## **JAMIA MASJID E-BILAL**
## **TRUSTEES’ ANNUAL REPORT**
## **31 MARCH 2025**
## **Report of the trustees for the year ended 31 March 2025.**
The Trustees present their annual report and audited financial statement for the year ended 31 March 2025 and confirm they comply with the charities Act 1993 as amended by the charity Act 2006, the trust deed and the charities SORP 2005.
Reference and Administrative Information.
## **CHAIRTY TRUSTEES:**
Mr Kazi Mohammed Iqbal Mr Mohammad Tanvir Malik Mr Mohammed Jamil Mr SuhaIl Nasim
## **REGISTERED OFFICE:**
80 Evington Valley Road Leicester. LE5 5LJ
**REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER:**
1069001
**INLAND REVENUE (CHARITIES) NUMBER:**
XR 74204
## **IMAMS:**
Hafeez ur Rahman Cheshti Imam Abbas
## **ACCOUNTANTS:**
Sterlyn Ltd. 11 Main Street, Barkby, Leicester.
NatWest Bank plc Evington Road Leicester LE1 9AA
**BANKERS:**
The Charity Trustees submit their annual report for the period ended 31[st] March 2025.
## **Governing document and constitution**
The charity is an unincorporated organisation formed by adoption of a constitution adopted 26 September 1997 as amended 28 February 1998. The charity is registered as a Charity with Charity Commission for England and Wales with effect from 2 April 1998.
## **Charity Trustees**
Trustee who served during the year are shown on page 1.
One of the trustees Mr Manzoor Hussain passed away in March.
## **Governance**
The charity is governed by trustees, who are responsible for the effective management of the organisation.
Meetings are held on a regular basis.
## **Objects of the Charity**
The principal objects of the charity are:
To advance the religion of Islam, by means of, but not exclusively, promoting the teachings and tenets of Islam, in accordance with the Sunni Hanafi school of thought, provision of facilities for worship, and provision of facilities for Islamic education; the public celebration of religious festivals and the distribution of literature on the Islamic faith to enlighten others.
To promote any other charitable purpose for the benefit of Muslims and the general public that the trustees from time to time may determine.
Our dual aims remain to provide a facility where Muslims can worship and to provide a community facility for all the inhabitants of Leicester. Our long-term ambition is to help make our area a peaceful, vibrant and harmonious community.
- Multi-agency networking workshops, Health, community services.
To rebuild new Masjid, having planning consultations, meetings with public and authorities.
- Safe guarding and 1[st] aid training.
## **Religious actvites:**
In planning the activities, trustees kept in mind the Charity Commissioner’s guidance on public benefit at the meetings. Our Mosque provides a centre for worship and other activities associated with Islamic faith.
## **Daily Prayer:**
The charity has established a regular five times prayer facility led by an Imam for all people to participate in. These prayers are well attended by families who live in the neighbourhood of the charity. There are separate facilities available for women/young girls to perform their prayers. The mosque is open all day for daily and Friday prayers. During the week over 100 people attend daily prayers and 400-450 regularly attend Friday prayers. The numbers attend to increase during the holiday period.
## **Ramadan:**
During the holy month of Ramadan, special arrangements were made for the public to benefit from communal prayers throughout the day and to start and break-fast in accordance with Islamic traditions. The public took full advantage to avail themselves of the spiritual benefits of this holy month. During the last ten days of Ramadan over dozen worshipers stay in the mosque to obtain higher spiritual status and isolate them-selves from material world. On 27[th] Ramadan special ceremony of completing recitation of holy Quran is celebrated with special prayers for peace in the community and the world.
## **Festvals:**
As with other similar organisation, the charity celebrated all auspicious days of the Islamic calendar which were well attended by the public. During the Eid festival period our mosque is normally full and there is pressure to extend the Mosque to meet increasing demand of our community. Over 500 hundred people attend Eid festivals. We also annually celebrate Prophet’s birthday which again is well attended and provide occasion for families to come together to socialise and commemorate this holy day.
Organising fun day- building activities for children and local peoples, fun activities and food.
## **Bereavement:**
The charity supports families to varying degrees in times bereavement by holding communal prayers at the families’ request. The funeral prayers are also arranged by the mosque and families are supported during their difficult period.
## **Civil marriage and Nikkah:**
The charity is licensed to solemnise Islamic marriages and we continue to provide this service. The marriage ceremony was arranged by the mosque for 30 couples in the year.
