ESSA FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1122875 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing support and funds to organisations, religious or otherwise, which provide education and those which provide religious places of worship. Providing grants to relieve financial hardship.

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

Latest income

£100k

Latest spending

£298k

Registered

2008

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted reserves decreased to £75,814 following a net decrease in accumulated funds of £198,480 for the year ended 30 September 2025. The trustees confirm that systems are established to manage strategic and operational risks and that reserves will be utilized in pursuance of the charity's objectives.

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 3 of 6 completeness components.

Trustees · trustee networks

ADAM HASSAN UMARJI
IBRAHIM BOBAT
YAKUB IBRAHIM PATEL

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · Burma · India · Kenya · Malawi · Nepal · Pakistan · Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/09/2025	£100k	£298k
30/09/2024	£470k	£266k
30/09/2023	£0	£213k
30/09/2022	£250k	£237k
30/09/2021	£205k	£224k

Common questions

Is ESSA FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted reserves decreased to £75,814 following a net decrease in accumulated funds of £198,480 for the year ended 30 September 2025. The trustees confirm that systems are established to manage strategic and operational risks and that reserves will be utilized in pursuance of the charity's objectives. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds ESSA FOUNDATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name ESSA FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include THE MUSIC IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE MUSIC IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS TRUST	FY2024	£24k
THE MUSIC IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS TRUST	FY2025	£24k	School grants

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
CORNWALL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	1	£258k
TACKLE AFRICA	1	£45k
UBS UK Donor-Advised Foundation	1	£5k
THE REISNER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LTD	1	£5k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EA FOUNDATION.

EA FOUNDATION income £180k
ISSA FOUNDATION income £9.9m
EDUCATION SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA income £4.2m
THE ELYSIUM FOUNDATION LIMITED income £107k
ESS EDUCATION AND SUPPORT SERVICES income £230k
EMES FOUNDATION income £396k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
ESSA FOUNDATION	£100k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
EA FOUNDATION FY2023	£180k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
ISSA FOUNDATION FY2024	£9.9m	—	0	above	—	no doubt
EDUCATION SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA FY2025	£4.2m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE ELYSIUM FOUNDATION LIMITED FY2025	£107k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
ESS EDUCATION AND SUPPORT SERVICES FY2024	£230k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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