 1:1 English language service engagement and progression support which is currently delivered in Hounslow Kingston and Richmond. The ....more
London Borough of Hounslow - Grant to Learn English at Home
£5,000 08/07/2021
12
Hounslow one-to-one-service - Free holistic on-to-one language, digital inclusion, local service engagement and transition support for minoritised adults.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Learn English at Home (LEAH)
£15,000 22/04/2021
An unrestricted grant of £15,000. Learn English at Home (LEAH) works across the boroughs of Kingston, Richmond and Hounslow providing one on one ESOL classes at home to refugees and migrants who do ....more
London Catalyst - Learn English at Home - 2
£2,000 09/02/2021
Literacy for Health & Wellbeing Community Classes
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 18/12/2020
Learn English at Home (Core Costs)
Trust for London - Learn English at Home
£50,000 14/10/2020
24
This funding is for a 2-year tailored, worker led programme with specific focus on "in-work progression' for low paid workers with basic and intermediate level of English at the New English ....more
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to Learn English at Home
£54,000 21/09/2020
36
Towards the scaling up and annual evaluation of a programme of ‘bespoke’ English language and social integration support for socially excluded minority ethnic adults.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£29,657 19/08/2020
"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
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Learn English at Home (LEAH)
£10,000 23/04/2020
An unrestricted grant of £10,000. LEAH delivers one on one volunteer led home based ESOL tuition and social integration trips to refugees and migrants who do not speak English as a first language, ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Learn English At Home
£10,017 20/04/2020
changing our delivery model to a confidential ESOL 'Keeping in Touch' and 'Emergency Signposting' service via a confidential phone system and online video. Recruiting additional volunteers by ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Learn English at Home
£160,000 10/12/2019
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing support to isolated migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in the London Boroughs of Hounslow, Kingston and Richmond
Greater London Authority - Learn English at Home
£10,000 02/12/2019
Small Grants Programme 2019/20
London Borough of Hounslow - Grant to Learn English at Home
£15,000 11/11/2019
12
Provision of 1:1 volunteer delivered ESOL support, as well as expanding the service to offer a community-based group English Literacy class and social integration trips/activities.
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to Learn English at Home
£5,000 26/02/2019
6
Literacy for Health; for vulnerable women in Kingston
Co-Operative Group - Grant to LEAH (Learn English at Home)
£3,531 19/11/2018
Funds would go towards our volunteer training: a highly-regarded 45-hour course for teaching English at a very low level.
London Borough of Hounslow - Grant to Learn English at Home
£8,000 19/11/2018
12
LEAH offers one to one ESOL classes to Hounslow residents with low English language levels in their homes where they are unable to access mainstream classes due to ill-health, caring responsibilities ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Learn English at Home (1:1 ESOL support project)
£318,075 05/11/2018
36
The project will continue to deliver their core 1:1 home based ESOL project, supporting vulnerable, isolated adults with very low levels of English.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Learn English at Home (LEAH)
£10,000 24/04/2018
£10,000 towards the core costs of home based 1:1 language support. LEAH seeks to help refugees and migrants within Kingston improve their English skills and to promote integration. They offer free ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 18/04/2018
First Steps 1:1
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to Learn English at Home
£10,000 16/10/2017
24
Toward's LEAH's expansion into Hounslow so that isolated refugees and migrants with poor levels of English can improve their language skills.
London Borough of Hounslow - Grant to Learn English at Home
£15,000 27/02/2017
12
First Steps 1:1 provides English language support to BAME residents in Hounslow who are unable to access mainstream classes.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 15/08/2013, number: 1153425
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • 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
10 returns made; AR16: 31 days late,
Main office

Siddeley House
50 Canbury Park Road
Kingston
Surrey
KT26LX

Objectives

THE ORGANISATION IS ESTABLISHED TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF PEOPLE FROM MINORITY ETHNIC COMMUNITIES WHO DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH AS A FIRST LANGUAGE AND WHO ARE UNABLE TO ACCESS ADULT EDUCATION COURSES SO THAT THEY MAY LEARN OR IMPROVE THEIR COMMAND OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

Data Sources

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