Ishada Charitable Trust

Analysis

Ishada Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Manchester. It was registered in March 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Ishada Charitable Trust reported income of £87k and spending of £71k, spending 82% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £95k to £87k (-8.8%), an average of -2.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Ishada Charitable Trust sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Madinatun Noor (£87k), The Pearn Charitable Trust (£87k) and Black Asian Minority Ethnic Voice (Bame Voice) (£87k).