IRAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION
Charity number: 1001785
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
THE OBJECTIVES OF THE FOUNDATION ARE TO HELP PROMOTE AND PRESERVE THE RICH CULTURE AND HERITAGE OF IRAN. THE FOUNDATION INTERPRETS ITS REMIT GENEROUSLY AND ENCOURAGES A WIDE RANGE OF ACTIVITIES INTENDED TO PROVIDE A FORUM TO FACILITATE THE STUDY AND UNDERSTANDING OF IRAN'S CULTURE AMONG STUDENTS, THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY AND THE PUBLIC AT LARGE.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 December 2024
Total income: £29,203
Total expenditure: £81,782
People
5 Trustee(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charityFundraising
No information available
Trading
This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.
Trustee payments
No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.
What, who, how, where
Main way of carrying out purposes is grant making
What the charity does:
- Education/training
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Environment/conservation/heritage
Who the charity helps:
- Children/young People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- Other Defined Groups
- The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
Where the charity operates:
- Throughout England And Wales
Governance
Registration history:
- 14 February 1991: Standard registration
- 19 December 2018: Funds received from 1150464 PERSIAN LANGUAGE FOUNDATION
Organisation type:
Charitable company
Other names:
- FRIENDS OF THE PERSIAN LANGUAGE SOCIETY LIMITED (Previous name)
Company number:
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
- Complaints handling
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Conflicting interests
- Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Investing charity funds policy and procedures
- Investment
- Paying staff
- Risk management
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Social media policy and procedures
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
- Volunteer management
Land and property:
This charity owns and/or leases land or property
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
5 Trustee(s)
| Name | Role | Date of appointment | Other trusteeships | Reporting status of other trusteeships | ||||
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| ALI RASHIDIAN | Chair | 19 March 2009 |
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| Homa Rastegar Driver | Trustee | 17 June 2025 |
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| Naza Alakija | Trustee | 27 April 2021 |
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| Amin Amiri | Trustee | 21 June 2018 |
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| ALIREZA RASTEGAR | Trustee | 10 March 2010 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 31/12/2020 | 31/12/2021 | 31/12/2022 | 31/12/2023 | 31/12/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £392.84k | £117.09k | £76.41k | £36.07k | £29.20k | |
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Total expenditure | £310.02k | £110.59k | £98.68k | £80.92k | £81.78k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Accounts and annual returns
This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 31 December 2024 | 14 October 2025 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2024 | 14 October 2025 | On time | |
| Annual return | 31 December 2023 | 20 November 2024 | 20 days late | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2023 | 20 November 2024 | 20 days late | |
| Annual return | 31 December 2022 | 20 June 2023 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2022 | 20 June 2023 | On time | |
| Annual return | 31 December 2021 | 09 August 2022 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2021 | 09 August 2022 | On time | |
| Annual return | 31 December 2020 | 02 September 2021 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2020 | 02 September 2021 | On time |