BARAWAK

Registered charity 1206303 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Identifying, supporting, and improving the lives of African, Caribbean, and wider local communities by providing 'real help' from the point of need alleviating poverty, enhancing welfare, and equipping individuals through care in community initiatives, health and wellness programs, economic empowerment, education, job and business development opportunities, sports, and cultural advocacy.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY OF PERSONS AND FAMILIES OF AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN DECENT WHO MAINLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY ARE AFRO-HEBREW AND WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS, BY PROVIDING THOSE ITEMS OF FOOD, TOILETRIES AND OTHER GOODS AND SERVICES SUCH A PERSON OR FAMILY MAY NEED, IN WAYS THAT THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME-TO-TIME THINK FIT.

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lewisham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintained a modest financial position with unrestricted reserves of £996 at the end of the reporting period. The trustees note that sustainability is dependent on increasing regular income from donors and sponsorships, and that the scope of activities may remain static if income does not improve. The charity relies heavily on volunteers and has no employees.

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 5 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
• 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
• 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 profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• Wayne Richardschair
• Andre D Glispie
• Millicent Hippolyte
• Sheila Fay James

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTRE.

• AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTRE income £405k
• SUSTAINABILITY DEVELOPMENT income £63k
• HELPING CARING TEAM income £89k
• RURAL EXTENSION WITH AFRICA'S POOR income £43k
• NETWORK FOR A BETTER WORLD income £42k
• AL-SADAQAH income £30k

Side by side with its peers

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