BORDERLANDS (SOUTH WEST) LTD

Registered charity 1143313 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BORDERLANDS

Borderlands provides a welcoming community which supports asylum seekers and refugees in Bristol "from exclusion to belonging". We offer a social space, practical support, food, mentoring, English classes, wellbeing activities/trips and outreach support for new arrivals, all guided by our values of Warmth, Connection, Dignity and Respect. Over 100 volunteers play a major role delivering our work.

Objects

1. TO RELIEVE ASYLUM SEEKERS AND REFUGEES IN NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES BY SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE INCLUDING THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH.2. TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT, POOR EDUCATION OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT, RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS); CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY); SEXUAL EXPLOITATION.3. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF THOSE GROUPS MENTIONED ABOVE WITH THE AIM OF INCREASING COMMUNITY COHESION.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE, COMMUNITY COHESION IS A TERM TO DESCRIBE HOW EVERYONE IN A GEOGRAPHICAL AREA LIVES ALONGSIDE EACH OTHER WITH MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING AND RESPECT.4. TO PROMOTE GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY OF BRISTOL AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, AND TO PROVIDE RELIEF FROM FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND SOCIAL AND/OR ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF ITS RESIDENTS OF ALL AGES; AND IN PARTICULAR TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE AFOREMENTIONED RESIDENTS TO PARTICIPATE FULLY IN THE LIFE OF THEIR COMMUNITY IN WAYS WHICH ADDRESS AND ALLEVIATE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE.

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

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £54,546 and held £214,255 in free reserves, which represents 4.5 months of costs. This level of reserves is reported to be in line with the trustees' policy of maintaining between four and six months' costs. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07607693

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.

• CONNELL, Catherine — director, appointed 28/06/2026on trustee list
• JANI PATEL, Sneh — director, appointed 18/12/2024not on trustee list
• MORRIS, Bernard Allanzo — director, appointed 05/12/2022on trustee list
• CARSTENSEN, Kimberlee Lynn — director, appointed 09/03/2022on trustee list
• MCALEES, Patrick William John — director, appointed 09/03/2022on trustee list
• TARR, Nicholas Anthony — director, appointed 01/07/2016not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £239k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Kimberlee Lynn Carstensenchair
• Bernard Allanzo Morris · trustee of 1 other charity
• Catherine Connell
• Nick Tarr
• Patrick William John McAlees
• Shalini Sivakrishnan
• Sneh Jani Patel

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

Operates in: Bristol City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BORDERLINE COUNSELLING SERVICES.

• BORDERLINE COUNSELLING SERVICES income £61k
• BORDER CROSSINGS COMPANY LIMITED income £171k
• SOCIAL WORKERS WITHOUT BORDERS income £139k
• BEFRIENDING REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS income £186k
• UNITED BORDERS income £290k
• BORDER TERRIER WELFARE income £223k

Side by side with its peers

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