MERCY MISSION UK

Registered charity 1122922 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q141191083

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.

Objects

1) TO ADVANCE THE ISLAMIC FAITH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE WORLDWIDE POPULATION THROUGH, AMONGST OTHER THINGS THE HOLDING OF EVENTS, LECTURES, PRODUCING AND/OR DISTRIBUTING A BROAD RANGE OF LITERATURE VIA A BROAD RANGE OF MEDIA IN ORDER TO ENLIGHTEN BOTH MUSLIMS AND NON MUSLIMS ABOUT ISLAM. (2) THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP IN THE WORLD BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF GRANTS, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY. (3) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY WORKING WITH PEOPLE IN BOTH THE UK AND THE REST OF THE WORLD WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED ON THE GROUNDS OF THEIR ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF OR CREED (IN PARTICULAR, MEMBERS OF THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY) TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF SUCH PEOPLE AND ASSIST THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY. (4) THE PROMOTION OF RELIGIOUS HARMONY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC; AND(5) TO ADVANCE ANY PURPOSE WHICH IS CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

Area of benefit: IN THE UK. IN PRACTICE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND AUSTRALIA.

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 · 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

Registered contact address: Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £2,174,845 for the year ended 31 December 2025, a significant reversal from the previous year's surplus. Per the trustees' report, overall reserves decreased to £6,139,258, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain operations and meet their policy target of three to six months' expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Pearlman Rose. Discloses 5 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
• 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 06380231 · Financial health read from its filings

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 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (90% 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 (5.3%) (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

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Charities like this

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

• MERCY WORLDWIDE TRUST income £29k
• MERCY MISSION WELFARE SOCIETY income £49k
• MERCY TO HUMANITY income £6.1m
• THE MINSTER FELLOWSHIP income £191k
• MERCY SEAT INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CENTRE income £32k
• MERCY BEYOND LIMITED income £485k

Side by side with its peers

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