Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: -6
Support Score: 6
  • Volatile income
  • spending growth: -1
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Very static board: -5
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: -1 ?

MIGRANT WORKERS SEFTON COMMUNITY 

MWSC was establishes in 2007 to support international workers and their dependents in Sefton and surrounding area who were experiencing discrimination, unfair treatment and financial hardship in particular in the fields of access to employment, housing, healthcare, welfare entitlements and financial services. Registered as a charity on January 2009 and in January 2014 converted to a CIO.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no 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:

  • There are only 4 trustees
  • The Board composition appears to be very static

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained

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
28/02/23£66£61£5n/an/an/an/an/a10
28/02/22£110£83£26n/an/an/an/an/a4
28/02/21£85£85£0n/an/an/an/an/a7
29/02/20£51£40£11n/an/an/an/an/a15
28/02/19£52£26£26n/an/an/an/an/a19
28/02/18£17£2£14£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/17£29£28£1£0£0£0n/a00
29/02/16£21£10£11£0£0£0n/a00
28/02/15£8£4£4£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 10 years

mwsc@hotmail.co.uk

01704514159

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Other specialist outpatient services
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
Where it operates
  • Lancashire, Sefton,
Who it helps
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 10 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£28,923
John Moores Foundation£15,000
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside£13,325
Barrow Cadbury Trust£13,000
New Philanthropy Capital (NPC)£10,000
DCMS£9,152
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) - Open Philanthropy Fund B
£10,000 14/02/2023
Unrestricted funding to tackle financial hardship
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Ukrainian refugee services, support, intergration and 'A Safe Place'
£10,000 23/01/2023
To fund sessional fees for Ukranian/Russian speaking case workers 14 hours a week for Ukrainian refugees. This is to support in them in a variety of things including, but not limited to, applying for ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Increase in services due to extra demand impacted by the Ukrainin war
£10,000 14/10/2022
The funding will be used to help meet the demand for the organisation's face-to-face crisis support for Ukrainian refugees. This will provide help with benefits applications legal and police issues ....more
John Moores Foundation - Grant to Migrant Workers Sefton Community
£15,000 28/09/2022
Towards sessional fees for refugees-migrants-asylum seekers weekly surgery
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Supermarket food vouchers
£825 22/08/2022
The group are requesting funding to purchase supermarket vouchers for allocation to Refugees.
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Refugees - Migrants housing surgeries
£2,500 10/08/2022
To employ a sessional worker to support migrants with housing.
National Lottery Community Fund - Migrant workers 'Helpline' coping with Covid-19 covering welfare rights & debt
£10,000 04/06/2021
The funding will be used to run an advice service helpline and face to face appointments with translation for people with no English or IT skills. The project aims to provide advocacy help with ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,152 25/09/2020
"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
Barrow Cadbury Trust - COVID-19 - Migrant workers Sefton community
£13,000 25/08/2020
6
To increase capacity to meet growing need amongst migrant workers who have been detrimentally affected by COVID-19
National Lottery Community Fund - CORVID-19 Vulnerable Citizens Escalation & A
£8,923 09/04/2020
12
The project will provide support to vulnerable members of the community and those whose second language is English with such things as food/prescription deliveries benefit claims and affects of ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Help Line
£10,000 06/12/2018
12
The charity will set up a multi-lingual helpline for economic migrants from Eastern Europe and Russia with the aim of reaching more people in need of advice and support across a range of issues. ....more
John Moores Foundation - Grant to Migrant Workers Sefton Community
£12,000 01/06/2018
Towards sessional workers' fees
National Lottery Community Fund - Employment project assisting people with employment issues and helping
£10,000 14/12/2016
12
The funding will be used to provide information and practical help for migrant workers and families to access employment including filling in forms, writing CV’s and applying for jobs. The aim ....more
John Moores Foundation - Grant to Migrant Workers Sefton Community
£6,820 01/06/2016
Towards running and project costs
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 14/01/2014, number: 1155318
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
  • 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
9 returns made; all on time
Main office

Office 5 Shakespeare House
37-39 Shakespeare St
Southport
Merseyside
PR8 5AB

Objectives

1 THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONGST MIGRANT WORKERS AND THEIR DEPENDENTS LIVING (TEMPORARILY OR PERMANENTLY) IN SEFTON AND THE SURROUNDING AREA.2 TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF MIGRANT WORKERS AND THEIR DEPENDENTS3 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF MIGRANT WORKERS AND THEIR DEPENDENTS IN NEED THEREOF SO AS TO ADVANCE THEM IN LIFE AND ASSIST THEM TO ADAPT WITHIN A NEW COMMUNITY4 THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONGST MIGRANT WORKERS WHO RESIDE IN SEFTON5 THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT OF MIGRANT WORKERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, AND IN PARTICULAR SEFTON, BY THE PROVISION OF VOCATIONAL AND SKILLS TRAINING, ADVICE AND SUPPORT

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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