HELP YATEEM

Registered charity 1158571 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Help Yateem is an international non-profit charity organisation designed to benefit orphans and orphanages around the world. We help communities lift themselves out of poverty. We ensure that our long term development work is sustainable so that recipients of aid can ?break free? from the cycle of poverty which blights the lives of successive generations.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£255k
Latest spending
£240k
Registered
2014
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £14,898 for the year, with total unrestricted funds of £177,424 and restricted funds of £101,147. The trustees note that the charity maintained a healthy reserve policy target of three to six months of running costs and did not overdraw during the year. Per the independent examiner's report, there were no matters giving cause to believe the accounts were inaccurate or non-compliant.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three to six months (held: £177k)
“Help Yateem policy is to have a healthy balance on unrestricted funds for three to six months to cover the running costs” — page 3
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2021)

Total income
£645k
Total spending
£590k
Cost of raising funds
£54k
Reserves (reported)
£0
Employees
0

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 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: 8.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · Birmingham City · Blackburn With Darwen · Bolton · Canada · Ethiopia · Ghana · India · Jordan · Kenya · Lebanon · Leicester City

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/09/2025£255k£240k
30/09/2024£267k£321k
30/09/2023£224k£239k
30/09/2022£470k£400k
30/09/2021£645k£590k

Common questions

Is HELP YATEEM financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £14,898 for the year, with total unrestricted funds of £177,424 and restricted funds of £101,147. The trustees note that the charity maintained a healthy reserve policy target of three to six months of running costs and did not overdraw during the year. Per the independent examiner's report, there were no matters giving cause to believe the accounts were inaccurate or non-compliant. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.