## **Madrasah classes:**
The charity has established and runs subsidised after school classes (Madrasah) for children to learn Islamic tenets to develop a better understanding of Islam. The education is taught systemically to ensure children at different stages of learning attain appropriate benefit. The classes are attended by children who live in the neighbourhood of the charity. Nearly 60 boys and girls attend our madrasah classes daily (Monday – Thursday, from 5.0 pm till 6.30 pm).
About 20 students attending, HIFAZ learning Islamic knowledge classes Monday + Friday. We also starting supplementary Islamic classes for boys.
We believe that it is necessary to support, develop and nurture the skill and abilities of the students, to a level where they can fulfil their potential. This is where we place the upmost care, in matching the teacher’s competency levels to the number of children in each class. With the help of some professional members our classes have been revived and start increasing the number of students together with the improved quality of education, with the help of Information technology as well.
We will continue to undertake review of our activities in conjunction with Federation of Muslim Organisation Leicestershire to identify further areas of improvements.
## **Islamic Sister’s Group:**
This group meets every weekend to discuss various topics and to learn Islamic solution to relevant issues. Guest speakers offer their views on given topics to teach/educate their audience. In addition the members are taught how to read Quran with proper pronunciation. This group provide a forum for Muslim women to express their views and opinions, support each other and organise and promote future events.
## **Partnership working and performance review:**
In developing our community programmes, we are pleased to work in partnership with the following institutions:
- Federation of Muslim Organisation Leicester
- Crown Hills Community College
- Highfields Community Centre
- Leicester College
- Pakistan Youth and Community Association
- Somalia Community Association
Our partners have provided us with invaluable support and advice, as to how to further improve our programmes to the benefit of society. A liaison meeting is held at regular intervals, with key staff from our partners, to ensure the programmes we provide, are designed to be both, efficient and effective. At the end of each meeting, the trustees then review the feedback, to ensure feasible viewpoints are incorporated into the programmes.
## **Volunteers**
Most of the charity’s activities involve volunteers in the delivery of its activities. We are, as always, grateful to these volunteers in making the activities of our centre a spiritual and pleasant experience for the public.
## **Risk Management and Reserves**
The trustees actively review the major risks which the charity faces on a regular basis. The trustees frequently consider the nature of risks, the likelihood of the risks happening and the measures taken to manage them. The trustees are satisfied that the systems are in place, or arrangements are in hand, to manage the risks that have been identified. Insurance cover is in place and the finances of the mosque are appropriately managed. Appropriate Disclosure
and Barring Service (DBS) checks are completed along with regularly reviewed policies, are made for all those who work with children or other vulnerable groups within the Mosque.
Approved by the Charity Trustees on **21.12.2025** and signed on their behalf:
**AQDUS GHAFAR Acting Chairman**
1
## **JAMIA**
## **MASJID - E - BILAL**
Income and Expenditure Account for year ended 31[st] March 2025.
We certify that the attached Income and Expenditure Account and Balance Sheet have been prepared in accordance with records information and explanation provided by Treasurer and Chair of Jamia Masjid-e-Bilal.
**Sterlyn Ltd**
11 Main Street Barkby Leicester.
2
## **Jamia Masjid-E-Bilal**
## **Contents**
|Details of Charity|3|
|---|---|
|Income & Expenditure Accounts|4|
|Balance Sheet|5|
|Schedule of Movement of Fixed Assets|6|
|Notes to the Accounts|7 & 8|
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Charity Name:
## **Jamia Masjid-E-Bilal**
Charity Number: 1069001 Address: 80 Evington Valley Road Leicester. LE5 5LJ Trustees: Mr Mohammed Iqbal Kazi Mr Mohammed Jamil Mr M T Malik Mr Suhail Nasim
Income and Expenditure Account for year ended 31[st] March 2025.
We the undersigned confirm that we have made available all the books and records necessary to produce the annual Accounts.
