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Registered charity · Leicester

The Race Equality Centre

The Race Equality Centre is a registered charity (number 1053154) based in Leicester, governed by 14 trustees and chaired by Surinder Sharma. Latest income £498k (2026). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £498k (2026)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Leicestershire, Leicester City
Website
www.theraceequalitycentre.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Race Equality Centre
Registered
1996

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2026£498k£494k
  • 2025£506k£477k
  • 2024£285k£394k
Earlier years
  • 2023£226k£288k
  • 2022£414k£304k

Income trend, 2022 to 2026.

Income source mix, 2026: Government grants 18%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1) TO WORK TOWARDS THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION;(2) TO PROMOTE EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN PERSONS OF DIFFERENT RACIAL GROUPS WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, DISABILITY, OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS.(3) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND RELIEVE POVERTY AMONGST IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES PARTICULARLY BY THE PROVISION OF LEGAL AND OTHER ADVICE.

Grants received

25 grants · £1,406,477 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

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Most recent

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

14 trustees on the board

3.9y median 5y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (2)

14
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 14General Charitable Purposes 14Economic/community Development/employment 12Accommodation/housing 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Tech and media 13Business services 3Education 3

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£506k latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

2.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 6.5 in 2021

10 from 11 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1053154
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 22 DECEMBER 1995 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 5 APRIL 2004, 6 APRIL 2004, 12 MAY 2005 AND 3 AUGUST 2006.
Companies House
Company number 03140691 · Active
Contact on the register
01162042790 · administrator@theraceequalitycentre.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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