Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 13
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

CARRIERS OF HOPE, COVENTRY 

We work with asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in the Coventry area that experience extreme poverty and lack the most basic personal and household facilities. We provide food, clothing, furniture and other key items donated by the public. We hold weekly outreach events attended by 150 families to build relationships and identify pathways that will support them and rehabilitate their lives.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending since inception
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

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
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/22£498£524£-26n/an/an/an/an/a163
31/12/21£541£486£56£1£297£16346120
31/12/20£442£320£121n/an/an/an/an/a170
31/12/19£435£316£120n/an/an/an/an/a170
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 6 years

www.carriersofhope.org.uk

admin@carriersofhope.org.uk

02476667008

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebook
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Services for refugees & asylum seekers
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Coventry City,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 163 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
National Lottery Community Fund£107,791
BBC Children in Need£52,725
Lloyds Bank Foundation£52,250
Barrow Cadbury Trust£21,320
AB Charitable Trust£20,000
Heart Of England Community Foundation£13,000
DCMS£11,494
The Clothworkers Foundation£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Carriers of Hope Coventry
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
National Lottery Community Fund - CLOTHING COVENTRY
£97,791 27/01/2022
The project is using funding to provide access to clothes across Coventry for people who are vulnerable and have multiple needs such as homeless people and people who are in temporary housing. They ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Renew grant to Carriers of Hope Coventry
£50,000 25/05/2021
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Carriers of Hope Coventry.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Carriers of Hope
£20,000 21/01/2021
An unrestricted grant of £20,000. Carriers of Hope provide support to people seeking asylum, refugees and vulnerable EU migrants living in Coventry and experiencing poverty and destitution.
National Lottery Community Fund - Coventry Clothes' Network
£10,000 20/11/2020
6
This project will help meet demand for the groups services for people requesting essential items and particularly warm clothes and shoes particularly during colder seasons. Working with Coventry City ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Carriers of Hope, Coventry
£49,725 09/09/2020
18
COVID19 - This project will provide online play sessions and baby care advice to children and young people from a deprived area, isolated due to Covid-19. The activities will increase friendships, ....more
Barrow Cadbury Trust - COVID-19 - Carriers of Hope Coventry
£21,320 25/08/2020
6
To adapt and increase food distribution and provision including activity packs for children over the holidays
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Carriers of Hope
£5,000 26/06/2020
COVID19 : Purchase of essential household furnishings for a charity that works with disadvantaged communities in West Midlands
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£8,494 23/06/2020
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
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Carriers of Hope, Coventry
£3,000 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant is for technology. It will benefit young people from refugee, asykum seeker and migrant backgrounds who are experiencing lockdown due to Covid-19. The aim is to improve their ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£3,000 29/05/2020
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
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Grant to Carriers of Hope
£3,000 03/04/2020
2
We need more funds to respond to the needs of our clients as we are increasing the amount of items we need to buy new. Food donations have dried up completely as our food was previously supplied by ....more
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Opportunities for New Mothers
£10,000 27/11/2019
11
to continue their provision of support for new mothers. This will cover the salaries of the project workers.
National Lottery Community Fund - Carriers of Hope - Distribution Volunteer Project
£346,588 27/07/2018
60
This project will continue their work to improve people's wellbeing through volunteering. People will learn new skills and meet new people through offering their space time to help distribute school ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Carriers of Hope, Coventry
£30,000 13/11/2017
36
This project will provide activities for children from migrant, refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds that will help prepare them for school.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 27/09/2018, number: 1180105
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
4 returns made; all on time
Main office

UNIT 4B
Lythalls Lane Industrial Estate
Lythalls Lane
Coventry
West Midlands
CV6 6FG

Objectives

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE PRIMARILY FOR THE BENEFIT OF ASYLUM SEEKERS, REFUGEES AND NEW MIGRANTS LIVING IN COVENTRY IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND RELIEF OF POVERTY AND 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.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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