Safar Academy Trust

Analysis

Safar Academy Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in August 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and religious activities, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Safar Academy Trust reported income of £1.5m and spending of £1.4m, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £611k to £1.5m (+149%), an average of +26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 93%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Safar Academy Trust sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Cambridge Mosque Trust (£1.5m), Beis Aharon Charitable Trust Limited (£1.5m) and The Central England Area Quaker Meeting Charities (£1.5m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from trading 64%, charitable activities 33% and donations and legacies 3.2%. Charitable activities took 64% of spending and raising funds 31%. Reserves of £215k would cover about 2 months of spending at that rate. It employed 101 people.