Bahja Initiative

Analysis

Bahja Initiative is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lancashire. It was registered in September 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, religious activities and amateur sport, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Bahja Initiative reported income of £74k and spending of £114k, spending 155% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £43k to £74k (+72%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 159%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Bahja Initiative sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Safe Child Africa (£74k), The Third World Community Trust (£74k) and Mohammadi Charitable Trust (£74k).