THE INDIAN MUSLIM WELFARE SOCIETY

Registered charity 1067746 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Indian Muslim Welfare Society (IMWS) is based in Batley, West Yorkshire. IMWS ownes a 4 1/2 acre community enterprise centre called AL-HIKMAH CENTRE. IMWS offers education/training opportunities, healthy living initiatives, sport/recreation/childcare/women and youth facilities. The centre is an ideal venue for conferences/weddings and other events and attracts over 200,000 centre users each year.

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

Latest income
£615k
Latest spending
£769k
Registered
1998
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £154,605 for the year ended 30 September 2024, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £1,540,315 to £1,385,710. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £189,357, supported by designated funds for property and contingency totaling over £1.1 million. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: 12 months of unrestricted expenditure (held: £189k)
In the event of an emergency the trustees take the view that the Society should be able to run without any income stream for at least 12 months and that the Contingency Fund should be held in an accessible form. — page 20
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2024)

Total income
£615k
Total spending
£769k
Reserves (reported)
£189k
Employees
9

Reported reserves equal ~3.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Burma · India · Indonesia · Kirklees · Malawi · Nepal · Occupied Palestinian Territories · Pakistan · Somalia · Syria · The Gambia · Zimbabwe

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/09/2024£615k£769k
30/09/2023£607k£633k
30/09/2022£548k£541k
30/09/2021£863k£700k
30/09/2020£502k£544k

Common questions

Is THE INDIAN MUSLIM WELFARE SOCIETY financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £154,605 for the year ended 30 September 2024, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £1,540,315 to £1,385,710. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £189,357, supported by designated funds for property and contingency totaling over £1.1 million. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2024 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
UK government14/04/2021£4kALB-Sport England-COVID19 Return to Play
UK government05/08/2020£40kCoronavirus Community Support Fund
UK government01/04/2020£4kALB-Sport England-COVID-19 CEF

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
MIRZA SHARIF AHMAD FOUNDATION1£5.6m
MAJLIS ANSARULLAH (UK) LTD1£265k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PAKISTAN MUSLIM WELFARE SOCIETY BATLEY.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE INDIAN MUSLIM WELFARE SOCIETY£615k0unclearno doubt
PAKISTAN MUSLIM WELFARE SOCIETY BATLEY FY2024£2.0m0unclearno doubt
INDIAN MUSLIM PATEL SOCIETY FY2024£310k0unclearno doubt
MUSLIM WELFARE SOCIETY FY2024£226k0unclearno doubt
JAMIA MASJID BILAL AND COMMUNITY CENTRE FY2025£240k0unclearno doubt
MUSLIM WELFARE INSTITUTE FY2025£1.7m0withinno doubt

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