BIRMINGHAM RACE IMPACT GROUP

Registered charity 1203456 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRIG

BRIG is a race equality and equity anti racist campaigning charity based in Birmingham and the West Midlands. Our work seeks to create Anti-Racist Places, Keep Race of the Agenda, Pass the Baton onto the next and future generations and hold institutions to account for race equality and improving relations with regard to racial harmony between and within communities.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF RACIAL HARMONY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN BIRMINGHAM AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS BY:(A) PROMOTING KNOWLEDGE AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN DIFFERENT RACIAL GROUPS;(B) ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT DIFFERENT RACIAL GROUPS TO PROMOTE GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN PERSONS OF DIFFERENT RACIAL GROUPS;(C) WORKING TOWARDS THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF RACE;(D) CONDUCTING OR COMMISSIONING RESEARCH ON EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY ISSUES AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTS TO THE PUBLIC.

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 · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£187k
Latest spending
£179k
Registered
2023
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £27,264 at the end of the financial year, an increase from £19,714 in the prior year. The trustees report that the charity is eligible for independent examination rather than audit, noting that resources are adequate to continue operations without material uncertainty.

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

What the accounts disclose

Related-party transaction: Trustee, Siobhan Harper Nunes, has supplied fundraising, project management and delivery support services to the charity amounting to £19,495 for the year ending 31st March 2025.
“Trustee, Siobhan Harper Nunes, has supplied fundraising, project management and delivery support services to the charity amounting to £19,495 for the year ending 31st March 2025.” — page 15
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Volunteers: 5
  • Government income: £40,000 — contracts £20,000 (2), grants £20,000 (2); 21% of the £186,772 total gross income on the same return
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 5
  • Government income: £40,000 — contracts £20,000 (2), grants £20,000 (2); 57% of the £70,728 total gross income on the same return
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Coventry City · Dudley · Sandwell · Solihull · Walsall · Wolverhampton

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£187k£179k
31/03/2024£71k£55k

Common questions

Is BIRMINGHAM RACE IMPACT GROUP financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £27,264 at the end of the financial year, an increase from £19,714 in the prior year. The trustees report that the charity is eligible for independent examination rather than audit, noting that resources are adequate to continue operations without material uncertainty. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds BIRMINGHAM RACE IMPACT GROUP?

Funders whose own accounts filings name BIRMINGHAM RACE IMPACT GROUP as a grant recipient include THE BARROW CADBURY TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE BARROW CADBURY TRUSTFY2024£20kPhilanthropy, Cross-cutting & other

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund30/04/2026£20kCommunity Conversation Café
Barrow Cadbury Trust26/03/2024£20kBirmingham Race Impact Group - Bridging Support
The National Lottery Heritage Fund07/12/2023£242k"Seeking the Pioneers: The Race History Detectives"
The National Lottery Community Fund08/09/2023£10kWho Am I?

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with B: RAP LTD.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
BIRMINGHAM RACE IMPACT GROUP£187k—0unclear—no doubt
B: RAP LTD FY2026£902k£90,001 - £100,0001unclear—no doubt
BRIDGEND INCLUSIVE NETWORK GROUP (BING) FY2025£59k—0unclear—no doubt

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