Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 8
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

COMMUNITY CARE FOUNDATION BIRMINGHAM LTD 

Advice and information on social welfare, jobs, and employment opportunities help BME communities thrive, empower people via support and skill development, improve parent-school dialogue, and create understanding across various cultures. Their offerings include career counselling, health workshops, after-school clubs, literacy classes, outreach initiatives, holiday clubs, and community research in
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 and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

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 ?

Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
31/03/23£45,603£38,100£7,50316
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 2 years
(4 years as a company)

www.carefoundation.uk

charity@carefoundation.uk

01216828899

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Secondary schools
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Somalia, Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 16 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£9,990
The Foyle Foundation£5,000
New Philanthropy Capital (NPC)£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000 18/09/2023
towards core costs over the next 12 months
National Lottery Community Fund - Provision of Practical Support to Elderly Refugees and Migrants Somali descent
£9,990 12/05/2023
The funding will be used to provide bilingual information advice and practical support to elderly Somali refugees. The project aims to help this group access services including the NHS Pensions ....more
New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) - Open Philanthropy Fund B
£5,000 14/02/2023
Unrestricted funding to tackle financial hardship

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 40-50
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 25/04/2022, number: 1198726
  • Registered at Companies House on 31/01/2020, number: 12436178
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • 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
1 returns made; all on time
Main office

COMMUNITY CARE FOUNDATION BIRMINGHAM LTD
12 WHITMORE ROAD
BIRMINGHAM
B10 0NP

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S KEY OBJECTS ('OBJECTS') ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED WORDED AS CHARITABLE AS FOLLOWS:A) THE RELIEF OF IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE PEOPLE OF SOMALI DESCENT IN SMALL HEATH, BIRMINGHAM, ITS SURROUNDING AREAS AND IN SOMALIA, INCLUDING REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS AND VULNERABLE MIGRANTS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF POVERTY, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING INFORMATION, ADVICE AND GUIDANCE, REPRESENTATION, TRANSLATION, AND INTERPRETATION SERVICES IN MATTERS SUCH AS ASYLUM AND IMMIGRATION, WELFARE BENEFITS, HOUSING, HEALTH EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT.(B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF SOMALI COMMUNITY IN PARTICULAR REFUGEES ASYLUM SEEKERS AND VULNERABLE MIGRANTS, AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC IN ORDER TO ASSIST THEIR INCLUSION AND INTEGRATION IN THE WIDER COMMUNITY.(C) THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AMONGST THOSE BENEFICIARIES WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED BY PROVIDING EDUCATION, PROMOTING AND PROTECTING THEIR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH AND TRAINING TO BUILD CAPACITY TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE AND ASSIST THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.(D) TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED MIGRANTS FOR EXAMPLE, BY PROMOTING THEIR EDUCATION ESPECIALLY OF CHILDREN AND JUVENILES; WOMEN AND OTHER DISADVANTAGED MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AND INCREASING THEIR EFFECTIVE PARTICIPATION WITHIN THE WIDER COMMUNITY IN UK IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET THEIR NEEDS TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY.FOR THE PURPOSE OF CLAUSE (B) AND (C), ‘THE WORD SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ WOULD MEAN BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PART O SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, YOUTH OR OLD AGE, ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL HEALTH); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS’ DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER REASSIGNMENT; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT, RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN, POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS), CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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