RAFAH INTERNATIONAL

Registered charity 1168436 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Rafah International provides humanitarian aid to the impoverished people of Yemen and the victims of conflict and natural disasters. It also supports teachers students and educational institutes.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT: TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY OR FINANCIALHARDSHIP. TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, SICKNESS AND POOR HEALTH; TO RELIEVE AND ASSIST PEOPLEWHO ARE THE VICTIMS OF WAR OR ARMED CONFLICT OR NATURAL AND/OR MAN-MADE DISASTERS, EPIDEMIC,OR FAMINE, INCLUDING (WITHOUT LIMITATION) PROVISION OF EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND RECOVERYINCLUDING THE SUPPLY OF MEDICAL AND/OR FINANCIAL AID TO SUCH PERSONS; AND TO PREVENT OR RELIEVEPOVERTY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OF REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS, INCLUDING BY PRESERVING ANDPROTECTING THEIR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH. IN ALL CASES BY ANY CHARITABLE MEANS, WORKINGANYWHERE IN THE WORLD REGARDLESS OF THE BENEFICIARIES' RELIGION, RACE, ETHNICITY, DISABILITY,GENDER, GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION AND POLITICAL CONVICTION.

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Barking and Dagenham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds £5,000 in reserve to cover emergency expenses and running costs. Per the trustees' report, this amount is held specifically for such contingencies. The total unrestricted funds at year-end were £12,896, providing a small buffer above the stated emergency reserve target.

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
• 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
• Investment
• 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)

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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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/07/2025 (received 10/06/2026, 10 days after the 31/05/2026 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 — Rafah international (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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: 1.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• AMIN ALI OLIVER DESMOND BUXTON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anawar ul Hassan
• Mohammed Ali Rasul

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales · Yemen

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YEMEN RELIEF (UK) LTD.

• YEMEN RELIEF (UK) LTD income £133k
• YAFA FOUNDATION income £42k
• ACTION YEMEN LIMITED income £114k
• HAYAT ORPHANAGE income £96k
• GLOBAL RAHMAH FOUNDATION income £4.1m
• IHSAN FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION income £641k

Side by side with its peers

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