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Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 19 ?

CITY OF SANCTUARY SWINDON

Promote a culture of welcome, inclusion and support for everyone in Swindon with a focus on those seeking sanctuary.We do this by bringing people and organisations in our community together, providing practical support through projects, running community events, raising awareness and campaigning for social justice, therefore contributing to the wider, national movement that is City of Sanctuary.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit		 Volun-
teers
30/04/23£49£38£11n/a
30/04/22£56£41£14n/a
30/04/21£49£31£18n/a
30/04/20£36£36£0n/a
30/04/19£58£44£14n/a
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 7 years

https://swindon.cityofsanctuary.org/

info@swindon.cityofsanctuary.org

07903167142

Charity Commission for England and WalesX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • General Community services
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Swindon, Wiltshire,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Postcode Local Trust£22,152
Wiltshire Community Foundation£12,091
Co-Operative Group£844
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Postcode Local Trust - Project Funding
£22,152 30/06/2023
Created resources to celebrate cultural diversity, reduce social isolation & boost literacy of families with lived experience of migration.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Swindon City of Sanctuary
£1,000 29/03/2022
Swindon City of Sanctuary is part of the national City of Sanctuary network and a registered charity. The group seeks to build a culture of welcome, inclusion, and support for everyone in Swindon, with a focus on empowering people fleeing violence ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Swindon City of Sanctuary
£844 23/10/2021
Our wellbeing project provides; mental health support for refugees and asylum seekers, yoga classes and one-to-one counselling sessions to those most in need and access to classes from Mind.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Swindon City of Sanctuary
£10,000 17/06/2021
Improving understanding, support and community integration for people seeking sanctuary in Swindon.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Grant to Swindon City of Sanctuary
£1,091 17/04/2020
To provide activity boxes for refugee and asylum seeker families in isolation and food/essentials for 2 people in the charity’s hosting scheme
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Swindon City of Sanctuary
£3,641 15/11/2019
We want to give Swindon a week of events that celebrate and encourage understanding of the contribution of refugees to the UK.
Wiltshire Community Foundation - Room for All (hosting scheme)
£9,988 24/10/2018
Swindon City of Sanctuary welcomes, includes and supports those seeking refuge in Swindon, particularly those granted refugee status. Funding will meet the costs of employing a co-ordinator for their hosting scheme through which local people provide ....more
Wiltshire Community Foundation - We're Open
£2,964 19/09/2018
Swindon City of Sanctuary is a recently registered charity working to welcome, include and support those seeking refuge in Swindon, particularly those granted refugee status. Funding will meet the costs of weekly “We are open” social events in a ....more
The Joffe Trust - Swindon City of Sanctuary
£60,000 21/04/2018
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

  • BALAJI MANNU Appointed: 2022
  • CRISTINA BENNETT Appointed: 2018
  • IAN HOWARD Appointed: 2018
  • JOANNE PATRICIA VERTANNES (Chair) Appointed: 2024
  • MOSES LUBANDA Appointed: 2020
  • ROBERT JOHN NEWMAN Appointed: 2022
  • SERENA JUUL Appointed: 2020
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 20/03/2018, number: 1177624
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • 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
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

VOLUNTARY ACTION SWINDON
1 JOHN STREET
SWINDON
SN1 1RT

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:(I) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL, ESPECIALLY IN SWINDON, ABOUT THE ISSUES RELATINGTO REFUGEES AND THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM(II) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES AND ACTIVITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATIONS IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THOSE PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES(III) THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING AND ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS(IV) THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONGST THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS AND THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM IN SWINDON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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