ACTION FOR RACE EQUALITY
Registered charity 1056043 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ARE, B T E G, BLACK TRAINING AND ENTERPRISE GROUP
The charity's aims are to increase education attainment, employment and entrepreneurship rates for BAME people to the national average; to ensure that BAME communities and individuals contribute to the economic growth of their communities; to work with individuals and communities to improve integration and cohesion.
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that total income increased to £2,029,566 from £1,166,953 in the prior year, with unrestricted reserves held at £292,827. The trustees report that these free reserves represent approximately nine months of core costs, aligning with their stated reserves policy target. However, the going concern basis is noted as dependent on adequate continued funding due to the inherently uncertain nature of short-term grant income.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Accounts audited by Able & Young. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.
Year-over-year changes
- Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).
Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Jeremy Crook OBE — Chief Executive (source)
- Indra Nauth — Deputy Chief Executive (source)
- Ellisha Coates — Programme Director (source)
- Meka Beresford — Head of Policy (source)
- Brianna Cyrus — Head of Education and Youth Programmes (source)
- Cornelius Alexander — Head of PR and Communications (source)
Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£248k
Reported reserves equal ~2.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (82% 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: 12.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Throughout England
Income and spending
Common questions
Is ACTION FOR RACE EQUALITY financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total income increased to £2,029,566 from £1,166,953 in the prior year, with unrestricted reserves held at £292,827. The trustees report that these free reserves represent approximately nine months of core costs, aligning with their stated reserves policy target. However, the going concern basis is noted as dependent on adequate continued funding due to the inherently uncertain nature of short-term grant income. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Able & Young.
Who funds ACTION FOR RACE EQUALITY?
Funders whose own accounts filings name ACTION FOR RACE EQUALITY as a grant recipient include BRIDGE HOUSE ESTATES, PAUL HAMLYN FOUNDATION, THE BARROW CADBURY TRUST, THE LEGAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION, NETWORK FOR SOCIAL CHANGE CHARITABLE TRUST.
Known funders
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Government & lottery funding
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