DHAKA AHSANIA MISSION

Registered charity 1053786 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as D A M

Dhaka Ahsania Mission UK raises funds for DAM Bangladesh for the education and training of poor people e.g. trafficked women, slum children etc. It also raises funds for relieving poverty, vocational training, water & sanitation, flood and other disasters.

Objects

A) TO RELIEVE POVERTY DISTRESS SICKNESS AND IMPROVE THE WELFARE OF THE INHABITANTS OF LESS PRIVILEGED COUNTIRES AND THEIR PEOPLES WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX OR POLITICAL OR RELIGIOUS OPINIONS BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION THE FURTHERANCE OF HEALTH THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND BY TRADING ON A JUST AND EQUITABLE BASIS B) TO RELIEVE POVERTY DISTRESS AND SUFFERING IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD GIVING PREFERENCE TO BANGLADESH (INCLUDING DISEASE SICKNESS OR MENTAL AND PHYSICAL DISABILITY) AND WHETHER ARISING FROM ANY PUBLIC CALAMITY OR OTHERWISE C) IN SO FAR AS POSSIBLE TO ACHIEVE THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY THROUGH SUPPORTING THE PROGRAMMES AND PROJECTS OF DHAKA AHSANIA MISSION OF BANGLADESH

Area of benefit: BANGLADESH AND OTHER DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Warwick, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£220k
Latest spending
£228k
Registered
1996
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing resource position of £7,427 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted reserves from £124,275 to £112,971. Per the trustees' report, the organization maintains sufficient unrestricted funds to support ongoing operations and considers the going concern basis of accounting appropriate.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Charitable activities (91% of income)
“Charitable activities 4 15,861 184,501 200,362” — page 8
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: six months operating costs (held: £113k)
“£15,000 (equivalent to six months operating costs) to be held in the event of the cessation of DAM UK operations.” — page 4
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

  • Volunteers: 12
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

  • Volunteers: 10
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Bangladesh

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£220k£228k
31/12/2024£300k£339k
31/12/2023£375k£305k
31/12/2022£346k£433k
31/12/2021£344k£280k

Common questions

Is DHAKA AHSANIA MISSION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing resource position of £7,427 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted reserves from £124,275 to £112,971. Per the trustees' report, the organization maintains sufficient unrestricted funds to support ongoing operations and considers the going concern basis of accounting appropriate. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds DHAKA AHSANIA MISSION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name DHAKA AHSANIA MISSION as a grant recipient include HUMAN APPEAL, OXFAM, WILLIAM ADLINGTON CADBURY CHARITABLE TRUST, ALLAN AND NESTA FERGUSON CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT, FOREST HILL CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
HUMAN APPEALFY2024£1.8m
OXFAMFY2023£774k
HUMAN APPEALFY2020£573k
HUMAN APPEALFY2022£120k
HUMAN APPEALFY2021£108k
HUMAN APPEALFY2023£30k
WILLIAM ADLINGTON CADBURY CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£20kInternational Development
ALLAN AND NESTA FERGUSON CHARITABLE SETTLEMENTFY2022£15k
FOREST HILL CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2021£2kCategory Header
THE TULA TRUST LIMITEDFY2022£2k
C B AND H H TAYLOR 1984 TRUSTFY2021£1k
FOREST HILL CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£1k
THE AUSTIN BAILEY FOUNDATIONFY2023£1kSmall Grant
FOREST HILL CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£1kGeneral
THE AUSTIN BAILEY FOUNDATIONFY2022£1k

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MADANIA WELFARE TRUST.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
DHAKA AHSANIA MISSION£220k—0unclear—no doubt
MADANIA WELFARE TRUST FY2025£89k—0unclear—no doubt
CHILDREN IN BANGLADESH FY2025£118k—0unclear—no doubt
BANGLADESH REGENERATION TRUST UK FY2025£165k—0unclear—no doubt
ATMA VIGNANI DADA BHAGWAN FOUNDATION FY2025£204k—0unclear—no doubt
Darul Ehsan Foundation FY2026£40k——unclear—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.