SADAKA

Registered charity 1171075 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Sadaka provides free weekly lunches and basic items on Saturdays for those struggling financially / homeless in Reading. Come and enjoy a hot meal, and a chat, at Fairview Community Centre, 90b Great Knollys Street, RG1 7HL. Sadaka signposts service users to relevant local services for further help. Further, we begin a training programme for service users who wish to improve their quality of life.

Objects

1) THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP IN GREATER READING BY PROVIDING: FOOD, CLOTHING AND BASIC HOUSEHOLD ITEMS TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND SUPPORTING OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY IN GREATER READING 2) THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS AND IN PARTICULAR, DIFFERENT RELIGIONS. 3) THE PROMOTION OF RELIGIOUS HARMONY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY: (A) EDUCATING THE PUBLIC IN DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS BELIEFS INCLUDING AN AWARENESS OF THEIR DISTINCTIVE FEATURES AND THEIR COMMON GROUND TO PROMOTE GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN PERSONS OF DIFFERENT FAITHS; (B) PROMOTING KNOWLEDGE AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING AND RESPECT OF THE BELIEFS AND PRACTICES OF DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS FAITHS.4) TO ADVANCE ISLAM IN GREATER READING FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR BY ARRANGING VISITS TO MOSQUES BY SCHOOL CHILDREN TO ENLIGHTEN THEM ABOUT THE MUSLIM FAITH AND BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Reading, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

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Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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 21/01/2023 (received 16/01/2024, 56 days after the 21/11/2023 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 — Sadaka (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Youssef Allachair
• Fatima Alla-Saouiki
• Shazia Fazal
• Thomas Williams
• Zobia Kalim

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

Operates in: Reading

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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