WELWYN ISLAMIC SOCIETY

Registered charity 1155040 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WIS

Running charitable events for the local community in the Welwyn Garden City including holding of prayers meetings, lectures, public celebration of religious festivities, producing or distributing literature to enlighten the general public on Islam. Islamic education for the young in the local community.

Objects

THE FOLLOWING OBJECTS ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:-1)TO ADVANCE THE ISLAMIC RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS ATTACHED HERETO; AND2)TO ADVANCE EDUCATION.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity has a reserves policy aiming to secure six months of running costs, while the trustees ensure sufficient unrestricted funds are available to meet obligations for the next three months. The financial statements are explicitly described as 'unaudited' in the title, and the document does not disclose specific figures for total reserves, total income, or total expenditure.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Welwyn Islamic Society (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £435k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/02/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Aymun Khanchair
• Abdul Ahad
• Abubakr Awad
• Ahmed AlRawe
• Kemi Soetan-Kasim
• Malik Zarour
• Shahjamal Choudhuri

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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