KARIMA AL MARWAZIYYA

Registered charity 1121257 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Karima Foundation, based in High Wycombe, works on various community projects ranging from education to sports with its primary charitable objectives being;1. To advance in life and help young people througha. The provision of educational projects; b. The provision of recreational and leisure time activities provided in the interest of social welfare designed to improve lives.

Objects

1 TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND HELP YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH -A THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS;B THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES PROVIDED IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.2 TO ADVANCE THE ISLAMIC RELIGION IN THE COMMUNITY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE HOLDING OF PRAYER MEETINGS, LECTURES, RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS, PRODUCING AND/OR DISTRIBUTING LITERATURE ON BASIS OF FAITH TO ENLIGHTEN OTHERS ABOUT THE ISLAMIC RELIGION.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.

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 · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £599,881 for the year ending 2025-03-31. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds total reserves of £1,620,105, with £1,412,523 designated as restricted funds for specific projects such as the building project and waqf.

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

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Karima (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~11.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (87% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Asim Mahmood
• Imran Rehman
• Sundas Aslam
• Umar Khaliq

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KARIMIA ASSOCIATION LIMITED.

• KARIMIA ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £3.5m
• AL-KHAIR FOUNDATION income £74.8m
• TAFSEER RAHEEMI income £329k
• HADHRAT SHAYKH MUHAMMAD ZAKARIYYA FOUNDATION income £180k
• THE MA'ARIF FOUNDATION UK income £772k
• COMMUNITY WELFARE ACADEMY income £133k

Side by side with its peers

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