Race Equality First Limited

Race Equality First is an independent charity working in Wales to promote equality. We offer a range of services including free, confidential advice and support to victims of discrimination/harrassment. We also offer advice, training, and information relating to equalities. We provide information about equality and a lobby voice for issues regarding diversity.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2026, it had income of £1,006,346 and spent £1,023,748.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 126%, from £445,360 in the year to 31 March 2022 to £1,006,346 in the year to 31 March 2026.

Spending against income

It spent 102% of its income in the year to 31 March 2026. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

23% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£202,801).

Largest funder

Welsh Government gave £312,662 in the year to 31 March 2026, 31% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 March 2026: £202,142 from 1 grant. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 March 2026, the charity named 11 funders who gave £958,344 between them. £312,662 of that came from public bodies.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 22 grants to this charity since 2009, worth at least £4,629,542.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

Public bodies' published spending shows 23 payments to this charity worth £1,150,877 between 2 August 2021 and 20 April 2026.

Councils and Welsh Government publish what they pay suppliers and grant holders above a threshold, usually £500 for councils and £25,000 for Welsh Government, so smaller payments are missing. A payment is shown only when OpenEconomy matched it to this charity with certainty. These figures come from the payer's records. They are a separate measure from the charity's own accounts, 360Giving grants and its annual return, and are never added to them.

Senedd and Welsh Government records that name this charity, gathered by OpenSenedd. Newest first.

• 14 October 2026

  Named by Safa Elhassan in the Senedd

  …vement. This Black History Month, we honour those who have helped build Wales, yet whose stories remain untold. I thank Race Council Cymru, Race Equality First, Ethnic Youth Support Team, Show Racism the Red Card, Black Lives Matter and Black History Cymru 365 campaigners, whose theme this year is '…

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• 4 March 2026

  Named in a written question from Darren Millar

  Addressed to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip.

  How much funding has the Welsh Government agreed to award EYST, Race Equality First, and Race Council Cymru to deliver race equality activities, as announced on 11 February 2026? Welsh Government agreed to award the following funding, to deliver activities aligned with the Anti-Racist Wales Action P…

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• 2 March 2026

  Named by Jane Hutt in the Senedd

  …ers do feel that they know what their roles are. We are funding also Race Council Cymru, Ethnic Minorities and Youth Support Team Wales and Race Equality First. We're funding them—key race organisations, you all know them—to help us deliver targeted work in terms of the 'Anti‑racist Wales Action Pla…

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• 11 February 2026

  Named in a written question from Darren Millar

  Addressed to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip.

  How much funding has the Welsh Government provided in total to EYST, Race Equality First, and Race Council Cymru since June 2022 for the purposes of delivering the goals of the Anti-racist Wales Action Plan? Since June 2022, for the purposes of delivering the goals of the Anti‑racist Wales Action Pl…

10 trustees run the charity.

• Gurmit RandhawaChairAppointed 23 June 2023
• Captain Catherine Burton FRAeSAppointed 24 June 2022
• Hugh Dela CruzAppointed 9 September 2022
• Kebba MannehAppointed 9 July 2021
• Khalid OsmanAppointed 23 June 2023
• Mohammad Taha Idris OBE, JPAppointed 24 July 2020
• Professor Meena UpadhyayaAppointed 9 July 2021
• Reynette RobertsAppointed 23 June 2023
• Sakina JamalAppointed 23 June 2023
• Samina KhanAppointed 24 June 2022

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1143830

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

16 September 2011

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 09/06/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/07/2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 18/09/2015 as amended on 23 Jun 2023

Company number

07663315This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.raceequalityfirst.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Cardiff

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 1 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Payments from public bodies: each body's own published spending data, matched to the charity by OpenEconomy. 5 public bodies' data is included so far.
• In the Senedd and Welsh Government: records gathered by OpenSenedd and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 5 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Cardiff Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Cardiff's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Penarth