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Status
Received: 34 days late
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Income
£3.8K
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Spending
£0.0K
Public benefits
BASIS exists solely to provide funding and support to ASIS an organisation that works solely in Bucharest in Romania. ASIS is assisted to deliver this benefit by the support, training and funds supplied by BASIS. Insofar as we benefit the public (in Bucharest) we do it through ASIS. ASIS, with our support, benefits the public in the following
ways: 1. It provides a crisis and support service to street children 2. It provides services that assist some street children to reintegrate into society through providing them with accommodation and help in their education and seeking employment. 3. It runs a family centre in a deprived area of the city which provides support services for parents and children. 4. It has worked on time limited projects in the areas of youth justice and children's rights. The plight of children living on the streets, the railway stations and indeed the sewers of Bucharest has been well documented in our media since the fall of the Communist regime of Ceausescu in 1989. ASIS was one of the first NGOs to work specifically with these children, providing support, accommodation and routes off the streets and out of poverty into education and employment. ASIS also operates a family centre in a deprived area of Bucharest which provides support to disadvantaged children and their parents. The BASIS management committee receives a quarterly report from the ASIS chief executive Rodica Gregorian detailing the work of that quarter. This routinely reports the number of beneficiaries of the service and the work that has been done with them. BASIS committee members visit ASIS on annually (all Trustees have visited ASIS in Bucharest) and on those visits we visit the work being done by ASIS staff and talk to the beneficiaries. The praise for the efforts of ASIS work from those we have met is unstinting. ASIS has received extensive and renewed funding from the Lily Foundation, (with whom we are in regular contact) and other major funders and they have their accountability mechanisms which are being satisfied. ASIS has recently gone into a joint project with the statutory services in Sector 6 in Bucharest indicating the regard the organisation is held in by the local authorities. The ASIS organisation is the beneficiary of the work of BASIS. The beneficiaries are ASIS’ clients in Bucharest – street children, young people leaving care, families in deprived areas of Bucharest. ASIS also benefits from the support and training that BASIS organises and supplies free of charge. There is no private benefit flowing to any members of BASIS from its charitable efforts. We do not employ any staff and have no premises. We only ever claim expenses for our visits to Romania and on occasions these have been met by the Lily Foundation. There is no harm arising from any of our purposes.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
We support ASIS an NGO that works with street children and deprived families in Bucharest, Romania. ASIS was established in 1995 to meet the needs of the street children population of Bucharest that had burgeoned after the fall of the Communist regime in the country. We fundraise and all the money we raise goes directly to ASIS, our committee is
entirely voluntary. We are in regular touch with the Director of ASIS Rodica Gregorian and offer her support and a consultancy service. She sends us regular accounts of the work of ASIS. All our committee members have been to Bucharest at least once and we try to have one or two members visit every year to support and to provide training for the ASIS staff.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The prevention or relief of poverty
- The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Who the charity helps
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Homelessness
- Overseas/developing countries
- Parents
How the charity works
- Education/training
- Grant making
