MESOPOTAMIA

Registered charity 1167781 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We provide aid to those in need,locally or abroad.Aid can be clothing, educational packs, medical aid and whatever we can to support someone through poverty or crisis.We help local families and the homeless with food and essentials.We run The Moses Basket project which provides a baby with a safe place to sleep and suitable clothing for their first months of their lives.

Objects

"THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY (OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP) ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING, HEALTHCARE PROJECTS AND ALL OF THE NECESSARY SUPPORT 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: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Nottingham, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds zero free/unrestricted reserves and is not currently in a position to hold them, though it plans to seek financial advice on this in the next financial year. The filing notes that while income increased, costs have risen and the charity is mindful of public reluctance to donate due to the cost of living crisis. The independent examiner confirmed that accounting records were kept and accounts accorded with those records, with no material concerns identified.

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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 05/04/2023 (received 21/02/2024, 16 days after the 05/02/2024 due date); year ending 05/04/2021 (received 29/03/2022, 52 days after the 05/02/2022 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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• RACHEL MILLERchair
• Colin Wignall
• Lynne Warwick
• Maureen Thomas
• Thomas Morris
• salma mumtaz

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

Operates in: Germany · Greece · Throughout England · Turkey

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 ISLAMIC PROVISION.

• ISLAMIC PROVISION income £117k
• MSIZI AFRICA income £31k
• Helping Hanna's Community income £23k
• HELP THE CAMBODIAN CHILDREN income £53k
• EARLY ESSENTIALS UK income £64k
• HELPING UMMAH income £117k

Side by side with its peers

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