THE UNHEARD VOICES TRUST

Registered charity 1097339 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity has created scholars based on merits regardless of their social economic conditions.The charity has joined hands with institutions abroad to finance their activity with regular donations, where financial constraints does not stop development for the poor.

Objects

(I) IN AWARDING SCHOLARSHIPS, EXHIBITIONS, BURSARIES OR MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCES TENABLE AT ANY SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OR OTHER EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT IN EUROPE OR NORTH AMERICA APPROVED BY THE TRUSTEES FOR PERSONS UNDER 25 YEARS OF AGE WHO OR WHOSE PARENTS OR GUARDIANS ARE RESIDENT IN THE INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT OR SUCH OTHER COUNTRY AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE OR WHO ARE ATTENDING A MAINTAINED SCHOOL OR AN EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT IN EUROPE OR NORTH AMERICA AND WHO ARE IN NEED OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.(II) IN PROVIDING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, OUTFITS, CLOTHING, INSTRUMENTS OR BOOKS TO SUCH PERSONS ON LEAVING SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OR SUCH OTHER EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS TO PREPARE THEM FOR OR ASSIST THEIR ENTRY INTO A TRADE PROFESSION OR SERVICE(III) IN AWARDING TO SUCH PERSONS, GRANTS OR MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCES TO ENABLE THEM TO TRAVEL EITHER IN EUROPE OR NORTH AMERICA OR ELSEWHERE IN FURTHERANCE OF THEIR EDUCATION (IV) IN OTHERWISE FURTHERING THE EDUCATION OF SUCH PERSONS.(V) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY IN THE INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT BY FINANCIALLY SUPPORTING THE IMMEDIATE FAMILIES OF STUDENTS WHO BENEFIT FROM OBJECT (I) BY PROVIDING MONIES TOWARDS THE COST OF HOUSING, FEEDING AND MAINTAINING SUCH FAMILIES WHILST ANY SUCH STUDENTS ARE STUDYING. (VI) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY BY FINANCIALLY SUPPORTING ANY SUCH PERSONS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE BY PROVIDING MONIES TOWARDS THE COST OF HOUSING, FEEDING,HOSPITALISATION AND MAINTAINING SUCH PERSONS.

Area of benefit: OVERSEAS

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £5,888,493, representing a net surplus for the year of £959,613 driven largely by a one-off donation of £835,000 used to repay a bank loan. The charity reports no employees and relies on investment property income to fund its grants programme, with the trustees confirming no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Arif Malida Chartered Accountants. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2023) → no going-concern doubt (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~28.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (58% 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: 25.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• BRIAN WHITE · trustee of 6 other charities
• JOHN SUNGITSA · trustee of 1 other charity
• MUKARRAM SATTAR · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · Canada · Czech Republic · India · Pakistan · Throughout London · United States

Income and spending

Common questions

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 STELLA'S VOICE.

• STELLA'S VOICE income £1.7m
• TRUST FOR DEAF STUDIES income £55k
• OUR HIDDEN TREASURE income £111k
• THE HEARN FOUNDATION income £4.4m
• THE EAR TRUST income £34k
• CONNECTIONS TRUST income £116k

Side by side with its peers

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