EXCEL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1144357 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as B&DSWA, BARKING & DAGENHAM SOMALI WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION, EXCEL WOMEN'S CENTRE

Excel Women's Centre is a dedicated charity to improve Health & Wellness of Women and their families in Barking & Dagenham and surrounding boroughs by providing information, advice and guidance in areas of Welfare, Housing and Health, Skills and Training and employability, homework club, Sport activities and User led Community Wellness Cafe with leisure and social activities

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT GOOD HEALTH IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY SOMALI WOMEN AND THEIR FAMILIES WITHIN THE BARKING AND DAGENHAM AREA BY PROVIDING A CENTRE WHEREBY THEY CAN ACCESS ADVICE, TRAINING AND SUPPORT.

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 · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Barking and Dagenham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £61,203, increasing its total reserves to £127,230. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties, noting that necessary funds will be raised as required. The charity is currently in the process of setting up a formal reserves policy.

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 4 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.

• 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 03/02/2023, 3 days after the 31/01/2023 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 11/02/2022, 11 days 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 06934326

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.

• HASSAN, Anab — director, appointed 01/10/2026not on trustee list
• ALI, Fatha — director, appointed 17/01/2017on trustee list
• ASKER, Fatma Moosa Omer — director, appointed 15/06/2009not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Edna Ashley
• FATHA ALI
• FATMA ASKER MIDWIFERY
• RHODA ASHUR BA NURSING
• Rukayat Akaji Suleman

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

Operates in: Barking And Dagenham

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 WELL WOMEN CENTRE.

• WELL WOMEN CENTRE income £809k
• MUSLIM WOMEN'S WELFARE ASSOCIATION LIMITED (ESSEX) income £51k
• WOMENS ENTERPRISING BREAKTHROUGH income £324k
• BALHAM COMMUNITY CENTRE income £829k
• BARKING AND DAGENHAM COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £375k
• WOMEN FOR WELL WOMEN income £437k

Side by side with its peers

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