PERSIAN ADVICE BUREAU

Registered charity 1163147 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PAB

To provide assistance and advocacy to asylum seekers and refugees in the UK, women and children subject to domestic abuse, in particular, but not exclusively to Iranians and Farsi speakers. To provide support services, to advance them in life, and assist them with the adaption and integration within a new community. To promote Persian Culture and freedom of speech, particularly for Iranian women.

Objects

TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS IN THE UK, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY TO IRANIANS AND FARSI SPEAKERS (AFGHAN, TAJIK, KURDS, BALLOCH, AZERI) AND THEIR FAMILIES LIVING IN LONDON TO PROVIDE TRAINING FACILITIES AND SUPPORT SERVICES SO AS TO ADVANCE THEM IN LIFE AND ASSIST THEM WITH THE ADAPTION WITHIN A NEW COMMUNITY, WITH THE OBJECTS OF: -1.PRESERVING AND PROTECTING THEIR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH2.ADVANCING THEIR EDUCATION AND TRAINING; 3.RELIEVING THEM FROM FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND UNEMPLOYMENT;4.PROMOTING ART, CULTURE AND HERITAGE; AND5.TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Area of benefit: LONDON

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Barnet, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income deficit of £18,312 for the year ended April 4, 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing from £271,622 to £253,310. The trustees confirmed that the financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis after considering potential material uncertainties. The charity is structured as a CIO with unrestricted funds of £15,161 and restricted funds of £238,149.

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 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Investing charity funds 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

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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 04/04/2021 (received 15/02/2022, 11 days after the 04/02/2022 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• FOUJON B NAINIchair
• Aryan Chobin
• Atusa Tehrani
• FARANAK REZAZADEH GRAPHIC

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PERSIAN HEBREW COMMUNITY.

• THE PERSIAN HEBREW COMMUNITY income £92k
• Farsi Action Foundation income £43k
• IRANIAN DISABILITY SUPPORT ASSOCIATION (IDSA) income £38k
• PETERBOROUGH WOMEN'S AID income £840k
• IRANIAN ASSOCIATION income £391k
• CHINESE INFORMATION AND ADVICE CENTRE income £141k

Side by side with its peers

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