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.

Objects

1.THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED, BY REASON OF POVERTY, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, UNEMPLOYMENT STATUS, IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE STATUS OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE THROUGHOUT BATLEY AND SURROUNDING AREA BY PROVIDING; • TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES TAILORED TO THE NEEDS OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY, WITH THE AIM OF EQUIPPING INDIVIDUALS WITH THE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS NECESSARY TO SECURE SUSTAINABLE EMPLOYMENT AND IMPROVE THEIR ECONOMIC PROSPECTS. • FACILITIES AND ACTIVITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION, SUCH AS SPORTS ACTIVITIES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE LOCAL COMMUNITY. • HEALTH BASED INITIATIVES WHICH ARE LED BY LOCAL HEALTH SERVICE AUTHORITIES TO IMPROVE COMMUNITY HEALTH2. THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD BY PROVIDING GRANTS, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY. NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CHARITY FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH [SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005] AND [SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008THE ABOVE PURPOSES WILL BE FURTHERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES AND BELIEFS AS PREACHED AND PRACTISED BY THE INDIAN SUNNI ("DEOBANDI SCHOOL OF THOUGHT") MUSLIMS.

Area of benefit: LOCALLY (BATLEY & DEWSBURY, WEST YORKSHIRE) AND NATIONALLY

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · 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 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

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

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
• 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
• 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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (55% 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

• MR AZIZ DAJIchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hussein Dharma · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ismail Ebrahim Patel
• Ismail Imtiyaz Ahmed Patel · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ismail Suleman
• MR AHMED LUNAT OBE
• Masum Miyan Karolia
• Mohamed Hanif Mulla · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mohammed Amin Pandor · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mohammed Esmail Laher · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rafik Ahmad Abdulla Dabhad · trustee of 1 other charity
• Salim Yusuf Loonat

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

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Charities like this

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

• PAKISTAN MUSLIM WELFARE SOCIETY BATLEY income £2.0m
• INDIAN MUSLIM PATEL SOCIETY income £310k
• BECONTREE HEATH ISLAMIC SOCIETY (DAGENHAM CENTRAL MOSQUE) LIMITED income £136k
• MUSLIM WELFARE SOCIETY income £226k
• JAMIA MASJID BILAL AND COMMUNITY CENTRE income £240k
• MUSLIM WELFARE INSTITUTE income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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