Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 8
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Static board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 0 ?

WESTPOINT-SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 

WestPoint-sustainable Community Development is a registered charitable organization and has a passion to make a difference to disadvantaged, underprivileged and underrepresented individuals, groups and communities.By promoting social inclusion for strengthening and empowering the community;What We DoEducationEmploymentESOL ClassesEmpowering Girls and WomenRecreationResearch
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

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
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 9 years

westpointcommunity.org.uk

info@westpointcommunity.org.uk

02038832114

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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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
30/04/23£29£60£-31n/an/an/an/an/a11
30/04/22£61£62£-2n/an/an/an/an/a7
30/04/21£164£96£67n/an/an/an/an/a7
30/04/20£55£50£5n/an/an/an/an/a7
30/04/19£36£47£-11n/an/an/an/an/a7
30/04/18£45£34£11£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/17£11£12£-1£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/16£16£15£1£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • Recreation
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • City Of Westminster, Hammersmith And Fulham, Kensington And Chelsea, Somalia,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 11 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
City Bridge Trust£81,324
Lloyds Bank Foundation£52,250
People's Health Trust£39,003
BBC Children in Need£34,870
DCMS£24,960
The London Community Foundation£19,239
John Lyon's Charity£3,980
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to WestPoint Sustainable Community Development (WestPoint-SCD)
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Recovery grant to WestPoint Sustainable Community Development (WestPoint-SCD)
£50,000 03/12/2020
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of WestPoint Sustainable Community Development (WestPoint-SCD), awarded under the Foundation's Racial Equity funding stream. Part of the Covid ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to WestPoint-Sustainable Community Development
£22,500 28/09/2020
towards the costs of a part-time programme co-ordinator at £14,330, volunteer expenses and training at £4,000, a proportion of running and project costs at £4,170, for the project supporting ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to WestPoint-Sustainable Community Development
£58,824 04/08/2020
36
£58,824 over three years (£19,412; £19,476; £19,936) to employ a p/t (14 hpw) Advice Co-ordinator and to cover the running and equipment costs of the Advice4Life programme, with a contribution to ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£20,090 08/07/2020
"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
BBC Children in Need - Grant to WestPoint-Sustainable Community Development
£4,870 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund IT equipment, training and resources to offer educational support for children and young people from a refugee or vulnerable migrant background, isolated due to ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£4,870 26/05/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to WestPoint-Sustainable Community Development
£19,239 06/05/2020
Introduction of a programme to develop new ways of delivering programmes to targeted communities given the current crisis and ‘lockdown’ which will include outreach and on-line services ....more
People's Health Trust - "SWAT" : the Somali Women's Activity Team
£39,003 04/12/2019
This two-year project brings together isolated Somali and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic women from Westbourne Green and Bayswater in Westminster to take part in regular sessions focusing on ESOL, ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to WestPoint-Sustainable Community Development
£30,000 19/11/2019
36
An educational support project for children and young people who are from a refugee or vulnerable migrant background. The sessions will help children and young people to feel less isolated, develop ....more
John Lyon's Charity - SHAF grant to WestPoint-Sustainable Community Development
£3,980 17/06/2019
12
Summer Sporting Activities
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to WestPoint-Sustainable Community Development
£4,400 26/09/2018
purchase of laptops, portable projector and printer for a charity which works with disadvantaged young people in London
BBC Children in Need - Grant to WestPoint-Sustainable Community Development
£28,320 11/11/2016
36
This project will deliver educational support to children and young people from migrant and refugee families who are experiencing local deprivation. They will experience increased self-esteem, ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 07/07/2015, number: 1162552
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; all on time
Main office

Office A
Norland House
9 Queensdale Crescent
London
W11 4TL

Objectives

1. THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AMONG PEOPLE FROM THE SOMALI COMMUNITY AND OTHER BLACK AND MINORITY ETHNIC GROUPS (BME) LIVING IN THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF KENSINGTON & CHELSEA, HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM AND WESTMINSTER WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED ON THE GROUNDS OF THEIR ETHNIC ORIGIN OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC POSITION, TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF SUCH PEOPLE AND ASSIST THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING: - ADVOCACY, INFORMATION AND ADVICE- EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE- RECREATIONAL FACILITIES AND EVENTS INVOLVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITY.2. SUCH 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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