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2022-03-31-accounts

maslaha ANNUAL REPORT 2021-2022

The reporting period for the annual report is April 2021-April 2022.

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Contents

Foreword 4
Why Maslaha? 7
Our Strategy 8
Case Studies 11
1. Educating public service providers and wider society to better 12
understand Muslim and other marginalised communities
2. Influencing systemic change and replicating local 24
success at a national level
3. Educating and empowering Muslim and 33
other marginalised communities
4. Building a well-functioning organisation with 37
financial and organisational sustainability
Coming Up 38
Financial Summary 40
Legal and Admin 41
Report of the Trustees 42
Independent Examiner Report 43
Accounts 45

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Foreword

Small hands adjusted their helmets and eagerly grasped their plastic foils. The instructors delivered precise instructions as parents and carers promised their children they would also get a chance to fence. The queuing system seemed negligible at times, perhaps a sign of enthusiasm and the novel sight of children fencing under the gaze of Nelson.

Trafalgar Square has probably never witnessed 400 young people, largely of colour, over the course of 6 hours, learn fencing moves as part of the Mayor of London’s Eid celebrations.

For Maslaha and our partner Britsh Fencing, it was a great way to showcase our project Muslim Girls Fence in this public space after a couple of years of lockdowns and the subsequent restrictions on gathering.

The event was also important because it allowed young people to take part in a sport that may not be normally accessible. Not because of a lack of talent or skill or desire on their part, but because of societal obstacles such as poverty and racism. The struggle we as a society face is to how to practically change these conditions and in the interim create the circumstances for communities to still reach their potential.

We believe that with our many partners it is possible to trace the outline of future possibilities that are nourishing for our communities and allow them to fulfill their potential.

Maslaha’s work is about creating practical interventions that are rooted in communities but have the scope for wider application. It is work that moves from witnessing and reporting on inequalities and racism to strategic and tangible practice.

For instance, Muslim Girls Fence is now focusing on the impact of racism on the mental health of young people by building a resource that can be used by individuals, therapists and schools. We know that this is further complicated by the impact of Covid which has stunted progression and development through school life.

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Our project Schools with Roots (SWR) adapted quickly to the pandemic, creating online resources that could be used by schools with their communities. The resources and the learning from schools is now being used as a way to provide training for PGCE students at the University of East London. These education resources have also been used by councils with refugee families in Norfolk, Rochdale, Bradford, and Milton Keynes.

SWR is continuing to expand the number of schools we work with and improving how they meet the needs of their pupils and local communities, through training, resources and building long-term relationships.

Our work in the arts continues through Mfest, a multi-arts festival of Muslim knowledge and creativity, produced in partnership with the British Library. Following a successful series of events in the last financial year, we ran a Writer’s Lab for Muslim artists. This allowed the cohort to explore different genres in partnership with Soho Theatre, Spread the Word, Arvon Foundation, We Are Bridge, Hajar Press and number of authors, screen writers and graphic novelists.

We believe that with our many partners it is possible to trace the outline of future possibilities that are nourishing for our communities and allow them to fulfill their potential.

Our criminal justice programme continues to work with larger charities such as the Samaritans and Pact to improve vital services for Muslims in prison. Services that focus on mental health, maintaining relationships with families and education.

We are also producing new research that gives a more accurate picture of the impact of prisons on individuals and communities, as well the ingrained racism within the system.

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Why Maslaha?

The past few years have seen a heightened focus on Muslim communities and Islam across the UK and abroad. The combination of terrorist attacks, war, political decisions, and social deprivation have all shaped with an intense pace how Muslims are seen and thought of in the public imagination. It has been out of this difficult period that Maslaha began as an idea to eventually become an independent organisation.

Maslaha translates from the Arabic as ‘for the common good’ and this is the driving force behind all our work.

Despite this tense history our overwhelming experience has been that our partners from every sector of society are committed to, and believe, that it is possible to create empowered Muslim communities. Maslaha translates from the Arabic as‘ for the common good’ and this is the driving force behind all our work. We tackle the most immediate social issues affecting Muslim communities today as well as creating a greater understanding of Islam from a cultural and historical perspective.

