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← The South Asian Health Foundation

2025-03-31-accounts

THE SOUTH ASIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION (U.K.)

(Registered Charity No. 1073178)

ANNUAL TRUSTEES REPORT 2024-2025

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Trustees’ Annual Report 2024-2025

Governing Document

Trust Deed

Charity constitution Trustees incorporated as a body

Charity Address 39 Westfield Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 3QE

Bankers Santander and Lloyds

Patrons

Lord Naren Patel Kt has held several esteemed positions including Chair of the National Patient Safety Agency, Chair of the Specialist Training Authority, Chairman of the Clinical Standards Board for Scotland and Chairman of the Specialist Training Authority in Scotland, in addition to holding a life peerage in The House of Lords. He has also held the prestigious positions of President of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Chairman of the Academy of Royal Medical Colleges.

Professor Ajay Shah is the British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiology at King’s College, London. He is one of the most respected academics and clinicians in the international cardiology community and has an inspirational record of academic achievement. In addition, he has been elected to the Fellowship of the European Society of Cardiology and the Academy of Medical Sciences.

Professor Raj Bhopal CBE is Emeritus Professor of Public Health at Edinburgh University, Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He is an expert in, and internationally respected leader of health research in ethnic minority communities. He was bestowed the first SAHF Global Lifetime Achievement award in 2009 for services to the field of Ethnicity in Health.

Professor Kamran Abbasi is Editor-in-Chief of the British Medical Journal and also editor at the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. He is also an acclaimed medical journalist and has written for the Health Foundation, one of numerous other contributions too extensive to list here. He was bestowed a SAHF Global Lifetime Achievement award in 2024

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Trustees during year 2024-2025

Professor Kiran C R Patel (Chairman of Trustees) graduated from Cambridge University in 1993 and currently has several roles and responsibilities. He is as a Consultant Cardiologist (with a subspecialist interest in heart failure and device therapy) and is Chief Medical Officer and Deputy CEO at University Hospitals Birmingham. He holds Honorary Chairs at the Universities of Birmingham, Warwick and Coventry. He is a non executive member of Council at Aston University and an Advisor on the Board of NHS Employers. In 2008 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, one of the youngest Fellows of the College.

He was founder member and continues to be Chair of the South Asian Health Foundation. He was trustee to the UK Health Forum 2003-2012. The expertise gleaned from both the NHS and voluntary sectors, led to him advising the Public Health Foundation of India on developing healthcare systems in 2009-10 and informing the ministerial briefing for the UN Summit on non-communicable disease in 2011. A random but interesting fact is that he prescribed the world’s first COVID vaccine in December 2020.

Professor Wasim Hanif is a Consultant Diabetologist in Birmingham and also an esteemed academic in the field of ethnicity and diabetes. He also serves on several national bodies, including the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence Technology Appraisal group. He is currently Chair of the SAHF Diabetes group and leads several highly successful community health promotion and education programmes in that capacity. Internationally, Wasim also is engaged with the Prevent India programme based in Hyderabad and is a global leader in the field of Ramadan and diabetes.

Professor Kamlesh Khunti is Professor of Primary Care Diabetes and Vascular Medicine, University of Leicester, UK. He leads a research group undertaking research into the early identification and interventions in people with cardiometabolic diseases. His work has influenced national and international guidelines on screening and management of people with diabetes. He is Director of the Leicester Diabetes Centre, East Midlands Applied Research Collaboration and The Centre for Ethnic Health Research.

Professor Vinod Patel is Director of Clinical Skills and the Diabetes Masters Programme at Warwick Medical School at the University of Warwick. He is also Consultant Physician in Endocrinology and Diabetes, Acute Medicine and Medical Obstetrics at the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust. His main interest is the application of clinical evidence into practical diabetes care to improve patient experience, reduce diabetes complications and prevent diabetes. He has created e:learning modules on diabetes for the BMJ Masterclasses in Diabetes. The clinical skills teaching methods have been incorporated into a textbook by Oxford University Press and 17 videos for world-wide use. His work within his own diabetes department, in partnership with Apnee Sehat (Community Interest Community), was awarded the NHS England Diabetes Innovation Prize in 2015. His diabetes department is very active in research. Vinod is also an author, publishing the book Guru Pi which has sold thousands of copies worldwide.

