SOUTHALL COMMUNITY ALLIANCE

Registered charity 1104671 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SCA

-Operating a community resource centre for disadvantaged community organisations in Southall and developing local community cohesion work- Providing hot desks, meeting space, fundraising assistance, use of postal address, training etc to community groups-Involvement in local or sub-regional VCS partnerships -empowering and informing residents and community groups about local issues

Objects

1. TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY OF SOUTHALL AND SURROUNDING AREAS IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY2. TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY AND GOOD RACE RELATIONS BY CO-ORDINATING, ORGANISING AND PROVIDING FACILITIES AND ACTIVITIES SPECIFICALLY TARGETED AT ETHNIC AND OTHER MINORITY GROUPS IN THE COMMUNITY IN SOUTHALL AND SURROUNDING AREAS WHICH ENABLE THEM TO DEVELOP THEIR CAPACITY AND SKILLS, SO THAT THEY MAY BE EQUIPPED TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY.

Area of benefit: FOR THE COMMUNITY IN SOUTHHALL, GREATER LONDON.

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £162,527 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £33,297. The trustees and auditors confirmed the charity is a going concern, noting that prudent financial management and increased grant income allowed the organization to rebuild its unrestricted reserves. The charity operates with six employees and relies heavily on volunteers, with no trustee remuneration paid during the period.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RehncyShaheen Chartered Accountants. 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
• 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
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 01/02/2023, 1 day 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Ealing Council — “One of the ways in which the Southall Community Alliance are responding in Southall is to use funding provided by Ealing Council’s Household…” (source page)
• The Baring Foundation — “Our efforts have been generously supported by a variety of funders, including Ealing Council, The Baring Foundation, Trust for London, Genom…” (source page)
• Trust for London — “Our efforts have been generously supported by a variety of funders, including Ealing Council, The Baring Foundation, Trust for London, Genom…” (source page)
• Genomics England — “Our efforts have been generously supported by a variety of funders, including Ealing Council, The Baring Foundation, Trust for London, Genom…” (source page)
• City Bridge Foundation — “Our efforts have been generously supported by a variety of funders, including Ealing Council, The Baring Foundation, Trust for London, Genom…” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/01/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ahmed Mohamed
• Alexander Bjorn Aman Frank
• Anjuna Kalsi
• Gopali Babra
• Harsev Singh Bains
• Jagjit Singh Sanghera
• James Jerald
• Jaskaran Singh Bholowasia
• RAVINDER KUMAR JAIN
• SARABJIT BHACHU
• Tajinder Paul Singh

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

Operates in: Ealing

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 SPOTLAND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION.

• SPOTLAND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £121k
• SAVILE TOWN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £31k
• SOUTHMEAD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £41k
• COMMUNITY ACTION SUFFOLK income £2.0m
• SOUTHDENE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £229k
• COMMUNITY SOUTHWARK income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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