AL-MAHDI INSTITUTE

Registered charity 1191746 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The principle activity of the intitute is to promote Islamic studies/education and research of the Holy Quran and the Shia Ithna Asheri Jaffery Faith.

Objects

TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN ISLAMIC STUDIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF THE IMAMI TRADITION PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:(I) THE PROVISION OF AN OUTSTANDING EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE THAT WILL FOSTER ACTIVE AND COLLABORATIVE LINKS WITH LEADING GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTES AND PROVIDE RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES AND RESOURCES FOR ISLAMIC STUDIES(II) UNDERTAKING RESEARCH AND PUBLISHING ANY USEFUL RESULTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC

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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £272,496 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £3,109,892. The trustees confirm that the asset position remains strong and that sufficient reserves are being built up to meet charitable objectives, with no material uncertainties identified regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Smartax Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~34.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (59% 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: 4.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Shaykh Arif Abdul Husseinchair
• Abbas Ali Datoo · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mehboob Ladak · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE INSTITUTE OF ISMAILI STUDIES.

• THE INSTITUTE OF ISMAILI STUDIES income £19.7m
• KHOJA SHIA ITHNA-ASHERI MUSLIM COMMUNITY OF BIRMINGHAM income £3.0m
• IDAARA MAARIF-E-ISLAM income £304k
• AL-MARKAZUL-ILMI income £218k
• ANJUMAN-E-JAAFRIAH income £258k
• ABRAR ISLAMIC FOUNDATION income £318k

Side by side with its peers

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