AZAD KASHMIR WELFARE ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 515922 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as A K CENTRE, AZAD KASMIR WELFARE ASSOCIATION

We provide free, confidential and impartial information, advice and guidance on Welfare Rights, Domestic Abuse, Immigration, Nationality, Housing, Health, Education and Employment.We provide specialist immigration services for private clients and charge a small fee to generate the Charity funds to continue providing free services for the other sectors.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE ASSOCIATION ARE: NA) TO RELIEVE THE INHABITANTS OF BIRMINGHAM AND SURROUNDING AREAS (HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS THE AREA OF BENEFIT) WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED HARDSHIP (PARTICULARLY SUCH OF THEM AS BELONGING TO ASIAN AND OTHER MINORITY RACIAL GROUPS) BY THE PROVISION FOR SUCH PERSONS OF:- (I) AN ADVICE AND INFORMATION CENTRE DEALING WITH THE QUESTIONS OF HOUSING, EMPLYMENT, WELFARE RIGHTS, IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALLY AND SIMILAR PROBLEMS. (II) FACILITIES FOR THEIR EDUCATION AND CULTURAL TRAINING. (III) FACILITIES TO PROMOTE THEIR HEALTH (INCLUDING PROVISION OF TRANSLATERS AND INTERPRETERS AT HOSPITALS, CLINICS AND SURGERIES):

Area of benefit: BIRMINGHAM AND SURROUNDING AREAS

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · 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's unrestricted funds totalled £100,764 at the end of the financial year, resulting in a net incoming resource of £2,399. The trustees consider the financial position to be sound and have prepared the accounts on a going concern basis. The charity's reserves policy is to maintain sufficient funds to cover costs for approximately six months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 17/02/2025, 17 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 14/02/2022, 14 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mohammed Rasibchair
• Dr Adiba Begum
• MARIAM KHAN
• SAKHAWAT HUSSAIN
• Sajda Rauf

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PAKISTAN AND KASHMIR WELFARE ASSOCIATION LIMITED.

• PAKISTAN AND KASHMIR WELFARE ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £46k
• AZAD WELFARE TRUST (UK) income £267k
• AZAD JAMMU KASHMIR WELFARE TRUST income £166k
• CAMEROON ASYLUM SUPPORT ASSOCIATION UK income £50k
• COMMUNITY, ADVICE, SUPPORT AND EDUCATION income £60k
• ARAB WELFARE ASSOCIATION income £55k

Side by side with its peers

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