THE MUSLIM CULTURAL HERITAGE CENTRE (MCHC) TRUST

Registered charity 1059085 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Services include Prayer services; Ramadan Programme; Talks, Seminars; Marriages; Pastoral, Therapeutic Counselling; Dispute Resolution; Elderly Well-Being Project; Community Kitchen; Signpost-Referrals; Diversity and Cohesion; Civic Participation; Homework Club; Sunday Arabic Language School; Quran classes; ESOL Classes; Research/Reference Library; Waqf Project.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN NORTH KENSINGTON AND THE SURROUNDING AREA AND IN PARTICULAR FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO ARE MUSLIMS:- (1) BY RELIEVING PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF POVERTY, AGE OR INFIRMITY, (2) BY ADVANCING EDUCATION IN ARABIC AND OTHER LANGUAGES AND OTHER SUBJECTS, (3) BY ADVANCING THE ISLAMIC RELIGION AND PROMOTING GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN PERSONS OF DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS FAITHS (4) AND BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THOSE PERSONS FOR WHOM THE FACILITIES ARE PROVIDED

Area of benefit: NORTH KENSINGTON AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £153,765 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total available funds standing at £4,117,344. The trustees report that unrestricted reserves are significantly above their stated policy target of three months of operating costs, although they note challenges in securing consistent revenue to build reserves further.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abdelilah Sirokh
• Kasim Mohamed Ali
• Khadra Said
• Kim David Spencer Taylor-Smith
• Muna Mohamed Ali

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

Operates in: Brent · City Of Westminster · Hammersmith And Fulham · Kensington And Chelsea

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).