FRIENDS OF MAHER (UK)

Registered charity 1183443 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FOM (UK)

Donations are received from members and supporters, and through organised events and other individual fundraising efforts in the UK. This allows the charity to make grants as appropriate to Maher to support its work. Public interest in Maher's work is actively promoted by means of printed material, talks to outside groups, displays and presence at events such as craft fairs.

Objects

(1) TO RELIEVE POVERTY SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AMONGST PEOPLE LIVING IN MAHARASHTRA STATE IN INDIA IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS TO ALLEVIATE THE NEED.(2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR EDUCATION AT MAHER WOMENÆS REFUGE CENTRE IN MAHARASHTRA STATE IN INDIA.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were £10,410 at the end of the period, which the Trustees confirmed were adequate to cover expenses. The charity's principal sources of funds are voluntary donations and fundraising activities, with no investments held.

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

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Friends of Maher (UK) (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Paul Michael Shagourichair
• Bernadette Mary Hill
• John David Conway Armstrong
• Kate Broderick
• Lynne Baum
• ROBERT CHARLES MORRELL DICKENSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• ROSEMARIE JEANETTE TEMPLE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Wendy Madeleine Dickenson

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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