ASHA NEIGHBOURHOOD PROJECT LIMITED

Registered charity 517985 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ASHA CENTRE, ASHA NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE, THE ASHA PROJECT - ASHA

To promote the benefit of people living in the Leeds 11 district of South Leeds. To advance the education, employment and health of women and their families, who due to cultural and language restrictions, have increased social, health and economic needs to be addressed. Services: One to one, group work and advice and advocacy.

Objects

A TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE CHILDREN AND OTHER INHABITANTS OF THE LEEDS 11 POSTAL DISTRICT AS IT EXISTS AT THE DATE OF INCORPORATION HEREOF (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE "AREA OF BENEFIT") WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX OR OF POLITICAL RELIGIOUS OR OTHER BELIEFS BY ASSOCIATING THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND INHABITANTS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, INCLUDING VOCATIONAL TRAINING, AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES, IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE, FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID CHILDREN AND OTHER INHABITANTS AND, IN PARTICULAR TO PROVIDE SUCH FACILITIES TO THOSE IN NEED THEREOF BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, DISABLEMENT, INFIRMITY, OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES. B THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, AND THE PROTECTION OF THE HEALTH OF THE CHILDREN AND OTHER INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT AND, IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION AND ADVICE AND GUIDANCE CONCERNING HEALTH AND LEGAL AND WELFARE RIGHTS. C TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE CHILDREN AND OTHER INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT CONCERNING GOOD CITIZENSHIP IN A MULTIRACIAL SOCIETY AND THE INTELLECTUAL ARTISTIC AND ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL BACKGROUND OF THE SAID CHILDREN AND OTHER INHABITANTS.

Area of benefit: SEE OBJECTS

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Recreation · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £25,694 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £211,151 to £185,457. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £149,835, which the charity considers sufficient to meet its policy target of three months' operating costs despite the closure of its preschool and loss of some council funding.

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 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02040174

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.

• STANLEY, Dilara — director, appointed 19/05/2025on trustee list
• SHAFIQUE, Sujana — director, appointed 16/12/2019on trustee list
• KHATTUN, Afia — director, appointed 09/03/2004on 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• AFIA KHATTUN
• Dilara Stanley
• Sujana Shafique
• Yasmin Alam

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

Operates in: Leeds City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ASHA FOUNDATION.

• THE ASHA FOUNDATION income £162k
• ASHA: A COMMUNITY OF HOPE income £223k
• AISHAH HELP income £86k
• ADEYFIELD NEIGHBOURHOOD ASSOCIATION income £93k
• AGHOSH UK income £2.2m
• LIGHTHOUSE WOMEN'S AID LIMITED income £720k

Side by side with its peers

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