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Registered charity 1097462 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity provides grants to charitable causes throughout the world for the advancement of education, the relief of poverty, the advancement of religion and other such charitable purposes.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £70,863, which is in surplus against the trustees' policy to maintain only minimal reserves. The charity raised £4,615,616 in incoming resources and applied £4,583,419 towards charitable activities, resulting in a net surplus for the year.

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04727786

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dalene Swart — Trustee (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• GLEN, Kelvin Ronald — director, appointed 25/01/2024on trustee list
• SWART, Dalene — director, appointed 20/01/2022on trustee list
• RITCHIE, Jillian Gail — director, appointed 08/06/2009on trustee list
• RICHARDS, Dianne Judy — secretary, appointed 01/06/2026
• HALEY, Jennifer Margaret — secretary, appointed 21/12/2018

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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

• JILLIAN GAIL RITCHIEchair
• Dalene Swart
• Kelvin Ronald Glen

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

Operates in: Canada · France · India · Lebanon · South Africa · Uganda · United States

Income and spending

Common questions

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE UNITED KINGDOM ISLAMIC MISSION.

• THE UNITED KINGDOM ISLAMIC MISSION income £14.6m
• UNITED KINGDOM ISLAMIC MISSION income £338k
• FMM GENERALATE UK CIO income £196k
• CHARITWORTH LIMITED income £3.3m
• GOFUNDME.ORG.UK income £227k
• 4 CHARITY FOUNDATION income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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