UNION ROMANI VOICE

Registered charity 1193506 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

URV promotes equality and diversity by educating the public about Roma culture through arts and heritage. The charity advances human rights, social justice and child protection by providing free, confidential advice and advocacy to Roma families on access to public services including housing, employment education health safeguarding and support to maintain lawful residence in the UK including EUSS

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO WHICH ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING: A) THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND IN PARTICULAR THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF RACE BY EDUCATING AND RAISING AWARENESS OF THE PUBLIC IN THE UK ABOUT THE ROMA COMMUNITY THROUGH THE USE OF ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE IN ORDER TO FACILITATE GOOD COMMUNITY RELATIONS AND UNDERSTANDING, ESPECIALLY WITHIN THE PUBLIC SECTOR.B) THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE FROM THE ROMA COMMUNITY WHO ARE RESIDENT OR WHO ARE INTENDING TO RESIDE IN THE UK BY:(I) PROVIDING FREE AND CONFIDENTIAL ADVICE, ASSISTANCE, AND REPRESENTATION ON ACCESS TO PUBLIC SERVICES(II)INCREASING, OR CO-ORDINATING, OPPORTUNITIES FOR MEMBERS OF THE ROMA COMMUNITY TO ENGAGE WITH SERVICE PROVIDERS, TO ENABLE THOSE PROVIDERS TO ADAPT SERVICES TO BETTER MEET THE NEEDS OF THAT COMMUNITY(III)DEVELOPING PROGRAMS IN THE FIELDS OF EDUCATION, HEALTH, DRUG ADDICTION, EMPLOYMENT, EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES, AS WELL AS IN ALL AREAS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO IMPROVING THE LIVING CONDITIONS OF THE ROMA COMMUNITYC) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY THE MANAGEMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF A HERITAGE CENTRE AND EXHIBITION GALLERY TO PROMOTE THE ROMA ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held £6,524.43 in unrestricted funds, which is below the trustees' stated target of six months of essential unrestricted operating expenditure. Total receipts for the year were £190,303.00 against total payments of £150,678.57, resulting in a net increase in cash funds.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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

• Ciprin Avramchair
• Gheorghe Marius Dumitru
• Ionel Eugen Marin
• Maria Dolea
• Nicolae Lazar
• Niculina-Londra Pompas

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Blackpool · Essex · Leeds City · Luton · Manchester City · Norfolk · Oldham · Suffolk · Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ROMA SUPPORT GROUP.

• ROMA SUPPORT GROUP income £574k
• THE ROMANIAN AND EASTERN EUROPEAN HUB income £264k
• THE CHARITY OF THE ROMAN UNION OF THE ORDER OF ST URSULA income £3.6m
• REFUGEE WORKERS' CULTURAL ASSOCIATION income £199k
• ICMG ROMFORD income £109k
• UNIVERSAL DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION SOLIDARITY UK income £158k

Side by side with its peers

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