The name Maslaha is also important because it is about changing the language that is used about Muslims and Islam. We need to expand our language and vocabulary if we are to tackle some of our biggest issues, and if we are to give communities the space to think for themselves and speak on their own terms. Muslims represent the largest minority faith group in the UK and constitute an ethnically diverse population with a very young age profile. A significant proportion of this population lives in deprived inner-city areas, and Muslims have higher levels of unemployment, economic inactivity, ill health, educational achievement, and poor housing conditions than all other faith groups.

Our health work, for example, recognizes that Muslim communities experience disproportionately high health inequalities around conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, pregnancy and depression. A contributing factor to this is that both health services and communities are not equipped to appropriately tackle the root causes of these issues and engage with the complex realities of all patients’ lives.

The way we approach this in our health interventions is to create resources for both patients and practitioners that combine faith advice and cultural references with medical advice. We then embed these resources in the everyday spaces of communities, as well as nationally. By doing this we have reached over 19,500 patients and health professionals and our resources are endorsed by NHS trusts across the country, the Royal College of GPs (RCGP) and medical curricula in universities.

One of Maslaha’s strengths is bringing together a diverse mix of people within and between each project: supporters and partners include the young and the elderly, nurses and teachers, artists and academics, imams and historians, policy makers and school pupils, and those who do have a faith and those who do not. Our projects straddle a number of sectors and this unusual mix of people has led to new networks of collaboration and new perspectives on how social issues can be tackled.

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Our strategy

Maslaha’s working strategy puts communities at the centre of making change happen. Our vision – that Muslim communities are empowered to overcome social inequalities – can only be truly achieved through working closely with communities, and by recognising their role as active proponents of that change. Our strategy will guide our work over the coming years and enable us to effectively work towards our objectives of reducing levels of deprivation amongst Muslim communities and challenging stereotypes.

Maslaha has produced award-winning and groundbreaking resources, driven by an ability to engage with communities, service providers, and decisionmakers alike, to reach across perceived institutional divides, and to empower and enable motivated individuals and organisations to pursue good ideas based on a lived understanding of particular needs.

Maslaha’s working strategy puts communities at the centre of making change happen.

This approach informs all of our work, and is key to Maslaha’s ability to implement our strategy effectively.

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Our Areas of Work

HEALTH: Muslim communities frequently have trouble accessing health services. A lack of shared language between patients, communities and health practitioners contributes to challenges in accessing support, and that support being relevant and appropriate.

EDUCATION: There are high levels of underachievement and disengagement among young Muslims, which are linked to a lack of appropriate support and culturally relevant curriculums and impacted by negative stereotypes and misconceptions that surround Islam and Muslim communities, and their relationship with wider society.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE: The number

of Muslims in prison has more than doubled over the past 15 years and their experience, treatment and outcomes in prison are consistently more negative compared to nonMuslims. Negative stereotyping has been shown to act as a barrier to opportunity and engagement with services for Muslims in prison.

GENDER: Muslim women and girls face complex discrimination that arises from the intersections of their faith, race, gender and other identities. This in turn creates complex challenges and barriers for them across society including in areas such as employment and education. For example Muslim women are 70% more likely to be unemployed than white Christian women.

Our Strategic Goals

We carry out our strategic objectives by working across three defined areas: practice, policy and public imagination. Each social issue will require a different mix of these, but by working across all of them we ensure our work can achieve real and lasting impact.

Practice – working practically with communities at a grassroots local level.

Policy – changing practice at a local level can only be sustained by sharing our learning at a strategic level and ensuring that this informs future policy decisions.

Public imagination – Influencing, and where possible shaping, public debates and media narratives. We combine creativity with everyday action and engagement to find new ways to connect and communicate.

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Case Studies 11

1. Educating public service providers and wider society to better understand Muslim and other marginalised communities

Muslim Girls Fence

Muslim Girls Fence continued to deliver through the pandemic and lockdowns and has finally returned to face-to-face delivery in communities and schools this year.

