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Registered charity · Guildford

Surrey Minority Ethnic Forum LTD

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £607k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage and 2 more
Where
Surrey
Website
www.smef.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Surrey Minority Ethnic Forum LTD
Registered
2013

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£607k£480k
  • 2024£407k£558k
  • 2023£545k£522k
Earlier years
  • 2022£698k£408k
  • 2021£337k£207k
Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY WORKING WITH PEOPLE IN SURREY AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED ON THE GROUNDS OF BEING MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITIES AND RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF SUCH PEOPLE AND ASSIST THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY, IN PARTICULAR BY:PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO ETHNIC MINORITY AND VOLUNTARY GROUPS, ACTING AS A FORUM FOR SUCH GROUPS, AND MAKING REPRESENTATIONS CONCERNING ETHNIC MINORITY COMMUNITIES TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND SERVICE PROVIDERS.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

9 trustees on the board

3.8y median 0y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (4)

7
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 7The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 7Arts/culture/heritage/science 6Economic/community Development/employment 2Religious Activities 2Disability 1General Charitable Purposes 1Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 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.

Health and social care 10Professional services 2Arts and leisure 1

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£607k 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.

3.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

12 from 16 in 2022
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
1153956
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 20 DEC 2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 19/08/2013
Companies House
Company number 08350097 · Active
Contact on the register
07961421030 · admin@smef.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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