LONELY ORPHANS

Registered charity 1171230 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Lonely Orphans provides the following * Education for orphans and their families throughout the world,* Accommodation and shelter for those in urgent need, *Emergency food, medical treatment and education for all in need,* Disaster Relief

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £42,537 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in total net assets of £93,405. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £18,523, with a stated policy aim to build reserves to support six months of operating activities. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to attention regarding the accounts or accounting records.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08528320

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

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• JALALI, Zakaria — director, appointed 03/03/2025on trustee list
• KAMALI, Saadat Ia — director, appointed 03/03/2025on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (77% 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: 25.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/04/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abu-Bakr Kelly
• Saadat Iftekhar Ahmed Kamali
• Zakaria Jalali

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · Bosnia And Herzegovina · Cambodia · Egypt · India · Indonesia · Jordan · Malaysia · Morocco · Occupied Palestinian Territories · Somalia · Spain

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• OPERATION ORPHAN income £302k
• ORPHANS IN NEED income £23.5m
• GIVE TO ORPHANS income £177k
• SAVE AN ORPHAN (INTERNATIONAL) income £2.2m
• IRAQI ORPHAN FOUNDATION income £351k
• THE LONDON ORPHAN ASYLUM (REED'S SCHOOL) income £29.6m

Side by side with its peers

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