Amrit And Ajit Charitable Trust Ltd
Charity 1165578
Overview
Summary
Amrit And Ajit Charitable Trust Ltd appears to be an overseas poverty-relief funder with a deliberately mixed model: it supports both charities and individuals, while combining immediate material assistance with skills-based learning intended to reduce future poverty. Its stated focus on India and Africa is broad geographically, but its mention of marriages for homeless women suggests that it may also address highly specific forms of social vulnerability. The available evidence indicates a grant-making rather than direct-service role, though its partners, reach and outcomes remain unclear.
Operational geography
No operational geography is currently available for this organisation.
Areas of work
- Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A dual route to poverty relief
The trust appears to work through both individuals and other organisations, potentially allowing it to respond directly to urgent need while also using charities as delivery partners.
Why it matters
This distinguishes the trust from funders that operate only through institutions or only through direct grants. Its effectiveness and local role may depend substantially on how these two routes are balanced.
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“The charity provides grants, items and services to individuals in need and/or charities or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty.”
Source:Charity Commission“Makes Grants To Individuals, Makes Grants To Organisations.”
Source:Charity Commission
Immediate relief is paired with prevention
The trust may combine short-term support for people facing poverty with skills-based learning intended to strengthen longer-term economic security.
Why it matters
This suggests a strategy broader than emergency aid alone: the organisation may be trying to address both the consequences and drivers of poverty.
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“Funding skill based learning to prevent poverty.”
Source:Organisation“The prevention or relief of poverty in developing countries.”
Source:Charity Commission
A potentially distinctive focus on homeless women
Support for marriages for homeless women may indicate attention to a gendered and socially specific form of vulnerability, rather than a wholly general poverty-relief approach.
Why it matters
This could shape the trust's relationships, cultural context and safeguarding needs. It is an unusual activity within the available description and warrants closer understanding rather than assumption.
Show evidence
“Providing marriages to support homeless women.”
Source:Organisation“Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which countries, communities and local organisations receive support within India and Africa.
- Whether grants, items and services are delivered directly or through local partners.
- How skills learning and marriage-related support affect poverty, safety and long-term wellbeing.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent grant lists, partner names, locations and the proportion of funding reaching individuals versus organisations.
- Programme descriptions or outcome reporting, including safeguarding and beneficiary-selection approaches.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Prevention or relief of poverty in developing countries particularly in India and Africa by providing grants to other charities and items and services to individual facing poverty. Funding skill based learning to prevent poverty and providing marriages to support homeless women.
Charity objects
THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND IN PARTICULAR IN INDIA AND AFRICA BY PROVIDING GRANTS, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.