MUSLIM CHARITIES FORUM

Registered charity 1166149 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q16998344 · Wikipedia · also known as MCF

The Muslim Charities Forum is an umbrella organisation for Muslim-led international NGOs, based in the UK. Since our inception in 2007 we have promoted collaborative working and knowledge sharing while supporting our member organisations through advocacy, training and research.

Objects

The objects of the CIO are, for the public benefit, to promote the efficiency and effectiveness of charities and organisations that predominately engage in charitable activity (in particular but without limitation Muslim led charities) based in the United Kingdom, and the effective use of their charitable resources, in particular but not exclusively by: - 1. promoting cooperation and coordination among such charities and organisations. 2 providing representation and advocacy on behalf of such charities and organisations; 3 providing and exchanging information, guidance, education, training, technical and professional support and assistance; 4 promoting and undertaking research into the efficiency of charities and organisations, disseminating the useful results. and 5. Providing services or making grants and donations to assist charities and organisations to develop their charitable activities, projects and services or other as the trustees may determine in their absolute discretion from time to time.Nothing in this constitution shall authorise an application of the property of the CIO for the purposes which are not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.

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 · Education/training · 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 unrestricted reserves stood at £47,822 against unrestricted income of £357,783, representing approximately 16 days of unrestricted expenditure. The document notes no material uncertainty regarding going concern, stating resources are adequate for the foreseeable future.

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
• 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
• 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

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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• DCLG withdraws £140,000 funding from Muslim Charities Forum thirdsector.co.uk · 23/12/2014
• Government donation to Muslim Charities Forum denounced as "madness" telegraph.co.uk · 23/09/2014

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Muslim Charities Forum (matched by registered charity number).

Electoral Commission register entries

Entries on the Electoral Commission’s public register where this charity (or its company) appears as the source — typically sponsorship of an APPG or an overseas visit provided to an MP, which charities may lawfully do. Shown with the Commission’s own reference; this is a transparency record, not an allegation.

• Visit: Ms Diane Abbott MP (MP - Member of Parliament) — £5k · 06/04/2016 · Somaliland · ref V0243634
  to visit the different refugee camps and charities (development) in regards to the severe drought in Somaliland.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/03/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• MUSLIM HELP UK income £368k
• THE LEAGUE OF BRITISH MUSLIMS - UK income £78k
• MUSLIM RELIEF income £161k
• MUSLIMS IN NEED income £3.7m
• MUSLIM SPORTS FOUNDATION income £366k
• THE MUSLIM COUNCIL OF BRITAIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £381k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.