MAKANI

Registered charity 1208842 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MAKANI CIC

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, UNDERTAKEN FOR WOMEN IN LEBANON AND THE UK:THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONGST THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS.THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION AMONG PEOPLE WHO ARE REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED ON THE GROUNDS OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC POSITION, AND TO RELIEVE THEIR NEEDS, BY:? PROVIDING EDUCATION AND SKILLS TRAINING SO AS TO ENABLE THEM TO ADAPT WITHIN A NEW COMMUNITY;? PROVIDING RECREATIONAL FACILITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES, ART-BASED WORKSHOPS, FORUMS, ADVOCACYAND GENERAL SUPPORT; AND? RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS, IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF FILM AND ART, OF THE ISSUES AFFECTING REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS, BOTH GENERALLY AND IN RELATION TO THEIR SOCIAL EXCLUSION.

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £46,345 at year-end, which falls within the charity's stated policy target of three to six months of core expenditure. Total income for the year was £295,206 against total expenditure of £279,903, resulting in a net surplus. The trustees confirm the charity remains a going concern with adequate resources to continue activities for the foreseeable future.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2025) to "within" (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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): instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Natalia Walterchair
• Dina Mousawi
• Hannah Young
• Malika McCosh
• Paula Zasowska
• Susannah Baker- Smith
• Yasmin Fedda

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

Operates in: Lebanon · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GAMLEARN.

• GAMLEARN income £310k
• PUBLISH WHAT YOU FUND income £781k
• BNJC income £4.1m
• WAY UK income £210k
• IOH income £42k
• HEIRS income £34k

Side by side with its peers

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