COMMUNITY LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1174466 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CLF, CLF CHARITY

1) TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND HELP YOUNG PEOPLE IN LANCASHIRE AND GREATER MANCHESTER THROUGH:(A) THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES PROVIDED IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE, DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE;(B) PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESP

Objects

1) TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND HELP YOUNG PEOPLE IN LANCASHIRE AND GREATER MANCHESTER THROUGH:(A) THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES PROVIDED IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE, DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE;(B) PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS.2) THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED, BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE IN PAKISTAN AND THE UK. 3) TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF LANCASHIRE AND GREATER MANCHESTER AND THE SURROUNDING AREA THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS.4) THE PROMOTION OF RELIGIOUS HARMONY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN LANCASHIRE AND GREATER MANCHESTER 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.

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 · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total incoming resources were £357,394 against charitable expenditure of £304,311, resulting in a net movement in funds of £53,083. Per the trustees' report, the charity is entitled to small company exemptions and was not required to obtain an audit. The balance sheet shows net assets of £220,786, with a bank loan liability of £12,236.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Paying staff
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09483949 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Community Lighthouse Foundation (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.

• ANWAR, Qassim — director, appointed 08/08/2017on trustee list
• MALIK, Lubna — director, appointed 08/08/2017on trustee list
• MALIK, Shokat — director, appointed 11/03/2015not on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• SHAUKAT MALIKchair
• HASNAIN MOHAMMED YASIN
• LUBNA MALIK
• QASSIM ANWAR

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

Operates in: Malaysia · Occupied Palestinian Territories · Pakistan · Throughout England · Turkey · Uganda · Yemen

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE LANCASHIRE FOUNDATION.

• THE LANCASHIRE FOUNDATION income £956k
• LIGHTHOUSE - ELY income £252k
• LIGHTHOUSE FUTURES TRUST income £1.8m
• COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS FOR LANCASHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE income £4.4m
• LIGHTHOUSE - SUPPORTING WOMEN THROUGH STORMY TIMES income £251k
• LIGHT OF THE WORLD COMMUNITY CENTRE LIMITED income £302k

Side by side with its peers

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