HAMWATTAN CENTRE

Registered charity 1125458 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Activities include advice and advocacy, luncheon clubs, shopping scheme, day trips, friendship groups, exercise groups, healthy eating activities and public health information sessions.

Objects

3.1 TO RELIEVE ELDERLY PEOPLE, PRIMARILY PERSONS OF PAKISTANI AND KASHMIRI ORIGIN NOW LIVING IN LEEDS WHO ARE IN NEED, BY PROVIDING ITEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES CALCULATED TO RELIEVE THE NEED OF SUCH PERSONS.3.2 THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, AMONG PERSONS OF PAKISTANI AND KASHMIRI ORIGIN NOW LIVING IN LEEDS AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH GOODS/SERVICES WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD THROUGH LACK OF MEANS.3.3 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AMONG PEOPLE RESIDING IN LEEDS AND THE SURROUNDING AREA.3.4 TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF LEEDS AND THE SURROUNDING AREA THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £3,925 for the year ended 31 March 2025, an increase from £84 in the previous year. Total net assets stood at £35,334, with all funds classified as restricted. The filing is unaudited and compiled by accountants from the charity's accounting records.

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 4 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abdul Ghafoor Ratyal
• Mohammed Iqbal
• Noor Alam
• QAISAR HAMEED
• Rupali Jahan
• Saiqa Waleed
• Shahid Ahmad
• Zeban Ratyal

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

Operates in: Leeds City

Income and spending

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