SOMALI RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT FORUM

Registered charity 1143208 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SOMALIA DROUGHT APPEAL, ZAMZAM FOUNDATION UK

SRDF supports relief and development projects and advocacy missions as well as provides capacity building through training, pools resources through its members and serves as a forum for debate delivering humanitarian aid and development projects.

Objects

2. THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:2.1 TO RELIEVE AND ASSIST THE VICTIMS OF WAR, CONFLICT OR NATURAL DISASTER, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FOOD, MEDICAL AID, ACCOMMODATION, ACCESS TO WATER AND SANITATION AND OTHER HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE,2.2 TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:2.2.1 THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES;2.2.2 THE PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE PRUDENT USE OF RESOURCES;2.2.3 THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE MEANS OF ACHIEVING ECONOMIC GROWTH AND REGENERATION;IN EACH CASE FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE IN SOMALIA AND SURROUNDING COUNTRIES.“SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT” MEANS “DEVELOPMENT WHICH MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENTWITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS.”

Area of benefit: SOMALIA AND SURROUNDING COUNTRIES

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 · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity received total incoming resources of £90,727 and expended £79,098, resulting in a net surplus for the year. The trustees report a positive bank balance of £2,768 at the end of the fiscal year, noting that unrestricted reserves held were £2,500, which is below their stated policy target of £5,000.

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 5 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Islamic Relief launches urgent Somalia drought appeal islamic-relief.org · 24/05/2019

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07723237

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Zamzam Foundation UK (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• WARSAME, Abdullahi Mumin — director, appointed 03/02/2024on trustee list
• TAHIR, Hyder Tahir Mohamed Sheikh, Dr — director, appointed 10/08/2022on trustee list
• TAHIR, Tahir Mohamed Sheikh — director, appointed 10/08/2022on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Tahir Mohamed Sheikh Tahirchair
• Abdullahi Mumin Warsame
• Dr Hyder Tahir Mohamed Sheikh Tahir

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

Operates in: Somalia · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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