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Registered charity (CIO) · Birmingham

Global Relief Trust

Global Relief Trust is a registered charity (number 1191793) based in Birmingham, governed by 5 trustees and chaired by Zilu Miah since 2020. Latest income £11m (2024). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £11m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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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, Disability and 2 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Pakistan, India, Lebanon and more
Website
grtuk.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2020

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£11m£11m
  • 2023£12m£10m
  • 2022£9.2m£8.8m
Earlier years
  • 2021£6.9m£6.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:A) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD; B) THE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE OF PERSONS IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD WHO ARE THE VICTIMS OF WAR OR NATURAL OR OTHER KINDS OF DISASTER, TROUBLE, OR CATASTROPHE; C) THE PROMOTION AND ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION (INCLUDING SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL TRAINING) IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES THINK FIT; D) THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD; E) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE RELIGION OF ISLAM IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT;E) THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE IN ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE IN THEIR SOLE DISCRETION.

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.

5 trustees on the board

3.6y median 4y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

2
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 5General Charitable Purposes 5The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 5

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Other services 2Professional services 2Business services 1

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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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 4 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£10.9m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

4.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 0.0 in 2021

30 from 15 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1191793
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION REGISTERED 13 OCT 2020AMENDED ON 10 MAY 2026
Contact on the register
0121 794 0055 · info@grtuk.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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