Unique Community Charity

Registered charity 1077222 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS ASSOCIAITON, RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS ASSOCIATION ( RIA )

Advice and Information serviceWomen's club (for women who are suffering or suffered from domestic violence)Brent Youth TheatrePerforming Arts Classes in Brent Support Group (moral support and co-counselling)Interpreting and Translation serviceRecreational activities/events for all agesTraining, seminars and meetings for volunteers, project users and clients

Objects

1. TO ADVANCE ARTS, CULTURE, AND HERITAGE IN GREATER LONDON BOROUGHS BY PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE WHO MIGHT OTHERWISE BE EXCLUDED DUE TO THE LACK OF FINANCIAL AND MATERIAL RESOURCES, POOR HEALTH AND UNDER ACHIEVEMENT.2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF DISADVANTAGED YOUNG PEOPLE, BY PROVIDING TRAINING, LEISURE, AND OTHER ACTIVITIES IN GREATER LONDON BOROUGHS IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES THINK FIT. 3. TO RELIEVE POVERTY AMONGST PEOPLE FROM REFUGEE AND MIGRANT COMMUNITIES IN GREATER LONDON BOROUGHS WHO ARE AFFECTED BY FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, SOCIAL EXCLUSION, POOR HEALTH, AND LOW ACHIEVEMENT IN EDUCATION BY PROVISION OF TRAINING, ADVICE & INFORMATION, AND BY ENGAGING THEM IN LEARNING, ART, MUSIC AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES. 4. TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN THE DIVERSE COMMUNITIES OF THE GREATER LONDON BOROUGHS BY INITIATING PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES AIMED AT PROMOTION OF CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION, UNDERSTANDING, AND FRIENDSHIP AMONGST DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES.5. TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY, BY THE PROVISION OF TRAINING, PERFORMANCE, MUSIC, AND OTHER PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES.6. TO RELIEVE THE AGED, PARTICULARLY THOSE FROM THE RUSSIAN COMMUNITY.7. TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE PUBLIC HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE.

Area of benefit: GREATER LONDON BOROUGHS

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £10,586 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted and restricted funds increasing to £115,216. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operation for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties regarding going 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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

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

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Unique Community Charity (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).

• Harrow Giving — “Mother Tongue is a new program funded by Harrow Giving that explores the complexities of language through theatre.” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Erina Davidenkochair
• Asta Marshall
• Liudmila Malinovskaia
• Rebecca Bincan

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRENT CULTURAL CENTRE.

• BRENT CULTURAL CENTRE income £72k
• WOMENS ENTERPRISING BREAKTHROUGH income £324k
• BRAYTON COMMUNITY CENTRE income £104k
• UNITY THEATRE income £630k
• UTULIVU WOMENS GROUP income £177k
• INSPIRED income £281k

Side by side with its peers

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