MATERNAL AID ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1166021 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MAA

Our mission is to improve maternal care in developing countries using innovative and evidence-based methods.

Objects

TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND TO PRESERVE THE HEALTH OF PREGNANT MOTHERS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN BANGLADESH

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £15,731, which is below the stated policy target of three to six months' expenditure. The charity reported a net expenditure of £7,634 against total income of £236,411, resulting in a decrease in fund balances from the previous year.

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.

• Bullying and harassment 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
• Risk management
• 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 30/09/2023 (received 31/07/2024, 1 day after the 30/07/2024 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.

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• AQIL MAHMOOD JAIGIRDAR
• Dr Abdul Rahyead
• USMAN HAROON

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · India · Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Side by side with its peers

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