Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 7
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

ENFIELD SAHELI 

Every Woman in crisis or entering a new phase of her life or wants to develop her dreams. Provide non-judgemental support and information to empower women to make choices, Offer services rooted in realities and dreams of women. Support women who are recovering/suffering from mental illness or experiencing physical, emotional, financial or domestic abuse. Support Groups, Counselling, Outreach work.
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
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

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£182£181£1n/an/an/an/an/a26
31/03/22£187£181£6n/an/an/an/an/a18
31/03/21*£173£119£55n/an/an/an/an/a14
31/03/20£83£106£-23n/an/an/an/an/a14
31/03/19£104£98£6n/an/an/an/an/a11
31/03/18*£70£83£-14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£60£85£-25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16*£93£93£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£111£128£-17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£112£101£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£120£102£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£117£133£-16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£138£123£14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£143£115£27£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 15 years

www.enfieldsaheli.org

info@enfieldsaheli.org

02083736218

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Support for victims of domestic or sexual abuse
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Barnet, Enfield, Haringey,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities

Who supports 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
DCMS£68,465
Lloyds Bank Foundation£50,000
The London Community Foundation£9,997
Rosa UK£7,742
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Rosa UK - C19 R4-ENFSAH-2021
£7,742 30/03/2021
A grant of £7,742 to continue the post of Project Manager enabling access to education and training for disadvantaged young Jewish girls.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Recovery grant to Enfield Saheli
£50,000 03/12/2020
24
Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Enfield Saheli, awarded under the Foundation's Domestic Abuse funding stream. Part of the Covid Recovery Fund to support charities to ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£68,465 25/09/2020
"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
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Enfield Saheli
£9,997 14/08/2020
The funding is to support isolated, vulnerable and marginalized women who have had an acutely negative impact on the existing mental health challenges e.g. financial instability, escalating domestic ....more
DCMS - Rosa Fund, Tampon Tax
£25,000 01/12/2017
To provide peer support, individual counselling and advocacy to BME women who are experiencing domestic abuse. Women attending weekly drop-in sessions provide peer support to one another and by ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 47-73
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/04/2009, number: 1129308
  • Registered at Companies House on 04/08/2008, number: 06663604
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
14 returns made; AR21: 1 days late, AR18: 68 days late, AR16: 31 days late,
Main office

COMMUNITY HOUSE
311 FORE STREET
LONDON
N9 0PZ

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN LONDON:- TO RELIEVE POVERTY AMONGST WOMEN, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF ADVICE AND INFORMATION RELATING TO WELFARE, BENEFITS, FINANCES AND OTHER RELATED MATTERS, WITH THE AIM OF ENABLING WOMEN TO ACCESS THE RANGE OF WELFARE SERVICES AND SUPPORT AVAILABLE AND MAKE CONSIDERED CHOICES ON ISSUES RELATING TO THEIR OWN LIVES AND THEIR CHILDREN’S FUTURES;- TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AMONGST WOMEN, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF CLASSES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER SKILLS; AND- TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS, DISTRESS AND SUFFERING OF WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN MALTREATED OR ABUSED, AND OF WOMEN SUFFERING FROM MENTAL ILL-HEALTH, SOCIAL ISOLATION OR RELATED PROBLEMS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING COUNSELLING, ADVOCACY, GROUP ACTIVITIES AND RELATED SUPPORT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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