Overall GiG Score: 1 ?
Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 2
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +2

BRADFORD CITY OF SANCTUARY 

- Regular monthly meetings- Engagement with local, regional and national media on asylum issues- Running occasional awareness-raising events- Giving talks to students, churches and other interested groups and running displays at local events- Regularly acting as the 'go-between' for people interested in volunteering with local asylum support projects and the projects themselves
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • 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
  • Income has been volatile recently
Established: 9 years

https://bradford.cityofsanctuary.org/

chair@bradford.cityofsanctuary.org

07505053149

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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*£25£23£1n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/22£13£27£-14n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/21£49£20£29n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/20£28£27£1n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/19£33£23£11n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/03/18£33£23£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£24£14£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£16£18£-2£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Bradford City,

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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Leeds Community Foundation - Bradford Sanctuary Seekers Documentary - Resource for schools & colleges
£2,120 08/12/2023
In May 2022 a new project lead came into post and we have significantly upscaled our Schools and Colleges of Sanctuary project in terms of quantity and quality - redesigning the awards process; ....more
Allen Lane Foundation - Grant to City of Sanctuary Bradford
£6,000 11/03/2021
£6,000 grant, split over two years (£3,000 pa) towards the coordinator post and core running costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Schools of Sanctuary
£8,101 21/06/2018
12
The group will work with schools to increase understanding of why people become refugees and the realities of life an asylum seeker or refugee. This will improve wider community knowledge and ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Bradford City of Sanctuary
£30,000 14/08/2015
24
over two years as continuation funding towards the salary of a part-time development worker for the Sanctuary in Schools project, which encourages young people and their famiilies to offer a welcome ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Bradford City of Sanctuary
£15,000 04/08/2014
over one year towards the salary of a part-time development worker to support the Sanctuary in Schools project in Bradford

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 18/02/2015, number: 1160553
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
8 returns made; AR23: 6 days late,
Main office

C/O TOUCHSTONE METHODIST CENTRE
4 Easby Road
BRADFORD
WEST YORKSHIRE
BD7 1QX

Objectives

1)TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL ABOUT THE ISSUES RELATING TO REFUGEES AND THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM; AND2)TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION OF REFUGEES AND ASYLUM-SEEKERS IN BRADFORD WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PART OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF BEING A MEMBER OF A SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED COMMUNITY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

IN BRADFORD

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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