SARWAR FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1083036 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PAKISTAN FOUNDATION, PAKISTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL, UCARE FOUNDATION

The Ucare Foundation seeks to assist in relief and sickness, hardship and distress through medical and educational facilities particularly for the benefit of the poor in Pakistan and ethnic communities in UK.

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

Latest income
£217k
Latest spending
£425k
Registered
2000
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing of resources of £207,933 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in total unrestricted funds decreasing to £181,306 from £389,240 in the previous year. Per the trustees' report, the charity is a small entity exempt from audit, with gross income exceeding £250,000 but total incoming resources falling significantly from £595,158 to £216,932.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Sarwar Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Total income
£595k
Total spending
£478k
Cost of raising funds
£50k
Reserves (reported)
£389k
Employees
2

Reported reserves equal ~9.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (83% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Lancashire · Pakistan · Scotland · Throughout London

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2024£217k£425k
31/12/2023£595k£478k
31/12/2022£481k£715k
31/12/2021£183k£166k
31/12/2020£827k£610k

Common questions

Is SARWAR FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing of resources of £207,933 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in total unrestricted funds decreasing to £181,306 from £389,240 in the previous year. Per the trustees' report, the charity is a small entity exempt from audit, with gross income exceeding £250,000 but total incoming resources falling significantly from £595,158 to £216,932. Its FY2024 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund24/11/2014£10k"Placing past in the present Pakistani Oral History in Glasgow"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund21/01/2014£10k"(No Title)"
The National Lottery Community Fund29/08/2012£10kMeasuring Hepatitis B&C exposure in Migrant Population in UK

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE REED FOUNDATION1£12k
THE O'SULLIVAN FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST1£12k
DORIS FIELD CHARITABLE TRUST1£1k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UCARE (OXFORD).

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
SARWAR FOUNDATION£217k—0unclear—no doubt
UCARE (OXFORD) FY2025£174kUnder £60,0000unclear—no doubt
UNITED KINGDOM ASSOCIATION FOR MEDICAL AID TO PAKISTAN FY2025£42k—0unclear—no doubt
ZIA UL UMMAH FOUNDATION FY2024£267k—0below—no doubt
AL-MAHMOOD FOUNDATION FY2024£202k—0unclear—noted
UNIQUE CHILDREN'S CHARITY FY2025£530k—0unclear—no doubt

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