AZADI TRUST

Registered charity 1138663 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Within Sparkbrook, Birmingham and environs - Serving the local community, by providing health, education, advocacy and pastoral support especially to those disadvantaged by virtue of age, disability, destitution or by being members of an ethnic minority;- Provision of housing accommodation;- Relief of destitution- Provision of information about the Christian Faith.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECT IS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF FAITH, PARTICULARLY WITHIN (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF SPARKBROOK, BIRMINGHAM AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS

Area of benefit: SPARKBROOK, BIRMINGHAM AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a small profit of £211 for the year ended 31 May 2025, with total income of £77,002 and expenditure of £76,791. The trustees report that unrestricted reserves stood at £29,284, which is significantly above the stated policy target of £1,000 per annum, though a review is underway to increase this target to three months of normal expenditure commitments by 2029.

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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £60k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/12/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ELIZABETH ANNE HODGESchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• BRIAN RICHARD DUCILLE
• EVELYN SMYLIE
• Irene Anne Johnson
• JOHNNY D JOHNSON BSC, MSC
• MARY CARROLL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Megan Margaret Meister
• Michael Hodges M.SOC.SCI,
• Neil David Walker · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephen Christopher Thomas DeVries

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AZAD WELFARE TRUST (UK).

• AZAD WELFARE TRUST (UK) income £267k
• ANJUMAN-E-BADRI (BIRMINGHAM) income £709k
• THE EDMUND TRUST income £11.1m
• THE ALBRIGHTON TRUST LIMITED income £146k
• ISMAILI TRUST (UK) income £53k
• ZUHRI TRUST income £243k

Side by side with its peers

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