SOUTH BEDFORD ISLAMIC CULTURAL CENTRE

Registered charity 1147899 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BEDFORD SHAH JALAL JAME-E-MASJID AND ISLAMIC CENTRE

THE CULTUTAL CENTRE PROVIDES PRAYERS AND WORSHIPING FACILITIES. IT ORGANISES FESTIVALS. HOLDS CHILDREN'S QUR'AN CLASSES AFTER SCHOOL; TEACHING THE READING AND MEMORISING OF QUR'AN. ALSO TEACHES ENGLISH AND ARABIC.GARDENING CLASSES FOR CHILDREN WERE HELD LAST YEAR. NOW THE GARDEN HAS BEEN PAVED OVER. PROMOTES GOOD RACE AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS WITH OTHER ETHNIC COMMUNITIES IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Objects

1) TO ADVANCE THE ISLAMIC RELIGION; 2) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE BY PROVIDING AN ISLAMIC SCHOOL IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY TO TEACH ARABIC; 3)THE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE OF PEOPLE IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD WHO ARE THE VICTIMS OF WAR OR NATURAL DISASTER, TROUBLE, OR CATASTROPHE; AND 4) THE PROMOTION RACIAL HARMONY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:(A) PROMOTING KNOWLEDGE AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN DIFFERENT RACIAL GROUPS;(B) ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT DIFFERENT RACIAL GROUPS TO PROMOTE GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN PERSONS OF DIFFERENT RACIAL GROUPS;AND(C) WORKING TOWARDS THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF RACE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE BEDFORD

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bedford, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £40,529 for the year ended 31 December 2025, increasing its total net assets to £244,295. The trustees maintain a reserves policy targeting approximately £30,000 (six months of estimated expenditure), which is significantly exceeded by current reserves. The charity remains dependent on local donations and voluntary support to fund its activities and building maintenance.

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 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
• Investment
• 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.

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 31/12/2024 (received 12/12/2025, 42 days after the 31/10/2025 due date); year ending 31/12/2022 (received 25/05/2024, 207 days after the 31/10/2023 due date); year ending 31/12/2021 (received 04/12/2022, 34 days after the 31/10/2022 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — South Bedford Islamic Cultural Centre (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mohammed Nurul Islam MI
• SUROTH MIAH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Shajib Ullah

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

Operates in: Bedford

Income and spending

Common questions

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BEDFORD ISLAMIC EDUCATION TRUST.

• BEDFORD ISLAMIC EDUCATION TRUST income £183k
• BEDFORD ISLAAMIC CENTRE income £93k
• BEDFORD CENTRAL JAMEE MASJID AND ISLAMIC CULTURAL CENTRE income £156k
• MORDEN ISLAMIC CENTRE income £925k
• ABERFELDY ISLAMIC CULTURAL CENTRE income £124k
• WOODFORD MUSLIM CULTURAL CENTRE LTD income £250k

Side by side with its peers

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