Al Noor Charitable Society UK
AL NOOR CHARITABLE SOCIETY UK Charity Number: 1167705
{For Charitable Incorporated Organisation}
June 2025
Al Noor Charitable Society UK Trustees' Annual Report for the Period Ended 01 July 2024 to 30 June 2025
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Al Noor Charitable Society UK Trustees' Annual Report for the Period Ended 01 July 2024 to 30 June 2025
Reference & Administration Details
Charity name: Al Noor Charity Society UK
Charity number: 1167705
Charity's operating address: 1 The Russells, Moseley, Birmingham Postcode B13 8RT
Names of the Charity Trustees who Manage the Charity
Trustee Name
Mr Lindsay Vyvyan Melvin
Appointed Retired 17[th] June 2016 -
Names of Trustees for the Charity
Trustee Name
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1: Mr Lindsay Vyvyan Melvin
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2: Dr Ajay Rajan Gupta
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Mrs Sanjida Qazi
Dates acted, if not for whole year 17[th] June 2016- current 17[th] June 2016- current 17[th] June 2022- current
Names of Senior Staff with Delegated Responsibilities
Name
- 1: Satish Kumar
Role
Country Administrator
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Trustees' Annual Report for the Period Ended 01 July 2024 to 30 June 2025
Structure, Governance & Management
Description of the Charity's Trusts
Type of Governing Document: Constitution
How the Charity is Constituted: Charitable Incorporated Organisation
Trustee Selection Methods: 1) Every trustee must be appointed for life by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the Charity Trustees. 2) In selecting individuals for appointment as Charity Trustees, the Charity Trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO.
How New Trustees are The process includes a meeting with current Trustees Inducted and Trained: Overview of the Charity Constitution and Governance How the aims and objectives can be supported by the New Trustee.
New trustee is invited to visit the schools operating in India Trustee Induction Pack
Objectives & Activities
Summary of the Objects of the Charity as set out in its Governing Document
Al Noor Charitable Society UK will complement and support the charitable work of Al Noor in India established by Mrs Salma Ansari by Trust Deed in December 2011, whose main object is to “educate minority illiterate and ladies. For that purpose to establish school, colleges.”
Charity To further such of the Objects of Al Noor Charitable Society ( The Indian Charity) as are exclusively charitable according to English Law as the Charity Trustees for the time being of the CIO shall from time to time in consultation with the India Charity determine.
The Indian Charity runs four schools under the Society Bapu, Chacha Nehru, Qila and Al Noor are located in the most impoverished slum areas of Aligarh and Delhi.
The ethos is “Educating, Empowering and Enabling children and future generations of forgotten children”
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The literacy rates among these children were 0.2% in 2002, when the school started and their families could not afford even government schooling.
Coming from such poor conditions the children are weak and suffer from malnutrition through a lack of food, water, clothing and medication; they face life threatening issues. Al Noor is in addition to education is providing probably their only main meal of the day, as well as clothing, shoes and medical treatment. Children in these schools are provided with free books and course material free uniforms (socks, shoes, dresses and shorts and shirts and woollen cardigans in winter), free stationary (pencils, pens, erasers) and even a free midday meal to encourage more and more children to come to school.
The children at the school come from such deprived and impoverished backgrounds that they have unfortunately had no exposure to any structured learning and have become used to simply spending their time rooming the slums.
Al Noor recognizes the impact of such hardships and the challenges this will bring as children start their long path of structured learning. Al Noor pedagogic philosophy is not simply about the 8th standard, over the last five years about 20% of the children have progressed to higher education in public schools across Aligarh. Our teachers work especially hard so that these students can receive scholarships to these schools.
These schools are but a small part of a much larger vision. A vision that encompasses in it the freedom of choice for these and other millions of children who dream and yearn towards a better ,more wholesome life but have no tools or skills to make them, valuable , precious and contributing members of society .
We are proud to announce that just this year we opened the new building through the great support of friends around the world. We have a building to house orphans and by the end of the year we will be teaching and supporting over 4000 impoverished children. We hope to bring positive change not just to the children but for generations to come through the educating of these children.
We believe that education should not be denied to anyone. Under the Al Noor Schools we allow children to enter the school at any age. This enables children who have been deprived of an education in their early years/who dropped out but want to go back/ children of migrant labour, to join school and get an education.
To be a part of mainstream education these children need to possess the skill of an English education. The schools being run under the Foundation provides an English medium education. This enables the children to gain tremendously in terms of in terms of confidence and communication and further ability to learn.
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Summary of the Main Activities Undertaken for the Public Benefit in Relation to the Charity's Objects
Providing free education and food to children living in the slums in and around Aligarh in the State of Uttar Pradesh.
Achievements & Performance
Statutory Declaration
The trustees declare that they have complied with their duty to have due regard to the guidance on public benefit published by the commission in exercising their powers or duties.
Summary of the Main Achievements of the Charity for the Year
Continuing the schools even though resources have become more limited
Financial Review
Brief Statement of the Charity's Policy on Reserves
In the Trustees’ view, the reserves should provide the charity with adequate financial stability and the means for it to meet its charitable objectives for the foreseeable future. The trustees propose to maintain the charity’s reserves at a level which is at least equivalent to six months operational expenditure and have done so having regards to its manner of operation of likely funding streams. The trustees review the amount of reserves that are required to ensure that they are adequate to fulfil the charity’s continuing obligations on a quarterly basis at their finance meeting.
Details of Any Funds Materially in Deficit
Nil
Statutory Notes to the Accounts
Particulars of Any Outstanding Guarantee Given by the CIO
None
Particulars of Any Outstanding Debt
None
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Other Optional Information
Operating conditions of the free schools continue to become difficult with the limited resources of Al Noor Society , the number of free places has dropped to 2000 students
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