Star Community Foundation

Registered charity 1140511 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SHINE CHARITY, Star Communities, TAUHEEDUL CHARITY, TAUHEEDUL ISLAM RELIEF TRUST

Supporting children, families, and communities of Star schools through school-based hubs that foster volunteering providing practical help, connection to essential services, and urgent financial support. Supporting enrichment initiatives and commissioning research to close educational gaps and improve outcomes, mobilising schools and hubs to address local, national, and international crises.

Objects

The Charity’s objects are to advance such exclusively charitable purposes for the public benefit as the Trustees may from time to time determine, and in particular (but not exclusively):1. To promote the learning, development, and wellbeing of young people attending or alumni of Star Academies and the communities in which Star Academies schools are located by: a) supporting and assisting those in need and their families; b) advancing educational opportunities to reduce underachievement; c) facilitating values-driven impactful volunteering and social action; d) developing and sustaining school-based Community Hubs to alleviate poverty, strengthen community cohesion, and connect families to public and charitable services;2. To relieve need, poverty, and distress among disadvantaged communities in the United Kingdom and internationally, including through emergency response and humanitarian aid;3. To promote gender equality and the empowerment of women;4. To support access to education for disadvantaged children and communities worldwide.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Blackburn with Darwen, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £166,496, which is above its stated policy target of £10,000. The charity reported a net surplus of £33,411 for the year, with total income of £299,604 and total expenditure of £266,193.

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 handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07514472 · Financial health read from its filings

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• ADAM, Ismail — director, appointed 06/05/2014on trustee list
• HASSAN, Fazlurrehman — director, appointed 25/02/2013not on trustee list
• PATEL, Hamid — director, appointed 30/03/2012not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~2.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• FAZLURRAHMAN HASSANchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• ISMAIL ADAM · trustee of 1 other charity
• MOHMED HANIF SUFI · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sir Mufti Hamid Patel CBE · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STAR EDUCATION SOCIETY.

• STAR EDUCATION SOCIETY income £138k
• NATIONAL STAR FOUNDATION income £49.6m
• STAR - STEPS TO ACTIVE RECOVERY income £103k
• FIRST STAR SCHOLARS UK income £132k
• SPLASH FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES income £48k
• SUPERSTAR ARTS CIO income £454k

Side by side with its peers

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