MAYOR OF LONDON’S EID IN THE SQUARE CELEBRATIONS

In May 2022, we were invited by the Mayor of London’s office to run a MGF fencing session at Trafalgar Square as part of the Mayor of London’s Eid in the square celebrations. We had over 400 young people try out fencing, with the event raising the profile of the project significantly.

WOMEN OF THE WORLD (WOW) FESTIVAL

In March 2022, MGF was featured at Women of the World (WOW) festival at Southbank as part of International Women’s Day. The festival attracts hundreds of people over the 2 days. On the day we were there, there were roughly 400 people.

MGF delivered a powerful performance, combining poetry delivered by Rakaya Esime Fetuga with a fencing exhibition.

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WOMEN OF THE WORLD (WOW) SOUNDS

Similarly, on October 2021 on National Poetry Day, we curated the artist line up and poetry performances for WOW Sounds with poets Rakaya Esime Fetuga and Zahra Ahmad. The two artists performed individual sets filmed by EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney), a progressive and essential multi-arts space for the 21st Century.

MULBERRY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS – UTOPIAN MODEL OF TOWER HAMLETS

Over the autumn and winter months in 2021 and early January 2022, MGF were excited to be back in schools and running workshops in person with Mulberry School for Girls.

The creative parts of the workshops enabled the pupils to explore what wellbeing means on an individual basis and what this can mean for the wider community.

This involved creating a Utopian model of Tower Hamlets that looked at access to green spaces, affordable housing and learning spaces that are not simply focused on schools.

There were also conversations about obstacles to sport and the specific inequalities that Muslim girls faced based on their gender, ethnicity, and religion. Importantly, we were keen to equip pupils with a safe space to have those conversations while engaging in a creative process through the workshops and a physical activity – the fencing.

Conversations focused on how they saw themselves and their local area in Tower Hamlets, versus how others saw them.

For the pupils their neighbourhood was:

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“[...] their poems help other people understand their pain of being trapped when they are called names and insulted for who they are”

In terms of how they felt they were seen as Muslims by others:

The girls found the creative poetry element of the project to be very powerful, expressing the following:

“Poetry is a useful tool because it’s a way for people to have more empathy for someone and it’s a way to send messages to lots of people”

Similarly, the girls also found creating the utopian models to be very powerful, expressing the following:

The art shows “how communities feel”, reflecting on Green for Grenfell “This is a very cool idea as anyone can do it and it brings communities together, it’s overall an amazing way to express your thoughts (without being targeted) for lots to see”

“This method is good because it’s anonymous, powerful messages”

“Necessary to show people what’s happening in the world and trying to get people’s attention so that they can change their ways”

When asked, “What is your favourite thing about Muslim Girls Fence so far?”, the girls responded:

“The activities we do about wellbeing, discrimination, and equality. I also like when we learn fencing”

“Learning about fencing and how to thrust and lunge”

“I like that we get to learn both fencing and our creative session”

“The fun (community) activities we do as they make us think more about our ideal place and ways we could improve the community”

“I think it’s good because their poems help the other people understand their pain of being trapped when they are called names and insulted for who they are”

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REPORT LAUNCH – HOW DO STRUCTURAL INEQUALITIES IMPACT PUPILS’ MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING?

We collated all our learnings and research gathered from psychotherapists, teachers and youth groups into a report that is accessible to read, understand and digest, (not too academic in language) into a report that was launched in September 2021. The report also includes resources for teachers and school staff around the topic of wellbeing in school, the impacts of racism and islamophobia on mental wellbeing, and pointers for teachers to take into consideration regarding their students’ experiences and realities.

The report received coverage in Grazia magazine and was also featured in a new book focusing on social justice and equity in sports and physical education in schools. The book is targeted for educators and is entitled Pedagogies of Social Justice in Physical Education and Youth Sport by Dr Shrehan Lynch. We received positive reviews from people in the mental and education field.

Comments included from Dr Shrehan Lynch:

“This report will be invaluable to schoolteachers, counsellors, and community workers.”

