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Description
Helping refugees living in the UK rebuild their lives through education, training and employment.
Also known as
- Breaking Barriers
- Breaking Barriers
CCEW Charity number
Registered
Postcode
WC2B 4HN
Website
Domain
breaking-barriers.co.uk
Latest income
£3,798,854 (on )
This organisation record is based on data from Registered charities in England and Wales published by Charity Commission for England and Wales.
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Registered Office in the UK
This organisation record is part of a group of linked records that describe a single organisation. The organisation is linked to 3 active records and 0 inactive records, from 3 data sources.
What is an organisation identifier?
An organisation identifier is a unique piece of text that definitively identifies an organisation.
Examples include charity numbers and company numbers.
Identifiers are usually assigned by an external body like a regulator.
Findthatcharity uses the Org ID scheme to create identifiers.
GB-CHC gives the scheme for this identifier (Charity Commission), while 1161901 is the identifier for this organisation within the scheme.
This organisation has been classified using different categories:
International Classification of Non-profit and Third Sector Organizations (ICNP/TSO)
ICNP/TSO categories have been automatically assigned from a machine learning model, as part of the UK Charity Classification project.
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Technical, vocational and continuing education
B31
UK Charity Activity Tags
These tags are taken from a project to classify all UK charities using a common set of tags. The tags are applied using keyword searching, so may be incorrect for particular cases.
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Beneficiary group
BE» Asylum seekers and refugeesBE101 -
Economic and community development
EC» UnemploymentEC107 -
Education
ED -
Education
ED» TrainingED300 -
Education
ED» TrainingED300» Employability trainingED302
Theme (CCEW)
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Education/training
102 -
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
105 -
Economic/community Development/employment
113 -
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
115
Beneficiaries (CCEW)
-
Children/young People
201 -
Elderly/old People
202 -
People With Disabilities
203 -
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
204
Activities (CCEW)
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Provides Human Resources
304 -
Provides Services
306 -
Provides Advocacy/advice/information
307
Scale of operation
- National
| Year ending | Income (£) | Spending (£) |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-05-29 |
CIO registration |
|
| 2016-05-28 | 41,946 | 31,522 |
| 2017-05-28 | 165,418 | 160,649 |
| 2018-05-28 | 741,150 | 448,140 |
| 2019-05-28 | 1,006,363 | 1,030,108 |
| 2020-05-28 | 1,426,381 | 1,277,825 |
| 2021-05-28 | 1,834,038 | 1,561,285 |
| 2022-05-31 | 2,851,232 | 2,297,573 |
| 2023-05-31 | 3,798,854 | 3,263,174 |
Data on funds and reserves are only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.
| 2023 £ |
2022 £ |
|
|---|---|---|
| Employees | 66 | 50 |
| Employees paid more than £60,000 | 2 | 1 |
| Volunteers | 314 | 288 |
| Trustees | 11 |
Data on employees is only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.
Statement of financial activities for year ended .
Based on information provided to the Charity Commission for England and Wales in the charity's annual return. This may not exactly match the figures and categories supplied in the charity's annual accounts.
| 2023 £000s |
2022
£000s |
|
|---|---|---|
| Incoming resources | ||
| Donations and other voluntary income | 2,413.5 | 1,401.2 |
| Legacies | - | - |
| Endowments | - | - |
| Donations and legacies | 2,413.5 | 1,401.2 |
| Income from charitable activities | 1,377.6 | 1,373.2 |
| Income from other trading activities | 7.7 | 76.8 |
| Income from investments | - | - |
| Other income | - | - |
| Total | 3,798.9 | 2,851.2 |
| Expenditure | ||
| Investment management | - | - |
| Other spending on raising funds | 569.2 | 321.1 |
| Spending on raising funds | 569.2 | 321.1 |
| Grants to institutions | - | - |
| Other charitable activities | 2,694.0 | 1,976.5 |
| Charitable activities | 2,694.0 | 1,976.5 |
| Other spending | - | - |
| Total | 3,263.2 | 2,297.6 |
| Net income / (expenditure) | 535.7 | 553.7 |
Balance sheet at .
Based on information provided to the Charity Commission for England and Wales in the charity's annual return. This may not exactly match the figures and categories supplied in the charity's annual accounts.
| 2023 £000s |
2022
£000s |
|
|---|---|---|
| Fixed assets | ||
| Tangible and intangible assets | - | - |
| Investment assets | 0.0 | - |
| 0.0 | - | |
| Current assets | ||
| Current investment assets | - | - |
| Cash | 1,552.6 | 1,115.6 |
| Other current assets | 565.4 | 438.8 |
| 2,117.9 | 1,554.3 | |
| Creditors | ||
| Amounts falling due within one year | (226.5) | (201.0) |
| Net current assets | 1,891.4 | 1,353.3 |
| Total assets less current liabilities | 1,891.4 | 1,353.3 |
| Creditors | ||
| Amounts falling due after one year | - | - |
| Net assets | 1,891.4 | 1,353.3 |
| Funds | ||
| Endowment funds | - | - |
| Restricted funds | 563.4 | 360.2 |
| Unrestricted funds | 1,327.9 | 993.1 |
| 1,891.4 | 1,353.3 | |
| 2023 £ |
2022 £ |
|
|---|---|---|
| Contracts with government | ||
| Income from government contracts | 629,262 | 265,132 |
| Government contracts as % of total income | 16.6% | 9.3% |
| Number of government contracts | 1 | 1 |
| Government grants | ||
| Income from government grants | 327,639 | 487,443 |
| Government grants as % of total income | 8.6% | 17.1% |
| Number of government grants | 2 | 3 |
Received 30 grants. Showing most recent 10 grants.
View this organisation's grants on GrantNav.
| Date | Funder | Amount awarded | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The EQ Foundation | £7,500 | Grant to BREAKING BARRIERS | ||
|
The National Lottery Community Fund
RC Midlands Region |
£240,000
3 years |
Supporting refugees in Birmingham into employment
Oct 2023 to Oct 2026 |
||
|
Quartet Community Foundation
Donor Directed |
£10,000 | Grant to Breaking Barriers | ||
| The Shears Foundation |
£5,500
1 year |
Breaking Barriers | ||
| The EQ Foundation | £10,000 | Grant to Breaking Barriers | ||
| Wates Foundation | £7,000 | NWF Oct 22_Futures Programme | ||
|
City Bridge Trust
Support for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants |
£123,000 | Grant to Breaking Barriers | ||
|
The National Lottery Community Fund
National Lottery Awards for All England |
£10,000
6 months |
Refugees at Work: Talent Beyond Barriers
Jul 2022 to Jan 2023 |
||
| The EQ Foundation | £7,500 | Grant to Breaking Barriers | ||
|
London Catalyst
Project |
£3,000 | Breaking Barriers - 3 |
Data source
Some grants data comes from funders who publish data using the 360Giving Data Standard. It was accessed using the 360Giving Datastore.
- A B Charitable Trust (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Barrow Cadbury Trust (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Cabinet Office (2 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- City Bridge Foundation (2 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- The Clothworkers Foundation (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- The EQ Foundation (5 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Garfield Weston Foundation (3 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- The Henry Smith Charity (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- London Catalyst (3 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Quartet Community Foundation (2 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Rank Foundation (2 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- The Rayne Foundation (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- The Shears Foundation (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- The National Lottery Community Fund (2 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Trust for London (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Wates Foundation (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
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