Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 8

No PartB

Large volunteer base +3
Overall weighted support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 8

COMMUNITY OF TIGRAYAN IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

* Advice, support and advocacy on welfare benefits, education, training and employment etc.* Female and young people training and development programmes * Health development programmes* Job search and business start up * Provide courses such as English, IT, web-design etc. * Organise social and cultural event* Supplementary classes, and homework club

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

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 £k	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23		£26	£15	£11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/22		£9	£16	£-7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/21		£42	£22	£20	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/20		£32	£25	£7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/19		£18	£5	£13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/18		£0	£1	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/17		£7	£6	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/16	*	£13	£2	£11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 10 years

www.ctguk.org

info@ctguk.org

02036200764

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Other education support

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Trust for London - Community of Tigrayan Refugees in the United Kingdom
£4,691	29/09/2022	This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-05.10.2021-9340
Trust for London - Community of Tigrayan Refugees in the United Kingdom
£56,033	09/02/2022	This funding is for “Independent Futures” CTG-UK will provide welfare benefits, housing and general advice to Tigrayans living in poverty within Lambeth. A key focus will be collaborations with health and specialist services e.g. GP’s, debt ....more This funding is for “Independent Futures” CTG-UK will provide welfare benefits, housing and general advice to Tigrayans living in poverty within Lambeth. A key focus will be collaborations with health and specialist services e.g. GP’s, debt advisors etc. and 1-1 case to improve beneficiaries’ quality of life.
Trust for London - Community of Tigrayan Refugees in the United Kingdom
£8,489	19/08/2020 6	The funding is for welfare benefits, housing and general advice for Tigrayans living in poverty, and affected by trauma and isolation in London. A key element will be collaborations with health and specialist services e.g. GP, debt advisors, ....more The funding is for welfare benefits, housing and general advice for Tigrayans living in poverty, and affected by trauma and isolation in London. A key element will be collaborations with health and specialist services e.g. GP, debt advisors, remotely and face to face, in the context of the COVID19 emergency.
Trust for London - Community of Tigrayan Refugees in Britain
£45,000	20/02/2019 36	The funding is for welfare benefits, housing and general advice information and casework including links with health and specialist services through a new, part-time Advice Worker.
People's Health Trust - "Community Connections" (Tigrayan Community Development Project)
£25,000	02/08/2018	This two-year project put in place activities run by and for the Tigrayan Community living in Southwark and Lambeth. The project created a Forum made up of Tigrayan community members, who suggested the activities they would like to see run. The ....more This two-year project put in place activities run by and for the Tigrayan Community living in Southwark and Lambeth. The project created a Forum made up of Tigrayan community members, who suggested the activities they would like to see run. The activities were run from a Lambeth base each week, such as informal drop-ins and more structured training days. There were also monthly community events and trips. The project helped to bring together the Tigrayan community, members of which can feel isolated because of poverty or cultural barriers.
National Lottery Community Fund - Coming Together:Volunteer & Community Development Project
£9,718	26/03/2018 12	This project will engage young people from black and ethnic minority backgrounds in a programme of activities to develop new skills and improve their confidence through volunteering. This will enable young people to access new opportunities and ....more This project will engage young people from black and ethnic minority backgrounds in a programme of activities to develop new skills and improve their confidence through volunteering. This will enable young people to access new opportunities and increase their chances of gaining employment.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees:

ABRAHAM MEBRAHTU Appointed: 2020

BERHANE GEBRU Appointed: 2015

HABTOM ZERU Appointed: 2019

HASSAN ROBLE Appointed: 2019

HIWOT ROBINS Appointed: 2018

HENOKE DANIEL Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Volunteer

MULAT HAREGOT Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Director

NETSANET GEBRU Appointed: 2020

SIMON HAYELOM Appointed: 2019

YALEMZEWED ABRAHA Appointed: 2020

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 03/10/2014, number: 1158762

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

8 returns made; AR16: 1 days late,

Main office

13-15 STOCKWELL ROAD
LONDON
SW9 9AU

Objectives

(1) The relief of poverty, sickness and distress and the advancement of education, particularly among persons of the community of Tigrayan now living in the UK. (2) To provide or assist in the provision of facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation or other leisure time occupation of individuals who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age infirmity or disability, financial hardship or social circumstances with the object of improving their conditions of life. (3) To promote social inclusion of persons of the community of Tigrayans now living in the UK by preventing them from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate in society. (4) To act as a resource for young people, particular from the community of Tigrayans, by providing advice, assistance and organising programmes of physical, educational and other activities as a means of advancing in life and helping such young people by developing their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to fully participate in society as independent, mature and responsible individuals.' (5) The advancement of environmental protection or improvement in Tigray by working closely with local, national, regional, and international governmental, and non-government organisations and agencies. (6) Providing support to organisations who are working to build a strong anti - poverty network in the Tigray regional state and to support the development programmes in Tigray to promote social justice with the objective to combat poverty.

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