NORTH WEST ISLAMIC CULTURAL CENTRE

Registered charity 1132594 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION AND EDUCATIONAMONGST SOMALIS LIVING IN AND AROUND LONDON AREA, INCLUDING THEESTABLISHMENT OF A PLACE OF WORSHIP.TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE SOMALI CHILDREN IN NORTH WESTLONDON BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOREDUCATION.ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE IN THE INTERESTS OF THE SOMALIS IN THE UK.

Objects

A. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL ASPECTS OF SOMALI HISTORY AND CULTURE.B . THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION AND EDUCATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THETENETS AND DOCTRINES OF ISLAM, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELYAMONGST SOMALIS LIVING IN AND AROUND LONDON AREA, INCLUDING THEESTABLISHMENT OF A PLACE OF WORSHIP.C. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE SOMALI CHILDREN IN NORTH WESTLONDON BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOREDUCATION.D. ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE IN THE INTERESTS OF THE SOMALIS IN THE UK.

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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Religious Activities · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a deficit for the year, reducing its restricted fund balance from £54,912 to £50,127. The trustees state the charity currently operates with minimal reserves and are working to build a donor base to reach a target of six months' operating expenditure. The accounts were subject to an independent examination rather than a full audit.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/10/2024 (received 13/03/2026, 194 days after the 31/08/2025 due date); year ending 31/10/2023 (received 04/07/2025, 307 days after the 31/08/2024 due date); year ending 31/10/2022 (received 25/03/2024, 207 days after the 31/08/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ABDIGHANI SHEIKH ABDI FIDOWchair
• ABDIKARIM ADEN ABDULLE
• ABDIRAHIM ADBILLAHI NUUR
• ABDULKADIR MOHAMED HERSI
• DUUH IBRAHIM JIBRIL

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

Operates in: Barnet · Brent · Camden · Harrow

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOUTH WEST LONDON ISLAMIC SOCIETY.

• SOUTH WEST LONDON ISLAMIC SOCIETY income £142k
• THE MANCHESTER SOMALI ISLAMIC CULTURAL TRUST income £593k
• THE SOUTH WALES ISLAMIC CENTRE income £78k
• WEST LONDON ISLAMIC CENTRE income £329k
• SUPPORTING SUNNI SCHOLARS income £186k
• WEST BROMWICH BANGLADESH MUSLIM WELFARE ASSOCIATION ISLAMIC CENTRE income £88k

Side by side with its peers

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