Signed:-------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------Chair – Aqdus Ghafar Treasurer – Aqdus Ghafar
We certify that the attached Income and Expenditure Accounts and Balance Sheet for year ended 31.03.202 have been prepared **without carrying out an audit** in accordance with the accounting records information and explanations supplied by officers of Jamia Masjid-E-Bilal **.**
Sterlyn Ltd
4
## **Jamia Masjid-E-Bilal**
## **Income and Expenditure Account for year ended 31[st] March 2025.**
|||**2025**|||**2024**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**£**||**£**|**£**||**£**|
|Donations|||159,585|||98,754|
|Other Income|||4,800|||4,600|
|**Total Income**|||**164,385**|||**103,354**|
|**Less Overheads**
Employee Costs
Premises Costs
Repairs
General Admin Costs
Legal and Professional Costs
Depreciation
**Net Surplus**||37,602
13,570
1,958
1,574
1,195
487|30,290
25,389
7,211
764
1,701
580
56,386
**£ 107,999**|65,935|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||
|||||**£ 37,419**|
5
## **Jamia Masjid-E-Bilal**
## **Balance Sheet as at 31[st] March 2025.**
|**Fixed Assets**
As per attached Schedule
**Current Assets**
Debtors / Prepayments
Bank – Natwest
Bank – Build Project
Cash in Hand
**Current Liabilities**
Creditors / Accruals
Other Liabilities
Less
Interest Free Loan o/s
**Financed By**
Balance b/f
Add Net Surplus b/d
Balance c/f|**2025**
**£**
**£**
740,548
791
376,387
10,009
428
387,615
10,198
15,871
26,069
361,546
1,102,094
116,350
(116,350)
£ 985,744
877,745
107,999
£ 985,744|**2024**
**£**
**£**
706,647
864
300,602
11,740
1,155
314,361
7,043
15,870
22,913
291,448
998,095
120,350
(120,350)
£ 877,745
840,326
37,419
£ 877,745|**2024**
**£**
**£**
706,647
864
300,602
11,740
1,155
314,361
7,043
15,870
22,913
291,448
998,095
120,350
(120,350)
£ 877,745
840,326
37,419
£ 877,745|
|---|---|---|---|
||||998,095
(120,350)|
||||£ 877,745|
||||840,326
37,419|
||||£ 877,745|
6
## **Jamia Masjid-E-Bilal**
## **Schedule of Movement of Fixed Assets as at 31[st] March 2025.**
|**Cost:**
At 1stApril 2024
Additions in the year
At 31stMarch 2025
**Depreciation:**
At 1stApril 2024
Charge for the year
At 31stMarch 2025
**Net Book Value:**
At 31stMarch 2025
At 31stMarch 2024|**Freehold**
**Building**
873,292
34,118
907,410
167,997
-
167,997
739,413
705,295|**Equipment**
25,715
270
25,985
**30%**
24,363
487
24,850
1,135
1,352|**Total**
899,007
34,388|
|---|---|---|---|
||||933,395|
||||192,360
487|
||||192,847|
||||740,548|
||||706,647|
7
## **Jamia Masjid-E-Bilal**
## **Notes to the Accounts year ended 31[st] March 2025.**
## **Income:**
|**Donations**
Collections
Zakat
Madrassa Fees
Nikah Fees
**Other Income**
HMRC CJR Scheme Grants
Rental Income
**Creditors & Accruals**
Scottish Power
Wages - NEST Pension
Wages - PAYE
Water Plus
Sterlyn Ltd||**2025**
**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**£**
**£**
123,632
31,696
-
-
3,207
1,050
-
-|**2025**
**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**£**
**£**
123,632
31,696
-
-
3,207
1,050
-
-|**2025**
**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**£**
**£**
123,632
31,696
-
-
3,207
1,050
-
-|**2024**
**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**£**
**£**
79,353
17,041
-
-
960
1,400
-
-|**2024**
**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**£**
**£**
79,353
17,041
-
-
960
1,400
-
-|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**127,889**||**31,696**|**81,713**|**17,041**|
|||-
4,800||-|-
4,600|-|
|||**4,800**||**-**|**4,600**|**-**|
|||**£ 132,689**||**31,696**
**£ 86,313**
**17,041**
240
393
2,855
5,515
9,003
1,195
1,195
10 198|||
||||||||
||||||||
|||||1,195|||
||||||||
## **Depreciation**
Depreciation is provided for at the following rate over the useful life of the assets. Land & Building - Equipment 30%
## **Specific Fund**
Application has been made to Local Authority and is awaiting approval for Re-build of the Mosque. Appeal for specific donations for rebuild of the Mosque was made to the community and bank account for this purpose has been set up with all restricted funds going to this specific bank account.
