Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 6
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • All female board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

MIGRATEFUL 

Migrateful helps refugees and asylum seekers on their journey to employment and independence and promotes integration.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending since inception
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is completely female
Established: 6 years

www.migrateful.org

bookings@migrateful.org

02080589181

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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
30/09/22£993£900£93£41£531£3654.916150
30/09/21£745£449£297£25£438£3188.510150
30/09/20£332£232£100n/an/an/an/an/a150
30/09/19£117£75£42n/an/an/an/an/a150
Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 4.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 4.6%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 39%
Liabilities/Income: 35%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 69%
Reserves/Spending: 4.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 2.1
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 16 employees
  • 150 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
Greater London Authority£45,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£40,000
DCMS£39,247
National Lottery Community Fund£36,727
AB Charitable Trust£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - London chef training
£9,940 05/08/2022
The funding will be used to continue the groups delivery of cooking classes for the refugee and migrant community. The project aims to improve access to employment promote integration and ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award - COVID19 response
£20,000 03/09/2021
Migrateful funding request for contribution to core costs and subsidised cookery classes
National Lottery Community Fund - Migrateful Replication in Kent
£9,433 29/04/2021
The funding will be used to provide cooking classes for the refugee and migrant community. The project aims to improve access to employment promote integration and independence.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Migrateful
£10,000 22/04/2021
An unrestricted grant of £10,000. Migrateful train refugees, people seeking asylum and migrants to become Chefs and to run cookery classes.
Greater London Authority - Grant to Migrateful Cookery School
£45,000 06/03/2021
Provide a permanent home for Migrateful, a social enterprise that helps refugees, asylum seekers and migrants to share their traditional cuisines with the public, training them to become professional ....more
DCMS - DCMS VSCE CMC Covid Funding
£39,247 27/11/2020
"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
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award - COVID19 response
£20,000 14/08/2020
Migrateful funding request for contribution to core costs and subsidised cookery classes
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Migrateful
£6,500 28/05/2020
£6,500 towards costs as outlined in your application, excluding the solidarity fund.
CAF - Grant to Migrateful
£5,000 11/05/2020
3
Grant to Migrateful to support the organisation through COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - Migrateful chef training
£9,998 22/04/2020
6
The organisation will use the funding to continue to run the cooking training sessions for a new cohort of beneficiaries. This will help to provide more refugees and asylum seekers get access to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Migrateful replication in Bristol
£7,356 10/05/2019
12
The funding will be used to provide classes delivered by chefs who are also refugees and asylum seekers. The project aims to increase employability, English skills and build confidence amongst ....more
Woodward Charitable Trust - English language teaching, training and support network
£900 03/04/2019
Towards language teaching, training and support network.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 27/09/2018, number: 1180110
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

Migrateful
40 Bowling Green Lane
London
EC1R 0NE

Objectives

1. TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, REFUGEES, ASYLUM-SEEKERS AND OTHER MIGRANTS TO THE UK, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF:GENERAL EDUCATION, INCLUDING LANGUAGE SKILLS;VOCATIONAL AND SKILLS TRAINING, WORK EXPERIENCE, ADVICE AND SUPPORT;SOCIAL AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES AND EVENTS INVOLVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITY;EDUCATIONAL AND AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS TO ENCOURAGE THE PUBLIC TO GENERALLY BE MORE ACCEPTING OF, AND ENGAGE WITH, SOCIALLY EXCLUDED COMMUNITIES.FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED MEANS PEOPLE WHO ARE EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; RACE; GENDER; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; DISABILITY; ETHNIC ORIGIN; RELIGION; BELIEF; CREED; OR WHO ARE WITHIN, OR HAVE EXPERIENCED, THE PUBLIC CARE OR PENAL SYSTEM.2.TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY AND RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS HARMONY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THROUGH THE PROVISION OF:ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING AND GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS.3. THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY BY PROVIDING: GRANTS, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS AND OTHER MIGRANTS TO THE UK.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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