Dawn Charitable Trust

Registered charity 1080649 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as D.A.W.N., DIWA ASIAN WOMEN'S NETWORK ( D A W N )

Established since 1993, provides multilingual counselling service to support emotional & mental health in a culturally -sensitive women-only environment; men supported from 4-8 pm. Offers: counselling internships and volunteer training opportunities; educational, cultural, and recreational facilities including performing arts to alleviate isolation amongst the elderly - Asian & BAME women.

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY, AND IN PARTICULAR ASIAN WOMEN AND GIRLS RESIDENT IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HARROW- BUT NOT UNREASONABLY WITHHOLDING SUPPORT TO OTHERS SIMPLY ON THE GROUND THAT THEY RESIDE OUTSIDE THE PRIMARY AREA OF BENEFIT:(A) TO RELIEVE POVERTY, DISTRESS, ISOLATION AND ASSIST IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE AND INFORMATION, COUNSELLING AND IN SUCH OTHER WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK APPROPRIATE. (B) TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE.

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF HARROW

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £174,941, which the trustees consider to be above their stated policy target of three to six months' expenditure. The charity reported a net income surplus of £50,096 for the year, driven primarily by a significant increase in grant income, and confirmed it has adequate resources to continue as a 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 5 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
• 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)

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 05/02/2026, 5 days after the 31/01/2026 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 26/04/2023, 85 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• RANI KALHAchair
• Mindi Chaggar
• NEERU SINGH
• Richa Dave

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

Operates in: Harrow

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SWAN WOMEN'S CENTRE.

• SWAN WOMEN'S CENTRE income £286k
• DARNALL DEMENTIA TRUST income £161k
• NEW DAWN NEW DAY LTD income £718k
• THE DOVE SERVICE income £562k
• WOMAN'S TRUST income £1.2m
• GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT NETWORK income £354k

Side by side with its peers

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