Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 22 ?

NAFSIYAT 

Nafsiyat provides intercultural psychotherapy and counselling to diverse cultural, ethnic and linguistic communities. Therapeutic help is offered to those experiencing emotional and psychological problems. Clinical supervision and training relating to intercultural therapy are also delivered. Nafsiyat works in partnership with therapeutic and community organisations.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

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
31/03/23£639£678£-39£19£193£1893.31325
31/03/22£618£586£32£10£232£2334.81020
31/03/21£547£463£84£13£201£190.5618
31/03/20£379£328£51n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/19£331£326£4n/an/an/an/an/a24
31/03/18£363£372£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£276£319£-43£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£209£215£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£193£179£14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14*£194£206£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£238£228£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£198£203£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£233£200£33£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£261£219£42£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£196£219£-22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£151£155£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£156£149£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£156£149£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£153£140£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£142£140£2£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 3.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2.8%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 33%
Liabilities/Income: 15%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 98%
Reserves/Spending: 3.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 2.3
Asset Split ?
Established: 40 years

www.nafsiyat.org.uk

admin@nafsiyat.org.uk

02072636947

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Mental health and addiction
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • 13 employees
  • 25 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£434,798
City Bridge Trust£74,250
People's Health Trust£33,150
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington£30,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation£23,548
DCMS£9,618
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - The Intercultural Therapy and Outreach Project
£375,509 26/05/2023
The funding will be used to develop its community outreach programme which will raise awareness of its multilingual mental health support. The project aims to provide specialised therapeutic help to ....more
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Grant to Nafsiyat
£30,000 06/04/2022
Funding for a professionally-led weekly support group for female Amharic, Arabic and Tigrinya-speaking refugees living in North London.
National Lottery Community Fund - Nafsiyat Development Grant
£49,339 01/03/2021
11
The project is using funding to pilot an outreach and mental health support programme in Islington for vulnerable men and women of mainly Bangladeshi and Western Indian origin who face acute mental ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,618 18/09/2020
"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
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Nafsiyat
£8,548 23/07/2020
Grant to Nafsiyat meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre
£8,250 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £8,250, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant
People's Health Trust - Haringey mothers self-esteem and support group
£33,150 16/01/2020
This two-year project provides weekly supportive psychotherapy group sessions for two groups of mothers from Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and refugee backgrounds in Haringey, London. It equips ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Nafsiyat
£15,000 20/09/2019
12
Nafsiyat is seeking funding to support two part time roles of grant fundraiser and fundraising and events coordinator to develop and implement an income diversification plan to support the charity ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre
£66,000 25/07/2019
24
£66,000 over two further and final years (2 x £33,000) for the costs of a p/t Community Link Worker; self-employed therapist; and a contribution to overheads.
National Lottery Community Fund - Vulnerable Women's Group
£9,950 31/05/2019
12
The group will run therapy sessions for refugees, enabling them to seek support concerning experiences of hardship and trauma and to improve their health and wellbeing.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Nafsiyat
£10,000 25/04/2019
An unrestricted grant of £10,000. Nafsiyat offers short-term intercultural therapy, psythotherapy and counselling to people from diverse backgrounds, in 20 different languages. Clients include ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Vulnerable Womens Group
£4,950 07/02/2018
12
This project will run therapy sessions for refugees, enabling them to seek support regarding issues including domestic violence, which have an impact on their mental health.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Nafsiyat
£15,000 22/09/2016
24
Nafsiyat provides intercultural therapy to support BAME people experiencing mental health issues with many clients from migrant and refugee backgrounds. It is seeking funding to develop a combination ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre
£10,000 14/09/2016
Building refurbishment for a charity which works with ethnic minorities, refugees and asylum seekers in north London
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre
£72,700 09/06/2016
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing intercultural therapy to ethnic minorities, refugees and asylum seekers in London
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre
£98,850 24/05/2016
36
£98,850 over three years (£32,800; £32,950; £33,100) towards therapy provision, the psycho-social holding groups, the part-time Community Link Worker and a contribution to overheads.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 45-65
  • HENA JAWAID Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Human Resources
  • GITA PATEL Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Psychotherapist
  • JANE COOK (Chair) Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Health Visitor
  • YVONNE WRIGHT Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Information Governance Officer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/11/1983, number: 287819
  • Registered at Companies House on 29/03/1983, number: 01710669
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management 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
20 returns made; AR14: 53 days late, AR10: 2 days late, AR09: 24 days late, AR08: 1 days late, AR07: 230 days late, AR06: 10 days late, AR05: 11 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

Unit 4
Lysander Mews
Lysander Grove
LONDON
N193QP

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC KNOWLEDGE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION OF THE STUDY AND PRACTICE BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION OF THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF THE ART AND SCIENCE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY AND IN PARTICULAR AMONGST PERSONS BELONGING TO TO ONE OR MORE RELIGIOUS, RACIAL, NATIONAL OR OTHER SIMILAR GROUPS INENGLAND AND ELSEWHERE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

ENGLAND AND ELSEWHERE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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