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## **Jamia Masjid-E-Bilal**
## **Income and Expenditure Account for year ended 31[st] March 2025.**
|Donations
Rental Income
Restricted Funds
**Total Income**
**Less Overheads**
**Employee Costs**
Wages & Salaries
Pensions
Staff Training & Welfare
**Premises Costs**
Cleaning
Insurance
Licence Fee
Light & Heat
Rates
**Repairs**
Repairs & Maintenance
**General Admin Expenses**
Postage Printing & Stationery
Telephone
Advertising
Sundries
Bank Charges
**Professional and Legal Costs**
Accountancy Fees
Legal Fees
**Depreciation**
Provision for Depreciation
**Net Surplus**|**2025**
**£**
**£**
127,889
4,800
31,696
**164,385**
36,199
1,403
-
37,602
1,970
1,127
100
8,387
1,986
13,570
1,958
251
401
495
319
108
1,574
1,195
-
1,195
487
56,386
**£ 107,999**|**2025**
**£**
**£**
127,889
4,800
31,696
**164,385**
36,199
1,403
-
37,602
1,970
1,127
100
8,387
1,986
13,570
1,958
251
401
495
319
108
1,574
1,195
-
1,195
487
56,386
**£ 107,999**|**2024**
**£**
**£**
81,713
4,600
17,041
**103,354**
29,077
1,213
-
30,290
1,491
1,075
100
13,595
9,128
25,389
7,211
349
377
-
38
-
764
1,145
556
1,701
580
65,935
**£ 37,419**|**2024**
**£**
**£**
81,713
4,600
17,041
**103,354**
29,077
1,213
-
30,290
1,491
1,075
100
13,595
9,128
25,389
7,211
349
377
-
38
-
764
1,145
556
1,701
580
65,935
**£ 37,419**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**164,385**
56,386||**103,354**
65,935|
||37,602||30,290||
||1,970
1,127
100
8,387
1,986||1,491
1,075
100
13,595
9,128||
||13,570||25,389||
||||||
||1,958||7,211||
||251
401
495
319
108||349
377
-
38
-||
||1,574||764||
||1,195
-||1,145
556||
||1,195||1,701||
||||||
||487||580||
||||||
|||**£ 107,999**||**£ 37,419**|
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## **Jamia Masjid-E-Bilal**
## **Notes to the Accounts year ended 31[st] March 2025.**
## **Interest Free Loans**
|A Razak – Pak Foods
Irfan – Pak Foods
Adeeb Akhtar – Pak Foods
M Safdar
Mrs Bashir
Zaida A Karim
M I Sacranie
Ibrahim Memon
**Total**|8,000
20,000
15,000
49,000
400
11,950
10,000
2,000
£ 116,350|
|---|---|
## **JAMIA MASJID E-BILAL**
## **TRUSTEES’ ANNUAL REPORT**
## **31 MARCH 2025**
## **Report of the trustees for the year ended 31 March 2025.**
The Trustees present their annual report and audited financial statement for the year ended 31 March 2025 and confirm they comply with the charities Act 1993 as amended by the charity Act 2006, the trust deed and the charities SORP 2005.
## Reference and Administrative Information.
## **CHAIRTY TRUSTEES:**
Mr Kazi Mohammed Iqbal Mr Mohammad Tanvir Malik Mr Mohammed Jamil Mr SuhaIl Nasim
**REGISTERED OFFICE:** 80 Evington Valley Road Leicester. LE5 5LJ **REGISTERED CHARITY** 1069001 **NUMBER:**
**INLAND REVENUE** XR 74204 **(CHARITIES) NUMBER:**
**IMAMS:** Hafeez ur Rahman Cheshti Imam Abbas
## **ACCOUNTANTS:**
Sterlyn Ltd. 11 Main Street, Barkby, Leicester.
## **BANKERS:**
NatWest Bank plc Evington Road Leicester LE1 9AA
The Charity Trustees submit their annual report for the period ended 31[st] March 2025.
## **Governing document and constitution**
The charity is an unincorporated organisation formed by adoption of a constitution adopted 26 September 1997 as amended 28 February 1998. The charity is registered as a Charity with Charity Commission for England and Wales with effect from 2 April 1998.
## **Charity Trustees**
Trustee who served during the year are shown on page 1. One of the trustees Mr Manzoor Hussain passed away in March.
## **Governance**
The charity is governed by trustees, who are responsible for the effective management of the organisation.
Meetings are held on a regular basis.
## **Objects of the Charity**
The principal objects of the charity are:
- To advance the religion of Islam, by means of, but not exclusively, promoting the
- teachings and tenets of Islam, in accordance with the Sunni Hanafi school of thought, provision of facilities for worship, and provision of facilities for Islamic education; the public celebration of religious festivals and the distribution of literature on the Islamic faith to enlighten others.
- To promote any other charitable purpose for the benefit of Muslims and the general
- public that the trustees from time to time may determine.
- Our dual aims remain to provide a facility where Muslims can worship and to provide
- a community facility for all the inhabitants of Leicester. Our long-term ambition is to help make our area a peaceful, vibrant and harmonious community.
- Multi-agency networking workshops, Health, community services.
- To rebuild new Masjid, having planning consultations, meetings with public and
- authorities.
- Safe guarding and 1[st] aid training.
