NEEDS INTERNATIONAL

Registered charity 1139667 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The prevention of relief of poverty throughout the world by providing grants, items and services to individuals and communities in need and/ or charities working to prevent or relieve poverty.

Objects

1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE RELIGION OF ISLAM FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY PROVIDING FINANCIAL (AND OTHER ASSISTANCE) TO MUSLIMS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD WHO LACK THE FACILITIES AND MEANS TO ADHERE TO THE FIVE FUNDAMENTAL PILLARS OF ISLAM.2) THE PREVENTION OF RELIEF OF POVERTY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BY PROVIDING GRANTS, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.

Area of benefit: THE WORLD

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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kirklees, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £123,619 as of 31 March 2025, having generated a surplus of £7,676 for the year. The trustees report that the financial position is adequate with continued donor support and explicitly state a policy of not holding reserves beyond each financial period. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention regarding the accounts.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 13/02/2023, 13 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Needs International (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MOHAMMED ISHAQ KHANchair
• FAROOQ ISMAIL
• IDRIS PATEL

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

Operates in: Ghana · India · Kenya

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AID THE NEEDY.

• AID THE NEEDY income £104k
• INTERNATIONAL NEEDS UK income £992k
• AID INFINITY income £72k
• WORLD IN NEED INTERNATIONAL income £274k
• GLOBAL AID CARE income £396k
• Humanitas income £351k

Side by side with its peers

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