ROSHNI SHEFFIELD ASIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE

Registered charity 1149134 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ROSHNI SHEFFIELD

Roshni is a resource centre for South Asian women living in Sheffield. The aim of the organisation is to advance the welfare and education of women and this is done through the provision of a range of services and projects in a female only environment; where specific language and cultural needs are met.

Objects

3.2.1 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION (INCLUDING SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL TRAINING) OF ASIAN WOMEN IN THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD AND ELSEWHERE ("THE AREA OF BENEFIT")AND 3.2.2 TO ESTABLISH AN INDEPENDENT AND IMPARTIAL CENTRE (REFERRED TO AS "THE CENTRE") FOR THE USE OF THOSE LIVING IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT AND MEMBERS OF THE CHARITY AND TO CO-OPERATE WITH THE SHEFFIELD CITY COUNCIL IN MAINTAINING AND MANAGING THE CENTRE FOR ACTIVITIES PROMOTED BY THE CHARITY WHICH HELP TO ACHIEVE THE OBJECTS IN ARTICLE 3.2.1.

Area of benefit: SHEFFIELD AND ELSEWHERE

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small surplus of £1,327 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £174,090. The trustees' report indicates that this level of reserves is considered sufficient to cover management and administration costs, aligning with their policy to hold approximately six months of unrestricted expenditure.

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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Roshni Sheffield Asian Women's Resource Centre (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/09/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ASIMA KHAN
• Asha Akram
• FARHANA ZAMAN
• GHAZALA MUNIR
• KALPANA DESAI
• Najma Carles
• Shahnaz Bano
• ZOHRAN CHOUDHRY

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

Operates in: Sheffield City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ROSHNI (BIRMINGHAM).

• ROSHNI (BIRMINGHAM) income £975k
• ROSHNI GHAR income £294k
• MIRI ROSHNI income £3.4m
• THE WOMEN & FAMILIES RESOURCE CENTRE income £85k
• WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTRE income £1.0m
• ENFIELD SAHELI income £167k

Side by side with its peers

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