CANTERBURY MUSLIM CULTURAL CENTRE

Registered charity 1064305 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Cultural Activities,Education/TrainingRelief of PovertyOverseas aid/Famine reliefReligious activities

Objects

1. TO ADVANCE THE ISLAMIC RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE QURAN AND SUNNAH OF THE PROPHET MOHAMMED 2. TO CULTIVATE THE EDUCATION OF MUSLIM CHILDREN IN ACCORDANCE TO THE TENETS AND TEACHING OF ISLAM.

Area of benefit: CANTERBURY

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total incoming resources decreased significantly to £200,964 from £781,684 in the prior year, while total resources expended increased to £120,989. Despite this reduction in income, the charity reported a net surplus of £79,975 and held total unrestricted and restricted funds of £1,594,046 at year-end. The trustees confirmed the charity has sufficient resources to continue operating for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Canterbury Mosque (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~60.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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 (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mohammad Yasir Malikchair
• Ahmad Massoud Sabour
• Dr Jamila Akil
• Dr Mohamed Mohamed Abdelhamed Elbargesy

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PRESTON MUSLIM CULTURAL CENTRE.

• THE PRESTON MUSLIM CULTURAL CENTRE income £228k
• MANOR PARK ISLAMIC CULTURAL CENTRE income £347k
• TUNBRIDGE WELLS ISLAMIC AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION income £114k
• TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH CANTERBURY income £112k
• THE MUSLIM SHIA ITHNA-ASHERI JAMAAT OF ESSEX income £254k
• ISLAMIC CULTURAL SOCIETY LUTON MOSQUE income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

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