MUSLIM SPORTS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1195780 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Muslim Sports Foundation is the leading grassroots organisation innovatively seeking to inspire, guide and facilitate communities to implement healthy, active lifestyles. Our prioritised focus is planted at grassroots level community engagement within a safe, diverse, and ethically cohesive environment.

Objects

(A) THE PROVISION OR ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR PERSONS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY MUSLIMS, AND ESPECIALLY WOMEN AND GIRLS, WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES THAT CATER TO RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL SENSITIVITIES, IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS; AND(B) THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROMOTING ACTIVITIES THAT FOSTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS, AND CULTIVATING A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY.

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

Causes: Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £99,783 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income rising to £366,219. However, the trustees report that unrestricted reserves of £38,498 fall below the stated policy target of three to six months' expenditure. The charity is currently in its early operational periods and intends to build reserves toward the target level in coming years.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Sport England — “2024-2027 @officialsportengland System Partner” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Tayyab Akhlaq Mrchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lynne Marie Northcott
• Zainab Norkor Alema

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MUSLIMAH SPORTS ASSOCIATION.

• MUSLIMAH SPORTS ASSOCIATION income £119k
• MUSLIM CHARITY HELPING THE NEEDY income £8.1m
• MUSLIM HELP UK income £368k
• LONDON MUSLIM SUPPORT NETWORK income £247k
• MUSLIM CARE income £100k
• THE ACCESS TO SPORTS PROJECT income £896k

Side by side with its peers

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