MERCY MISSION UK

Registered charity 1122922 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To build capacity amongst communities across Britain to better engage and build a more united civil society through uniting capital with community needs with professional donor advised fund service and custodian services to key stakeholders.To develop the capacity of the British Muslim community specifically to better participate in contemporary society and empower other minority groups.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £1,832,765 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total unrestricted reserves standing at £1,244,260. The trustees consider the charity's financial position satisfactory and maintain reserves between three and six months of expenditure as per their stated policy. The independent auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Pearlman Rose. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06380231

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Mercy Mission UK (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Shahid Ikram — Chairman (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.

• CHOUDHURY, Sultan Ahmed — director, appointed 02/10/2025on trustee list
• KIDWAI, Zainab Asad — director, appointed 23/01/2023on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £1.4m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (96% 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 (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Sahira Dar · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mohammed Saqub · trustee of 1 other charity
• SULTAN CHOUDHURY
• Zainab Kidwai

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

Operates in: Canada · Throughout England · Turkey · United States

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE MUSLIM COUNCIL OF BRITAIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

• THE MUSLIM COUNCIL OF BRITAIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £348k
• THE UNITED KINGDOM ISLAMIC MISSION income £14.6m
• MERCIAN COMMUNITY TRUST income £168k
• THE UNITED KINGDOM TURKISH ISLAMIC CULTURAL CENTRE income £219k
• KHOJA SHIA ITHNA-ASHERI MUSLIM COMMUNITY (BAQUIR) LIMITED income £703k
• UNITED KINGDOM ISLAMIC MISSION income £338k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.