The Family Trust

Registered charity 1180132 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q56584695 · also known as SM FOUNDATION · filing overdue (register status)

Focus will be on the poor and needy, children and the elderly, marginalised communities

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £4,060,619 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total unrestricted reserves of £14,711,601. The trustees consider the charity to be in a strong position to continue its activities, citing adequate assets to fulfil obligations. The primary funding source is donations from companies owned by the Alimahomed family.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

1 annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

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.

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

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (93% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Ahmed Jamal Nasir Awan MBE DL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mohammed Abdul Malik · trustee of 1 other charity
• Yusuf Patel

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with The Trust Foundation.

• The Trust Foundation income £2.5m
• THE CHILDREN'S FAMILY TRUST income £9.7m
• Family Fund Trust income £44.9m
• FAMILIES RELIEF income £458k
• THE 4814 TRUST income £2.3m
• FAMILY IN TRUST income £146k

Side by side with its peers

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