THE BESTWAY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 297178 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing scholarships/grants to University students of South Asian origin both in the UK and overseas.The relief of sickness and the preservation of health both in the UK and in South Asia by way of grants to hospitals, medical research establishments, by building, new hospitals, or in such other manner as the Trustees shall in their absolute discretion decide.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£358k
Latest spending
£480k
Registered
1987
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document contains only administrative headers, Docusign envelope identifiers, and a date of 24 April 2026. It does not contain any financial statements, trustee reports, or narrative information regarding the charity's financial health.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

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Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2024)

Total income
£525k
Total spending
£1.1m
Reserves (reported)
£3.9m
Employees
0

Reported reserves equal ~41.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (70% 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: Bangladesh · India · Northern Ireland · Pakistan · Scotland · Sri Lanka

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/06/2025£358k£480k
30/06/2024£525k£1.1m
30/06/2023£702k£438k
30/06/2022£22k£1.3m
30/06/2021£49k£354k

Common questions

Is THE BESTWAY FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The provided document contains only administrative headers, Docusign envelope identifiers, and a date of 24 April 2026. It does not contain any financial statements, trustee reports, or narrative information regarding the charity's financial health.

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
MARTIN CHARITABLE TRUST1£6k
ASSOCIATION OF NHS CHARITIES1£5k
CBRE UK CHARITABLE TRUST1£2k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HS BARLOW CHARITABLE TRUST.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE BESTWAY FOUNDATION£358k—0unclear—no doubt
HS BARLOW CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£200k——unclear—no doubt
THE WYFOLD CHARITABLE TRUST FY2026£422k—0unclear—no doubt
LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS CHARITABLE FUND FY2025£937k—0unclear—no doubt
BOOST CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£263k—0above—no doubt
HIMAT TANNA CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£126k—0unclear—no doubt

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