ASHIANA SHEFFIELD

Registered charity 1120401 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Ashiana has over thirty years' experience of working with Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic & Refugee (BAMER) adults, children & young people fleeing domestic & sexual abuse, forced marriage, human trafficking, gang violence & 'honour'-based violence. Ashiana offers safe accommodation & floating support to women & children, support & services for trafficked men & women in the UK on an outreach basis.

Objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (“OBJECTS”) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS AND SUFFERING EXPERIENCED BY WOMEN FROM MINORITY ETHNIC GROUPS AND ANY CHILDREN OF SUCH WOMEN (AND IN PARTICULAR ASIAN WOMEN AND WOMEN WITH CHILDREN) WHO HAVE BEEN MALTREATED BY THEIR PARTNERS, OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS OR MEN OR WOMEN KNOWN TO THEM;TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS AND SUFFERING EXPERIENCED BY MEN TRAFFICKED INTO THE UK.IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE LOCAL AND NATIONAL AUTHORITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS, THIS RELIEF SHALL BE PROVIDED IN ANY MANNER WHICH IS NOW OR MAY HEREAFTER BE DEEMED BY LAW TO BE CHARITABLE, WITHIN THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD AND ELSEWHERE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM (HEREINAFTER CALLED “THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: WITHIN THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD AND ELSEWHERE IN THE UKNITED KINGDOM.

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a surplus of £194,563 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £5,225,748 and total expenditure of £5,031,185. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £4,009,532, which is sufficient to cover 12 months of running costs based on current budgets. The trustees consider the financial position satisfactory and well-positioned for future objectives.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Carston ETL. Discloses 6 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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05853854

Funders the charity credits

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

• Big Lottery — “Ashiana have been awarded three Big Lottery grants to enable us to build upon our work with women and children.” (source page)

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.

• MOQBIL, Kaltoom — director, appointed 01/09/2020on trustee list
• COTTERELL, Freda — director, appointed 26/07/2013on trustee list
• KAUR, Daljit — director, appointed 21/06/2006on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DALJIT KAURchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Freda Cotterell
• Kaltoom Moqbil
• RAFFIT KIYANI
• Somer-jade Khan

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with REFUGE.

• REFUGE income £32.0m
• ASIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTRE income £2.7m
• ASHIANA NETWORK income £2.7m
• KARMA NIRVANA income £538k
• CHINESE INFORMATION AND ADVICE CENTRE income £141k
• COVENTRY PANAHGHAR PROJECT income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.