RACIAL JUSTICE NETWORK

Registered charity 1165804 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

1. Research and Reports2. Deliver Training3. Mobilise and organise with individuals and communities to take action.4. Network to Inform and Influence5. Use Media to highlight and raise awareness about issues.

Objects

(A) TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND, ESPECIALLY BLACK AND MINORITY ETHNIC COMMUNITIES, IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY;(B) THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR BY:I) THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF RACE OR RELIGION;II) ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS IN EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY;III) CONDUCTING OR COMMISSIONING RESEARCH ON EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY ISSUES AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTS TO THE PUBLIC;IV) CULTIVATING A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY.

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

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leeds, 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 surplus of £164,949 for the year ended 31 March 2025, bringing total net assets to £399,482. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves were £371,733, which the trustees consider adequate against their policy target of 12 months of unrestricted operating expenditure (£397,134).

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 6 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
• 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 13/04/2022, 72 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Racial Justice Network (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).

• Big Brother Watch — “It is grounded in Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to UK police forces, as part of the #StopTheSCANdal / #HandsOffOurBiodata campaign, …” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexandra Ruhland-Syquia
• Claude Hendrickson
• Dr Patrick Williams · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bradford City · Calderdale · City Of Wakefield · Kirklees · Leeds City

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Dr Patrick Williams — trustee here and at CIVIC POWER FUND

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 The Social Justice Network.

• The Social Justice Network income £346k
• RESOURCE JUSTICE NETWORK income £2.4m
• JUSTICE income £1.7m
• RIGHTS AND EQUALITIES IN NEWHAM income £591k
• GLOBAL SOURCENET income £49k
• JUSTICE BASE income £726k

Side by side with its peers

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