Registered charity (CIO) · London

Avicenna Foundation

3 trustees
Income £1.9m (2024)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does: Education/training
Where: Throughout England And Wales
Website: avicennafoundation.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered: 2023

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2024£1.9m£790k
2023£940k£314k

Income trend, 2023 to 2024.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF MUSLIMS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM WHO FACE DISADVANTAGE WHEN ACCESSING EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT BY MEANS OF BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY: A) GRANTS, BURSARIES AND SCHOLARSHIPS; AND B) MENTORING PROGRAMMES.

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.

3 trustees on the board

Safvan Ayub Adam Chair since 2022
Asim Hafiz since 2022
Talha Ayub Valli since 2022

4y median 4y

average tenure

longest tenure

trustees past 6 years

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (1)

Safvan Ayub Adam Chair since 2022

Portfolio (2)

Asim Hafiz since 2022
Talha Ayub Valli since 2022

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 3General Charitable Purposes 2

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 1

Gaps to watch

Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves

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 2 years.

2023

2024

incomespending£1.9m 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.

7.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.0 in 2023

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: 1202193
Status: Registered
Governing document: CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 06 Mar 2023
Contact on the register: 0203 8712996 · info@avicennafoundation.org.uk
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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