Launching and sharing our report helped us to raise awareness of the issue, build the conversation and strengthen relationships with schools, teachers, and others working in the field.

Through the report launch, learning and practice was shared widely within the education sector, establishing networks for future promotion of MGF work. For instance, the report was shared more widely with the National Bureau of Children and the Global Learning London, an education charity, who have included it in their teacher training and learning packs for schools. They work nationally and in Europe.

Importantly, the report we published also created a safe space for Black and brown teachers to talk about their experiences of racism in school and some of the obstacles Muslim girls face.

This is an extract from our report:

“Another teacher told us that one of her white students asked her in a creative writing class, when writing a fight scene, could his character say “Allahu Akbar”. His reasoning was that it was what he had heard on television. The teacher reflected that this white student’s response was part of an environment that would discourage Muslim students from talking openly about their experiences. They are wary and hesitant, especially if they are the minority in the classroom, because they are aware of how prevalent mainstream perspectives about Islam and anti-Muslim attitudes can be adopted by their classmates.”

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Impacts of structural racism and systemic inequalities are often overlooked and not included when considering the mental health of young people.

MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCE

Our current focus for the project is the impact of racism and Islamophobia on mental health and wellbeing in young people.

Many large charities and mental health organisations are rightly focussing on the mental health of young people but impacts of structural racism and systemic inequalities are often overlooked and not included.

Therefore, we have been working with schools (such as Mulberry School for Girls and Harlington School), teachers, students, therapists, psychotherapists, and mental health professionals to put together a mental health resource that aims to raise awareness, share experiences, and bring this conversation into the mainstream, while also being accessible to read, understand and digest.

mental health and medical professionals and activists around the subject of wellbeing and mental health) into a mental health resource that we are excited to launch around International Women’s Day in March 2023.

As part of this resource, we plan to also include resources for teachers and school staff around the topic of wellbeing in school, the impacts of racism for staff and students, and pointers for teachers to take into consideration regarding their students’ experiences and realities.

Additionally, the resource allows for the project to have a wider influence and impact as schools and teachers who may not be engaging in direct project delivery, will be aware of our learnings and methods, rather than just the school we’re delivering the project in.

Likewise, on a wider systemic level, we will share our resource and learnings to influence policy/practice, so that mainstream mental health organisations, educationalists and policy makers have a better understanding of the experience of mental health for Muslim girls and can create a more sensitive, tailored service to meet their specific needs, in a climate where young Muslim women tell us they feel both alienated within the school and othered by society at large.

The resource involves collating all our learnings and research from the work we have done with MGF to date, as well as the ongoing work (e.g., school workshops, community events and interviews with project participants, coaches, artists, academics,

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Schools with Roots

CONTINUED FUNDING

This year we were granted three years of National Lottery funding to continue our work on Schools with Roots – with a specific focus on working directly with families and communities in London, Bradford, and Coventry.

The funding will allow us to better equip families and communities to both support their children’s learning at school, and to feel able to participate in the life of their children’s school, whether that is through helping to shape the knowledge that is taught in the classroom, or through becoming involved in the wider school community, by for example creating a community of parents who can advocate for themselves and get their voices heard. We want families, many of whom do not have English as a first language, to feel able to navigate a system that marginalises and does not support them.

The funding will allow us to work in depth with three schools over three years, working closely with families and communities, continuing to produce accessible multi-lingual resources to help families who do not have English as a first language to support their children’s learning. We have started our work in Sandringham Primary School, Newham, and will begin work with St Elizabeth’s Primary School in Coventry in September.

ANTI-RACISM FILM FROM DAY 1

We have had a really positive response to our AntiRacism from Day 1 film (produced in partnership with Liz Pemberton). This animated film was launched in December 2021 and aims to educate schools on how they can work to be anti-racist institutions – offering ten ways schools can take an anti-racist approach to engaging with families and communities, so all children can thrive at school and beyond. It has been described as a ‘very important 10-minute watch’ and a ‘must watch film

for educators… created for schools this also applies to any org/individual working with families and communities’.

