FRIENDS OF SALAAM BAALAK TRUST (UK)

Registered charity 1134990 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Friends of Salaam Baalak Trust (UK) exists to raise funds for, and awareness about, street children in India. We work in Delhi in particular and principally by supporting the activities of the Indian NGO Salaam Baalak Trust.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR FOR THE STREET AND WORKING CHILDREN OF INDIA

Area of benefit: INDIA

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity raised over £115,000 in donations and held unrestricted reserves of £61,152 at the end of the year. The trustees describe the financial position as healthy, noting that the charity operates on minimal expenditure and does not hold reserves as such. The accounts were prepared under the small companies regime and subjected to an independent examination rather than a full audit.

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Friends of Salaam Baalak Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nidhi Agarwalchair
• Nicholas Andrew Thompson
• Steven Marc Abramson

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

Operates in: India

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF ORISSA.

• FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF ORISSA income £129k
• CHILDREN'S HOMES IN INDIA TRUST income £109k
• SALAAM EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £185k
• JAMIATUS SALIHAT TRUST income £156k
• FRIENDS OF BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN'S TRUST income £271k
• SURFERS NOT STREET CHILDREN UK income £342k

Side by side with its peers

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