THE CENTRE FOR EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY

Registered charity 1114821 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are an organisation dedicated to the support, protection and betterment of ethnic and minority groups whether classified by race, gender, physical disability, sexual orientation,age discrimination or religion and belief.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT WITHIN DUDLEY AND ITS SURROUNDING AREA OF THE WEST MIDLANDS, AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF ENGLAND AS THE CHARITY MAY DETERMINE(I) TO PROMOTE EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY ACROSS ALL DIVERSITY STRANDS, INCLUDING RACE, GENDER, AGE, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RELIGION AND DISABILITY; AND(II) TO ELIMINATE DISCRIMINATION BASED ON, OR HAVING REFERENCE TO, ALL OR ANY OF THE FOREGOING;(III) TO PROMOTE SUCH OR ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE CHARITY SHALL THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: WEST MIDLANDS

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

Registered contact address: Dudley, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £6,688 for the year, with total income decreasing by approximately 13% to £36,940. The trustees note that unrestricted resources of £11,246 fall significantly short of their stated reserves policy target of £50,000 or six months of core costs. Despite these financial challenges and limited resources, the charity continued to deliver its activities and services in line with agreed project outcomes.

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
• 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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• MUSHTAQ HUSSAINchair
• ANGELA EDWARDS
• Kulvinder Hira
• Michael Killin
• Paul Singh
• Sarojpal Norman
• Shajna Azad

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

Operates in: Dudley

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RACE EQUALITY FOUNDATION.

• RACE EQUALITY FOUNDATION income £1.3m
• THE RACE EQUALITY CENTRE income £498k
• ETHNIC MINORITY CENTRE LIMITED income £44k
• THE ETHNIC INCLUSION FOUNDATION income £2.6m
• EQUALITY AND EMPLOYMENT LAW CENTRE income £272k
• THE CENTRE FOR SOCIAL POLICY STUDIES income £132k

Side by side with its peers

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