FRIENDS OF ASHA (GB)

Registered charity 1085071 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Working, primarily in partnership with the Asha Community Health & Development Society in Delhi's slums, to relieve the distress of people who are in need or hardship due to their circumstances or who are suffering because of age or sickness, to promote the protection and preservation of good health by providing affordable medical services and personal and community health education .

Objects

(A) TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED OR HARDSHIP OR WHO ARE AGED OR SICK AND TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS CAUSED THEREBY IN INDIA AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT (B) TO PROMOTE THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF GOOD HEALTH IN INDIA AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT (C) TO PROMOTE AND FULFIL SUCH OTHER PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND ARE CONCERNED WITH THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE CHARITY.

Area of benefit: INDIA AND OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds decreased from £126,455 to £78,605, resulting in a net payment of £47,850 against total receipts of £210,216. The charity's reserves policy is not to retain significant reserves, and unrestricted reserves are currently held in cash and bank balances. No material uncertainty or going concern issues are disclosed in the filing.

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 4 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Friends Of Asha (GB) (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Graham Finchchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Amanda Rachel Clegg
• David Briggs
• Dr RICHARD HOGBEN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Helen Finch
• MR FREDDY MARTIN
• NIGEL IEUAN REES · trustee of 3 other charities
• Paul Hamilton Weston

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

Operates in: India

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