Registered charity (CIO) · Nottingham
Himmah
- 6 trustees
- Income £743k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 2 more
- Where
- Throughout England
- Website
- www.himmah.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2015
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£743k£712k
- 2024£672k£618k
- 2023£450k£500k
Earlier years
- 2022£283k£235k
- 2021£154k£155k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 13%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
1. TO PREVENT AND RELIEVE POVERTY IN NOTTINGHAM AND ALL OVER THE UK, HELPING PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN POVERTY BY SUPPLYING THEM WITH FOOD THROUGH THE MEANS A FOOD BANK.2. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY PROVIDING LANGUAGE CLASSES SUCH AS ENGLISH, ARABIC AND URDU IN NOTTINGHAM AND ALL OVER THE UK TO THOSE WHO ARE LACKING COMPREHENSION IN THESE LANGUAGES BY PROVIDING REGULAR CLASSES IN THESE DISCIPLINES.3. TO ADVANCE THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF RACE OR RELIGION IN NOTTINGHAM AND ALL OVER THE UK, HELPING THOSE WHO ARE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BY CARRYING OUT RESEARCH WHICH WILL AID UNDERSTANDING OF DIFFERENT RACES AND RELIGIONS.4. TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF MEMBERS OF THE SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES OF NOTTINGHAM AND THE REST OF THE UK IN SUCH A WAY THAT MEMBERS ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY AND MEET THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY BY PROVIDING CAPACITY BUILDING AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS.
Grants received
12 grants · £5,517,161 total360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.
Top funders
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £5,412,902 (6 grants)
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £39,700
- CAF · £30,000 (2 grants)
- Crowdfunder · £15,259
- Power to Change Trust · £9,650
Most recent
- The National Lottery Community Fund
- The National Lottery Community Fund
- The National Lottery Community Fund
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.
6 trustees on the board
- Shoaib Khan Chair since 2020
- Baba Njie since 2023
- Ferzana Shan since 2015
- Iftikhar Ahmed since 2020
- Isa Truchet since 2022
- Javid Khan since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Shoaib Khan Chair since 2020
- Ferzana Shan since 2015
- Iftikhar Ahmed since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Shoaib Khan Chair since 2020
- Iftikhar Ahmed since 2020
- Isa Truchet since 2022
- Javid Khan since 2025
Portfolio (2)
- Baba Njie since 2023
- Ferzana Shan since 2015
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.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
1.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1161021
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - Foundation Registered 23 Mar 2015
- Contact on the register
- 0115 837 6116 · info@himmah.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 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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