HUMAN APPEAL

Registered charity 1154288 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HUMAN APPEAL INTERNATIONAL · also registered in Scotland as SC046481 (OSCR)

Human Appeal changed its legal structure from a Trust to a Charitable Company (No:1154288). The historical information is available on Charity Commission under (previous Charity Number: 1005733) We aim to provide a holistic approach to humanitarian relief and development:1. Emergency & relief programmes2. Sustainable development3. Orphans programmes4. Social programmes.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total income grew by 61% to £90.2 million, while charitable expenditure was £63.0 million. The charity holds £21 million in total funds, including £3.2 million in unrestricted reserves, which the trustees consider sufficient to manage foreseeable economic downturns.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Human Appeal (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Mohamed Ashmawey — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Professor Kamil Omoteso — Chair (source)
• Owais Khan — Deputy CEO (source)
• Hameed Al-Asaly — Director (source)
• Mehdi Benmrad — Director (source)
• Dr Ahmed Nasr — Director (source)
• Zaheer Khan — 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £145k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustpilot: Human Appeal scores 2.8/5 from 3 reviews (source) — reviews usually concern the charity’s shops or services, not its charitable performance.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (263,408 likes) · instagram (103K followers) · linkedin

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• UK Programmes Coordinator (London) · Remote in London
• Group Financial Controller · Cheadle SK8 2BL
• Volunteers Officer · Cheadle SK8 2BL
• Senior Legal Advisor · Manchester
• Internal Audit Manager · Cheadle SK8 2BL
• Social Media Fundraising Executive · Cheadle SK8 2BL
• Accounts Receivables Finance Officer · Cheadle SK8 2BL
• Donor Care Advisor · Cheadle SK8 2BL

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (96% 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: 17.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/02/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Kamil Zakariyya Omotesochair
• Abdulrahman Mahmoud Almetwally Alhefny
• BILKIS ADEBUSOLA SHITTU
• Dr Kenneth Baldwin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Rajnaara Chowdhury Akhtar

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · Birmingham City · Burma · India · Jordan · Lebanon · Manchester City · Occupied Palestinian Territories · Pakistan · Somalia · Sri Lanka · Syria

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• THE HUMANITARIAN TRUST income £240k
• HUMANITY CALLING income £378k
• BEING HUMANITARIAN income £117k
• HUMAN RELIEF FOUNDATION income £4.8m
• INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN RELIEF income £406k
• HUMANITY FOR HUMAN income £103k

Side by side with its peers

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