THE KHOJA SHIA ITHNAASHERI MUSLIM COMMUNITY OF LONDON

Registered charity 288356 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HUSSEINI ISLAMIC CENTRE STANMORE MOSQUE · repeated filing default (register status)

The objects for which the Charity has been established is to promote and advance the Islamic Religion in accordance with the principles of the Shia Ithna-Asheri Sharia and to provide for the relief of poverty among Muslims of the Shia Ithna-Asheri faith.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE BY SUCH MEANS AS ARE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE THE ISLAMIC RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF THE SHIA ITHNAASHERI SHARIA AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONG MUSLIMS OF THE SHIA ITHNAASHERI FAITH.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Harrow, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2023 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted general reserves stood at £1,244,406, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £300,000. However, the President's report notes that cash flows were significantly affected by rising utility expenses and refurbishment costs, urging continued member contributions to sustain operations.

Automated summary of the FY2023 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Gerald Edelman LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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

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.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 3 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2023 (received 06/12/2024, 36 days after the 31/10/2024 due date).

2 further annual returns are past their due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — KSIMC of London (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mahmood R. Jessa — Honorary Secretary (source)

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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (41% 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: 1.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sajjad Tejanichair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Abbas Gulamali
• Faiyaz Nurmohamed
• Mahmood JESSA · trustee of 1 other charity
• Makbul Jaffer
• Mohammed Akil Kanani
• Moshin Kassam
• Nasima Karim
• Raihana Mustafa Mawjee
• Sadikally Premji
• Sajeda Panju
• Salim Hamir
• Shagufta Dhalla
• Sukayna Ashikali

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MUSLIM KHOJA SHIA ITHNA-ASHERI COMMUNITY OF LEICESTER.

• MUSLIM KHOJA SHIA ITHNA-ASHERI COMMUNITY OF LEICESTER income £1.0m
• KHOJA SHIA ITHNA-ASHERI MUSLIM COMMUNITY OF BIRMINGHAM income £3.0m
• THE MUSLIM KHOJA SHIA ITHNA-ASHERI COMMUNITY OF PETERBOROUGH income £535k
• KHOJA SHIA ITHNA-ASHRI (SOUTH LONDON) JAMAAT income £1.4m
• IMAMIA MISSION EAST LONDON UK LTD income £60k
• THE WESSEX SHIA ITHNA ASHERI JAMAAT income £310k

Side by side with its peers

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