THE OLTON PROJECT CIO

Registered charity 1183781 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE OLTON PROJECT, TOP

The Olton Project delivers a wide variety of services to the public holding lessons that educate people about heritage, religion, languages and the future education of children within our community. TOP holds weekly coffee mornings, educational excursions and monthly movie nights among other events. TOP works closely with other charities to relieve poverty by holding events to raise money.

Objects

THE OLTON PROJECT (TOP) IS ESTABLISHED TO PROMOTE BENEFIT TO THE INHABITANTS OF SOLIHULL AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, RACE OR OF POLITICAL OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE RESIDENTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE RESIDENTS.THE TOP AIMS TO ADVANCE THE RELIGION OF ISLAM IN SOLIHULL AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO ENLIGHTEN OTHERS ABOUT THE MUSLIM RELIGION.

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 · Religious Activities · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £368,789 and total cash and bank balances of £528,283, which represents approximately two years' worth of normal running costs. The charity reported a net income of £239,993 for the year, with total income of £496,482 significantly exceeding total expenditure of £256,489. The trustees confirm adequate resources for the next 12 months, indicating strong short-term financial stability.

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 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.

• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Olton Project (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 £1.0m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~188.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (67% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/05/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Daniel Jacksonchair
• Dr Ahmed Elsheikh
• Dr Huda Hussein
• Dr Mahibur Rahman
• Dr OZAIR ISMAIL MBCHB
• Dr Sami Ahmed · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mohamed Azam Mohamed Mansoor

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE TOGETHER PROJECT CIO.

• THE TOGETHER PROJECT CIO income £335k
• THE OLIVE PROJECT income £205k
• OLTON BAPTIST CHURCH income £134k
• NORTHOLT ISLAMIC CENTRE income £204k
• RECYCLING OLLERTON AND BOUGHTON income £850k
• OBLONG LTD income £285k

Side by side with its peers

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