IKWRO WOMEN'S RIGHTS ORGANISATION

Registered charity 1151507 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IKWRO

to preserve Middle Eastern women's rights and equality, combat discrimination and tackle violence against women eg: 'honour' based violence, forced marriage, child marriage, female genital mutilation, domestic violence, and other forms of gender based violence. IKWRO is committed to women's equality, human rights and to empower women to access their rights and entitlements in the UK.

Objects

A) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF WOMEN AND GIRLS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST ESPECIALLY FROM IRAN, KURDISTAN, AFGHANISTAN, ARAB COUNTRIES AND TURKEY; AND THOSE WHO SPEAK FARSI, KURDISH, TURKISH AND ARABIC; B) TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF WOMEN AND GIRLS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST ESPECIALLY FROM IRAN, KURDISTAN, AFGHANISTAN, ARAB COUNTRIES AND TURKEY; AND THOSE WHO SPEAK FARSI, KURDISH, TURKISH AND ARABIC;C) PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THOSE WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY, DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND OR SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES.

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 · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £191,136 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income increasing to £1,543,362. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £857,356, which the Trustees consider sufficient to cover three to six months of operating expenditure in line with their stated policy. The Board confirmed the charity remains a going concern based on current financial positions and confirmed grant funding.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Christopher Michael Limited. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Diana Nammi — Executive Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Turn2Us — “The funding project with Turn2us aims to support individuals and families facing financial hardship by providing grants of up to £4,000.” (source page)
• NatWest Circle Fund — “IKWRO received funding from the NatWest Circle Fund to provide immediate financial support to domestic violence (DV) victims in crisis.” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 1.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Neda Fatemeh Barzegar-Befroeichair
• Aleisha Ebrahimi-Tsamis
• Dr Landan Hashemi
• Kulsoom Yusuf Pridmore
• Nadia Mardan Ali
• Payzee Mahmod
• SUSAN STEVENSON

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 IMECE WOMEN'S CENTRE.

• IMECE WOMEN'S CENTRE income £995k
• RIGHTS OF WOMEN INCORPORATED income £1.1m
• FAITH AND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS COALITION income £314k
• WOMEN FOR REFUGEE WOMEN income £771k
• BAWSO LTD income £4.6m
• LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN'S RIGHTS SERVICE income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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