SHARING VOICES (BRADFORD)

Registered charity 1112686 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SV(B)

Sharing Voices Bradford is a community development mental health charity that seeks to engage BME communities and services. Working to enable services to become more culturally appropriate and responsive to the diverse needs of all communities

Objects

THE PRESERVATION AND PROMOTION OF GOOD MENTAL HEALTH OF MINORITY ETHNIC COMMUNITIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM FOCUSING PRIMARILY ON PEOPLE LIVING IN WEST YORKSHIRE

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM, FOCUSING PRIMARILY IN WEST YORKSHIRE

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 · Disability · Accommodation/housing · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £101,986 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in net reserves falling to £173,435 from £275,418 the previous year. Per the trustees' report, the organization has established reserves for six to twelve months and considers itself to have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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
• 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
• 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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2021)

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: 4.6% of total income.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Azhar Iqbal
• Daud Khan
• Faisal Khan
• Shazad Mohammed

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

Operates in: Bradford City

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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