Registered charity · Middlesex
The Cosaraf Charitable Foundation
- 10 trustees
- Income £457k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Akbar Rashid SheikhTrustee · since 2012
- Ali Rashid SheikhTrustee · since 2022
- Farouq Rashid Sheikh OBETrustee
- Hamza Rashid SheikhTrustee · since 2022
- Haroon Rashid SheikhTrustee
- Naureen SheikhTrustee · since 2015
- Rukhsana SheikhTrustee · since 2018
- Saba NAZ SheikhTrustee
- Seema Jabeen SheikhTrustee
- Yusuf Rashid SheikhTrustee · since 2019
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Religious Activities
- Where
- Throughout England, Bangladesh, Kenya, Pakistan and more
- Website
- www.cosaraf.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2007
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£457k£876k
- 2024£2.2m£1.4m
- 2023£1.9m£2.5m
Earlier years
- 2022£891k£1.2m
- 2021£950k£1.0m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC;2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE MUSLIM RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TENETS AND DOCTRINES OF ISLAM THROUGH THE HOLDING OF PRAYER MEETINGS, LECTURES, PUBLIC CELEBRATION OF RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS, PRODUCING AND/OR DISTRIBUTING LITERATURE ON ISLAM TO ENLIGHTEN OTHERS ABOUT THE ISLAMIC FAITH;3) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL NEED AND SUFFERING AMONG VICTIMS OF NATURAL OR OTHER KINDS OF DISASTER IN THE FORM OF MONEY OR OTHER MEANS DEEMED SUITABLE FOR PERSONS, BODIES, ORGANISATIONS AND/OR COUNTRIES AFFECTED INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL AID;4) THE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE OF PEOPLE IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD WHO ARE THE VICTIMS OF WAR OR NATURAL DISASTER, TROUBLE OR CATASTROPHE IN PARTICULAR BY THE SUPPLY OF MEDICAL AID TO SUCH PERSONS;5) TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, SICKNESS AND POOR HEALTH AMONGST ELDERLY PEOPLE;6) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY, BY MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY FOR PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR GOODS, SERVICES OF FACILITIES THE RELIEF OF THE SICK AND THE POOR;7) TO ASSIST IN THE TREATMENT AND CARE OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL OR PHYSICAL ILLNESS OF ANY DESCRIPTION OR IN NEED OF REHABILITATION AS A RESULT OF SUCH ILLNESS, BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR WORK AND RECREATION;8) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTS OR PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
10 trustees on the board
- Akbar Rashid Sheikh since 2012
- Ali Rashid Sheikh since 2022
- Farouq Rashid Sheikh OBE
- Haroon Rashid Sheikh
- Hamza Rashid Sheikh since 2022
- Naureen Sheikh since 2015
- Rukhsana Sheikh since 2018
- Saba NAZ Sheikh
- Seema Jabeen Sheikh
- Yusuf Rashid Sheikh since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Akbar Rashid Sheikh since 2012
- Naureen Sheikh since 2015
- Rukhsana Sheikh since 2018
- Yusuf Rashid Sheikh since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Akbar Rashid Sheikh since 2012
- Ali Rashid Sheikh since 2022
- Hamza Rashid Sheikh since 2022
- Naureen Sheikh since 2015
- Rukhsana Sheikh since 2018
- Saba NAZ Sheikh
- Seema Jabeen Sheikh
- Yusuf Rashid Sheikh since 2019
Portfolio (2)
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1118481
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- TRUST DEED DATED 31 JANUARY 2007.
- Contact on the register
- 0300 111 7890 · info@cosaraf.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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