Origin from 1980
A UK-registered charity acting as an umbrella body for Zoroastrians worldwide, working to communicate the message of Zarathushtra and Zoroastrianism and to improve the circumstances of needy Zoroastrians. It operates through grants to individuals and affiliated organizations across the UK, Canada, Georgia, India, the Netherlands, Pakistan and the United States, with objectives spanning poverty relief, education, sickness relief and the provision of burial grounds for the faith.
Facts
Finances
Institutional Wealth or FinancesThe World Zoroastrian Organisation Ltd's own trustees' annual report and accounts, filed with and published by the UK Charity Commission for England and Wales, report total income of about 221,481 pounds sterling against total expenditure of about 197,242 pounds sterling for the year ended 31 December 2024. 3 Basis of the Wealth Figure Financial Disclosure RegimeThe World Zoroastrian Organisation Ltd is a registered charity in England and Wales and is required to file annual trustees' reports and accounts with the Charity Commission, which publishes them on its public register. This is a statutory regulatory filing rather than a voluntary disclosure. 3 Wealth Figure As Of Year Status
Current StatusContinues today, according to its Charity Commission filed accounts for the year ended 31 December 2024, still working as an umbrella body granting support to Zoroastrian communities and affiliated organizations across the UK, Canada, Georgia, India, the Netherlands, Pakistan and the United States. 2 Humanitarian Aid Operated
Welfare and Humanitarian Aid OperationsThe World Zoroastrian Organisation's own trustees' annual report and accounts, filed with the UK Charity Commission, report total income of 221,481 pounds sterling and total expenditure of 197,242 pounds sterling for the year ended 31 December 2024, funding grants to needy Zoroastrians and affiliated organizations across the UK, Canada, Georgia, India, the Netherlands, Pakistan and the United States for poverty relief, education and sickness relief. 2 Humanitarian Aid Figure As Of Basis of the Humanitarian Aid Figure Origins
Origin Period FounderFormed by a group of concerned Zoroastrians led by Shahpur Captain, responding to the urgent need to assist displaced Iranian Zoroastrians resettling in the West. 1 FoundedIncorporated 1 August 1980, headquartered at World Zoroastrian House in Feltham, near Heathrow, London. 1 Organisation
Distinguishing FeatureAmong its stated charitable objectives is the provision of burial grounds for the Zoroastrian faith, alongside poverty relief, education and sickness relief for Zoroastrians worldwide. 2 Governing BodyA membership-based organisation with associated bodies in India, the United States, Canada and New Zealand. 1 Learn More
Shahpur Captain's Founding and Its Charitable Objectives
This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
The World Zoroastrian Organisation is a UK-registered charity acting as an umbrella body for Zoroastrians worldwide, working to communicate the message of Zarathushtra and Zoroastrianism and to improve the circumstances of needy Zoroastrians across the wider diaspora. It was formed by a group of concerned Zoroastrians led by Shahpur Captain, responding to the urgent need to assist displaced Iranian Zoroastrians resettling in the West, and was incorporated on 1 August 1980, headquartered at World Zoroastrian House in Feltham, near Heathrow, London, within reach of the Zoroastrian communities its founders were working from the outset to assist.
It operates today as a membership-based organisation with associated bodies in India, the United States, Canada and New Zealand, funding grants to individuals and affiliated organizations across the UK, Canada, Georgia, India, the Netherlands, Pakistan and the United States. Its stated charitable objectives span poverty relief, education and sickness relief for Zoroastrians worldwide, alongside the provision of burial grounds for the faith itself.
Four Decades of Filed Accounts and Continued Grantmaking
This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
The World Zoroastrian Organisation Ltd is a registered charity in England and Wales and is required to file annual trustees' reports and accounts with the Charity Commission, a statutory regulatory filing the Commission itself publishes on its public register rather than a voluntary disclosure the organisation chooses to make of its own accord each financial year on its own initiative.
Its own trustees' annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2024 report total income of about 221,481 pounds sterling against total expenditure of about 197,242 pounds sterling, funding grants to needy Zoroastrians and affiliated organizations across the UK, Canada, Georgia, India, the Netherlands, Pakistan and the United States for poverty relief, education and sickness relief. It continues today, according to those filed accounts, still working as an umbrella body granting support to Zoroastrian communities and affiliated organizations across all seven of those countries, more than four decades after its 1980 founding in response to displaced Iranian Zoroastrians' resettlement needs in the West.
Cross-Tradition Connections
Associated With
This source names Canada directly: "organizations across the UK, Canada, Georgia, India, the Netherlands, Pakistan and the United States, with objectives spanning poverty relief, education, sickness relief and the provision of burial..."
This source names Georgia directly: "organizations across the UK, Canada, Georgia, India, the Netherlands, Pakistan and the United States, with objectives spanning poverty relief, education, sickness relief and the provision of burial..."
This source names Georgia directly: "organizations across the UK, Canada, Georgia, India, the Netherlands, Pakistan and the United States, with objectives spanning poverty relief, education, sickness relief and the provision of burial..."
This source names India directly: "across the UK, Canada, Georgia, India, the Netherlands, Pakistan and the United States, with objectives spanning poverty relief, education, sickness relief and the provision of burial grounds for..."
This source names Netherlands directly: "the UK, Canada, Georgia, India, the Netherlands, Pakistan and the United States, with objectives spanning poverty relief, education, sickness relief and the provision of burial grounds for the faith."
This source names Pakistan directly: "Georgia, India, the Netherlands, Pakistan and the United States, with objectives spanning poverty relief, education, sickness relief and the provision of burial grounds for the faith."
This source names World Zoroastrian Organisation directly: "The World Zoroastrian Organisation Ltd's own trustees' annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2024, filed with and published by the UK Charity Commission for England and Wales..."
This source names Zarathustra directly: "working to communicate the message of Zarathushtra and Zoroastrianism and to improve the circumstances of needy Zoroastrians."
Belongs to Tradition
The World Zoroastrian Organisation is explicitly constituted to advance the Zoroastrian religious faith and serve needy Zoroastrians worldwide, so linked to Zoroastrianism at the religion level as a global umbrella body rather than to any single Zoroastrian community.
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