WILAYA TRUST

Registered charity 1137354 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OTKF, OXFORD TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE FOUNDATION

The Wilaya Trust provides holistic, community-based education in Oxford, and supports other communities to do the same. The Trust serves the Oxford Muslim and broader community by holding courses, workshops, and events that revivify timeless spiritual perspectives on learning, and life. We work with other communities by helping them develop programmes tailored for their needs.

Objects

1. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THESUBJECTS OF RELIGION, PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS, SPIRITUALITY, CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY AND SKILLS OF CRITICAL THINKING;2. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING WITH A VIEW TO CULTIVATING PERSONAL DEVELOPMENTAND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, THROUGH THE ARRANGEMENT OF APPRENTICESHIPS, PARTICULARLY BUTNOT EXCLUSIVELY IN CRAFTSMANSHIP, AGRICULTURE AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY;3.TO ADVANCE THE ISLAMIC FAITH, WITH EMPHASIS ON ITS RELATION TO THE ABOVE TWO OBJECTS,THROUGH RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION AND DEVOTIONAL SERVICES.

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: Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £24,508 as of December 31, 2024, following an increase in income to £94,180 from £80,157 in the previous year. The charity reported a net surplus of £11,383 for the period, with total payments of £82,797 against total receipts of £94,180. The trustees confirmed that the charity holds no long-term investments and that cash reserves are maintained in a deposit account.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Wilaya Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr MUHAMMAD AFIFI AL-AKITI DPHIL OXON
• Dr MUHAMMAD ISA WALEY PHD LONDON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Neamul Mohsin

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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