THE OVERSEAS WELFARE SOCIETY UK

Registered charity 1196892 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

Objects

1)TO PROVIDE RELIEF OF POVERTY; TO RELIEVE POVERTY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONG THE WIDOWS LIVING IN THE VILLAGES OF PUNJAB, PAKISTAN, BY PROVIDING GRANTS OF MONEY.

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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £10,557 for the year ended 1 April 2025, with net assets increasing to £25,734. The financial statements were compiled by accountants rather than audited, and the charity relied on statutory exemptions from audit. No specific reserves policy or target was disclosed in the filing.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Overseas Welfare Society (OWS) UK (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Babar Saleem Rajachair
• Mohammed Afzal
• Mohammed Hanif
• Mohammed Yaqub
• Qasim Hayat

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

Operates in: Pakistan

Income and spending

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