STEVENAGE MUSLIM COMMUNITY CENTRE

Registered charity 1199880 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SMCC

SMCC is the representative body for the Muslims in the East and North Herts. The Charity is a Mosque and a community centre, providing facilities for community services, Islamic education for children and classes for learning the Holy Qur'an and Arabic. It organises discussions, lectures and meetings on religious topics to the community and accommodates local schools for religious education.

Objects

1. TO ADVANCE THE ISLAMIC RELIGION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE QUR‘AN AND THE SUNNAH, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING:* A MOSQUE FOR PRAYER, LECTURES AND MEETINGS* FACILITIES FOR RELIGIOUS CELEBRATIONS AND CEREMONIES INCLUDING MARRIAGE AND FUNERAL SERVICES* ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN, AS WELL AS CLASSES IN THE HOLY QUR’AN AND ARABIC* INTERFAITH ACTIVITIES TO BUILD COMMUNITY COHESION, UNDERSTANDING AND RESPECT THROUGH FORUMS AND WELCOMING VISITS FROM OTHER PARTS OF THE COMMUNITY SUCH AS SCHOOLS.2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING CLASSES IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, COMPUTER AND IT SKILLS AND OTHER SUBJECTS AS THE TRUSTEES DECIDE FROM TIME TO TIME IN LINE WITH THE TEACHING AND PRACTICES OF ISLAM.3. TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF STEVENAGE AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID RESIDENTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND 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.IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE TRUSTEES SHALL HAVE POWER TO ESTABLISH A COMMUNITY CENTRE AND TO MAINTAIN OR MANAGE SUCH A CENTRE FOR ACTIVITIES PROMOTED BY THE CHARITY IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS.4. TO RELIEVE THE CHARITABLE NEEDS OF THE ELDERLY, THE SICK AND THOSE WHO ARE IN FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF GRANTS, GOODS OR SERVICES.

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's annual income was £198,397 and expenditure was £203,520, resulting in a deficit for the year. The charity does not hold reserves and is solely dependent upon donations from the local Muslim community.

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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/12/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DR SARFRAZ AWAN FRCSchair
• Dr Syed Zaidi
• Farrukh Sheikh
• Forhadul Islam Chowdhury
• IMRAN ALI
• IMRAN HARUNA ABDULKAREEM
• ISLAM MAJID · trustee of 1 other charity
• MUDASSAR AHMED
• Mohamed Salam-Khan
• Nasir Khan

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 MUSLIM COMMUNITY & EDUCATION CENTRE (MCEC).

• MUSLIM COMMUNITY & EDUCATION CENTRE (MCEC) income £808k
• NORTH LONDON MUSLIM COMMUNITY CENTRE LIMITED income £667k
• GUJARATI SUNNI MUSLIM COMMUNITY CENTRE (GSMCC) income £206k
• STAFFORD MUSLIM COMMUNITY CENTRE income £160k
• MADINA MOSQUE AND MUSLAMIC COMMUNITY CENTRE income £137k
• CENTRAL JAMIA MASJID SOUTHALL income £414k

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