Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 9
  • No PartB
  • Static board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

RECONNECTION 

Provide welfare-benefits advice and information to increase access to services,Walking and Cycling activities to promote health and wellbeing,Coffee Chat Shop advice to promote integration,Run drop-in advice/information service to increase access to available services,Facilitate the integration of new communities into their new country
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 and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board composition appears to be rather 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
  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
Established: 10 years

www.communityreconnection.co.uk

communityreconnection@gmail.com

02080046280

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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£49£33£17n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/22£67£42£25n/an/an/an/an/a7
31/03/21?£64£42£22n/an/an/an/an/a5
09/12/19£21£19£2n/an/an/an/an/a5
09/12/18?£19£19£0£0£0£0n/a03
03/08/17£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0
03/08/16£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0
03/08/15£49£49£0£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 5 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
Trust for London£103,970
City Bridge Trust£37,270
National Lottery Community Fund£19,416
DCMS£13,858
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Trust for London - Reconnection
£44,000 24/08/2023
The funding is for a continuation of current project which is an essential service that provides much-needed advice and information on welfare benefits; signposts those with complex and high personal ....more
Trust for London - Reconnection
£970 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-04.02.2020-8461
National Lottery Community Fund - Breaking the Barriers
£9,880 19/11/2021
The funding will be used to continue and further develop a digital service to break the barriers and virtually link refugees to available services and resources in bigger numbers. The project aims to ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Reconnection
£29,950 08/04/2021
towards salary costs, 6 months rent, training and technology supplies as outlined in your application
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£13,858 29/09/2020
"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
Trust for London - Reconnection
£59,000 10/06/2020
36
The funding is for an essential service that a) provides much needed advice and information on welfare benefits; b) signposts those with complex, legal and high personal and social needs to relevant ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Reconnection
£7,320 15/05/2020
£7,320 towards 3 months of expenditure as outlined in your application
National Lottery Community Fund - Coffee-Chat-Shop-Advice-Service
£9,536 22/04/2020
12
The funding will be used to continue the provision of a café advice service for refugees allowing the community to develop friendships.
National Lottery Community Fund - New-Communities coffee-chat advice shop
£9,993 14/05/2018
12
The funding is for a café to enable new communities to develop their confidence and skills. This will help them to integrate into their local community and help develop relationships. Furthermore ....more
Trust for London - Reconnection
£27,500 04/10/2017
24
The funding is towards advice and information on welfare benefits; referring to advice agencies including language support if/when necessary and create a conducive environment for beneficiaries so ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 24/06/2014, number: 1157568
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
  • 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
8 returns made; all on time
Main office

Greenwich West
Arts and Community Centre
141 Greenwich High Road
London
SE10 8JA

Objectives

1. TO RELIEVE AND PREVENT POVERTY AMONG MEMBERS OF ALL ‘NEWLY ARRIVED COMMUNITIES’ AND THEIR DEPENDENTS LIVING IN GREENWICH, BRENT, BEXLEY AND SURROUNDING AREAS BY PROVIDING ADVOCACY/SIGNPOSTING/GENERAL ADVICE/TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION SERVICES2. TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AMONG MEMBERS OF NEWLY ARRIVED COMMUNITIES WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED ON THE GROUNDS OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC POSITION IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING:A) INFORMAL CONVERSATIONAL ENGLISH GROUPS, WITH FLUENT ENGLISH SPEAKERS;B) EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING IN THE COMMUNITY;C) SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY.IN THIS CLAUSE ‘NEWLY ARRIVED COMMUNITIES’ MEANS THOSE COMING TO LIVE AND SETTLE IN THE UK FROM OTHER COUNTRIES, PARTICULARLY THOSE WHO DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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