Registered charity · Cardiff
Bawso LTD
- 11 trustees
- Income £4.6m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Carol HarrisTrustee · since 2024
- Chetna SinhaTrustee · since 2025
- Giovanni RivaTrustee · since 2021
- Jennifer Fletcher BATrustee · since 2012
- Michael MurrayTrustee · since 2019
- Mutale Merrill OBETrustee · since 2023
- Mwape BurkeTrustee · since 2019
- Rachel McdonaldTrustee · since 2019
- Tahmina KhanTrustee
- Temmy WoolstonTrustee · since 2024
- Vimlaben PatelTrustee · since 2024
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Accommodation/housing, Economic/community Development/employment, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity and 1 more
- Where
- Throughout Wales
- Website
- www.bawso.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Bawso LTD
- Registered
- 2001
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£4.6m£4.8m
- 2024£4.5m£4.7m
- 2023£4.7m£4.2m
Earlier years
- 2022£4.7m£4.2m
- 2021£3.8m£3.6m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 43% · Government grants 36%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE FROM MINORITY ETHNIC COMMUNITIES WHO HAVE SUFFERED FROM DOMESTIC ABUSE INCLUDING OTHER FORMS OF VIOLENCE BY THE PROVISION OF TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION IN WALES AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF SUCH PEOPLE, AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC CONCERNING THE NEEDS OF SUCH PEOPLE ALSO TOPROVIDE SPECIALIST SUPPORT TO PEOPLE AND THEIR CHILDREN FROM MINONTY ETHNIC COMMUNITIES
Grants received
26 grants · £1,832,260 total360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.
Top funders
- Comic Relief · £1,003,700 (3 grants)
- The Coutts Foundation · £265,600 (5 grants)
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £158,608 (2 grants)
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £127,809 (5 grants)
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £110,000 (2 grants)
Most recent
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
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.
11 trustees on the board
- Carol Harris since 2024
- Chetna Sinha since 2025
- Giovanni Riva since 2021
- Jennifer Fletcher BA since 2012
- Michael Murray since 2019
- Mutale Merrill OBE since 2023
- Mwape Burke since 2019
- Rachel Mcdonald since 2019
- Tahmina Khan
- Temmy Woolston since 2024
- Vimlaben Patel since 2024
Trustees past 6 years
- Jennifer Fletcher BA since 2012
- Michael Murray since 2019
- Mwape Burke since 2019
- Rachel Mcdonald since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- Carol Harris since 2024
- Giovanni Riva since 2021
- Jennifer Fletcher BA since 2012
- Michael Murray since 2019
- Mwape Burke since 2019
- Rachel Mcdonald since 2019
- Tahmina Khan
- Temmy Woolston since 2024
- Vimlaben Patel since 2024
Portfolio (2)
- Chetna Sinha since 2025
- Mutale Merrill OBE since 2023
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
1.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1084854
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 30/01/1996AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 27/09/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/09/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/02/2012
- Companies House
- Company number 03152590 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02920644633 · info@bawso.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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