NILAARI AGENCY

Registered charity 1080555 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NILAARI

Nilaari offers a comprehensive range of services and support to people from Black & Minoritised Communities (BMC). Our unique interventions are culturally responsive, individually tailored & tackle the entrenched stigma and discrimination experienced by the BMC. Interventions include 1 2 1 Talking Therapies, 1 2 1 Key working, Structured group work programs & Peer support groups

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, PRINCIPALLY, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, IN BRISTOL, NORTH SOMERSET AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE: 1. TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY PEOPLE FROM BLACK AND MINORITISED COMMUNITIES AND THEIR FAMILIES, WHO ARE IN NEED BY VIRTUE OF: BEING AFFECTED BY MENTAL ILL HEALTH; BEING AT RISK OF OFFENDING; EXPERIENCING ISSUES RELATED TO RACIAL DISCRIMINATION OR INEQUALITY; BEING AFFECTED BY THE UNLAWFUL USE OR MISUSE OF DRUGS; BY PROVIDING CULTURALLY APPROPRIATE INFORMATION, ADVICE, TALKING THERAPIES, COUNSELLING, AND SIGNPOSTING TO OTHER RELEVANT SERVICES AND TRAINING.2.THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP BY THE PROVISION OF FREE ASSISTANCE TO PERSONS WHO, THROUGH LACK OF MEANS, WOULD OTHERWISE BE UNABLE TO OBTAIN SUCH ADVICE.

Area of benefit: NEIGHBOURHOOD OF BRISTOL.

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

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Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased by £87,830 to stand at £712,414, which is above the board's stated policy target of approximately £240,450. The charity reported a net income of £122,025 and maintained a sustainable financial position despite ongoing instability in the wider operating environment.

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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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)

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

Public-sector contracts awarded

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

Reported reserves equal ~17.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (79% 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Georgia Ramsaychair
• Bertel Martin
• Esther Wride
• Kingsley Ujah
• MR RAY VEIRA · trustee of 1 other charity
• Norman Pascal
• Valerie Watkis

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BIPOLAR UK LTD.

• BIPOLAR UK LTD income £1.6m
• Diversity Rights income £72k
• BIRMINGHAM COMMUNITY MATTERS income £172k
• AYLESBURY MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY CENTRE income £78k
• BLACK COUNTRY MENTAL HEALTH income £106k
• LIVERPOOL ARABIC CENTRE income £193k

Side by side with its peers

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