EAST LONDON MOSQUE TRUST

Registered charity 1122613 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE EAST LONDON MOSQUE TRUST LIMITED

The East London Mosque Trust provides a range of spiritual and community services that improve the quality of life of beneficiaries visiting or residing in London. Our activities are divided into the following: Religious Services, Education and Training, Social Welfare, Community Cohesion, and Economic Development.

Objects

1 ADVANCE THE ISLAMIC FAITH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY MAINTAINING AND MANAGING A COMMUNITY CENTRE AND MOSQUE IN LONDON.2 ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND IN PARTICULAR THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY.3 PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED.

Area of benefit: LONDON

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 · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £1.47 million for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total incoming resources rising to £6.57 million. However, the charity holds very low free reserves of £0.25 million, which is below its stated policy target of covering two months of liabilities (£0.87 million). The charity also reports a net current liability of £0.21 million, which it expects to address through the planned sale of investment property.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 31 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — East London Mosque (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

19 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (10 freehold); recorded price paid £2.8m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (47% 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: 5.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr ABDUL HAYEE MURSHADchair
• Abunur Muslehuddin Faradhi · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Abdullah Faliq
• Dr Mahera Ruby · trustee of 2 other charities
• Harun Rashid Khan · trustee of 2 other charities
• Hassan Kausar Ahmed
• Ibrahim Ian Thompson
• Mohammed Abdul Malik
• SIRAJUL ISLAM · trustee of 2 other charities
• SYED TOHEL AHMED · trustee of 1 other charity
• Salma Siddiqua

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

Operates in: Tower Hamlets

Income and spending

Common questions

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STRATFORD ISLAMIC CULTURAL CENTRE TRUST LIMITED.

• STRATFORD ISLAMIC CULTURAL CENTRE TRUST LIMITED income £266k
• BECONTREE HEATH ISLAMIC SOCIETY (DAGENHAM CENTRAL MOSQUE) LIMITED income £136k
• EIC AL-MASJID TRUST income £1.1m
• THE LIVERPOOL MUSLIM SOCIETY income £979k
• MARKAZ UD DAWAT WAL IRSHAD LONDON UK MUSLIM COMMUNITY CENTRE income £358k
• KASIM BIN MOHAMMED AL-THANI income £535k

Side by side with its peers

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