STARFISH ASIA

Registered charity 1181649 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Starfish Asia in the UK raises and channels financial resources to known and trusted partners and charities in Pakistan that are providing direct help to the poor, mainly but not exclusively among the minority Christian community in Pakistan. Our chief concern is provision of education for the children of the poorest of the poor, as well as relief to the disabled and disadvantaged.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £120,376, which the trustees consider adequate against their policy target of three months' support (approx. £90,000), following a period where reserves had fallen to £30,000. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £3,973 for the year, with total income of £654,535 and total expenditure of £650,562.

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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 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: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/06/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/04/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Devin Scott Scobiechair
• Colin Neill Wrigley OBE
• Dagmar Baron
• Dr Nigel Paterson
• Dr Stephen Charles Curran
• MARJORIE MAY MURPHY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sheila Ann Thomas

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

Operates in: Pakistan

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

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

• STARFISH GREATHEARTS FOUNDATION income £347k
• STARFISH MALAWI income £220k
• ASIA HOUSE income £2.4m
• INDOCHINA STARFISH FOUNDATION income £1.9m
• ZIA UL UMMAH FOUNDATION income £267k
• OCEAN STARS TRUST income £107k

Side by side with its peers

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