We have used the film in our teacher training sessions with UEL trainee teachers and we are looking forward to using the film in trainings with teachers as we move into the next phase of the project, as a result of our National Lottery Funding.

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Health

Since the end of last year, we have been talking to CW+, the official charity of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, including its hospitals and clinics, about a possible partnership focusing on young people and mental health.

The Trust’s programme, ‘Best For You’, works with a range of local communities (e.g., Maslaha) and digital and voluntary sector organisations to provide the best possible clinical and holistic care for young people and their families. We’re working with the Trust both this year and next to promote existing resources e.g., MGF mental health resources, as well as designing new products, and helping with the design and communication of new Capital projects.

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Criminal Justice

EDUCATING PUBLIC SERVICE PROVIDERS

Over the past year, we have continued partnerships with the Samaritans, PACT and Prisoner Education Trust to improve their services across the prison estate. Such services include prison helplines, listening services, as well as mental health, family support, and education. Our support helps these charities ensure their wide range of services are more accessible to Muslims - by adapting their existing access pathways, educating staff and volunteers on the needs and experiences of Muslim prisoners, as well as developing new, tailored services.

For example, we have developed an education programme plan with Prisoner Education Trust to provide a learning gateway for Muslims. Based on PET’s distance learning approach, a pilot will explore an exciting new approach to delivering courses with the prison Imams. This is an innovative approach to engage Muslim prisoners in learning,

help develop new skills and critical thinking skills, as well as improve motivation for further study.

We also produced an in-depth resource on ‘Islam, religious practices, and prison life’. The resource is designed to provide services with information about Muslims and their experiences in prison. It helps staff and volunteers to better understand Islam and provides greater insight into the impact of Islamophobia on Muslims in prison, as well as the barriers they may come up against practising their religion and accessing services, which in turn supports staff to feel more confident and equipped to meet their needs. This resource has been provided to Pact and Samaritans and is being disseminated amongst their staff and volunteers with positive feedback.

In a new area for the criminal justice programme, we have been working with other organisations to deliver mental health services to Muslims. This is based on the extensive research we have done on the impact of prison life, discrimination, and Islamophobia on Muslim prisoners’ well-being,

and builds on Maslaha’s widely used Talking from the Heart approach which explored mental health and therapy through combining medical and faith advice. We’re working with clinical professions and grassroots organisations to provide mental health support to people affected by the criminal justice system and create a safe space for the provision of therapy to those who have been released from prison. This is to be delivered via Muslim therapists to help gain the trust of Muslim service users and ensure understanding of their culture and experiences.

CAPTURING THE PUBLIC IMAGINATION

We continue to document and disseminate evidence based on real life stories to engage the voluntary sector and wider public. As broader societal representations of Muslims including in the media often play into racist and simplistic stereotypes of Islam and Muslims, it has been important to raise awareness of Muslims’ experience of the criminal justice system. We have shared audio clips that allow the public to hear directly from

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people affected by Islamophobia, other forms of discrimination and broader issues in the criminal justice system. For example, the impact of Covid lockdown on people’s mental health in prison, and the inequalities faced when accessing vital services within prison for Muslims. These are issues that are often overlooked as a concern by other stakeholders.

We’ve also used comics, art, and podcasts to provide a creative and engaging angle, and a series of short briefings providing critical analysis on issues that impact Muslims in prison. These have provided an accessible and quick tool to highlight the inequalities facing Muslims which often fall under the radar. This includes responding to prison inspectorate reports that overlook the disparities for Muslims in accessing communal worship, the human cost of racism, and evident disproportionality in the criminal justice system.

The realities of being Muslim in prison from our interviews:

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2. Influencing systemic change and replicating local success at a national level

Muslim Girls Fence

IMPORTANCE OF WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP

The partnership between British Fencing and Maslaha continues to be recognized as a model of good practice.

This has led to wider influencing with the Levelling Up Agenda and Sport England, where we were asked to partner and share expert consultation on girls’ participation in sport with Women in Sport for Sport England’s strategy consultation, as well as help advice on their strategic development of local area investments based of the success of Muslim Girls Fence.

