COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST

Registered charity 1121050 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ISLAMIC FORUM TRUST

The charity provides religious, educational and social welfare activities which includes study circles, seminars, conferences, youth camps, throughout the UK.

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE THE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OF MUSLIMS AND NON-MUSLIMS IN THE ISLAMIC FAITH.2) TO PROMOTE JUSTICE AND EQUALITY AMONGST ALL MUSLIMS AND NON-MUSLIMS IRRESPECTIVE OF RACE, CULTURE AND OTHER DIFFERENCES.3) TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND SICKNESS OF MUSLIMS EITHER IN THE UK OR ABROAD.

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: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £163,725 for the year ended 31 May 2025, with total net assets increasing to £5,280,588. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £364,000 are sufficient to cover over six months of operational costs, meeting the charity's reserves policy. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Abacus Partners (Ldn) LLP. Discloses 3 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.

• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/09/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abunur Muslehuddin Faradhichair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ABU BOKKOR · trustee of 2 other charities
• AYUB KHAN
• Dr MUHAMMAD ANSAR MUSTAQUIM · trustee of 1 other charity
• Khaleda Begum
• Khondaker Raziuddin Ahmed
• Muhammad Mustaq Ahmed
• ROWSHANARA KABIR
• SYED JAMIRUL ISLAM · trustee of 4 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMMUNITY LIFE TRUST.

• COMMUNITY LIFE TRUST income £793k
• KIVETON PARK AND WALES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £224k
• CHICHESTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £2.8m
• THE CMA WELFARE TRUST income £2.0m
• THE MEGACENTRE FOUNDATION (ACTIVE CHRISTIAN TRUST) income £232k
• THE MOSS SIDE AND HULME COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £356k

Side by side with its peers

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