PATCHY REPORTING FROM GLOBAL AID WORKERS

This busy and ambitious outfit runs long-term development projects and disaster-relief operations worldwide, and in 2007 also began to research an Islamic response to the global AIDS pandemic. In 2007 it worked in 20 countries, and responded to Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh. The annual report gives an exceptional picture of the charity's activities in the year, but scores poorly as a result of giving only a sketchy picture of how the charity is run.

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QUALITY OF REPORTING What is this?	58 %
How much info does the charity want to share? This score, taken from our search for 43 key points in the annual report, gives the answer. Top mark is 100%. Anything over 70% is a good effort.
SIZE OF CHARITY... What is this?	Large
We only profile the largest charities in England & Wales, and our sizes are relative to the largest and smallest among them. So where we describe a charity as 'Small', it is still much larger than the national average.
HIGHEST SALARY What is this?	Under £60k
Taken from the vague bandings given in annual reports; note that 'Under £60k' could be £9k or £59k. Nonetheless the number of bars should roughly correlate with the 'Size of charity' bars.
ETHICAL INVESTMENT POLICY What is this?	Yes
We asked the charity if it has an ethical investment policy. If yes, it gets an angel. Those with no policy but which don't invest in tobacco/arms get a halo. Those without investments, or who didn't respond, appear neutral. Those with stakes in arms/tobacco get a fallen angel.

But don't just take our word for it...

• Islamic Relief's website
• The Big Give project information
• Charity Commission entry and link to Islamic Relief's annual report

Thank you for the review. It is important to note that we scored much higher by organisations such as the ICAEW that gave us 3rd place for transparency between top 100 charities. Transparency International and One World Trust. All of whom measured similar areas to those listed.

Our governance structure is clearly detailed and our investment policy summary that says we only investment according to Islamic principles is on page 61.