Moreover, through the project running in the Midlands, and working with our incredible coaches and partners, Ladywood Leisure centre in Birmingham continues to provide us a free venue space for as long as it is needed. This is not only unheard of in terms of local provision, but it is also an incredible way of making the project more accessible to more people in the local Birmingham area. As well as hosting an art and photography

exhibition from the Birmingham project in the leisure centre itself, it shows that untraditional spaces and untraditional relationships are what’s needed to remove some of the systemic and structural barriers to sport and physical activity and to create safe spaces for marginalised and racialised communities.

The MGF community project in Birmingham continues to receive ongoing praise from not only the participants, but the centre manager too.

Ladywood Leisure Centre Manager, Dawn Page:

“The Muslim Girls Fence project is an integral part of our inclusive provision at Ladywood Leisure Centre. MGF has enabled us to reach what is traditionally ‘a hard-to-reach group’. With many barriers to participation in today’s society, without this provision in Ladywood Leisure Centre, females from ethnically diverse backgrounds would definitely not have even considered engaging in physical activity. I am extremely proud of what has been achieved in Ladywood since 2019. The

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project has been a huge success, the coach (Binni) and the partnership between British Fencing and Maslaha have to be commended for this fantastic initiative. In Ladywood, MGF has certainly changed the lives of ladies that previously were in-active, isolated, and sometimes the forgotten sector of community. The MGF model is sustainable and without question enhances leisure provision for local citizens.”

MGF participants at the Ladywood Leisure Centre:

“The ladies fencing sessions has be great fun. And I have benefited greatly. Our coach has been very encouraging, patient and so lovely to be taught by. This particular group has given me the opportunity to take part and enjoy a sport which is both challenging, meets my interests and has helped me to gain confidence. I am looking forward to continuing and benefiting from this.”

“I have been attending classes since September 2021 and have absolutely loved every session. The sessions have benefitted my health as I feel more active and motivated to increase my fitness but also, I feel more confident and eager to learn more. More importantly, through these sessions, I have been able to interact with women from various backgrounds/ ages, I would otherwise not have met. This social aspect has helped me increase my confidence, self-esteem, and interpersonal skills. I recommend these sessions to friends and family and would really like others to benefit from them too!”

“Being able to learn such an elite sport is something I would never have been able to do, were it not free or in an accessible location and meeting so many different women who attend and socialising with them is as important as it is in the exercising that Fencing provides. I would very much like to continue to Fence and will try to offer support where possible and where needed to secure future funding as much as I enjoy Fencing, I believe other women will also enjoy and benefit from it as well.”

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“Everyone is so warm and welcoming; noone is ever excluded. If the sessions did not take place, I would not have been able to experience such an elite sport which I have loved learning. I have been searching for a class for women only and I feel comfortable partaking in an all women environment. Good for my health and wellbeing, as well as learning a new skill with my daughter. It gives us time to build our relationship and have fun. Binni has been an exceptional coach, offers clear guidance and instructions, helps to improve our skills. Excellent sessions!”

Similarly, the MGF community project in London at the Brady Arts Centre also continues to receive ongoing praise from participants:

“Alhamduillah, it’s been great attending your sessions, not only benefitting physically, but also good for mental wellbeing. Gives me little time out for myself. Love seeing friendly faces and getting to know new sisters in the process”

“Coming to fencing with Mercedes is the best way to start my week. I never would have thought that I would ever do fencing, meet such incredible people, right in the heart of my community of Tower Hamlets.”

We continue to maintain close relationships with our fencing coaches, supporting them to make independent funding applications, and to also make their sessions and spaces sustainable. We are running leadership programmes with them and their participants, creating a space where our coaches can go on to become coach developers and run training programmes for other coaches and sports professionals, all with the values of the MGF project. With this in mind, we are also working closely with coaches and participants to set up fencing clubs that can continue to run for women and girls in the local area once the project has come to a close.

