KHOJA SHIA ITHNA-ASHRI (SOUTH LONDON) JAMAAT

Registered charity 287686 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HYDERI ISLAMIC CENTRE

The Khoja Shia Ithna-Asheri (South London) Jamaat promotes and advances the Islamic religion in accordance with the principles of the Shia Ithna-Asheri faith.

Causes: Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£1.5m
Latest spending
£1.2m
Registered
1983
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £208,762 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in total net assets of £9,275,300. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, citing sufficient reserves. The charity's unrestricted funds stood at £7,841,364, while restricted funds totaled £1,433,936.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months of unrestricted expenditure (held: £7.8m)
“the unrestricted funds held by the Charity should continue to be a minimum of 3 months of the unrestricted expenditure of Hyderi only. This equates to approximately £246,196” — page 6
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Remittance of external restricted funds to Council of European Jamaats (COEJ)
“During the year, the external restricted funds of £129,789 (2023 - £22,341) were remitted to COEJ.”
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Brian Paul Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Hyderi Islamic Centre (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Total income
£1.5m
Total spending
£1.2m
Cost of raising funds
£15k
Reserves (reported)
£246k
Employees
14

Reported reserves equal ~2.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (61% 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: 1.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Croydon · Lambeth

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2024£1.5m£1.2m
31/12/2023£1.4m£1.1m
31/12/2022£1.3m£912k
31/12/2021£1.9m£888k
31/12/2020£3.9m£632k

Common questions

Is KHOJA SHIA ITHNA-ASHRI (SOUTH LONDON) JAMAAT financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £208,762 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in total net assets of £9,275,300. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, citing sufficient reserves. The charity's unrestricted funds stood at £7,841,364, while restricted funds totaled £1,433,936. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Brian Paul Limited.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
City Bridge Foundation26/08/2016£3kEco audit to Hyderi Islamic Centre

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE LADY FATEMAH (A.S.) CHARITABLE TRUST1£520k
THE IMAM HUSSEIN FOUNDATION1£2k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE KHOJA SHIA ITHNAASHERI MUSLIM COMMUNITY OF LONDON.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
KHOJA SHIA ITHNA-ASHRI (SOUTH LONDON) JAMAAT£1.5m—0unclear—no doubt
THE KHOJA SHIA ITHNAASHERI MUSLIM COMMUNITY OF LONDON FY2023£7.2mOver £60,0001unclear—no doubt
THE MUSLIM KHOJA SHIA ITHNA-ASHERI COMMUNITY OF PETERBOROUGH FY2025£535k—0unclear—no doubt
KHOJA SHIA ITHNA-ASHERI MUSLIM COMMUNITY OF BIRMINGHAM FY2025£3.0m—0unclear—no doubt
MUSLIM KHOJA SHIA ITHNA-ASHERI COMMUNITY OF LEICESTER FY2024£1.0m—0above—no doubt
THE MUSLIM SHIA ITHNA-ASHERI JAMAAT OF ESSEX FY2025£254k—0unclear—no doubt

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