MAU

Registered charity 1204404 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AR-RAHMAH TRUST

MAU, guided by religious principles, provides education, training, sports, recreation, and prayer facilities in Watford, delivering inclusive programmes and services for all ages and backgrounds.

Objects

1. The prevention or relief of poverty in any part of the world, in particular but not exclusively in Kotli, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan.2. To advance the Islamic Faith for the benefit of the public, particularly but not exclusively, through the provision of an Islamic Centre in Watford, Hertfordshire.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £700,088, while the charity holds £3.5m in freehold assets secured through a long-term loan of £3,138,721. The trustees confirm that budgeted income and expenditure are sufficient to continue as a going concern for at least 12 months from the date of authorization.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HSY Accountants Ltd. 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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: 2.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MAJED HAMIDchair
• Ammer Amin
• Mohammad Majeed

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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