ENFIELD SAHELI

Registered charity 1129308 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Every Woman in crisis or entering a new phase of her life or wants to develop her dreams. Provide non-judgemental support and information to empower women to make choices, Offer services rooted in realities and dreams of women. Support women who are recovering/suffering from mental illness or experiencing physical, emotional, financial or domestic abuse. Support Groups, Counselling, Outreach work.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN LONDON:- TO RELIEVE POVERTY AMONGST WOMEN, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF ADVICE AND INFORMATION RELATING TO WELFARE, BENEFITS, FINANCES AND OTHER RELATED MATTERS, WITH THE AIM OF ENABLING WOMEN TO ACCESS THE RANGE OF WELFARE SERVICES AND SUPPORT AVAILABLE AND MAKE CONSIDERED CHOICES ON ISSUES RELATING TO THEIR OWN LIVES AND THEIR CHILDREN’S FUTURES;- TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AMONGST WOMEN, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF CLASSES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER SKILLS; AND- TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS, DISTRESS AND SUFFERING OF WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN MALTREATED OR ABUSED, AND OF WOMEN SUFFERING FROM MENTAL ILL-HEALTH, SOCIAL ISOLATION OR RELATED PROBLEMS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING COUNSELLING, ADVOCACY, GROUP ACTIVITIES AND RELATED SUPPORT.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Enfield, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds were £98,433 against a reserves policy target of at least six months' expenditure. The charity reported a net incoming resource deficit of £19,263 for the year, with total funds decreasing from £152,804 to £133,541.

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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 01/02/2022, 1 day after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06663604

Funders the charity credits

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

• The Trust for London — “With support from The Trust for London and the London Borough of Enfield, the group grew under the leadership of Shirin Hallam and Bharti Sh…” (source page)
• London Borough of Enfield — “With support from The Trust for London and the London Borough of Enfield, the group grew under the leadership of Shirin Hallam and Bharti Sh…” (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.

• BANSAL, Savita — director, appointed 15/05/2021on trustee list
• GANDECHA, Sheila — director, appointed 04/02/2021on trustee list
• TOLEY, Swapna — director, appointed 06/12/2018on trustee list
• MCLAUGHLIN, Esther Mary — director, appointed 12/07/2013on trustee list
• WANT, Balbir — director, appointed 04/08/2008on trustee list
• PUJARA, Krishnagauri Tushar — secretary, appointed 07/08/2012

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• ESTHER MARY MCLAUGHLINchair
• BALBIR WANT
• Savita Bansal
• Sheila Gandecha
• Swapna Toley

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

Operates in: Barnet · Enfield · Haringey

Income and spending

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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 SAHELI HUB.

• SAHELI HUB income £622k
• ENFIELD SOMALI COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £100k
• TEESVALLEY WOMENS CENTRE LIMITED income £387k
• TYNESIDE WOMEN'S HEALTH income £297k
• HAVERING WOMEN'S AID income £664k
• SHEFFIELD WORKING WOMEN'S OPPORTUNITIES PROJECT income £373k

Side by side with its peers

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