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

MIGRANT EMPOWERMENT GROUP 

We support disadvantaged people by empowering, inspiring, encouraging and motivating them to overcome barriers to improve the quality of their lives.We aim to relieve hardship,poverty and ill health amongst disadvantaged people by providing support through care, education,heritage,assistance,advice and guidance,career advice, information services,advocacy,mentoring , guidance & counselling.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are 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
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit		 Volun-
teers
31/12/22£87,648£63,165£24,48315
31/12/21£74,405£73,655£75010
31/12/20£71,265£70,663£60218
31/12/19£26,017£25,931£865
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 5 years

www.migrantempowermentgroup.co.uk

info@migrantempowermentgroup.co.uk

07713156506

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • Recreation
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Other individual and family services
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cameroon, Nigeria, Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 15 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£10,000
Sport England£8,175
Heart Of England Community Foundation£3,000
Herefordshire Community Foundation£186
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Herefordshire Community Foundation - women empowerment
£186 13/09/2023
Grant to Migrant Empowerment Group
Sport England - Develop the right attitude - Keep Fit Get Healthy
£8,175 04/05/2023
This project will deliver a 40 week programme of free activities for women from lower socio-economic groups in Walsall, including asylum seekers and refugees. Sessions will be delivered on a Saturday ....more
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Grant to Migrant Empowerment Group
£3,000 01/03/2021
in order to provide support for vulnerable black and minority ethnic communities in Wolverhampton
National Lottery Community Fund - COVID-19 Community Sewing Project
£10,000 15/01/2021
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The funding will be used to deliver a virtual and online community sewing project for people from migrant asylum seeker and refugee communities. The project aims to reduce isolation and support ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 04/06/2019, number: 1183705
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
4 returns made; all on time
Main office

Unit 21
Old Square
Walsall
WS1 1QA

Objectives

1. THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONGST THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS AND THEIR DEPENDENTS LIVING (TEMPORARILY OR PERMANENTLY) IN WOLVERHAMPTON AND THE SURROUNDING AREA.2. TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS AND THEIR DEPENDENTS3. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS AND THEIR DEPENDENTS IN NEED THEREOF SO AS TO ADVANCE THEM IN LIFE AND ASSIST THEM TO ADAPT WITHIN A NEW COMMUNITY.4. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL ABOUT THE ISSUES RELATING TO REFUGEES AND THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM.5. THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THOSE PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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