## Wilaya Trust Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2023
## 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: Sh 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 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 the Islamic faith 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 2023, 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 Prophetic 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 2023, the Trust organised a range of social activities for the local Oxford community, including:
- Monthly Reminders: monthly social gatherings in which members of the local community sit in discussion with local resident scholars on topics suggested by the community.
- Twice monthly Gatherings of Remembrance: bimonthly community gathering for adults, teens and children to get together and remember, recite and reflect on the words of the Holy Quran and the Prophet Muhammad (may God’s blessings and peace be upon him).
- 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 the raising of their children.
- Ramadan Reminders: held every evening throughout the month of Ramadan, delivering a half-hour spiritual reminder and led by qualified local Muslim scholars.
- Seasonal Social Events: 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 2023 saw an increase in income for the charity due to increased donations made during the holy month of Ramadan.
## 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 towards the Trust’s charitable educational or social
activities. Receipts increased from £73,737 in 2022 to £ 80,157 in 2023, while payments decreased from £ 79,399 in 2022 to £70,346 in 2023.
## Reserves
The Trust held a balance of £13,125.37 as of December 31 2023.
## Investment policy and objectives
The charity has no long-term investments. Our cash reserves are held in a deposit account.
Approved **on January 10th 2025 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**|01/01/2023
Period start date|31/12/2023
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**
**£**
**12,222**
**67,935**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**80,157**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**12,222**
**67,935**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**80,157**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Income from Charitable activities|**12,222**||||||||**10,864**|
|Donations|**67,935**||||||||**58,460**|
|Other|**-**||||||||**413**|
|Loan|**-**||||||||**4,000**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**80,157**||||||||**73,737**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|~~**_Sub total_**~~|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||||
||||||||||**73,737**|
|||||||||||
|Charitable activities|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|- Hire ofpremises|**6,009**||**-**||**-**||**6,009**||**2,964**|
|- Teacher fees|**52,062**||**-**||**-**||**52,062**||**61,275**|
|- Equipment & Teachingmaterial|**12,275**||**-**||**-**||**12,275**||**11,159**|
|Loan repayments|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**4,000**|
|Other|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**70,346**||**-**||**-**||**70,346**||**79,399**|
|||||||||||
|**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_**|**70,346**
**9,811**
**-**
**3,315**
**13,125**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**70,346**
**9,811**
**-**
**3,315**
**13,125**|||
||||||||||**79,399**|
|||||||||||
||**9,811**||**-**||**-**||**9,811**||**- 5,662**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**3,315**||**-**||**-**||**3,315**||**8,977**|
||**13,125**||**-**||**-**||**13,125**||**3,315**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
09/02/2025
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## **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 £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||**13,125**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**13,125**||**-**||**-**|
||||||||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||||02/02/2025|
|||||||||
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
09/02/2025
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|Wilaya Trust|||
|---|---|---|
|31-December 2023||1137354|
|1-2|||
||31/ 12 / 2023||
16-Nov-2024 Mohanned Abdul Rahman FCCA
Irf any):
Address:
24 Woodcroft, Kennington, Oxford
OX15NH
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