THE ASFARI FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1116751 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Asfari Foundation's mission is to help young people make a valuable contribution to society by empowering them through education, research, the power of free thinking and by encouraging the development of civil society. The Foundation does all its work through partnerships with other organisations.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported unrestricted reserves of £10,000,000, which the trustees consider adequate for its operations. The accounts were audited by KPMG, who issued an unqualified opinion. There are no disclosed material uncertainties or governance failures affecting the charity's financial stability.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by KPMG. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Ayman Asfari — Chairman (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~17.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (94% 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: 1.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• AYMAN ASFARIchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ADEEB ASFARI
• Dr Marwan Muasher
• John Ferguson
• Kareem Asfari
• RASHA ELMASRY
• SAWSAN ASFARI · trustee of 1 other charity
• Saba Almubaslat

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

Operates in: Jordan · Lebanon · Occupied Palestinian Territories · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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