Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 6
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 4 ?

SANDWELL YOUTH IN ACTION

Sandwell Youth in Action (SYIA) is a local organisation of young people who work to support disadvantaged young people from the most deprived wards of Sandwell and neighbourhoods of Birmingham. The organisation aims to give these young people equal opportunities in life regardless of personal circumstances.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there only 3 trustees?

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
31/03/24£62£64£-2n/a
31/03/23£127£137£-10n/a
31/03/22£75£63£12n/a
31/03/21£77£53£24n/a
31/03/20£29£23£6n/a
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 6 years

www.syia.org.uk

sandwellyouthinaction@gmail.com

01215652612

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • Recreation
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Social youth organisations
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • 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
Garfield Weston Foundation£60,000
Sport England£17,315
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
Heart Of England Community Foundation£7,000
The Foyle Foundation£5,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£4,090
Tudor Trust£2,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000 01/03/2024
towards ongoing work over the next 12 months
National Lottery Community Fund - Supporting Young People throughout the Cost-of-living Crisis
£10,000 15/09/2023
The funding will be used to offer support to young BME people who are not in education or employment. The project aims to offer advice and signpost young people who are in need of support due to the cost-of-living crisis.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
£500 24/03/2023
Core costs
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award - COVID19 response
£30,000 16/09/2022
24
Weston Youth Grant
Sport England - Jubilee Fund - Connecting Communities in Smethwick Using Sport as a Tool to
£5,690 18/07/2022
This 8 month project will enable 30 young people from different cultural backgrounds, who are disengaged and hard to reach, to become active in weekly multi-sport and physical activities with the intention for the participants to enter into a league ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award - COVID19 response
£30,000 29/10/2021
24
Weston Youth Grant
Heart Of England Community Foundation - JOB SKILLS TRAINING TO REDUCE HOUSEHOLD POVERTY
£2,000 15/09/2021
To provide a support service for up to 25 unemployed young mothers, most of whom lost their jobs due to the pandemic.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Sandwell Youth in Action
£2,000 11/03/2021
as a staff grant towards the core costs of a charity in Smethwick working to support local young people
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Grant to Sandwell Youth in Action
£5,000 04/02/2021
In order to support vulnerable young people on a low income who have tested positive for COVID 19 or have been in contact with the virus and so are having to self isolate
Sport England - TGC CF Empowering Refugee Girls through Sport and Physical Activities
£5,000 25/11/2020
11
This project will run a Multi-Sport Club for 30 girls 16+ who are from BAME communities.
Sport England - Half Term Sport and Physical Activity Sport
£6,625 19/08/2020
11
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Half Term Sport and Physical Activity Sport. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on younger beneficiaries.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Sandwell Youth in Action
£4,090 19/06/2020
COVID19 : Purchase IT equipment for a charity that supports disadvantaged young people in West Midlands
National Lottery Community Fund - Friday Evening Youth Club
£8,235 17/10/2019
12
The funding will be used to run a weekly youth club which will provide career support services, community events and social engagement evenings. The project aims to reduce anti-social behaviour through positive activities.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed

  • SAMBA KATANDA SK Appointed: 2018
  • WALINGAMINA SHOMARI WS Appointed: 2024
  • ZINO KASHINDI (Chair) Appointed: 2019
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 15/04/2019, number: 1182971
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
  • 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
  • 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
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

1ST FLOOR
130 CAPE HILL
SMETHWICK
WEST MIDLANDS
B66 4PH

Objectives

TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF BME YOUNG PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BME YOUNG PEOPLE, LIVING IN SANDWELL AND THE WEST MIDLANDS THROUGH:A)THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES PROVIDED IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE;B)PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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