SOMALI ADVICE LINK

Registered charity 1151476 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing advice/support to clients facing challenges accessing services - SAL aims to serve people of Somali descent living in Manchester. We provide key services to members, including advice/support, regarding: debt, housing, health, benefits, education/employment/training, council & referral services. We also offer basic English language, IT & workclub to any individual regardless of origin.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£74k

Latest spending

£100k

Registered

2013

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income deficit of £26,373 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total reserves from £71,351 to £44,978. Per the balance sheet, unrestricted reserves stood at £44,978, with cash at bank and in hand totaling £50,234.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: none

“National Heritage Rukba T/A Independ Manchester City Council 14,960 Worker Education 21,402 Groundwork UK 2,500 38,862”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

Terron Anderson Poolechair · trustee of 1 other charity
DELAINE FERGUSON · trustee of 1 other charity
MAXAMED IBRAAHIM
Muhammad Rizwan Qayyum
Omar Barkhad Osman

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

Operates in: Manchester City

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£74k	£100k
31/03/2024	£101k	£111k
31/03/2023	£132k	£100k
31/03/2022	£105k	£103k
31/03/2021	£153k	£105k

Common questions

Is SOMALI ADVICE LINK financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net income deficit of £26,373 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total reserves from £71,351 to £44,978. Per the balance sheet, unrestricted reserves stood at £44,978, with cash at bank and in hand totaling £50,234. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
Postcode Lottery	29/07/2025	£20k	Unrestricted Funding
The National Lottery Community Fund	25/07/2025	£20k	Community Links
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	02/08/2023	£10k	"Sharing Somali Heritage"
A B Charitable Trust	06/10/2022	£15k	A grant to Somali Advice Link
The National Lottery Community Fund	23/07/2021	£9k	Community Links
The National Lottery Community Fund	11/06/2021	£61k	Somali Women's Project
UK government	02/12/2020	£22k	DCMS VSCE CMC Covid Funding
Barrow Cadbury Trust	07/10/2020	£12k	COVID-19 - Somali Advice Link
UK government	21/08/2020	£7k	Coronavirus Community Support Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund	26/05/2020	£20k	Somali Advice Link- Covid-19 Response
The National Lottery Community Fund	15/04/2015	£10k	Community Debt & Income maximisation project
The National Lottery Community Fund	21/03/2013	£10k	Volunteer Advocacy & Training Project on welfare reform
The National Lottery Community Fund	15/09/2011	£5k	Advice Link Project