IRAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1001785 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRIENDS OF THE PERSIAN LANGUAGE SOCIETY LIMITED

THE OBJECTIVES OF THE FOUNDATION ARE TO HELP PROMOTE AND PRESERVE THE RICH CULTURE AND HERITAGE OF IRAN. THE FOUNDATION INTERPRETS ITS REMIT GENEROUSLY AND ENCOURAGES A WIDE RANGE OF ACTIVITIES INTENDED TO PROVIDE A FORUM TO FACILITATE THE STUDY AND UNDERSTANDING OF IRAN'S CULTURE AMONG STUDENTS, THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY AND THE PUBLIC AT LARGE.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY IN THE LANGUAGES, LITERATURE,HISTORY, RELIGION,PHILOSOPHIES,ARTS AND CULTURES OF IRAN BY PROMOTING AND ENCOURAGING RESEARCH,THE PUBLICATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS OF SCHOLARLY AND ARTISTIC MERIT AND BY OTHER ACTIVITIES OF SCHOLARLY AND ARTISTIC MERIT

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Brent, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £43,404 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £159,357. The trustees confirmed that the charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties identified. Funding was primarily sourced from trustee pledges, donations, and grants, with total sources of funds amounting to £169,256.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2023 (received 20/11/2024, 20 days after the 31/10/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/12/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALI RASHIDIANchair
• ALIREZA RASTEGAR · trustee of 1 other charity
• Amin Amiri
• Homa Rastegar Driver
• Naza Alakija

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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• THE YADIRAN TRUST income £164k
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• DIOCESE OF IRAN TRUST FUND income £101k
• ERDINGTON ISLAMIC FOUNDATION income £141k
• THE FRIENDS OF THE DIOCESE OF IRAN income £333k
• Inspiring Communities for Integration and Cohesion income £485k

Side by side with its peers

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