Professor Amitava Banerjee is Professor of Cardiology at the Farr Institute of Health Informatics at University College London. In addition to general cardiology, he has special

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interest in heart failure and atrial fibrillation, and also the role of informatics and electronic health records in delivering better patient care. Ami has been a Trustee of the South Asian Health Foundation since 2014 and has been an active member of the Cardiovascular Working Group.

Dr Amal Lad is a GP trainee based in West Midlands. He is passionate about using creative approaches to improving health awareness within the South Asian community. From his participation in the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme, he has developed the “Meducasian” project which is a collaboration between health care professionals and local communities to break the stigma surrounding mental illness. Aside from being a doctor, Amal is a keen musician and has produced music for a number of film and theatre projects.

Ranjit Dhillon is a cardiac nurse specialist based in Birmingham. She has an established career in cardiac rehabilitation and in 2016 joined a team establishing England’s first familial hyperlipidaemia service for comprehensive assessment and cascade screening in the West Midlands.

Dr Sarah Ali is a Consultant in Endocrinology, Diabetes and General Medicine at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. She is the Clinical Lead for the Barnet Diabetes Community Service and the Diabetes Antenatal Service. She is a committee member as a Consultant Diabetologist for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Diabetes guidelines update and works on a number of diabetes research and national projects, including a NHS England project on the delivery of Diabetes in the PCN. She is additionally a Trustee for the South Asian Health Foundation. Her specialist interests include diabetes in South Asians, health inequalities in the BAME communities, the delivery of high-quality Community diabetes care, diabetes in pregnancy and diabetes in Ramadan, with publications in these fields.

Dr Harpreet Sood is a Clinical Advisor for the COVID-19 Vaccine programme, a GP and a board member at Health Education England. Harpreet is currently a NHS primary care doctor in London and a digital health expert. Harpreet also sits on the board of Health Education England, a £4.5bn organisation training and developing 160,000 staff across the NHS, where his focus is on developing digital and data science skills for the workforce.

Objectives

The Charity’s objects (“the objects”) are “to relieve or assist in efforts to relieve persons living in the U.K., particularly those of South Asian origin, who are experiencing conditions of sickness, hardship or distress in particular by supporting organizations; implementing and establishing developmental projects which serve the needs of those persons and improve their conditions of need.”

Chairman of Trustees Report: A Review of Activities, Achievements and Development Plans

Structure of SAHF

The formal operational policy originally approved and adopted by South Asian Health Foundation (SAHF) at the AGM in December 2006 was renewed in 2024 and continues to be the charity’s operating procedure. This policy covers important areas such as conflicts of

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interest which are essential to safeguard SAHF against in light of the interaction it has in an advisory capacity to several bodies. The policy underwent minor revisions to its travel policy in light of the need for continued restraint for charities operating in the current economic climate.

Diabetes Group
Professor Wasim Hanif(Chair) Professor Vinod Patel
Prof Kamlesh Khunti(Chair) Professor Kiran Patel
Dr Srikanth Bellary Dr Mohammed Roshan
Professor Sudhesh Kumar Dr Kamal Ali
Professor Nita Forouhi Dr Rahul Nayar
Dr Sailesh Sankar Professor Paramjit Gill
Dr AteeqSyed Dr Sukhdev Singh
Professor Ali Karamat
Cardiovascular Group
Dr Anveesha Singh Prof Kiran Patel
Dr Amitava Banerjee
Dr Aneesha Chauhan
Sr Ranjit Dhillon
Musculoskeletal Working Group
Dr Ash Samanta Dr Leher Gumber
Dr Kaushik Chaudhuri
Dr Moorthy
Dr Kanta Kumar

Ethnicity and Health

Since 2001, SAHF has decided to direct the majority of the work of the charity towards the field of ethnicity and health and meet a need in the UK. The following strategies continue to form the priority areas of work for the SAHF.

  1. To promote improvements in the quality of, and access to, health and care and health promotion in South Asians.

  2. To promote research that leads to the above objectives

  3. To act as an advocacy group and advisory body

SAHF aims to achieve success in the following areas:-

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The impact of good health extends far beyond mental and physical well-being. Good health contributes to ameliorating social disadvantage for both the individual and consequently the community. Expertise within the Board of Patrons and Trustees enables SAHF to address issues concerning ethnic minority healthcare in all tiers of society from Government policy to a grass roots level. In the field of research, the charity aims to ‘catalyse’ and facilitate collaboration rather than undertake research directly in the arena of ethnic health. It aims to commission work where a need is identified. The charity has undertaken a responsibility not only to obtain information, but also to disseminate it to the general public. We continue to develop and promote health interventions in collaboration with the Department of Health, Diabetes UK and the British Heart Foundation, as well as numerous other Governmental and non-governmental organisations.

