BANBURY MUSLIM MOSQUE SOCIETY

Registered charity 900047 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BANBURY MASJID BANBURY MOSQUE

Providing religious activities and offering prayer facilities to the public

Objects

(1) TO ADVANCE THE RELIGION OF ISLAM ACCORDING TO THE QURAN AND SUNAH AND THE DOCTRINES AHLE-SUNNATUL JAMAT AND BRELUI. (11) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THOSE DOCTRINES. (111) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ISLAMIC HISTORY, LANGUAGES, LITERATURE, POETRY, MUSIC AND RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS AND CUSTOMS. (1V) TO RELIEVE MUSLIMS IN BANBURY AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD THEREOF WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY VIRTUE OF POVERTY, OLD AGE OR SICKNESS.

Area of benefit: BANBURY

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 · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total incoming resources of £39,235 and total expenditure of £11,795. The balance sheet shows net assets of £960,612, comprising fixed assets in property and current assets including cash and a loan receivable. The document notes a disputed suspense account and creditors falling due within one year, but does not disclose any specific reserves policy or material uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Banbury Masjid Banbury Mosque (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~38.1 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 (93% 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: 4.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• BASHARAT HASSAN HANIFchair
• ABDUL MAJID
• BASHARAT HUSSAIN
• Irfan TAi
• MR JAVED IQBAL
• Mubarak Hussain
• SARFRAZ BHATTI
• nazam hussain

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TUNBRIDGE WELLS ISLAMIC AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION.

• TUNBRIDGE WELLS ISLAMIC AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION income £114k
• BOW MUSLIM COMMUNITY CENTRE income £183k
• JAMIA KHIZRA MOSQUE AND ISLAMIC CENTRE, BURY income £345k
• MADINA MOSQUE AND MUSLAMIC COMMUNITY CENTRE income £137k
• ISLAMIC ASSOCIATION OF NORTH LONDON income £1.5m
• HOLBORN MUSLIM COMMUNITY AND WELFARE ASSOCIATION income £242k

Side by side with its peers

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