Finance Score: -1

Governance Score: -7

Support Score: 9

Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -3 times
Strong growth: +2
No PartB

No volunteer policy: -2
Only 3 Trustees: -2
All female board: -3

Grant maker support: +9

Overall GiG Score: 1

SISTAH SPACE (SANCTUARY)

Sistah Space advocate for African heritage women and girls of African and Caribbean heritage affected by abuse. We offer one to one or group supportWe attend court, housing and other relevant agencies where support might be required. We host & attend events to deliver diversity training to individuals & organisations with a DV remit.Charity shop for DV survivors to access necessities

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending since inception
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
There are only 3 trustees
The Board is completely 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
Accounts have been filed late on 3 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended

Established: 6 years

www.sistahspace.org

info@sistahspace.org

07951826878

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
31/03/23		£331,803	£183,034	£148,769	9
31/03/22	*	£442,155	£163,562	£278,593	9
31/03/21	*	£363,506	£163,298	£200,208	9
31/03/20		£50,728	£41,601	£9,127	6
31/03/19	*	£14,708	£18,853	£-4,145	10

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Disability
Education/Training
Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
Other Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Throughout London,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
9 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

Comic Relief	£60,000
Greater London Authority	£40,000
The London Community Foundation	£38,800
DCMS	£32,948
National Lottery Community Fund	£9,800

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Comic Relief - Sistah Space Transitional Online Service to Independance
£60,000	08/09/2021 6	We have a core of service user and volunteers who are between 40 - 86 years old. Our older service users, volunteers seem to have challenges understanding how to negotiate the internet and access ....more We have a core of service user and volunteers who are between 40 - 86 years old. Our older service users, volunteers seem to have challenges understanding how to negotiate the internet and access online support or access banking or application forms. As more and more DV related service require online access to apply for various court orders, we need to have systems in place to make the access and use of these services easier. Further examples are the increasing Social Services requirements for staff, volunteers and service users to attend multi-agency meetings online such as Zoom, Teams meetings. The pain points are many and some are specific to African and Caribbean heritage victims such as being vary wary of the 'system' and ? lack of trust? in online services. We aim to remedy this by increasing their capability, confidance and therfeore trust by gently bringing everyone into the digital age. This will greatly increase our outreach to victims of domestic abuse especially in the Black community by at least 60%. This fund will also help us to create an interactive, user friendly website.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Sistah Space (Sanctuary)
£12,000	22/12/2020 5	The funds are for essential, hair, food, skin products, a part time IDVA and ISVA and for giving specialist support for those affected by DV and Corona Virus.
Greater London Authority - Grant to The Royal Docks Learning & Activity Centre
£40,000	01/12/2020	Royal Docks Grass Routes
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£32,948	11/08/2020	"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 "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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
National Lottery Community Fund - Mango Mornings (Number 11 Mango)
£9,800	22/05/2020 6	The project will transition their specialist domestic and sexual abuse service to that of an online service during COVID-19. This will enable them to continue to offer emergency support and ....more The project will transition their specialist domestic and sexual abuse service to that of an online service during COVID-19. This will enable them to continue to offer emergency support and activities reducing pressure and isolation.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Sistah Space
£22,500	27/04/2020	Extra support to adapt our service to enable us to be able to provide a 24hr online services to victims London wide. 4 laptops for four key workers to be able to support DV clients from home. 4 ....more Extra support to adapt our service to enable us to be able to provide a 24hr online services to victims London wide. 4 laptops for four key workers to be able to support DV clients from home. 4 mobile phones for those key DV workers to extended to an after hours online service. (We need to provide a 24hr service) One admin support Online Supervision for team Accounts support.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Sistah Space
£4,300	07/04/2020	to meet the increased demand for food, hygiene & toiletries to support DV victim for those in hiding
Greater London Authority - Citizen Led Engagement Programme
£12,000	26/03/2019	Citizen-Led is a peer research project designed to enhance engagement with communities whose voice and influence over public policy has previously been unheard.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (3)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

BARBARA NOEL Appointed: 2021

CARRISE FORDE MS Appointed: 2020

SONIA WATERMAN Appointed: 2015

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 14/09/2018, number: 1179934

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 policy and procedures
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
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

Filing Record

5 returns made; AR22: 48 days late, AR21: 69 days late, AR19: 28 days late,

Main office

Bootstrap Co
18-22 Ashwin Street
London
E8 3DL

Objectives

1. TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH AND RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF WOMEN AND FAMILIES AFFECTED BY DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ABUSE (DSA), PRIMARILY AFRICAN HERITAGE WOMEN AND GIRLS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY (I) PROVIDING A SAFE SPACE WHERE THOSE AFFECTED BY DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ABUSE CAN MEET(II) PROVIDING COUNSELLING, SELF-HELP GROUPS AND SUPPORT FOR SUCH PEOPLE.(III) PROVIDING TRAINING IN HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS.2. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY DELIVERING EDUCATIONAL TALKS AND WORKSHOPS ABOUT DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ABUSE TO THE LOCAL COMMUNITY AND STATUTORY AND VOLUNTARY GROUPS.

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