SERVE AFGHANISTAN

Registered charity 1105086 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity's activities include work in the areas of community development, preventative health and mainstreaming people with disabilities.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£1.9m

Latest spending

£1.9m

Registered

2004

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing resource of $6,960 for the year ended 31 December 2025, compared to a deficit of $136,904 in the prior year. The trustees note that unrestricted funds of $372,577 are below the target level of the Reserve Fund, which aims to maintain six months of unrestricted operating expenditure plus a fixed amount for emergency closure. Despite this, the trustees and auditors confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern for at least twelve months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: 6 months of unrestricted operating expenditure plus a fixed amount necessary to close the organisation in the event of an emergency (held: £373k)

“it has been the charity's policy to maintain unrestricted funds (excluding asset funds), which have arisen from past operating results, of 6 months of unrestricted operating expenditure plus a fixed amount necessary to close the organisation in the event of an emergency.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: The document states 'Included in other debtors is an amount of $nil (2024: $3,852) owing from K Dhanabalan.' K Dhanabalan is listed as Executive Director. The 2025 amount is nil, so no current transaction amount is disclosed, but the relationship and prior year balance are noted. However, rule 6 says 'disclosed related-party transactions (who, what, amount)'. Since the 2025 amount is nil, there is no current transaction value to report as a material flow, but the existence of the debtor balance in the prior year and the current nil balance is a disclosure. I will report the current status.

“Included in other debtors is an amount of $nil (2024: $3,852) owing from K Dhanabalan. The balance has occurred due to cash drawn in excess of expenses during the year. There were no related party transactions in the previous year.” — page 47

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by UHY Hacker Young. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Total income

£1.9m

Total spending

£1.9m

Reserves (reported)

£277k

Employees

125

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Bruce Clark · trustee of 1 other charity
Dr Sara Varughese
Jennifer Mary Collins
Judith Helen Powell Thomas
Mark Larson
Matthew Wade
Peter John Vander Meulen

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

Operates in: Afghanistan

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£1.9m	£1.9m
31/12/2024	£1.4m	£1.5m
31/12/2023	£1.6m	£1.8m
31/12/2022	£1.8m	£1.8m
31/12/2021	£1.0m	£784k

Common questions

Is SERVE AFGHANISTAN financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing resource of $6,960 for the year ended 31 December 2025, compared to a deficit of $136,904 in the prior year. The trustees note that unrestricted funds of $372,577 are below the target level of the Reserve Fund, which aims to maintain six months of unrestricted operating expenditure plus a fixed amount for emergency closure. Despite this, the trustees and auditors confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern for at least twelve months. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by UHY Hacker Young.

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
BRUCE WAKE CHARITY	2	£57k
THE DIXIE ROSE FINDLAY CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£6k
DORIS FIELD CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£3k
THE BASSIL SHIPPAM AND ALSFORD TRUST	2	£950
THE BRITFORD BRIDGE TRUST	1	£320k
ST ALDHELM'S CHAPEL TRUST	1	£200k
CHK Foundation	1	£195k
THE CHRISTOPHER AND HENRY OLDFIELD TRUST	1	£165k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AFGHAN EKTA CULTURAL/RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY CENTRE.

AFGHAN EKTA CULTURAL/RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY CENTRE income £1.4m
PURPOSE OF LIFE income £2.6m
THE BASIC LIFE CHARITY income £350k
The Disabled Sailors Association income £775k
SHAHID AFRIDI FOUNDATION (UK) income £425k
SERVE income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
SERVE AFGHANISTAN	£1.9m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
AFGHAN EKTA CULTURAL/RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY CENTRE FY2024	£1.4m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
PURPOSE OF LIFE FY2025	£2.6m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE BASIC LIFE CHARITY FY2025	£350k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
The Disabled Sailors Association FY2025	£775k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
SHAHID AFRIDI FOUNDATION (UK) FY2025	£425k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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