ISLAMIC ANSAAR FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1158902 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

IAF works both Internationally and Nationally.Projects include:NATIONALY: Food Bank, Burial Fund, Community drug/alcohol awareness programmes, Youth Society IntegrationINTERNATIONALY: Feed the Poor, Winter Appeal, Disaster Management Relief, Education Program, Medical Provisions, Refugee Support, Orphan SupportAs a charity we believe the donor is as important as those receiving aid.

Objects

(1) TO PROVIDE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE TO REFUGEES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD WHO ARE VICTIMS OF WAR, NATURAL DISASTER OR CATASTROPHE. IN PARTICULAR PROVIDING FOOD, SHELTER, CLOTHING AND MEDICAL AID.(2) TO RELIEVE POVERTY AMONG ORPHANS, BY PROVIDING THE ESSENTIALS (AS MENTIONED IN 1 ABOVE) INCLUDING THE RIGHT OF EDUCATION.(3) TO RELIEVE POVERTY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONG WIDOWS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS, BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING, HEALTHCARE PROJECTS AND ALL THE NECESSARY PROJECTS DESIGNED TO ENABLE INDIVIDUALS TO GENERATE A SUSTAINABLE INCOME AND BE SELF-SUFFICIENT.

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 · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased from £80,084 to £62,684 during the year, resulting in a net outgoing of resources. Total incoming resources from donations were £76,083, while total resources expended on charitable activities and administration amounted to £93,483. The trustees report that appropriate arrangements are in place for the proper management and governance of the charity.

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 4 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 4 were received after the due date: year ending 30/09/2025 (received 15/10/2026, 77 days after the 30/07/2026 due date); year ending 30/09/2024 (received 13/08/2025, 14 days after the 30/07/2025 due date); year ending 30/09/2023 (received 16/08/2024, 17 days after the 30/07/2024 due date); year ending 30/09/2022 (received 30/08/2023, 31 days after the 30/07/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• IFTIKHAR HUSSAINchair
• MOHAMMED ALI JAN
• MOHAMMED ZAFAR QASIM
• Zaheer Iqbal

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · Birmingham City · Burma · India · Madagascar · Occupied Palestinian Territories · Pakistan · Turkey

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ISLAMIC RELIEF WORLDWIDE.

• ISLAMIC RELIEF WORLDWIDE income £239.0m
• AL ANSAAR income £196k
• THE AMAR INTERNATIONAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £1.1m
• ISLAMIC NETWORK income £196k
• INTERNATIONAL RELIEF FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION income £83k
• MUSLIM RELIEF income £161k

Side by side with its peers

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