BAHJA INITIATIVE

Registered charity 1169309 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

1. THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN HYNDBURN, LANCASHIRE 2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF ISLAMIC EDUCATION3. TO ADVANCE THE ISLAMIC FAITH THROUGH THE HOLDING OF WEEKLY PRAYER MEETINGS WHERE PEOPLE GATHER TO SING ISLAMIC HYMNS IN PRAISE OF GOD AND THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD4. PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR ARCHERY, HORSE-RIDING, SWIMMING, FOOTBALL AND WRESTLING

Objects

1. THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN HYNDBURN, LANCASHIRE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA THROUGH THE PROVISION OF ESSENTIAL FOOD ITEMS TO INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IN NEED.2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION THROUGH PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL COURSES WHICH PROMOTE, SUSTAIN AND INCREASE INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING ON TOPICS RELATED TO ISLAMIC THEOLOGY, JURISPRUDENCE AND SPIRITUALITY.3. TO ADVANCE THE ISLAMIC FAITH THROUGH THE HOLDING OF WEEKLY PRAYER MEETINGS WHERE PEOPLE GATHER TO SING ISLAMIC HYMNS IN PRAISE OF GOD AND THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD.4. THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF PENDLE, LANCASHIRE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR ARCHERY, HORSE-RIDING, SWIMMING, FOOTBALL AND WRESTLING.

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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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net incoming resource of £56,942 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in total funds carried forward of £73,363. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a reserves policy to keep unrestricted funds above three to six months of expenditure to ensure continuity of activities.

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.

• Bullying and harassment 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
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abubakar Siddique Bashir
• TARIQ MAHMOOD

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HAZRAT SULTAN BAHU TRUST (UK).

• HAZRAT SULTAN BAHU TRUST (UK) income £3.1m
• THE KHOJA SHIA ITHNAASHERI MUSLIM COMMUNITY OF LONDON income £7.2m
• KHOJA SHIA ITHNA-ASHERI MUSLIM COMMUNITY OF BIRMINGHAM income £3.0m
• OADBY AND WIGSTON MUSLIM ASSOCIATION income £347k
• THE ISLAMIC ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH HUMBERSIDE income £243k
• ELRAHMA CHARITY TRUST income £798k

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