UNIARK CIO

Registered charity 1199070 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as UNIARK CIC

UniArk provides free admission support to students from persecuted/vulnerable communities. Our support includes personalised feedback on the admission application as well providing small grants to our students where necessary to remove financial barriers. These grants include admission related costs such as English tests which are too expensive for some of our students from developing countries.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:3.1 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF PERSONS OF DISADVANTAGED BACKGROUND IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES THINK FIT, INCLUDING BY:3.1.1 PROVIDING GENERAL ACADEMIC ADVICE AND IN PARTICULAR, ANY GUIDANCE, ADVICE OR WORK DONE RELATING TO UNIVERSITY APPLICATIONS WHICH INCLUDE (WITHOUT LIMITATION) PROVIDING INTERVIEW PRACTICES AND FEEDBACK ON PERSONAL STATEMENTS AND ASSISTING ON THE PREPARATION FOR ADMISSIONS TESTS AND SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS; AND3.1.2 AWARDING TO SUCH PERSONS SUBSIDIES, MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCES OR GRANTS ASSOCIATED OR IN CONNECTION WITH THEIR UNIVERSITY APPLICATION PROCESS, INCLUDING (WITHOUT LIMITATION):(A) APPLICATION FEES FOR ADMISSIONS APTITUDE TESTS (SUCH AS, AMONGST OTHERS, THE BIOMEDICAL ADMISSIONS TEST (BMAT), MATHEMATICS ADMISSIONS TEST (MAT), NATIONAL ADMISSIONS TEST FOR LAW (LNAT), SIXTH TERM EXAMINATION PAPER (STEP) AND UNIVERSITY CLINICAL APTITUDE TEST (UCAT)), AND(B) SHALL INCLUDE THE TRAVELLING OR TRANSPORTATION FEES INCURRED FOR THE PURPOSE OF TAKING SUCH TESTS OR FOR ATTENDING UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE INTERVIEWS.3.2 FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE 3, PERSONS OF 'DISADVANTAGED BACKGROUND' MEAN PERSONS WHO SUFFER FROM FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND INCLUDE, WITHOUT LIMITATION, PERSONS COMING FROM COMMUNITIES WITHIN THE LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES THAT SUFFER FROM RACIAL AND/OR RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION, INCLUDING (WITHOUT LIMITATION) HAZARAS, TAMILS, KURDS, CHINESE INDONESIANS, ROHINGYAS AND ANY SUCH COMMUNITIES THAT THE CHARITY TRUSTEE MAY DECIDE FROM TIME TO TIME ("PERSECUTED COMMUNITIES").3.3 IN FURTHERING ITS OBJECTS, THE CIO SHALL GIVE PRIORITY TO PERSONS OF DISADVANTAGED BACKGROUND COMING FROM PERSECUTED COMMUNITIES, HOWEVER THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO SHALL NOT BE RESTRICTED TO ADVANCING EDUCATION OF SUCH PERSONS AND THE CIO SHALL BE ENTITLED TO FURTHER ITS OBJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF PERSONS COMING FROM OTHER DISADVANTAGED BACKGROUNDS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES THINK FIT.

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

Causes: Education/training · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity raised £33,961 in 2024 and held total unrestricted and restricted funds of £30,322.60 at year-end. The trustees are satisfied that current cash levels are adequate to meet the charity's objects, and the independent examiner reported no material matters requiring modification.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund — “I have no words to express how thankful I am to have been chosen as a Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund awardee. Winning this scholarsh…” (source page)

Trustees · trustee networks

• Shukria Rezaeichair
• Dr Goncalo Araujo Regado
• Najib Sharifi

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

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