AL BADR ISLAMIC TRUST

Registered charity 1045362 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ABRAR ACADEMY, DARUL ULOOM PRESTON, JAMEA AL KAUTHAR

The trust provides religious and secular education and seeks to advance religion according to the tenets of the Islamic Faith.

Objects

1.TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROVISION OF ISLAMIC BOARDING SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES. 2.TO ADVANCE RELIGION ACCORDING TO THE TENETS OF THE ISLAMIC FAITH.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net current liability deficit of £456,055, though the trustees consider this manageable due to interest-free loans not being demanded for long periods. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £5,907,440 and relies on student fees and investment income for funding. The trustees note potential future financial pressures from VAT changes and removal of rates relief.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by SKM Chartered Accountants. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2023) → going-concern doubt noted (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sheikhul Hadith Hazrat Maulana Fazle Haq Wadee Sahib — Principal (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £1.6m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~40.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (77% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• FAZL WADEEchair
• HUZAYFA WADEE
• RA'EES MASTER

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BAYTUL ILM TRUST.

• BAYTUL ILM TRUST income £375k
• AL-MUNTADA AL-ISLAMI TRUST income £366k
• AL RISALAH EDUCATION TRUST income £1.5m
• UNITED KINGDOM TURKISH ISLAMIC ASSOCIATION income £292k
• AL FURQAN EDUCATION TRUST income £555k
• AHLUL ISTIQAMAH TRUST UK income £160k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.