THE ISLAMIC FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1160353 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Intended activities are advancement of Islamic religion through dialogue, meeting, education, seminars and publications.

Objects

1)TO ADVANCE THE ISLAMIC RELIGION ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE HOLDING OF MEETINGS, LECTURES, PRODUCING AND/OR DISTRIBUTING LITERATURE ON THE ISLAMIC FAITH TO ENLIGHTEN OTHERS ABOUT THE ISLAMIC FAITH.2)FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING (BOTH FORMAL AND INFORMAL) OF PEOPLE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD IN SUCH WAYS AS THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES THINK FIT.

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

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Registered contact address: Hinckley and Bosworth, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity's total reserves increased significantly to £6,473,209, driven by a large donation of properties valued at £1,479,138 and a substantial rise in charitable income. The accounts state that the trustees consider there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no disclosed pension deficits.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. Discloses 5 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.

• 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
• 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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~103.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (83% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DR ZAHID ALI PARVEZ · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Abdelkader Chachi · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr MUHAMMAD ABDUL BARI MBE
• Dr Mohammed Rayes Musthafa Lebbai
• Dr SALMAN AHMAD
• PROFESSOR ANIS AHMAD PHD

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

Operates in: Leicester City · Leicestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE MUSLIM (HANFI-SUNNI) ASSOCIATION.

• THE MUSLIM (HANFI-SUNNI) ASSOCIATION income £410k
• ERDINGTON ISLAMIC FOUNDATION income £141k
• BOREHAMWOOD ISLAMIC SOCIETY income £204k
• ISLAMIC COMMUNITY CENTRE income £133k
• THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR ISLAMIC INSTITUTIONS income £257k
• ISLAMIC CENTRE income £134k

Side by side with its peers

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