We have focussed efforts in 20-21 to diabetes and cardiovascular disease but due to the pandemic, we also allocated significant resource and effort to the pandemic. Post pandemic we have supported the development of a musculoskeletal disorders group.

NICE

SAHF and its members have contributed to over 100 NICE guidelines to date, ranging from Chairmanship of guidelines groups and technology appraisal committee membership, to stakeholder input. In 2007, Prof Kiran Patel and Dr Rubin Minhas also appeared before the Health Select Committee as external experts on the investigation into NICE and advised how the voluntary sector could work transparently and effectively with industry and NICE. Back in 2010, SAHF contributed to consultations on the changing roles and responsibilities of NICE. Prof Wasim Hanif has served on the Technology Appraisal Committee in 2010-13 and Dr Minhas served on the Technology Appraisals committee and also Chaired the Familial Hyperlipidaemia guideline. Professor Khunti Chaired the NICE Guidance on Early Detection and Prevention of Diabetes in High-Risk Groups.

Wider Stakeholder Contributions:

SAHF continues to work collaboratively with many organizations, just a sample of which are listed below:

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Medical Student Bursaries

Each year SAHF competitively awards at least one and usually two medical student elective bursaries. These are awarded to students with a view to helping the students to undertake a period of study and experiential learning in a field of medicine relating to south Asian healthcare. We encourage students to deliver papers at a national meeting and invite them to our annual conference to present either as a poster or oral presentation. We continue to have strong applications and this year we awarded one bursary to a medical student.

The successful students are:

Oliver Cujic Work in Tamil Nadu surgical department and involve working with the surgeons to care for patients before, during and after their surgeries, including the opportunity to scrub in and assist in theatre. Hasan Imtiaz Project investigating how socio-economic factors impact access to trauma care

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Fellows

SAHF continued to support several fellows this year, having developed a scheme which offered mentoring and personal development to trainees and professionals from a variety of healthcare backgrounds. Many produced projects and publications such as infographics to promote health and well being across communities. The scheme launched in 2023 continued to develop and support the next generation of professionals. We are also now embracing medical students who attend educational events and where possible, present posters and oral presentations of their projects.

Events

➢ Preston Community Healthcare event

This year SAHF was pleased to support the south Asian community in Preston with a community education event led by GPs, specialist Doctors, nurses and pharmacists, where individuals and their families were advised about cardiovascular risk factors and how to prevent, treat and manage cardiovascular conditions. Attended by over 200 community members, the event was a great success and received excellent feedback.

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➢ 9[th] Annual Diabetes Ramadan Conference planning

Building upon the successful 8[th] Ramadan conference in February 2024, the ninth annual conference will take place in January, 2026. In keeping with previous conferences key national and international speakers are being secured to deliver presentations. https://www.sahf.org.uk/events/sahf-dar-8th-annual-ramadan-conference

➢ 25[th] SAHF Annual Conference: Health Inequalities: Full Stop

This year SAHF celebrated being 25 years of age and has a stellar line-up at its 25th Annual Conference was held in person on November 7-8[th] 2024, in Birmingham. This year's theme, of ‘Health Inequalities: Full Stop’ followed the launch of the report from SAHF with the same title, authored by SAHF trustees and launched in the House of Lords in 2024.

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The Lifetime Achievement Award (presented annually at the SAHF Annual Conference), was this year bestowed jointly upon Professor Kiran Patel who talked about the journey ‘So far…..’ and Professor Kamran Abassi who talked about a ‘Journey to the Unknown’.

The conference also saw the launch of the Brown Heart Documentary which will be launched globally to raise awareness of south Asian cardiovascular disease.

We are indebted to the support of unrestricted funding from our industry sponsors without which our conferences would not be possible. We are grateful to have received support from many individual donors too.

