BLACK SOUTH WEST NETWORK

Registered charity 1123633 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

BSWN supports BME and other marginal community organisations in the South West. Its vision and mission are to promote and advocate on behalf of the BME and other marginal Voluntary and Community Sector organisations (BVCS). To strengthen the BVCS by increasing influence in policy arenas, developing the capacity, providing support, facilitating skills and knowledge sharing across the sector.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · 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 achieved a surplus of £1,080,508 during the year, with total incoming resources of £2,463,394 and resources expended of £1,382,886. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves stood at £1,301,322 at year-end, which the trustees confirm meet the needs of the charity's reserve policy and are sufficient to cover future committed costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PKF Francis Clark. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Martina (Mina) — Operations Director (source)
• Marti Burgess — Board Chair (source)
• Marcus Walters — Board Vice-Chair (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~14.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (88% 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

• Abdi Mohamed
• Afzal Shah
• Barbara Brown
• Barbara Witter
• Dr Marcus Walters
• Marti Burgess
• Mohammed Rashid · trustee of 1 other charity
• Olumide Cocker-Dickens
• Paul Kempster

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NETBALL SOUTH WEST.

• NETBALL SOUTH WEST income £103k
• SWAN (SOUTHERN WOMEN'S AID NETWORK) income £1.3m
• SWANSEA AND BRECON DIOCESAN BOARD FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY income £2.3m
• SOUTH WEST BAPTIST ASSOCIATION income £360k
• SOUTH WEST COMMUNITY CHAPLAINCY LIMITED income £221k
• THE BLACK SWIMMING ASSOCIATION (THE BSA) income £544k

Side by side with its peers

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