## **Religious activities:**
In planning the activities, trustees kept in mind the Charity Commissioner’s guidance on public benefit at the meetings. Our Mosque provides a centre for worship and other activities associated with Islamic faith.
## **Daily Prayer:**
The charity has established a regular five times prayer facility led by an Imam for all people to participate in. These prayers are well attended by families who live in the neighbourhood of the charity. There are separate facilities available for women/young girls to perform their prayers. The mosque is open all day for daily and Friday prayers. During the week over 100 people attend daily prayers and 400-450 regularly attend Friday prayers. The numbers attend to increase during the holiday period.
## **Ramadan:**
During the holy month of Ramadan, special arrangements were made for the public to benefit from communal prayers throughout the day and to start and break-fast in accordance with Islamic traditions. The public took full advantage to avail themselves of the spiritual benefits of this holy month. During the last ten days of Ramadan over dozen worshipers stay in the mosque to obtain higher spiritual status and isolate them-selves from material world. On 27[th] Ramadan special ceremony of completing recitation of holy Quran is celebrated with special prayers for peace in the community and the world.
## **Festivals:**
As with other similar organisation, the charity celebrated all auspicious days of the Islamic calendar which were well attended by the public. During the Eid festival period our mosque is normally full and there is pressure to extend the Mosque to meet increasing demand of our community. Over 500 hundred people attend Eid festivals. We also annually celebrate Prophet’s birthday which again is well attended and provide occasion for families to come together to socialise and commemorate this holy day.
Organising fun day- building activities for children and local peoples, fun activities and food.
## **Bereavement:**
The charity supports families to varying degrees in times bereavement by holding communal prayers at the families’ request. The funeral prayers are also arranged by the mosque and families are supported during their difficult period.
## **Civil marriage and Nikkah:**
The charity is licensed to solemnise Islamic marriages and we continue to provide this service. The marriage ceremony was arranged by the mosque for 30 couples in the year.
## **Madrasah classes:**
The charity has established and runs subsidised after school classes (Madrasah) for children to learn Islamic tenets to develop a better understanding of Islam. The education is taught systemically to ensure children at different stages of learning attain appropriate benefit. The classes are attended by children who live in the neighbourhood of the charity. Nearly 60 boys and girls attend our madrasah classes daily (Monday – Thursday, from 5.0 pm till 6.30 pm). About 20 students attending, HIFAZ learning Islamic knowledge classes Monday + Friday. We also starting supplementary Islamic classes for boys.
We believe that it is necessary to support, develop and nurture the skill and abilities of the students, to a level where they can fulfil their potential. This is where we place the upmost care, in matching the teacher’s competency levels to the number of children in each class. With the help of some professional members our classes have been revived and start increasing the number of students together with the improved quality of education, with the help of Information technology as well.
We will continue to undertake review of our activities in conjunction with Federation of Muslim Organisation Leicestershire to identify further areas of improvements.
## **Islamic Sister’s Group:**
This group meets every weekend to discuss various topics and to learn Islamic solution to relevant issues. Guest speakers offer their views on given topics to teach/educate their audience. In addition the members are taught how to read Quran with proper pronunciation. This group provide a forum for Muslim women to express their views and opinions, support each other and organise and promote future events.
## **Partnership working and performance review:**
In developing our community programmes, we are pleased to work in partnership with the following institutions:
-
- Federation of Muslim Organisation Leicester
- Crown Hills Community College
- Highfields Community Centre
- Leicester College
- Pakistan Youth and Community Association
- Somalia Community Association
Our partners have provided us with invaluable support and advice, as to how to further improve our programmes to the benefit of society. A liaison meeting is held at regular intervals, with key staff from our partners, to ensure the programmes we provide, are designed to be both, efficient and effective. At the end of each meeting, the trustees then review the feedback, to ensure feasible viewpoints are incorporated into the programmes.
## **Volunteers**
Most of the charity’s activities involve volunteers in the delivery of its activities. We are, as always, grateful to these volunteers in making the activities of our centre a spiritual and pleasant experience for the public.
## **Risk Management and Reserves**
The trustees actively review the major risks which the charity faces on a regular basis. The trustees frequently consider the nature of risks, the likelihood of the risks happening and the measures taken to manage them. The trustees are satisfied that the systems are in place, or arrangements are in hand, to manage the risks that have been identified. Insurance cover is in place and the finances of the mosque are appropriately managed. Appropriate Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks are completed along with regularly reviewed policies, are made for all those who work with children or other vulnerable groups within the Mosque.
Approved by the Charity Trustees on **21.12.2025** and signed on their behalf:
**AQDUS GHAFAR Acting Chairman**