BRADFORD CITY OF SANCTUARY

Registered charity 1160553 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BCOS

- Regular monthly meetings- Engagement with local, regional and national media on asylum issues- Running occasional awareness-raising events- Giving talks to students, churches and other interested groups and running displays at local events- Regularly acting as the 'go-between' for people interested in volunteering with local asylum support projects and the projects themselves

Objects

1)TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL ABOUT THE ISSUES RELATING TO REFUGEES AND THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM; AND2)TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION OF REFUGEES AND ASYLUM-SEEKERS IN BRADFORD WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PART OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF BEING A MEMBER OF A SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED COMMUNITY.

Area of benefit: IN BRADFORD

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

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total surplus of £5,143 for the year ended 2026-03-31. However, the Director Fund incurred a deficit of £3,655, which was covered by a transfer from the General Fund as agreed by the Trustees. The balance sheet shows total assets of £45,416, with the majority held in the General Fund.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Bradford City of Sanctuary (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• trusts — “We are funded by a handful of trusts and a generous body of donors .” (source page)
• donors — “We are funded by a handful of trusts and a generous body of donors .” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amanda Church-Mcfarlanechair
• Amy Byrne
• Clementine Chitulangoma
• Esther Douglas
• Karen Michelle Holden · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rosie MacPherson
• Susan Naylor
• Zoe Katsilerou

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

Operates in: Bradford City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 CITY OF BRADFORD YMCA.

• CITY OF BRADFORD YMCA income £867k
• BRADFORD AFRICAN COMMUNITY income £137k
• THE BRADING TOWN TRUST income £26k
• WAKEFIELD DISTRICT CITY OF SANCTUARY income £65k
• THE BRADFORD FOUNDATION TRUST income £368k
• PORTSMOUTH CITY OF SANCTUARY income £154k

Side by side with its peers

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