SWAN (SOUTHERN WOMEN'S AID NETWORK)

Registered charity 1188649 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

SWAN (Southern Women's Aid Network) was founded by Saiqa Ali BEM and is led and operated by women. SWAN works with other national and international NGOs and is a recognised provider of food aid in London and abroad. SWAN provides food and other essential aid to individuals and families in need through its ongoing and emergency local and international aid projects.

Objects

THE RELIEF OR PREVENTION OF POVERTY AMONGST PEOPLE IN LONDON OR IN OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ABROAD IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME-TO-TIME THINK FIT, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:A) PROVIDING EMERGENCY FOOD AND HOUSEHOLD ITEMS TO INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IN NEEDB) SUCH OTHER MEANS, INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT OR SIGNPOSTING TO RELEVANT INFORMATION AND OTHER ADVISORY SERVICES AND THE SUPPORT OF OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO RELIEVE OR PREVENT POVERTY

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £106,292 for the year ended 30 April 2025, resulting in total net assets of £278,337. The trustees note that the charity is non-profit making and its trustees are volunteers. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention that would cause them to believe the accounts did not comply with applicable requirements.

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
• 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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — SWAN (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Saiqa Ali — Founder / Leader (source)
• Uzma Hameed — Chair (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

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

• BannerBuzz — “We’d like to say a big thank you to BannerBuzz for supporting our work by providing a printed banner for our project.” (source page)
• Critical NHS — “Critical NHS fund flapjacks for our soup kitchen every week and provide other food donations.” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (87% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Uzma Hameedchair
• Amina Khawaja
• Saman Jung
• Zahra Ali

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

Operates in: Afghanistan · Bangladesh · Cameroon · Chad · Greece · Lebanon · Malawi · Occupied Palestinian Territories · Pakistan · Sri Lanka · Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SWAN ADVOCACY NETWORK.

• SWAN ADVOCACY NETWORK income £3.2m
• SUPPORT AND ACTION FOR WOMEN'S NETWORK (SAWN) income £697k
• SWANSEA FOODBANK income £241k
• BLACK SOUTH WEST NETWORK income £2.5m
• INTERNATIONAL SEAFARERS' WELFARE AND ASSISTANCE NETWORK income £1.3m
• NETBALL SOUTH WEST income £103k

Side by side with its peers

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