THE MANCHESTER SOMALI ISLAMIC CULTURAL TRUST

Registered charity 1064859 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AL-FURQAN ISLAMIC CENTRE

To promote the Islamic religion; To promote the culture and language and the Islamic traditions of the Somali community; To establish or secure the establishment of an Islamic centre and to maintain and manage such a centre for the furtherance of the above objectives.

Objects

(1) TO PROMOTE THE ISLAMIC RELIGION(2) TO PROMOTE THE CULTURE AND LANGUAGE AND THE ISLAMIC TRADITIONS OF THE SOMALI COMMUNITY(3) TO ESTABLISH OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ISLAMIC CENTRE AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE SUCH A CENTRE FOR THE FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS

Area of benefit: CITY OF MANCHESTER

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 · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £33,349 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total incoming resources of £593,451. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £1,930,017, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet day-to-day operations and secure a building. The independent examiner confirmed that no matters came to their attention requiring further disclosure.

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 4 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
• 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
• 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 (1 freehold); recorded price paid £193k. 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 ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 94.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• OMER ISMAIL BARUDchair
• ABDIRAHMAN MOHAMED ALI
• ISMAIL ADAM HUSSEN
• MUSTAFA YOUNIS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Zekariya Salah

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

Operates in: Manchester City

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with IBAD-UR-RAHMAN TRUST.

• IBAD-UR-RAHMAN TRUST income £909k
• ASSUNNAH ISLAMIC CENTRE income £996k
• MANOR PARK ISLAMIC CULTURAL CENTRE income £347k
• STRATFORD ISLAMIC CULTURAL CENTRE TRUST LIMITED income £266k
• ALMARKAZ UL ISLAMI LTD income £460k
• MUSLIM CULTURAL & WELFARE ASSOCIATION OF SUTTON (MCWAS) income £424k

Side by side with its peers

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