SAVE AN ORPHAN (INTERNATIONAL)

Registered charity 1167943 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Here at Save An Orphan, we are committed to transforming the lives of orphaned children. We are leading the way in providing specialist and complete orphan care and recognise our responsibility towards vulnerable children, widows, and their communities. We are constantly working on helping to alleviate poverty and build brighter futures.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£2.2m

Latest spending

£2.3m

Registered

2016

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £125,746 for the year, resulting in total reserves falling to £98,285 from £224,031 the previous year. This unrestricted balance is below the charity's stated reserves policy target of £150,000. Despite the deficit, the trustees and auditors confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £98k; policy: three months of operational costs)

“General funds are slightly below the target reserves level at the year end” — page 14

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Streets Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Total income

£2.2m

Total spending

£2.3m

Cost of raising funds

£1.2m

Reserves (reported)

£98k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~0.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (81% 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: 57.7% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Wasiq Aftab Chaudhrychair
Halima Akhtar
Liliana Sinescu
Madiyah Ramzan
Mohammed Mahmood

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

Operates in: Albania · Bangladesh · India · Jordan · Occupied Palestinian Territories · Pakistan · Throughout England And Wales · Turkey

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£2.2m	£2.3m
31/12/2023	£1.6m	£1.3m
31/12/2022	£753k	£855k
31/12/2021	£466k	£475k
31/12/2020	£886	£5k

Common questions

Is SAVE AN ORPHAN (INTERNATIONAL) financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The charity reported a net expenditure of £125,746 for the year, resulting in total reserves falling to £98,285 from £224,031 the previous year. This unrestricted balance is below the charity's stated reserves policy target of £150,000. Despite the deficit, the trustees and auditors confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Streets Audit LLP.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE ASHWORTH CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£9k
MISS E F RATHBONE CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£2k
CHARITY MEALS	1	£425k
ISSA FOUNDATION	1	£415k
HALCROW FOUNDATION	1	£184k
WORLD DAY OF PRAYER NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR ENGLAND, WALES AND NORTHERN IRELAND	1	£50k
THE SF CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£20k
THEIRWORLD	1	£13k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OPERATION ORPHAN.

OPERATION ORPHAN income £302k
Save a Child income £182k
GIVE TO ORPHANS income £177k
ORPHANS IN NEED income £23.5m
LONELY ORPHANS income £980k
ZAMBIA ORPHANS AID UK income £251k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
SAVE AN ORPHAN (INTERNATIONAL)	£2.2m	—	—	below	—	no doubt
OPERATION ORPHAN FY2025	£302k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
Save a Child FY2025	£182k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
GIVE TO ORPHANS FY2024	£177k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
ORPHANS IN NEED FY2025	£23.5m	—	—	above	—	no doubt
LONELY ORPHANS FY2024	£980k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.