RACE EQUALITY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1051096 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as R.E.U., RACE EQUALITY UNIT

To promote good race relations and to endeavour to eliminate discrimination on the grounds of race. Activities include: research, training, consultancy and development work in social care, education, health and housing.

Objects

TO PROMOTE GOOD RACE RELATIONS AND TO E NDEAVOUR TO ELIMINATE DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF RACE, THEREBY ENCOURAGING EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY BETWEEN DIFFERENT RACIAL GROUPS, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE DELIVERY OF SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL CARE SERVICES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a small deficit for the financial year, with unrestricted reserves falling to approximately £308,000. This figure is within the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining free reserves equivalent to three months of operational expenditure. The charity holds a significant surplus in its defined benefit pension scheme, which has been recognized as a designated reserve.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Goldwins Ltd. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 2 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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
• 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
• 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
• Trustee expenses 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03121679

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Race Equality Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The National Lottery Community Fund — “We have been awarded £5 million over five years by The National Lottery Community Fund as part of their Health Inequities: Structural Racism…” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BENBRIH, Samia — director, appointed 22/05/2025on trustee list
• PATTERSON, Dunston — director, appointed 22/05/2025not on trustee list
• PATEL, Vijay — director, appointed 22/05/2025on trustee list
• AMRIWALA-ANAND, Reena — director, appointed 19/05/2022on trustee list
• JHUTTI-JOHAL, Jagbir, Dr — director, appointed 19/05/2022on trustee list
• LAWSON, Patricia Anne — director, appointed 19/05/2022on trustee list
• WOODLEY, Karin Lee — director, appointed 19/05/2022on trustee list
• PINTO, Amanda — director, appointed 19/05/2022on trustee list
• OWUSU, Melvina, Dr — director, appointed 27/02/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (90% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amanda Pinto
• Dr Melvina Owusu
• Dunston Patterson MSc · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jagbir Jhutti-Johal · trustee of 1 other charity
• Karin Lee Woodley
• PATRICIA ANNE LAWSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Reena Amriwala-Anand
• Samia Benbrih
• Vijay Patel · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STAND AGAINST RACISM & INEQUALITY.

• STAND AGAINST RACISM & INEQUALITY income £994k
• THE CENTRE FOR EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY income £37k
• ACTION FOR RACE EQUALITY income £2.0m
• KINGSTON RACE AND EQUALITIES COUNCIL income £93k
• RIGHTS AND EQUALITIES IN NEWHAM income £591k
• ENFIELD RACIAL EQUALITY COUNCIL income £46k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.