HUMAN APPEAL

Registered charity 1154288 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q25383518 · Wikipedia · 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.

Objects

(A) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD BY PROVIDING GRANTS, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY;(B) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING, HEALTHCARE OBJECTS AND ALL THE NECESSARY SUPPORT DESIGNED TO ENABLE INDIVIDUALS TO GENERATE A SUSTAINABLE INCOME AND BE SELF-SUFFICIENT;(C) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL NEED AND SUFFERING AMONGST VICTIMS OF NATURAL OR OTHER KIND OF DISASTERS IN THE FORM OF MONEY OR OTHER MEANS DEEMED SUITABLE FOR PERSONS, BODIES, ORGANISATIONS AND/OR COUNTRIES AFFECTED, INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL AID.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stockport, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income rose by 16.5% to £105.1 million, while total expenditure increased to £107.0 million, resulting in a net deficit of £1.8 million for the year. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £1.5 million and cash at bank of £16.0 million, with the trustees confirming that resources are sufficient to secure the project pipeline for 2026 and beyond. The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 3 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

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 08553893
• Trading subsidiary: THE WAQF FUND Companies House 14790001

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.

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.

• AKHTAR, Rajnaara Chowdhury, Dr — director, appointed 28/10/2024on trustee list
• ALMETWALLY ALHEFNY, Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Dr — director, appointed 28/10/2024not on trustee list
• SHITTU, Bilkis Adebusola — director, appointed 28/10/2024on trustee list
• BALDWIN, Kenneth, Dr — director, appointed 01/12/2020on trustee list
• OMOTESO, Kamil Zakariyya, Dr — director, appointed 28/01/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

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 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 2.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (95% 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: 17.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (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

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 HUMAN AID FOUNDATION.

• HUMAN AID FOUNDATION income £344k
• HUMANITY CALLING income £378k
• HUMAN AID INITIATIVE income £36k
• HUMAN RELIEF FOUNDATION income £4.8m
• CENTRE FOR CRIMINAL APPEALS income £630k
• Human Hope income £78k

Side by side with its peers

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