SAHARA PROJECT (PRESTON) LIMITED

Registered charity 1050142 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The principal activities of the charity are to offer a free and confidential support service for women providing advice, information, counselling, volunteering and social activities and educational courses.

Objects

(1) TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF WOMEN OF ETHNIC MINORITIES IN GENERAL AND OF ASIAN AND AFRO CARIBBEAN ORIGIN IN PATICULAR IN THE ARE OF PRESTON. (20 TO SUPPORT AND ALLEVIATE THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PROBLEMS OF SUCH WOMEN. (3) TO PROMOTE GOOD RACE RELATIONS (4) TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THOSE PERSONS IN CONDITIONS OF NEED HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS (5) TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN WHO THROUGH THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES ARE IN NEED AND UNABLE TO GAIN EMPLOYMENT, AND IN PARTICULAR TO PROMOTE OR SUPPORT SCHEMES WHERE SUCH PERSONS MAY RECEIVE TRAINING WHILE IN EMPLOYMENT

Area of benefit: PRESTON

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

Causes: Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £220,255 at the end of the 2024-25 financial year, which the trustees report will cover running costs for over 6 months. The charity generated a net surplus of £144,727 for the year, with total income of £436,596 primarily derived from grant funding. The trustees confirm that funding has been secured for the subsequent financial year, indicating no immediate financial instability.

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 4 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.

• 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
• Investing charity funds 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
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• KASH SINGH
• LINDA KENYON
• RIAZ BEGUM
• RIFFTAT BATOOL
• SHAMIM REHMAN
• jackie louise flynn

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).