SOHBET SOCIETY

Registered charity 1201607 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Organizing religious meetings and sohbets

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO ADVANCE THE RELIGION OF ISLAM BY FOLLOWING THE HOLY QURAN AND TEACHING OF PROPHETS AND THROUGH THE HOLDING OF PRAYER MEETINGS, LECTURES, PUBLIC CELEBRATION OF RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS, PRODUCING AND OR DISTRIBUTING LITERATURE ON ISLAM TO ENLIGHTEN OTHERS ABOUT THE ISLAMIC RELIGION IN ENGLAND, WALES, SCOTLAND, AND NORTHERN IRELAND.

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 · Religious Activities · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £32,799 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total income of £140,052 against expenditure of £107,253. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £33,035, which is above the stated policy target of approximately four months of operating expenditure. The trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

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 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
• 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
• Investment
• 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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mustafa BALCI
• Serkan Ustundag
• Temel Bagdat

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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• NEW PRODUCERS FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY income £275k
• FULL FACT income £2.9m
• ALEXANDER SHTIEBEL income £248k
• THE BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY income £13.4m

Side by side with its peers

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