SHAHCIRCLE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1202030 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

ShahCircle Foundation seeks to champion both established organisations and grassroots causes focused on empowering, enabling and uplifting women, children and vulnerable people in communities around the world.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.CHARITABLE PURPOSES ARE DEFINED AS PURPOSES THAT ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £5,123,124, derived primarily from investment income of £197,579. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern with adequate resources for the foreseeable future, supported by verbal commitments from a founding trustee for future donations. The charity's reserves policy is to set aside funds for special purposes or as reserves against future expenditure, and the trustees are satisfied that sufficient reserves are maintained given the discretionary nature of grant activity.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (97% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Deep Shahchair
• Roy Chung Chor Fu
• Trishna Shah

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

Operates in: Canada · India · Kenya · Tanzania · Throughout England And Wales · United States

Income and spending

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CH FOUNDATION (UK).

• THE CH FOUNDATION (UK) income £119.3m
• THE SHAAREI CHESED TRUST income £161k
• M Z AND K Z SHAH FOUNDATION income £127k
• SHAH WALAYAT FOUNDATION income £93k
• THE CHURCHILL FOUNDATION income £781k
• CIRCLES NETWORK income £3.0m

Side by side with its peers

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