Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 2
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Grant maker support: +2
Overall GiG Score: -1 ?

ASIAN FAMILY COUNSELLING SERVICE 

Provides marital, family and individual counselling to the Asian community
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 including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • 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

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£185£134£52n/an/an/an/an/a7
31/03/22£168£140£28n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/21£191£157£34n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/20£145£98£47n/an/an/an/an/a7
31/03/19£121£120£1n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/18£119£149£-30£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£183£166£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£171£157£14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£138£169£-31£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£140£182£-42£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£197£185£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£259£213£46£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£181£153£28£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£184£216£-33£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£244£255£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£222£203£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£179£159£20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£165£172£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£152£150£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£140£145£-5£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 38 years

www.asianfamilycounselling.org

admin@asianfamily.co.uk

07710545552

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Other specialist outpatient services
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 7 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
CAF - Grant to ASIAN FAMILY COUNSELLING SERVICE
£3,000 25/06/2020
3
Grant to ASIAN FAMILY COUNSELLING SERVICE to support the organisation through COVID19
City Bridge Trust - Grant to ASIAN FAMILY COUNSELLING SERVICE (AFCS)
£10,000 19/06/2020
£10,000 towards three months of costs as outlined in your application.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 27/05/1986, number: 517595
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 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR04: 75 days late,
Main office

F1
Unit 4
Triangle Centre
399
Uxbridge Road

Objectives

(I) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AMONG PERSONS OF ASIAN ORIGIN AND PARTICULARLY AMONG SUCH PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM ABOUT ALL ASPECTS OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS WITH A VIEW TO DEVELOPING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND ENRICHING FAMILY LIFE AND (II) TO SAFEGAURD AND PROTECT THE GOOD HEALTH, BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL, OF ADULTS AND CHILDREN OF ASIAN ORIGIN AND PARTICULARLY OF SUCH PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND TO PREVENT HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS CAUSED BY THE BREAKDOWN OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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