JAMIA ISLAMIA GHOUSIA

Registered charity 297279 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Religious and welfare, religious education to youth and elders, seminars, conferences, wedding and funerals for mainly Muslim community. Mainly Asian community with some British and Middle East community. Major religious institute in UK. Welfare for disadvantaged and elders. Muslim advice service. Marriage registry for UK.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE FAITH OF ISLAM AND ISLAMIC CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted funds increased to £2,153,984, with net income rising to £116,288 from the previous year's £201,758. The trustees report that the charity is running to its best ability despite a tough financial year, and the independent examiner confirmed no material matters were identified during the examination.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~11.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (88% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ABDUL AZIZ QAZI · trustee of 3 other charities
• ATAULKIBRIA Q CHISHTI
• Dr Zulfqar Ahmad
• MAHBOOB KHAN · trustee of 2 other charities
• MUHAMMAD A M KHAN

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

Operates in: Bedford · Central Bedfordshire · Pakistan

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with JAMIA ISLAMIA (ISLAMIC STUDIES CENTRE) TRUST.

• JAMIA ISLAMIA (ISLAMIC STUDIES CENTRE) TRUST income £395k
• JAMIA MASJID & MADRASSA FAIZ UL QURAN GHOUSIA income £134k
• GHAUSIA MOSQUE AND WELFARE ASSOCIATION income £240k
• JAMI MOSQUE AND ISLAMIC CENTRE (BIRMINGHAM) TRUSTEES LIMITED income £1.4m
• JAMIA ALMAARIF income £131k
• THE NELSON MASJID COMMITTEE (GHOSIA JAMIA MOSQUE) income £535k

Side by side with its peers

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