SOMALI PARENTS NETWORK

Registered charity 1149416 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SPN

Drop in sessions providing sign posting and bridging service.Emergency response: Intervention service for family in crisis.Group meeting consultation for parents, young people, including meetings to discuss particular issues and information sessions focusing on particular topics in addition to promote engagement and meeting with stakeholder.

Objects

TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF PEOPLE LIVING IN THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF GREENWICH WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED ON THE GROUNDS OF THEIR ETHNIC ORIGIN, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY PEOPLE FROM THE SOMALI COMMUNITY AND TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF SUCH PEOPLE AND ASSIST THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY, IN PARTICULAR BY: 1.PROVIDING A LOCAL NETWORK GROUP THAT ENCOURAGES AND ENABLES THEM TO PARTICIPATE MORE EFFECTIVELY WITH THE WIDER COMMUNITY; 2.INCREASING, OR CO-ORDINATING, OPPORTUNITIES FOR THEM TO ENGAGE WITH SERVICE PROVIDERS, TO ENABLE THOSE PROVIDERS TO ADAPT SERVICES TO BETTER MEET THE NEEDS OF THAT COMMUNITY; AND 3.TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE BENEFICIARIES IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN SUCH WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY AND HELP MEET THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY.

Area of benefit: THE ROYAL BROUGH OF GREENWICH

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased from £12,116 to £12,131, driven by a net incoming resource of £15 against total incoming resources of £45,313. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £15 and restricted funds of £12,116, with no stated reserves policy target provided in the filing.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abdi Farah
• Abdifatah Ismail
• Essa Mohamed

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

Operates in: Bexley · Greenwich · Lewisham

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).