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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.

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

Latest income
£242k
Latest spending
£228k
Registered
2023
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's total unrestricted funds stood at £5,097,562, representing a net movement of £14,639 for the year. The trustees confirm that adequate resources are available to continue in operational existence, noting verbal commitments from a founding trustee to fund future needs if required. The charity's reserves policy is to set aside funds for special purposes or as reserves against future expenditure, with the trustees satisfied that sufficient reserves are maintained given the discretionary nature of grant activity.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: set aside funds for special purposes or as reserves against future expenditure (held: £5.1m)
“The Charity's policy is to set aside funds for special purposes or as reserves against future expenditure.” — page 6
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Donations from trustees and other related parties during the year amounted to £nil (2024: £4,962,625).
“Donations from trustees and other related parties during the year amounted to £nil (2024: £4,962,625). No conditions were placed on these donations.” — page 14
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

Total income
£5.1m
Total spending
£16k
Reserves (reported)
£5.1m
Employees
0

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 (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£242k£228k
31/03/2024£5.1m£16k

Common questions

Is SHAHCIRCLE FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity's total unrestricted funds stood at £5,097,562, representing a net movement of £14,639 for the year. The trustees confirm that adequate resources are available to continue in operational existence, noting verbal commitments from a founding trustee to fund future needs if required. The charity's reserves policy is to set aside funds for special purposes or as reserves against future expenditure, with the trustees satisfied that sufficient reserves are maintained given the discretionary nature of grant activity. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
TELLES FOUNDATION1£60k
REIFER MEMORIAL LIMITED1£55k
THE CUNMONT CHARITABLE TRUST1£31k
ONE FOOTSTEP1£25k
THE PETS AT HOME FOUNDATION1£25k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CIRCLE OF WOMEN.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
SHAHCIRCLE FOUNDATION£242k—0unclear—no doubt
THE CIRCLE OF WOMEN FY2025£801k—0unclear—no doubt
THE SHANTA FOUNDATION FY2025£736k—0unclear—noted
M Z AND K Z SHAH FOUNDATION FY2024£141k—0unclear—no doubt
CIRCLES NETWORK FY2025£3.0m——above—no doubt
E M SHASHA FOUNDATION LIMITED FY2025£660k—0unclear—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.