**OBHIJATRA FOUNDATION | ANNUAL REPORT 2024–2025**
## **OBHIJATRA FOUNDATION**
## **ANNUAL REPORT**
13 December 2024 to 31 October 2025
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|**Registered name**|Obhijatra Foundation|
|---|---|
|**Charity number**|1211413|
|**Legal form**|Charitable Incorporated Organisation (Foundation)|
|**Registered**|13 December 2024|
Trustees’ report and financial overview
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## **Contents**
**1** Chair’s introduction **2** Our identity and charitable purpose **3** Activities and achievements **4** Public benefit and approach **5** Structure, governance and management **6** Financial review **7** Looking ahead **8** Trustees’ approval
## **1. Chair’s introduction**
Our first reporting period focused on establishing Obhijatra Foundation as a new charity and putting in place the organisational and financial foundations needed to pursue its registered charitable purposes.
From registration in December 2024 to October 2025, the trustees concentrated on governance development, financial controls, policy preparation and raising funds to support future work. No substantive charitable programmes were delivered during this initial period.
The trustees are grateful to those who supported the charity during its establishment. The priority was to build a responsible and sustainable foundation from which activities that directly advance the charity’s registered objects can be developed in the next reporting period, subject to sufficient funding, planning and due diligence.
**Alima Bibi Chair of Trustees**
## **2. Our identity and charitable purpose**
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## **Who we are**
Obhijatra Foundation is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation registered in England and Wales on 13 December 2024. The Charity Commission register records that the charity operates throughout England and Wales and in Bangladesh, helps the general public, makes grants to organisations, and sponsors or undertakes research.
## **Our charitable objects**
- To prevent or relieve poverty, mainly but not exclusively in Bangladesh, by providing grants to charities or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty.
- To conduct or commission research on equality and diversity issues and publish the results for the public.
## **3. Activities and achievements**
During its first reporting period, the charity focused on establishing the organisational and financial foundations needed to deliver its charitable purposes. The trustees developed governance arrangements, adopted key policies, established financial controls and sought donations and future funding opportunities.
No grants were made, research was conducted or commissioned, research findings were published, or substantive charitable programmes were delivered during the period. Accordingly, the charity did not materially advance its registered charitable purposes through programme delivery during this initial period.
## **Establishment and fundraising**
The trustees concentrated on establishing proportionate governance and financial arrangements and raising unrestricted funds for future work. Donations received during the period were retained, after a small bankcard setup cost, to support the development and delivery of activities in the next reporting period.
## **4. Public benefit and approach**
## **Public benefit**
The trustees confirm that, when planning the charity’s future activities, they complied with their duty under section 17(5) of the Charities Act 2011 to have regard to the Charity Commission’s public benefit guidance where relevant. No substantive charitable programmes were delivered during the reporting period and, therefore, the charity had no programme-related public benefit outcomes to report for the year.
The trustees’ preparatory and fundraising work was intended to create an appropriate foundation for future activities that directly advance the charity’s registered purposes for the public benefit. Before approving future work, the trustees will consider its connection to the registered objects, the intended public benefit, any potential harm or private benefit, available resources and the controls needed for responsible delivery.
## **Our approach to future delivery**
**Purpose** Ensuring that future activities
**Evidence Responsibility** Planning proportionate monitoring Applying suitable governance,
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directly further the charity’s so results and public benefit can be safeguarding, financial and risk registered objects. demonstrated. controls before delivery.
## **5. Structure, governance and management**
## **Legal and governance structure**
Obhijatra Foundation is a Foundation-model Charitable Incorporated Organisation. Its governing document is its Foundation CIO constitution, which took effect when the charity was registered on 13 December 2024. Under this structure, the charity trustees are also its only voting members and are collectively responsible for its governance, management and administration.
## **Trustee appointment**
Trustees are appointed in accordance with the charity’s constitution and applicable eligibility requirements. When considering an appointment, the existing trustees consider the skills, knowledge and experience needed by the board and whether the candidate can act in the charity’s best interests. Appointments are approved and recorded through the charity’s formal decision-making arrangements.
## **Trustees who served during the reporting period**
|**Trustee**|**Role shown on register**|
|---|---|
|Alima Bibi|Chair|
|Muhammad Jaber Hasan Khan|Trustee|
|Ahmed Ehtesham Uddin|Trustee|
## **Governance development**
## **Grant-making**
No grants were made during the reporting period and no recipient organisations received grant funding from the charity. The charity’s poverty-relief object was therefore not advanced through grant-making during this first reporting period. Before making grants in future, the trustees intend to adopt proportionate arrangements for assessing applications, carrying out due diligence, approving awards, monitoring the use of funds and managing conflicts of interest.
