SOMALI WELFARE TRUST

Registered charity 1112146 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Somali Welfare Trust (SWT) is a strategically grounded, community-embedded organisation established in 2003 to ensure the inclusion of equity, accountability, and cultural competence into the design and delivery of public systems affecting racially minoritised communities.

Objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AND TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF SOMALIS IN REDBRIDGE AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, ASSISTANCE, REPRESENTATION, COUNSELLING AND TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION SERVICES IN MATTERS INCLUDING HEALTH, HOUSING AND WELFARE BENEFITS.

Area of benefit: REDBRIDGE AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS.

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported total income of £302,273 and total expenditure of £210,338, resulting in a net surplus for the year. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, and unrestricted reserves stood at £117,269.

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
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sahra Mohamudchair
• Amal Abdi
• Nazmin Rahman

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SUTTON AND ERDINGTON MUSLIM WELFARE ASSOCIATION.

• SUTTON AND ERDINGTON MUSLIM WELFARE ASSOCIATION income £485k
• WADI HOWAR WELFARE TRUST income £78k
• SOUTH LONDON TAMIL WELFARE GROUP income £34k
• COVENTRY SOMALI MUSLIM COMMUNITY TRUST income £178k
• MUSLIM WELFARE INSTITUTE income £1.7m
• British Somali Community Centre income £261k

Side by side with its peers

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