ANATOLIAN MUSLIMS SOCIETY

Registered charity 1116869 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We organise a number of activities and provide services to advance and promote inter-cultural, inter-faith and inter-communal dialogue, understanding and appreciation in the UK. We do this by organising talks, knowledge & skills based courses and cultural events in order to help advance social awareness, education and integration within our local community.

Objects

1) TO FURTHER SUCH PURPOSES AS ARE CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS IN ENGLAND (IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY MEMBERS OF THE TURKISH SPEAKING COMMUNITY) AS THE DIRECTORS SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME IN PARTICULAR BY;2) TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY BY WORKING TOWARDS THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION AND TO PROMOTE EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN PERSON OF DIFFERENT RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS GROUPS;3) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND PROMOTE RESEARCH IN THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION AND TO PROMOTE EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN PERSON OF DIFFERENT RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS GROUPS;4) TO ADVANCE THE ISLAMIC RELIGION;5) THE RELIEF OF NEED AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE;6) TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN MASJEEDS, MOSQUES, ISLAMIC MUSEUMS, AND/OR PUBLIC ART GALLERIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN FURTHERING FOLLOWING PURPOSES; ADVANCING EDUCATION, PROMOTING THE ARTS AND ADVANCING THE ISLAMIC RELIGION.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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 · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported total incoming resources of £256,999 and total resources expended of £199,784, resulting in a net incoming resource for the year of £57,215. Total unrestricted funds increased from £165,842 to £223,057. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05321218 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• ARSLANHAN, Osman — director, appointed 22/04/2026on trustee list
• YAHSI, Ufuk — director, appointed 22/02/2026on trustee list
• AKTAS, Davut — director, appointed 11/04/2024on trustee list
• BAKIR, Kadir — director, appointed 11/04/2024on trustee list
• DEMIRPOLAT, Muammer — director, appointed 24/05/2022on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVUT AKTASchair
• Kadir Bakir
• MUAMMER DEMIRPOLAT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Osman Arslanhan
• Ufuk Yahsi

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Muslim Association for Spirituality and Engagement.

• Muslim Association for Spirituality and Engagement income £45k
• WAVERLEY & RUSHMOOR MUSLIM ASSOCIATION income £31k
• MILTON KEYNES MUSLIM ASSOCIATION income £355k
• ABINGDON MUSLIMS income £176k
• SOUTH TOTTENHAM MUSLIM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £66k
• AL-SALAM MOSQUE income £29k

Side by side with its peers

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