RACE EQUALITY FIRST LIMITED

Registered charity 1143830 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RACE EQUALITY FIRST

Race Equality First is an independent charity working in Wales to promote equality. We offer a range of services including free, confidential advice and support to victims of discrimination/harrassment. We also offer advice, training, and information relating to equalities. We provide information about equality and a lobby voice for issues regarding diversity.

Objects

3.1 THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:-3.1.1. WORKING TOWARDS THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION3.1.2. PROMOTING EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY ACROSS ALL PROTECTED CHARACTERISTICS WITHIN THE EQUALITYACT 20103.1.3. PROMOTING RIGHTS AND GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN PERSONS OF DIFFERENT RACIAL GROUPS

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Registered contact address: Cardiff, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net expenditure of £17,402, resulting in total funds of £641,258. The trustees report that the charity remains in a strong financial position with healthy reserves, noting that unrestricted funds stood at £502,229. The auditor confirmed that the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HSJ Audit Limited. 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
• 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07663315

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Race Equality First (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Aliya Mohammed — Chief Executive Officer (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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• National Lottery Community Fund — “National Lottery Community Fund” (source page)
• Community Matters Fund — “Community Matters Fund” (source page)
• Santander Foundation — “Santander Foundation” (source page)
• South & West Wales Wildlife Trust — “South & West Wales Wildlife Trust” (source page)
• Gwent Wildlife Trust — “Gwent Wildlife Trust” (source page)
• North Wales Wildlife Trust — “North Wales Wildlife Trust” (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.

• HARWICK, Julian — director, appointed 17/06/2026not on trustee list
• UPADHYAYA, Meena, Professor — director, appointed 17/06/2026on trustee list
• JAMAL, Sakina — director, appointed 23/06/2023on trustee list
• BURTON, Catherine Suzanne, Captain — director, appointed 24/06/2022not on trustee list
• MANNEH, Kebba Kwiney — director, appointed 09/07/2021on trustee list
• IDRIS, Mohammad Taha — director, appointed 24/07/2020not on trustee list
• MOHAMMED, Aliya — secretary, appointed 23/04/2012

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/12/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• GURMIT RANDHAWAchair
• Captain Catherine Burton FRAeS
• Hugh Dela Cruz
• Kebba Manneh
• Khalid Osman
• Mohammad Taha Idris OBE, JP
• Professor Meena Upadhyaya · trustee of 2 other charities
• Reynette Roberts
• Sakina Jamal
• Samina Khan · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 Race Equality Network.

• Race Equality Network income £200k
• RACE EQUALITY FOUNDATION income £1.3m
• THE RACE EQUALITY CENTRE income £498k
• THE CENTRE FOR EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY income £37k
• Race Equality North Somerset income £119k
• COMMUNITY FIRST income £2.8m

Side by side with its peers

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