## Wilaya Trust Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2022
## Reference and Administrative Information
Charity name: Wilaya Trust Charity registration number: 1137354 Registered address: 9 William Street, Marston, Oxford, OX3 0ES, UK
## Board of Trustees
Dr Muhammad Isa Waley Dr Muhammad Afifi Al-Akiti Mr Neamul Mohsin
## Executive Committee
Director: Dr Talal Al-Azem Financial manager: Mr Neamul Mohsin Operations manager: Ms Caroline O’Connor
## Independent Examiner
Mr Mohanned Rahman, FCCA, 24 Woodcroft, Kennington, Oxford, OX1 5 NH
## Bankers
The Co-Operative Bank, Plc 1 Balloon Street, Manchester, M60 4EP
## Structure, governance, and management
## Governing document
The Wilaya Trust is constituted as a charitable trust registered with the Charity Commission on 18 July 2010, under charity number 1137354. It is governed by a deed of trust last amended on 24 December 2016.
## Organisational structure
The charity trustees are responsible for the general control and management of the charity. The trustees give their time freely and receive no remuneration or other financial benefits. The trustees appoint a Director and grant him/her the powers to appoint an executive committee that will serve in fulfilling the objectives and obligations of the charity, as laid out in the declaration of trust ratified on the 18th day of July 2010, with approval of two or more trustees.
The trustees meet together as a body annually, and as required for extra regular sessions. The executive committee meets regularly to execute the objectives of the trust and oversee aspects of the charity’s work. Sub-committees are currently established for finance and for the day-to-day management of educational and social activities. The Director, who also serves as Secretary to the Trustees, chairs the executive committee
meetings and both sub-committees, and reports back to the trustees in the annual and extra-regular meetings. The day-to-day management of particular activities are delegated to staff and volunteers.
## Recruitment and appointment of trustees
The existing trustees are responsible for the recruitment of new trustees but in so doing the trustees seek the views and recommendations of the executive committee and other shareholders. In selecting new trustees, the Trust seeks to identify individuals who are recognised in the field of community-based education for their dedication to and expert knowledge in the objectives of the Trust, as laid out in the declaration of trust.
## Risk management
The executive committee and trustees have assessed the risks the charity faces and have identified the major risks by area of activity, the nature of those risks, the likelihood of the risks happening, and the measures taken to manage them. No risk matrix has been produced, as the Trust does not own any properties or significant assets. Appropriate Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks, supported by regularly reviewed policies, are made for all those who work with children or other vulnerable groups as part of the Trust’s activities.
## Objectives and activities
## Objectives
The objects of the charity are set out in the charity’s trust deed and are summarised as follows:
To advance the education of the public in particular but not exclusively in the subjects of religion, philosophy, ethics, spirituality, civic responsibility and skills of critical thinking;
To advance education and training with a view to cultivating personal development and social responsibility, through the arrangement of apprenticeships, particularly but not exclusively in craftsmanship, agriculture and animal husbandry;
To advance the Islamic faith, with emphasis on its relation to the above two objects, through religious instruction and devotional services.
## Activities and achievements
The charity carries out a wide range of activities in pursuance of its charitable aims. The trustees consider that these activities, summarised below, provide benefit both the Muslim and wider communities of Oxford, Oxfordshire and Southeast England.
## Educational Activities
In the year of 2022, the Trust organised a range of courses in the following subjects:
- Courses in Islamic revelation : weekly lessons in academic terms free of charge;
- **Courses in Propethic traditions** : weekly lessons in academic terms free of charge
- • A Qur’anic memorisation programme : this programme provided a number of classes throughout Oxford for children, by CRB-checked and qualified instructors;
- A Qur’anic recitation (tajwid) programme : an introductory programme on the science of reciting the Qur’an;
The above classes were hosted either online, in-person (using rented facilities within Oxford), or both.
## Social Activities
Similarly in the year 2022, the Trust organised a range of social activities for the local Oxford community, including:
- Fortnightly Dialogues : bi-weekly social gatherings in which members of the local community sit in discussion with local resident scholars on topics suggested by the community;
- Finding Faith : regular meetings and events to support new Muslims in Oxford, providing support, advice, and a simple learning programme necessary for a healthy understanding and realisation of Islam. We also organise special events for the development of community and companionship, encouraging positive integration into our greater Muslim community.
- Date Palm Tree : weekly gatherings at a community centre, providing a positive ethos for mothers to meet and support one another in raising of their children.
