Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 8
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 2 ?

AAWAZ

Assist women and families from black and minority ethnic communities to help them with their self development to improve their lives.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 4 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
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/24£131£200£-69n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/23£204£230£-26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£184£223£-39n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£330£187£143n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20?£96£127£-31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£137£115£22n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£118£87£31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£129£128£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£201£215£-14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£213£219£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£222£243£-21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£198£194£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£206£201£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£186£164£22n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£116£97£19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£48£42£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07?*£35£21£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
01/01/06*£35£21£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
01/01/05*£5£2£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
01/01/04*£9£4£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 23 years

www.aawaz.org.uk

info@aawaz.org.uk

01254398176

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Practical support, advice & companionship
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£205,018
Lloyds Bank Foundation£52,250
Garfield Weston Foundation£25,000
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside£16,000
Rosa UK£7,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Grant to Aawaz
£6,000 28/02/2024
9
To deliver a 10 month project addressing the needs of 15-20 women from the bame community including reducing loneliness.
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Celebrate Together
£9,750 03/03/2023
The funding will be used to bring together women and families from ethnic minorities to take part in creative music and writing activities to mark the Kings Coronation culminating in two community ....more
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Grant to Aawaz
£10,000 09/02/2023
To engage with 25 women from local BAME communities over 6 months including individual needs assessments, confidence building activities, guest speakers, arts & crafts, and chai and chat sessions ....more
Rosa UK - VftF R5-AAWAZ-2022
£7,000 15/12/2022
£25,000 has been awarded to Amina to create and design a survey using an intersectional approach. This will enable Amina to better understand the lived experiences of Black and minoritised women who ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Aawaz
£2,250 14/12/2022
One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
£25,000 29/01/2021
Aawaz Support Service
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Recovery grant to Aawaz
£50,000 02/12/2020
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Aawaz, awarded under the Foundation's Racial Equity funding stream. Part of the Covid Recovery Fund to support charities to emerge from the ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Move Forward
£195,268 12/12/2019
36
The organisation offers a range of services to predominantly Muslim working age women in the local community, including advice, guidance, telephone support, arts and craft sessions and counselling. ....more
DCMS - Tampon Tax Community Fund
£9,360 01/02/2019
Our project fits mainly in the objective Build skills and confidence. We will work with women to: Learn new skills Increase their confidence Improve their feeling of health nad wellbeing Reduce their ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Food Together
£9,050 09/08/2018
12
The funding will be used for trainers, sessional workers and kitchen facilities to support members of the Black and Minority Ethnic in menu planning, budgeting and cooking healthy family meals.
National Lottery Community Fund - Nai Zindagi - meaning New Life in Urdu
£264,326 08/03/2017
48
This project will improve the confidence, skills and self-esteem of around 300 South Asian women living in Hyndburn. Sessions will take place on Monday to Thursday, and activities will focus on ....more
Sport England - Aawaz sports Project
£9,815 05/09/2016
18
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Aawaz sports Project. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on beneficiaries from a BAME ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to AAWAZ
£46,100 21/07/2016
Central Ward Heritage Project
National Lottery Community Fund - Positive Living
£150,912 05/08/2013
24
This is a new project by AAWAZ based on consultation, research and past work. Working in the Hyndburn and Pendle areas of Lancashire, it aims to reduce isolation and remove the stigmatism for women ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to AAWAZ
£22,000 28/06/2013
improving the skills of BME women thereby providing better life chances & opportunities to play a fuller part in the wider community
National Lottery Community Fund - 'Motive8' - AAWAZ Women's Employability Project
£112,432 15/02/2012
36
The project will help economically inactive South Asian and Eastern European women, living in the Hyndburn borough of Lancashire, to become motivated, develop self confidence and gain practical ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed

  • AZIZ FATEMA BIBI Appointed: 2021
  • NAZIMA NAZ Appointed: 2021
  • NOSHIN HUSSAIN (Chair) Appointed: 2021
  • UZMA RANI Appointed: 2021
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 14/09/2001, number: 1088443
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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; AR07: 80 days late, AR06: 251 days late, AR05: 106 days late, AR04: 470 days late,
Main office

225 Blackburn Road
Accrington
BB5 0AL

Objectives

TO PROMOTE AND BENEFIT THE WHOLE ETHNIC MINORITY COMMUNITY BY ASSOCIATION WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND OTHER AGENCIES IN A COMMON EFFORT TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF MEMBERS OF THE ETHNIC MINORITY COMMUNITY, PARTICULARLY THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND FAMILIES LIVING AND WORKING ACROSS THE ACROSS THE NATION

Defined Area of Benefit:

UK

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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