Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 7
  • Qualified accounts: -3
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
    • Large volunteer base +3
    • Overall weighted support: +4
    Overall GiG Score: 2 ?

    REFUGEE KINDNESS - NORTH WALES

    Refugee Kindness North Wales enables members of the public to advertise household items asavailable (free of charge) specifically for the beneficiaries through an online platform. The organisation will then facilitate the delivery of the items to the beneficiaries in need of them as well as offering guidance and signposting to the beneficiaries.
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
    • The charity has received backing from a grant maker recently

    Financial issues to consider:

    • The latest accounts were qualified
    • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
    • 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
    ?30/08/23£33£38£-4n/a
    30/08/22£54£33£21n/a
    30/08/21£20£3£16n/a
    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Established: 4 years

    www.refugeekindness.org

    rachel@rachelwatkin.com

    +447757389540

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    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • Disability
    • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
    GiG Classification
    • Legal & financial advice
    How it operates
    • Other charitable activities
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd, Wrexham,
    Who it helps
    • Other Defined Groups

    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.

    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Steve Morgan Foundation - Grant to Refugee Kindness - North Wales
    £26,000 07/12/2022
    1 year funding for the Administration Manager role

    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (3)
    Current Trustees appointed

    • ADBUL SABOOR AFGHAN Appointed: 2024
    • LISA RACHEL KOVACS Appointed: 2021
    • RACHEL WATKIN (Chair) Appointed: 2020
    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 29/12/2020, number: 1192930
    Gift Aid
    • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
    • Complaints handling
    • Complaints policy and procedures
    • Financial reserves 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
    • Volunteer management
    Filing Record
    3 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    Refugee Kindness North Wales c/o MGP Account
    Yew Tree Inn
    High Street
    Gresford
    WREXHAM

    Objectives

    “TO RELIEVE POVERTY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONG REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS AND THOSE OF EQUIVALENT NEED AND THEIR DEPENDENTS LIVING IN NORTH WALES BY PROVIDING GOODS AND SERVICES WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD, TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE FULLY IN SOCIETY.”

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving

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