Overall GiG Score: 19 ?
Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11

THE CONGOLESE ASSOCIATION OF MERSEYSIDE 

? Drop in: Information (multilingual translation, interpretation), Advice & guidance, referrals and sign posting? Education & Community development activities - employable skills workshops? Financial & Digital inclusion workshops? Events facilitation: community cohesion, events ? A range of recreational and leisure activities: Music, arts, outings and visits to local sites.
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 and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
Established: 10 years
(17 years as a company)

www.congomerseyside.org.uk

congomerseyside@yahoo.fr

01513456913

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UN SDGs
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
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£106£96£11n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/03/22*£43£45£-2n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/21?£51£49£2n/an/an/an/an/a8
27/09/20£27£26£0n/an/an/an/an/a6
27/09/19£12£10£2n/an/an/an/an/a6
27/09/18*£12£12£0£0£0£0n/a00
27/09/17£24£23£1£0£0£0n/a00
27/09/16?£5£5£0£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/15*£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • Recreation
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 8 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Congo (Democratic Republic), Knowsley, Liverpool City, Sefton, Wigan, Wirral,

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£209,614
Henry Smith Charity£79,100
Lloyds Bank Foundation£52,250
John Moores Foundation£15,000
Barrow Cadbury Trust£6,650
Garfield Weston Foundation£5,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£3,500
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£2,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to The Congolese Association of Merseyside
£50,000 07/12/2022
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of The Congolese Association of Merseyside
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to The Congolese Association of Merseyside
£2,250 07/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to The Congolese Association of Merseyside (CAM)
£79,100 22/09/2022
36
towards three years' running costs of a community organisation that supports displaced people to rebuild their lives, residing in disadvantaged communities in Sefton, Merseyside.
National Lottery Community Fund - Empreinte Move On
£180,096 23/08/2022
Funding will support the Congolese Association of Merseyside to employ staff and strengthen the capacity of the organisation. Alongside developing their internal capacity and moving to a paid staff ....more
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to The Congolese Association of Merseysisde
£2,000 09/08/2022
Small Grant Unrestricted Core Costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Empreinte Move On
£9,656 08/07/2022
The organisation will use the funding to continue its support for newly arrived asylum seekers refugees and vulnerable migrants who are struggling with the dilemma of integration. They will provide a ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Empreinte Connect
£2,500 23/09/2021
The funding will be used to provide a series of activity sessions trips and days out and cultural celebration events for French-speaking and Luzophone Africans newly arrived in Merseyside and other ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 09/04/2021
Empreinte Equip
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Congolese Association of Merseyside
£3,500 17/11/2020
purchase IT equipment and a vehicle for a charity supporting minority communities in Merseyside
Barrow Cadbury Trust - COVID-19 - The Congolese Association of Merseyside
£6,650 30/09/2020
7
To enable CAM to continue to operate its information and support drop-in service by phone
John Moores Foundation - Grant to Congolese Association of Merseyside
£15,000 07/07/2020
Towards running costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Empreinte Equip
£8,164 30/04/2020
7
The organisation will increase supports for local asylum seekers refugee and migrant communities who are experiencing hardship as a result of COVID-19 with the aim of removing a language barrier when ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Empreinte Integrate
£9,198 16/05/2019
12
The funding will be used to deliver a support service, for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants, where people will be provided with the advice on things like finding employment and socialising. The ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - EMPREINTE INTEGRATE
£10,000 02/04/2014
12
Not Available
National Lottery Community Fund - Empreinte 'Equiping'
£10,000 08/04/2010
12
This group will use an award to provide a new training scheme providing vocational training to beneficiaries to upgrade and enhance their skills. The project will improve skills of beneficiaries and ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 28-58
  • ELEANOR SMITH Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Administrative Officer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/05/2014, number: 1157149
  • Registered at Companies House on 29/04/2006, number: 05801288
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
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
9 returns made; AR22: 1 days late, AR18: 169 days late, AR15: 26 days late,
Main office

Kingspark Business Centre
97 Stanley Road
BOOTLE
Merseyside
L20 7DA

Objectives

1) TO RELIEVE POVERTY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONG REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS, MIGRANT WORKERS AND OTHER LOCAL PERSONS IN NEED LIVING IN MERSEYSIDE BY PROVIDING INFORMATION, INTERPRETING, TRANSLATING, ADVOCACY, ADVICE AND GUIDANCE SERVICES FOR EMPLOYMENT, HEALTH AND HOUSING.2) TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF MERSEYSIDE AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID RESIDENTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO PROMOTE INTEGRATION, ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE RESIDENTS.3) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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