AL - MEDINA TRUST

Registered charity 261188 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Help in Education and needy and relief of poverty globally.

Objects

A TO ADVANCE AND TO PROPAGATE ISLAM THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. B TO RELIEVE POVERTY AMONG MUSLIMS IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD. C TO ADVANCE EDUCATION GENERALLY AND THE EDUCATION OF MUSLIMS IN PARTICULAR. D TO SUPPORT OTHER CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS HAVING OBJECTS SIMILAR TO THOSE ABOVE MENTIONED. E SUCH OTHER PURPOSES (BEING EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE) AS MAY BE DECLARED BY THE TRUSTEES.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hinckley and Bosworth, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£93k

Latest spending

£2.6m

Registered

1970

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity is in the process of dissolution, having distributed its investment properties and remaining funds to other charitable organizations. The accounts show a significant net deficit of £2,497,020 for the year, primarily due to these distributions, resulting in unrestricted funds of only £7,020 at year-end. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention regarding the accounts.

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

What the accounts disclose

Going concern: accounts NOT prepared on a going-concern basis (closing, merging or winding up)

“The trustees have decided to dissolve the Trust. All investment properties were distributed to two charitable organisations with similar objectives.” — page 8

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Donation of investment property to The Markfield Institute.

“During the year, the Trust donated an investment property with a cost of £833,472 to a charitable company, The Markfield Institute, that shared a common trustee, known as Mr Farooq Murad.” — page 13

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → not a going concern (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 5
Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Grant-making is its main activity

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

Trustees · trustee networks

DR MANAZIR AHSAN · trustee of 1 other charity
Dr ZAHID ALI PARVEZ · trustee of 2 other charities
FAROOQ SALMAN MURAD · trustee of 4 other charities
Ismail Gitay
Mohammed Saeed
Ziaul Haq

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

Operates in: Leicestershire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£93k	£2.6m
31/12/2024	£177k	£19k
31/12/2023	£164k	£96k
31/12/2022	£163k	£46k
31/12/2021	£148k	£71k

Common questions

Is AL - MEDINA TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The charity is in the process of dissolution, having distributed its investment properties and remaining funds to other charitable organizations. The accounts show a significant net deficit of £2,497,020 for the year, primarily due to these distributions, resulting in unrestricted funds of only £7,020 at year-end. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention regarding the accounts. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
WISEHEIGHTS LIMITED	1	£160k
THE SOLE 2 SOUL FOUNDATION	1	£155k
HAROFEH DONATIONS LIMITED	1	£62k
AMABRILL LTD	1	£50k
MINISTRIES WITHOUT BORDERS INTERNATIONAL	1	£27k
TOIREM	1	£26k
CHAIM CHARITABLE COMPANY LIMITED	1	£11k
GOLDHEART CHARITY LIMITED	1	£10k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AL-MEDINA EDUCATION TRUST.

AL-MEDINA EDUCATION TRUST income £26k
ALMADINA EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £98k
THE M Y A CHARITABLE TRUST income £88k
FHS TRUST LIMITED income £1.9m
HESED TRUST income £108k
AMUD HACHESED TRUST income £318k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
AL - MEDINA TRUST	£93k	—	—	unclear	—	not going concern
AL-MEDINA EDUCATION TRUST FY2025	£26k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
ALMADINA EDUCATIONAL TRUST FY2025	£98k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE M Y A CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£88k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
FHS TRUST LIMITED FY2025	£1.9m	£60,001 - £70,000	1	below	—	noted
HESED TRUST FY2026	£108k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.