TAMIL WELFARE ASSOCIATION (NEWHAM) UK

Registered charity 1047487 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as T W A N

PROVIDES ADVOCACY/ADVICE/INFORMATION , PROVIDE SERVICES. PROVIDE HUMAN RESOURCES, EDUCATION, TRAINING, THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH OR SAVING OF LIVES, DISABILITY, THE PREVENTION OF RELIEF OF POVERTY, ACCOMMODATION/HOUSING, ARTS/CULTURE/HERITAGE/SCIENCE, ECONOMIC/COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT /EMPLOYMENT.

Objects

(A) TO RELIEVE PERSONS PRIMARILY OF THE TAMIL COMMUNITY WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS. (B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROMOTING THE EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL INTERESTS OF TAMIL SPEAKING PEOPLE RESIDING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY THE PROVISION OF TAMIL LANGUAGE CLASSES LIBRARY FACILITIES CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ACTIVITIES. (C) TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR THOSE WHO NEED THEM BECAUSE OF THEIR YOUTH AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS IN LIFE. (D) TO PROMOTE THE CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE TAMIL PEOPLE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY JOINTLY WORKING WITH OTHER ORGANISATIONS HAVING SIMILAR CHARITABLE OBJECTIVES TO THOSE OF THE COMPANY

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED - IN PRACTICE LONDON BOROUGH OF NEWHAM

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Newham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £206,707, an increase from the previous year's £173,222. The filing notes that the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies. The trustees confirmed that the financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 06/11/2023, 6 days after the 31/10/2023 due date); year ending 31/12/2021 (received 06/11/2023, 371 days after the 31/10/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Janani Paramsothy
• KAMALRAJ THIYAGARAJAH
• PUSHPARATNAM CHANDRADAS
• Pulendrakumar Gajavathanan
• Rakavan Nadarajah
• SINNATHAMBY MUTHUCUMARASAMY
• Showmeya Jivathas
• Tharjini Thayaparan
• VIGNESWARAMOORTHY PONNIAH

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TAMIL ASSOCIATION OF BRENT.

• TAMIL ASSOCIATION OF BRENT income £48k
• THINK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £50k
• TAVERHAM VILLAGE HALL income £91k
• NAWAAL BENEVOLENCE FUND income £132k
• TAMIL SPECIAL CHILDREN UK income £39k
• THE TANLAW FOUNDATION income £308k

Side by side with its peers

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