THE BACA CHARITY

Registered charity 1124569 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Baca Charity works with unaccompanied young people who have been forced to leave their homes to seek asylum due to war and persecution or through trafficking for exploitation. Baca creates a safe environment through its holistic support for them to have hope to rebuild their lives for a better future and become positive empowered individuals who are contributors to the community they live in.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ( THE OBJECTS ) ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONGST THE FORCED MIGRANTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ABROAD AND THE PROMOTION OF HARMONY AND MUTUAL RESPECT AND DIVERSITY.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS.

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 · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased slightly to £2,222,876 while total expenditure increased by 22.8% to £2,214,060, resulting in a small net surplus of £8,816. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £1,681,049, which exceeds the stated policy target of five months' operational costs (£1m), and the trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the organization's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hawsons Chartered Accountants. 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Baca Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mark Vyner — Trustee (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

10 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (9 freehold); recorded price paid £3.5m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~13.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 4.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Brackett
• James Daniel Fyleman
• Justin De Koszmovszky
• Louise Lloyd-Jarvis
• Mark Vyner
• Paul Nicholas Clark
• Ravi Kiran Singh Kohli
• SARAH SHORT
• Vesna Joan Dubaic

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Leicestershire · Peterborough City · Rutland

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 BARAKA COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION.

• BARAKA COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £283k
• THE BACTA CHARITABLE TRUST income £67k
• BARKA UK income £179k
• CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS' BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION income £5.4m
• BALVIMAA CHARITY TRUST income £77k
• BAPS CHARITIES income £528k

Side by side with its peers

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