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Criminal Justice

Our current criminal justice programme aims to raise awareness of, and halt unequal and discriminatory treatment that Muslims experience in the prison system. Maslaha looks to influence systemic change within the criminal justice sphere in multiple ways: informing and shaping formal policy development at local and national levels; providing scrutiny to the government and the wider sector on the treatment of Muslims in the criminal justice system, and advocating for their needs, and imagining new and radical ways of working.

We are part of several sector networks involving both government and non-governmental agencies and organisations, including Clinks, T2A Alliance (Transition to Adulthood) and FOME (Female Offender Ethnic Minority working group). We have continued to advocate for Muslim prisoners in meetings with the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS). We participate in regular meetings to update others on our work, as well as ensuring the perspectives of Muslims and other marginalised groups continue to inform policy frameworks and implementation

plans, and the work of practitioners. As the prison estate emerges from Covid restrictions, we have been involved in a special interest group to advise the MoJ and HMPPS on the criminal justice system’s management of, and recovery from, Covid-19.

The influence of our criminal justice work has led us to be invited to work with the Wales Criminal Justice Board on the development of an Anti-Racism strategy, due to be published in autumn 2022. The aim of the plan is to address every criminal justice department within Wales and scrutinise the current ways of working that can lead to discrimination. It is important that we are part of these groups to make sure that the needs of Muslims in the criminal justice system are recognised and represented.

While religion has been identified by many as a potentially positive tool for those in prison, Muslims often come under increased scrutiny and suspicion for practicing their faith. This is often fuelled by negative and crude stereotypes about Muslim people linked to a narrative of radicalisation and extremism. The London Probation Service

has introduced a new approach using faith as a supportive factor in rehabilitation. We have been part of initial roundtable discussions on how this will work with the probation service. It is important that Islam is seen as a supportive factor to rehabilitation rather than being perceived through a lens of fear and risk.

“When you’re in that place, and you have nobody, you ain’t got your family, it’s going to be [your religion] that helps you, cause it’s spiritual, it’s personal.”

former Muslim prisoner

The use of legal tools to tackle racial injustice is a useful way to scrutinise government policy and practices as well as access data on racial disparities in the criminal justice system. Using Freedom of Information requests, we aim to elicit a broader picture of Muslims’ experience of the criminal

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justice system, including the disparities they face in treatment, and the impact of Prevent regime within prisons.

We made submissions to the Joint Committee on Human Rights call for evidence on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, as well as submissions to the Justice Select Committee inquiry into mental health in prisons and the Ministry of Justice’s consultation on its Prisons Strategy White Paper. In these, we outlined how specific clauses of the Policing Bill would lead to the unfair assessment of people who appear Muslim or are practising Islam as a significant danger to the public, and the possibility for black people to more likely be perceived as posing a risk, stereotyped as threatening, aggressive or violent. We also pointed to the need for practitioners, services, and the prison system to better understand and respond to the impact of discrimination and Islamophobia on mental health and wellbeing and recognise how this can create barriers for accessing support.

“It is vital that there is not a ‘generic’ approach to mental health and wellbeing in prisons. We have found that where services understand the cultural, social, and religious granularity of communities, and then embed that into practice, the service is trusted and more likely to be used.”

Justice Select Committee submission

IMAGINING NEW WAYS OF WORKING

As well as highlighting and challenging the inequalities Muslim’s face, we believe it is important to imagine different ways of working and collaborating within the sector to practically address societal harms without further perpetuating them. We work closely with other social justice and grassroots organisations that are exploring with their communities how to promote safety while resisting racial injustice and inequalities.

We have been part of work led by Liberty focusing on non-policing solutions to social harms with a particular emphasis on racial disparity.

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3. Educating and empowering Muslim and other marginalised communities

Schools with Roots

SCHOOLS WITH ROOTS UNIVERSITIES TRAINING

We continue to carry out teacher training with PGCE primary school students at the University of East London – with two workshops, the first ‘Power and Positionality’ looking at how racism manifests in schools, and the second ‘Community Engagement’ looking at how community engagement is central to anti-racism and offering teachers practical tools from our schools with roots programme that they can take into their schools and classrooms in the future.

