THE MARKFIELD INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION

Registered charity 1125851 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity's objects and aims are to advance education in general,bearing a religious flavour.This is intended to be achieved through a variety of patterns,levels and modes of study and by a diversity of means of encouraging and developing learning and creativity.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN GENERAL AND IN AREAS RELATING TO ISLAM IN PARTICULAR THROUGH A VARIETY OF PATTERNS, LEVELS AND MODES OF STUDY AND AND BY THE DIVERSITY OF MEANS OF ENCOURAGING AND DEVELOPING LEARNING AND CREATIVITY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY IN PARTICULAR AND HUMANITY IN GENERAL.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Hinckley and Bosworth, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded an in-year surplus in unrestricted funds of £918,198 and holds unrestricted reserves of £1,039,801. However, the trustees acknowledge a material uncertainty regarding student recruitment and note that the charity continues to face structural financial pressures due to declining student numbers in certain programmes.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → material uncertainty (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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
• 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

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 06471324 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr. Zahid Parvez — Rector (source)
• Dr. Haroon Bashir — Head of Research (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.

• HAZIM, Mohamed Hamza Mohamed — director, appointed 01/11/2025on trustee list
• IZZELDIN, Marwan, Proffessor — director, appointed 01/11/2025on trustee list
• ALLY, Muhammad Mashuq, Dr — director, appointed 01/06/2022on trustee list
• ABDULLAH, Muhammad Tahir — director, appointed 29/11/2019on trustee list
• RUBY, Mahera, Dr — director, appointed 29/11/2019on trustee list
• AHMAD, Salman Muzaffar — director, appointed 15/03/2017on trustee list
• MURAD, Farooq Salman — director, appointed 14/01/2008on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~16.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

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 Muhammad Mashuq Allychair
• Dr Mahera Ruby · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr SALMAN MUZAFFAR AHMAD · trustee of 1 other charity
• FAROOQ SALMAN MURAD · trustee of 4 other charities
• Marwan Izzeldin
• Mohamed Hamza Mohamed Hazim
• Muhammad Tahir Abdullah

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

Operates in: Leicestershire

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• FAROOQ SALMAN MURAD — trustee here and at AL - MEDINA TRUST
• FAROOQ SALMAN MURAD — trustee here and at MADINA TRUST

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Side by side with its peers

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