Industry sponsorship received in 2024-25 Industry sponsorship received in 2024-25
Sanofi £10000
Amarin £10532.91
Astra Zeneca £20000
Novo Nordisk £10000
Novartis £25000
Eli Lilly £5000
Boehringer Ingelheim Boehringer Ingelheim
£3000

➢ Publications

SAHF trustees continue to publish widely as individuals but our most significant contribution in 2024 was the launch of the Health Inequalities report ‘Full Stop’ which received widespread national acclaim for clear and tangible ways in which inequalities can be prevented and ameliorated. The artwork within the report was from our very own trustees Dr Sarah Ali too.

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➢ South Asian Health Foundation Activity

Over the last couple of years, SAHF’s reputation and reach have dramatically increased as demonstrated by the number of support requests we have received year on year.

The support requests came from other Universities, community groups, NHS Trusts, charity groups and industry partners and have varied in nature. We also had requests from communities and held awareness raising events in the Midlands and in Preston.

➢ Focus groups

SAHF catalysed the contribution of patients and families to research studies from the Universities of Warwick and Bristol this year

➢ Media and Communications

TWITTER: YOUTUBE: WEBSITE: Instagram: @SouthAsianHF www.sahf.org.uk SAHFUK southasianhf ~~PoP ey~~

Future activities

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Final Remarks

The South Asian Health Foundation's (SAHF) resilience shines in a landscape where many health charities struggle to endure beyond their early stages. We are proud to have reached our 25[th] anniversary, a significant milestone achieved despite ongoing economic challenges.

Over the years, our conferences have consistently attracted leading international and national experts in South Asian health, engaging participants from both statutory and voluntary sectors. Our focused strategy emphasises translating research findings into clinical practice and advancing the education of healthcare professionals.

Mental health remains a critical concern within the South Asian community, requiring sustained focus and collaborative efforts to reduce its impact. Furthermore, the integration of mental and physical health is a pressing issue. We will address this and raise awareness and highlight good practice too.

None of our work would be possible without the unwavering dedication of our trustees and working group members, who continue to invest their time and energy in advancing SAHF's mission. Through their efforts, SAHF provides education and guidance to healthcare professionals, patients, and carers not only in the UK but also globally, improving the health and well-being of communities disproportionately affected by health inequalities.

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SOUTH ASIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION (UK) STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

Unrestricted Restricted 2025 Total 2024 Total
£ £ £ £
Income from:
Donations 91,424 - 91,424 108,200
Other 2,417 - 2,417 2,314
Total Income 93,841 - 93,841 110,514
Expenditure on:
Charitable activities (136,224) - (136,224) (111,636)
Total Expenditure (136,224) - (136,224) (111,636)
Net (expenditure)/income (42,383) - (42,383) (1,122)
Reconciliation of Funds
Total funds brought forward 189,182 79,797 268,979 270,101
Total funds carried forward 146,799 79,797 226,596 268,979

a Professor K C R Patel - Chairman Signed on behalf of the Board of Trustees

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SOUTH ASIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION (UK) BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 MARCH 2025

2025 2024
£ £
Fixed Assets 998 1,331
Current Assets
Cash at Bank 226,596 268,979
227,595 270,310
Creditors – Amounts falling due (998) (1,331)
within one year
Net Current Assets 226,596 268,979
Funds
Unrestricted Funds 146,799 189,182
Restricted Funds 79,797 79,797
226,596 268,979

Professor K C R Patel - Chairman Signed on behalf of the Board of Trustees

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SOUTH ASIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION (UK) NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS - 31 MARCH 2025

Accounting Policies

General

The Financial Statements have been prepared under the Historical Cost Convention and in accordance with the applicable accounting standards and the charities SORP (Statement of Recommended Practice: ‘Accounting by Charities’).

Summary of Net Assets by Funds

Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds Total
Net Current Assets £146,799 £79,797 £226,596

Expenditure

2025
Core Activities £110,989
Administrative Expenses £18,470
Conference Travel Expenses £5,890
IT Expenses £874
Total £136,223

Notes to the Accounts for 2024-25

  1. Depreciation policy: 25% depreciation is charged to Core Work.

  2. Creditors represent an accrual for expenses.

  3. £18,470 was spent on administrator support for the charity.

  4. Kiran Patel donated his fee for chairing a symposium to SAHF (£556.50)

  5. Donation of £391.35 received from The Thinking School

  6. During the year, £nil (2023: £nil) was spent on expenses for Trustees.

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SAHF Annual Report 2024/2025

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