THE WAQF FUND

Registered charity 1208651 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as INTERNATIONAL BRITISH WAQF

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO FURTHER ANY PURPOSE WHICH IS EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES INCLUDING THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES AND THE EFFECTIVE USE OF THEIR CHARITABLE RESOURCES.

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £254,001 in unrestricted funds and £3,788,132 in endowment funds for the year ended 31 December 2025. Per the trustees' report, significant investments of £3,768,471 were made in property assets, with no charitable distributions made in the inaugural year. The trustees and auditors confirm that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 14790001

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• CAMDZIC, Emir, Dr — director, appointed 20/11/2023on trustee list
• OMOTESO, Kamil Zakariyya, Dr — director, appointed 10/04/2023on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Kamil Zakariyya Omotesochair
• Dr Emir Camdzic

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · Iraq · Lebanon · Occupied Palestinian Territories · Pakistan · Throughout England · Turkey · Yemen

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE MOINUDDIN AND IFFAT WAQF CIO.

• THE MOINUDDIN AND IFFAT WAQF CIO income £1.4m
• I WAQF CHARITABLE TRUST income £283k
• INTERNATIONAL WAQF FUND income £491k
• WCCF LTD income £967k
• Sufi Abdullah Foundation income £577k
• ISLAMIC WAQF FOUNDATION income £169k

Side by side with its peers

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