ORISON CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1098822 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Orison Charitable Trust is a registered charity working primarily for the advancement of Islamic Shia religion and for the advancement of education and relief of poverty. With the aid of sound financial management and the support of volunteers the charity has achieved a satisfactory outcome for the year with sufficient resources to continue its normal activities in the forthcoming years.

Objects

1. TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE BY SUCH MEANS AS ARE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE THE ISLAMIC RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF THE SHIA ITHNA-ASHERI SHARIA2. TO RELIEVE POVERTY3. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE INDIA, BANGLADESH, THAILAND, MALAYSIA,UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE, BOSNIA AND AFRICA

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 · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £240,932 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted funds increasing to £871,650. The trustees report that the charity has adequate bank balances and unrestricted funds to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, confirming a healthy going concern status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Deitch Cooper LLP. 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.

• 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
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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 ~4.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/11/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jamil Rajabali Bandali
• Mustafa Mohsin Ali Mohamed
• Taslim Kanji

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · Bosnia And Herzegovina · Cameroon · Finland · Ghana · India · Italy · Kenya · Pakistan · Philippines · Portugal · Tanzania

Income and spending

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Known funders

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• YEMIN CHARITABLE TRUST LTD income £1.7m
• OXFORD ISLAMIC SOCIETY income £60k
• SHAAREI ORAH LTD income £1.7m
• ORGANISATION FOR THE SUPPORT OF TORAH EDUCATION LIMITED income £91k
• SHAHPORAN MASJID AND ISLAMIC CENTRE TRUST income £297k
• AGOY CHARITABLE TRUST income £72k

Side by side with its peers

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