MUSLIM INSTITUTE TRUST

Registered charity 1137088 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To explore, debate and discuss the pressing intellectual problems and issues facing British Muslim communities and wider society; encourage and support the pursuit of excellence in knowledge and thought as an agent of positive change; and provide an intellectual space where problems and issues can be discussed from multiple perspectives.

Objects

TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE RELIGION OF ISLAM IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE.

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

Causes: Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £7,926 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £1,929,932 to £1,922,006. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £1,553,493 and maintains a positive cash balance of £168,749, indicating sufficient liquidity to meet current liabilities of £174,692. The trustees confirmed that resources are adequate and no material uncertainties exist regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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 07258525

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.

• MALIK, Abida, Dr — director, appointed 04/12/2024on trustee list
• BUNGLAWALA, Shenaz — director, appointed 15/12/2023on trustee list
• HANIF, Sameera — director, appointed 02/07/2023on trustee list
• MIAH, Shamim, Dr — director, appointed 11/10/2022on trustee list
• SIDDIQUI, Asim Saeed — director, appointed 01/09/2014on trustee list
• BARKATULLA, Mufti Abdul Kadir — director, appointed 04/08/2010on trustee list
• SARDAR, Ziauddin — director, appointed 19/05/2010on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £1.5m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ASIM SIDDIQUI
• Dr Abida Malik
• Dr Shamim Miah
• MUFTI ABDUL KADIR BARKATULLA
• PROFESSOR ZIAUDDIN SARDAR · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sameera Hanif · trustee of 1 other charity
• Shenaz Bunglawala

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• MUSLIM COMMUNITY TRUST income £217k
• THE MUSLIM EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £51k
• THE MUSLIM COUNCIL OF BRITAIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £381k
• INSTITUTE OF MUSLIM MINORITY AFFAIRS income £142k
• JAMIA ISLAMIA (ISLAMIC STUDIES CENTRE) TRUST income £395k
• EVINGTON MUSLIM EDUCATION TRUST income £857k

Side by side with its peers

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