THE RACE EQUALITY CENTRE

Registered charity 1053154 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEICESTER & LEICESTERSHIRE RACIAL EQUALITY COUNCIL, LEICESTER RACIAL EQUALITY COUNCIL

We provide advice, advocacy, support to all communities in Leicester to address issues related to racial inequality, discrimination and harassment.

Objects

(1) TO WORK TOWARDS THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION;(2) TO PROMOTE EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN PERSONS OF DIFFERENT RACIAL GROUPS WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, DISABILITY, OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS.(3) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND RELIEVE POVERTY AMONGST IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES PARTICULARLY BY THE PROVISION OF LEGAL AND OTHER ADVICE.

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £28,712 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total funds carried forward increasing to £272,721. The independent examiner confirmed that accounting records were kept and accounts prepared in accordance with relevant requirements, noting no material matters of concern.

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.

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
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• SURINDER SHARMAchair
• Ashok Mohindra
• CANON IRVING RICHARDS
• Camille London-Miyo
• Gail Pringle
• KATHRYN JANE HART
• Kirk Master
• Marcus Solanki · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mokhtar Hussain · trustee of 1 other charity
• Reg Mawdsley
• Sherilyn Pereira
• Tahera Khan
• Veronica Moore
• Wajeeda Yusuf

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

Operates in: Leicester City · Leicestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Race Equality North Somerset.

• Race Equality North Somerset income £119k
• Race Equality Network income £200k
• WEST LONDON EQUALITY CENTRE income £171k
• ACTION FOR RACE EQUALITY income £2.0m
• RACE EQUALITY FOUNDATION income £1.3m
• STAND AGAINST RACISM & INEQUALITY income £994k

Side by side with its peers

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