ISLAMIC CENTRE LEICESTER

Registered charity 257559 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

TO PROMOTE THE SPIRITUAL TEACHINGS OF THE ISLAMIC RELIGION AND THE MAINTENANCE OF THE DOCTRINES ON WHICH IT RESTS AND OF THE OBSERVATIONS THAT SERVE TO PROMOTE AND MANIFEST IT ESPECIALLY AMONGST THE MOSLEMS RESIDING IN LEICESTER AND IN THE COUNTY OF LEICESTERSHIRE.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE SPIRITUAL TEACHINGS OF THE ISLAMIC RELIGION AND THE MAINTENANCE OF THE DOCTRINES ON WHICH IT RESTS AND OF THE OBSERVATIONS THAT SERVETO PROMOTE AND MANIFEST IT ESPECIALLY AMONGST THE MOSLEMS RESIDING IN LEICESTER ANDIN THE COUNTY OF LEICESTER. (FOR DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF CONSTITUTION).

Area of benefit: LEICESTER CITY AND COUNTY

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 · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds total reserves of £6,616,463, with free unrestricted reserves calculated at £1,299,113 after excluding restricted funds, fixed assets, and designated funds. The trustees consider this level of reserves adequate to cover approximately 12 months of operational expenditure and provide financial stability. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Versant Associates LLP. 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
• 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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~37.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ABDULLABHAI AHMEDBHAI PATEL
• Abdul Waheed Bajwa · trustee of 2 other charities
• Ahmed Raza Sheikh
• Amjad Kaleem · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hafiz Mohammed Mukadam · trustee of 1 other charity
• MOHAMMAD HAFEEZ · trustee of 1 other charity
• MOHAMMED AYUB · trustee of 2 other charities
• MR MUSTAFA MALIK · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mahomed Hanif Girach · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mohammed Farooq Nathani
• Mohammed Rafiq · trustee of 1 other charity
• Muhammad Shabbir Aslam · trustee of 1 other charity
• Pervaiz Ahmed Malik · trustee of 1 other charity
• Qaiser Abbas · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sheikh Muhammad Nawaz · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tasawar Hussain · trustee of 1 other charity
• YASIR RASHID KHILJI · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Leicestershire

Income and spending

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