Mawlawi Kurdish Cultural Centre

Analysis

Mawlawi Kurdish Cultural Centre is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Manchester. It was registered in August 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, overseas aid/famine relief and religious activities, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 07605289). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Mawlawi Kurdish Cultural Centre reported income of £270k and spending of £104k, leaving 62% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £169k to £270k (+60%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 49%. Over the whole period it spent 46% of the income it received.

Among 1,223 England and Wales charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Mawlawi Kurdish Cultural Centre sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Congress WBN (£270k), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Holy Trinity Old Hill (£270k) and Syrian Refugee Relief Fund (£268k).