BRADNET

Registered charity 1111920 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ASIAN DISABILITY NETWORK

Bradnet is a user-led organisation that seeks to empower and enable disabled people to lead their chosen lifestyle. We have a Board of Directors that is led by disabled people. We have staff and volunteers from the diverse communities. We provide; Outreach and Advocacy comprising 1-2-1 support, information, advice and guidance; Independent Living Service providing approriate personal assistance.

Objects

The objects of the Company are to assist, support, inform, advise and advocate on behalf of Disabled people, enabling and empowering such persons to articulate their needs and to advance their good health and welfare and relieve loneliness, isolation, poverty and distress and generally promote a better quality of life from a social model approach.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE YORKSHIRE

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £201,017 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted reserves increasing to £626,972. However, the trustees note that future funding is uncertain due to market pressures and wholesale cuts, though they remain confident of the future following a planned merger with INCT.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05572861 · Financial health read from its filings

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• RASIB, Wahid — director, appointed 22/05/2026not on trustee list
• SAEED, Muhammad — director, appointed 22/05/2026not on trustee list
• AHMAD, Jamal — director, appointed 15/05/2023on trustee list
• HUSSAIN, Assim — secretary, appointed 01/01/2025

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

CQC provider record: Bradnet — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 22/03/2023.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Bradnet: Good (18/04/2023) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jamal Ahmad
• Safina Kouser
• Tahirah Ahmed

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

Operates in: Bradford City

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).