THE PRESTON MUSLIM SOCIETY-JAMEA MASJID PRESTON

Registered charity 515749 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Place of Religious Worship

Objects

THE SOCIETY IS ESTABLISHED TO ADVANCE THE RELIGION OF ISLAM IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINES AND BELIEVING IN TABLIGLU JAMAT; TO PROMOTE CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR SUCH PERSONS RESIDING IN THE JAMEA MASJID AREAS OF PRESTON AND IN FURTHERANCE THEREOF TO PROVIDE A MOSQUE AND OTHER FACILITIES FOR RELGIOUS AND ASSOCIATED CEREMONIES.

Area of benefit: JAMEA MASJID PRESTON

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £1,694,467, alongside significant restricted and endowment funds totaling £3,359,891. The trustees report that cash at bank of £874,365 will maintain the society for the foreseeable future. The charity reported a net incoming resource surplus of £923,444 for the year, indicating strong financial stability.

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 3 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
• 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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~166.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (95% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• FARUK DESAIchair
• ABDULLAH ISAP · trustee of 1 other charity
• ASIF DESAI
• Azam Dadabhoy
• Faisal Bhayat
• Fayyaz Ahmed Ali · trustee of 1 other charity
• IBRAHIM DESAI
• ILYAS ESMAIL
• MOHAMED ZAHID VAID
• Rafik Patel
• SAEED ATCHA
• YAKUB BUX

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MUSLIM SOCIETY OF PRESTON NEW ROAD, BLACKBURN.

• MUSLIM SOCIETY OF PRESTON NEW ROAD, BLACKBURN income £146k
• THE PRESTON MUSLIM CULTURAL CENTRE income £228k
• THE PRESTON MUSLIM SOCIETY MASJID-E-FALAH income £181k
• PRESTON MUSLIM EDUCATION COUNCIL income £210k
• PRESTON HANFI SUNNI MUSLIM SOCIETY income £149k
• GUJARATI SUNNI MUSLIM COMMUNITY CENTRE (GSMCC) income £206k

Side by side with its peers

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