- Ramadan Reminders : held every evening throughout the month of Ramadan in an Oxford community centre, delivering a half-hour spiritual reminder and led by qualified local Muslim scholars.
- Seasonal Social Event s: typically one social event every quarter for a broader cross-section of target audience, organised around a notable date within the Islamic Calendar.
## Achievements and Performance
Performance is reviewed by the trustees at each of their meetings. The financial year 2022 saw a slight decrease in income for the charity due to the cessation of the paid online courses which had run during the pandemic.
## Financial Review
The trustees review the financial status of the charity at their meetings.
## Principal funding sources
The charity’s only source of income is donations provided by the public, and any fees paid for the Trust’s charitable educational or social activities. Receipts decreased from £83,539 in 2021 to £ 73,737 in 2022, while payments decreased from £ 83,758 in 2021 to £79,399 in 2022. The key decrease in receipts is owed to the fact that there were no paid courses during the year.
## **Reserves and reserves policy**
The Trust held a balance of £3,315 as of December 31, 2022. The Executive Committee, headed by the Finance Manager, are preparing a reserves policy to be implemented in the coming two years.
Investment policy and objectives
The charity has no long-term investments. Our cash reserves are held in a deposit account.
Approved **on 8th April 2024 and sig** ned on behalf of the charity’s trustees by:
Mr Neamul Mohsin (Chair of the Trustees)
|**Charity Name**||**No (if any)**|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Wilaya Trust**||**1137354**|||
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**|
|**For the period**
**from**|01/01/2022
Period start date|31/12/2022
Period end date
**To**|||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**10,864**
**58,460**
**413**
**4,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**73,737**
**-**
**-**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**10,864**
**58,460**
**413**
**4,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**73,737**
**-**
**-**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Income from Charitable activities|**10,864**||||||||**10,276**|
|Donations|**58,460**||||||||**71,108**|
|Other|**413**||||||||**2,156**|
|Loan|**4,000**||||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**73,737**||||||||**83,539**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|~~**_Sub total_**~~|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|**73,737**
**-**
**2,964**
**61,275**
**11,159**
**4,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**79,399**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**79,399**
**- 5,662**
**-**
**8,977**
**3,315**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**73,737**
**-**
**2,964**
**61,275**
**11,159**
**4,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**79,399**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**79,399**
**- 5,662**
**-**
**8,977**
**3,315**|||
||||||||||**83,539**|
|||||||||||
|Charitable activities|**-**||||||||**-**|
|- Hire ofpremises|**2,964**||||||||**1,215**|
|- Teacher fees|**61,275**||||||||**65,512**|
|- Equipment & Teachingmaterial|**11,159**||||||||**8,230**|
|Loan repayments|**4,000**||||||||**6,000**|
|Other|**-**||||||||**2,800**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**79,399**||||||||**83,758**|
|||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
||||||||||**83,758**|
|||||||||||
||**- 5,662**||**-**||**-**||**- 5,662**||**- 219**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**8,977**||**-**||**-**||**8,977**||**9,196**|
||**3,315**||**-**||**-**||**3,315**||**8,977**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
28/04/2024
1
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Bank
Cash
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|Bank
Cash
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||**3,315**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**3,315**||**-**||**-**|
||||||||OK|
||||||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||None||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||None||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||None||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**|
||None||||**-**|||
||||||**-**|||
||||||**-**|||
||||||**-**|||
||||||**-**|||
||Signature||Print Name
Neamul Mohsin|||||
||||||||Date of
approval|
||||Neamul Mohsin||||20 April 2024|
|||||||||
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
28/04/2024
2
## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Report to the trustees** Charity Name Wilaya Trust **On accounts for the year Charity no** 31-December 2022 **ended (if any)** 1137354 **Set out on pages** 1 - 2 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above **DD / MM / YYYY** . **Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 . I report in respect of my examination of the accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Independent** am qualified to **examiner's statement** undertake the examination by being a qualified member of [insert name of applicable listed body]]. _Delete_ [ ] _if not applicable._
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below *) which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement iew which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
|**Signed:**
**Name:**
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**|**Date:**|15-March-2024|
|---|---|---|
||||
||Mohanned Abdul Rahman||
||||
||FCCA||
**Oct 2018**
1
**IER**
## **(if any):**
**Address:** 24 Woodcroft, Kennington, Oxford OX1 5NH
## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
**Oct 2018**
2
**IER**