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## **Risk management**
The trustees review the risks facing the charity and maintain appropriate financial, governance and safeguarding controls. During this establishment period, the principal risks related to securing sufficient funding, maintaining proper financial records and ensuring that future activities remain within the charity’s registered objects. The trustees will review the charity’s risk register before commencing substantive activities, making grants or entering into material partnerships.
The following policies have been in force during this period:
- Internal Charity Financial Controls Policy and Procedures
- Safeguarding Policy and Procedures
- Financial Reserves Policy and Procedures
- Complaints Policy and Procedures
- Serious Incident Reporting Policy and Procedures
- Internal Risk Management Policy and Procedures
- Trustee Expenses Policy and Procedures
- General Expense Claim Policy and Procedures
- Trustee Conflicts of Interest Policy and Procedures
- Campaigns and Political Activity Policy and Procedures
- Bullying and Harassment Policy and Procedures
- Social Media Policy and Procedures
- Engaging External Speakers at Charity Events Policy and Procedures
## **6. Financial review**
## **Receipts and payments summary**
The attached CC16a accounts record the following unrestricted-fund figures for the period from 13 December 2024 to 31 October 2025.
|**Item**|**Amount**||
|---|---|---|
|Donations / total receipts||£1,560.00|
|Bank card setup fee / total payments||£9.95|
|Net receipts||£1,550.05|
|Closing cash funds||£1,550.05|
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## **Reserves and going concern**
The trustees have adopted a policy of maintaining free reserves at a level that supports the continuity of Obhijatra Foundation’s charitable activities and enables the charity to respond to unexpected financial pressures. The current reserves target is **£500** , determined by reference to essential unrestricted expenditure, committed costs, anticipated income and the charity’s ability to reduce discretionary spending if income falls. At the end of the reporting period, the charity held unrestricted cash funds of **£1,550.05** , with no restricted or endowment funds and no liabilities. Its free reserves were therefore **£1,550.05** , which was **£1,050.05 above the target** . The trustees consider this level appropriate for a newly established charity, providing financial resilience while plans for future charitable programmes, research and capacity-building are developed. Reserves will be monitored at least quarterly and the target and policy will be reviewed at least annually, or sooner if there is a significant change in the charity’s funding, commitments or operating model. Based on the funds held, the absence of liabilities and the charity’s ability to manage discretionary expenditure, the trustees consider that Obhijatra Foundation has adequate resources to continue operating and have prepared the accounts on a going-concern basis.
## **Funds and assets**
The CC16a accounts show only unrestricted funds and no restricted or endowment funds, investments, other monetary assets, assets retained for the charity’s own use or liabilities.
## **7. Looking ahead**
Subject to securing sufficient funding and completing appropriate planning and due diligence, Obhijatra Foundation intends to begin activities in the next reporting period that directly further its registered purposes. Priorities are to:
- identify suitable funding opportunities and continue responsible fundraising;
- scope research on equality and diversity issues and ensure that useful results are published for the public;
- continue strengthening policies, financial controls, risk management and trustee oversight as the charity develops.
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## **8. Trustees’ approval**
The trustees confirm that this report has been approved on behalf of the charity.
**Approved by the trustees on:** ________27[th] August 2026____________________ **Signed on behalf of the trustees:** Muhammad Jaber Hasan Khan **Name and role:** Muhammad Jaber Hasan Khan (Trustee)
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## **Registered contact details**
63 Cecil Road Chadwell Heath RM6 6LB
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**Charity Name No (if any) Obhijatra Foundation 1211413 Receipts and payments accounts For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 12/13/2024 10/31/2025
## **CC16a**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Endowment**|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**
Donations
**1,560**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,560**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 1,560**
**A3 Payments**
Bankcard setupfee
**10**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 10**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 10**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 1,550**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 1,550**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases,(see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**1,560**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,560**
**-**
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**1,560**
**10**
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**1,550**
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**1,550**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,550**
**-**
OK
OK
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**to nearest £**
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**Cost (optional)**
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Print Name
Muhammad Jaber Hasan Khan
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
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||||Date of
approval|
|||Muhammad Jaber Hasan Khan|8/27/2026|
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