Ilyas Trust Limited
Charity 1157472
Overview
Summary
Ilyas Trust Limited appears to be a publicly funded grant-making charity focused primarily on improving children’s education in Pakistan. Its stated model suggests it may support education indirectly through other organisations, rather than operating services itself, despite its objects allowing for the establishment and running of a school. The inclusion of health-related purposes and beneficiaries beyond children points to a potentially broader support role, though the available evidence does not show how these elements are connected in practice.
Operational geography
Coverage: International
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct evidence: the Charity Commission lists Birmingham City and Pakistan as the charity's areas of operation. However, it does not identify any Birmingham ward, venue or local service location.
- Direct evidence: the charity's registered/contact address is in Birmingham. This may be an administrative or correspondence address rather than a site where services are delivered, so it has not been recorded as an operational area.
- Reasonable interpretation: the organisation's principal operational purpose is international, focused on fundraising for and supporting a school project in Pakistan, rather than delivery of neighbourhood, district-wide or citywide services in Birmingham.
- The available evidence does not identify any current Birmingham-based projects, physical service sites, delivery partners or grant recipients, so no supplied Birmingham ward or recognised place can be evidenced as an operational area.
- No material partnerships extending the organisation's operational reach within Birmingham were evidenced.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual report, project update or official organisation communication identifying any Birmingham-based fundraising, grant-making, volunteer or service activity and its location.
- Confirmation from the organisation of whether its Birmingham address is solely a registered/correspondence address or a functioning operational site.
- Details of any current delivery or funding partners in Birmingham, including the locations where activity takes place.
Areas of work
- Education/training
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
How they help
- Makes Grants To Organisations
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A grant-making model for overseas education
The Trust appears to channel public donations to organisations advancing children’s education in Pakistan, rather than directly delivering all educational activity itself.
Why it matters
This makes its relationships with recipient organisations central to understanding its local impact, priorities and accountability.
Show evidence
“The charity is currently set up to raise funds direct from the public.”
Source:Organisation“Makes Grants To Organisations.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity aims to advance the education of children in Pakistan.”
Source:Organisation
School operation is an option, not confirmed practice
Establishing and running a school is part of the Trust’s charitable remit, but the evidence does not establish that it currently operates a school.
Why it matters
This distinction prevents an assumed service-delivery role from obscuring what may instead be a funding and partnership-led organisation.
Show evidence
“TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN IN PAKISTAN, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE ESTABLISHMENT AND RUNNING OF A SCHOOL.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity is currently set up to raise funds direct from the public.”
Source:Organisation
A broader welfare footprint may sit behind the education focus
The Trust may support a wider network of needs or partner organisations than education alone, as its recorded beneficiaries include older people and charities, and its purposes include health.
Why it matters
This could reveal an organisation whose educational mission is connected to family, community or institutional wellbeing rather than narrowly defined schooling.
Show evidence
“Children/young People, Elderly/old People, Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies.”
Source:Charity Commission“Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which organisations receive grants and where in Pakistan they operate.
- Whether the Trust operates, funds or plans to establish a school.
- How health-related activity and support for older people relate to its education-focused objects.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent grant lists, recipient names, amounts and intended outcomes.
- Annual reports or impact information describing current programmes and beneficiary groups.
- Information on any school ownership, management or delivery partnerships.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
The charity (Ilyas Trust) is currently set up to raise funds direct from the public to advance the education of the children in Pakistan in particular but not exclusively by the establishment and running of a school.
Charity objects
TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN IN PAKISTAN, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE ESTABLISHMENT AND RUNNING OF A SCHOOL