YAFA FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1197312 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Grants for Emergency and Crisis Relief principally in Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan but also throughout the Arab world and worldwide.

Objects

TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME IN PARTICULAR FOR, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF PALESTINIANS WORLDWIDE, PRINCIPALLY IN PALESTINE, JORDAN AND LEBANON, BUT ALSO FOR PEOPLE OF THE ARAB WORLD AND ELSEWHERE.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £7,208 for the year, resulting in net liabilities of £12,508 at the end of the period. Per the trustees' report, the reserves policy is currently being developed and no reserves are held, with all expenditure covered by trustee donations. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern, relying on continued trustee donations to maintain operational existence.

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 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures

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)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 19/03/2024, 140 days after the 31/10/2023 due date).

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Hani Abdul-Muhsen Al-Qattan
• Leila Hani Al-Qattan
• Syma Abboushi Al-Qattan

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

Operates in: Jordan · Lebanon · Occupied Palestinian Territories

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Hani Abdul-Muhsen Al-Qattan — trustee here and at YAFA FOUNDATION
• Leila Hani Al-Qattan — trustee here and at YAFA FOUNDATION
• Syma Abboushi Al-Qattan — trustee here and at YAFA FOUNDATION

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• THE TEL AVIV FOUNDATION income £302k
• SYEDA ZAINAB TRUST income £58k
• HAYAAT WELFARE TRUST income £451k
• TIFERES YOCHANAN TOLNA income £203k
• THE YAFA CHARITY ORGANISATION income £38k
• NAJAT FOUNDATION income £31k

Side by side with its peers

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