We believe that it is important for this content to be a core part of teacher training during formative training years, as opposed to add-on training later in teachers’ careers. The sessions we delivered were online and were well attended with around 100 students in attendance at each session. We had extremely positive feedback from staff and students. This was our second year working with UEL and off the back of the success of this we have arranged to work with them again next academic year, hopefully cementing this training in their teacher training curriculum.

Looking ahead, we want to continue working with PGCE students and to make this offer available to as many universities as possible. We are also excited about working in person with UEL students next year and adapting the sessions for this.

MULTI-LINGUAL ACCESSIBLE RESOURCES FOR FAMILIES

This year we have focused on getting our resources out into the world and seen by as many families as possible. The response has been phenomenal, and we have been contacted by a whole range of individuals and organisations asking to share our resources. These have included Milton Keynes Council and Norfolk County Council who both asked us if we could do further translations of our early years resources into Dari and Arabic for refugee families they are supporting and we were able to do this. The response from one government worker was: ‘I was blown away by the quality and usefulness of these films. Schools With Roots have done a truly brilliant job. We intend to share the links with the following groups: All EYFS Lead teachers in Rochdale BC, The

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“Your materials look amazing, and I would love to use them with our families and colleagues in the Early Years and school networks. I would also like to thank you for addressing the racism facing many of our communities.”

WORKING WITH PARENTS AT SANDRINGHAM PRIMARY SCHOOL

We have recently returned to work with one of our original partner schools, Sandringham school in Forest Gate in London. This again was made possible by our latest round of funding, and we want to work systematically with Sandringham parents over the next three years. We are in the process of working with parents to build a community garden at the school, where parents can eventually grow their own food, and where teachers and students can use the garden for learning. Eventually we hope to bring parents into this process, so that as children learn through the garden, parents can become involved with this and feed into the content that is taught. We will work continuously with Sandringham parents over the next three years building and developing the garden and learning new skills around organic food growing. This work will be alongside our work with parents and communities at each of our new schools in London, Bradford, and Coventry. We are lucky to be in a position to do this work with Sandringham which is the result of the strong relationship we have built up with the school since our first work there in 2017.

Foster Care network in Rochdale, Rochdale Children’s Centres, The local EAL network, All Rochdale preschool settings, Rochdale library services, All Rochdale primary schools”. Beyond councils, we’ve had very positive responses from schools, teachers, other charities, educational groups, and individuals. For example, one individual recently contacted us to say:

“Your materials look amazing, and I would love to use them with our families and colleagues in the Early Years and school networks. I would also like to thank you for addressing the racism facing many of our communities.”

With our new funding, we will continue to make accessible multi-lingual resources for families and continue to make sure the ones we have created have as wide a reach as possible.

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MFest

MFest is a multi-arts festival of Muslim knowledge and creativity. We bring together artists, activists, thinkers, organisations, and collectives to celebrate the collective power of diverse Muslim communities, connect with our roots and imagine thriving futures. At MFest, we reclaim and recontextualise the diverse stories and histories that represent Muslim communities. We work with partners to explore and unlock existing archives - while also celebrating and acknowledging all the vital ways that embodied knowledge sustains and nourishes our communities.

A big part of our reimagined MFest is addressing the barriers to accessing arts for many Muslim and Black and brown communities, so we focus on creating tangible opportunities and meaningful legacy.

HAJAR PRESS PUBLICATIONS

Following on from the MFest Short Story Competition that we launched in partnership with Hajar Press and with generous support from Spread the Word and Arvon Foundation, two winners were announced. The winners (Mohamed Tonsy and

Saima Begum) both received a publishing contract with Hajar Press and Arvon Residencies.

WRITERS LAB

The MFest Writers Lab is a writing development programme for Muslim writers in the early stages of their career. The group consists of a cohort of 20 Muslim writers (18 years +) across the UK.

Last Autumn 2021, the writers received weekly workshops on different writing mediums such as playwriting, comic-writing, screenwriting, and novelwriting, with a range of different partners including Soho Theatre, Spread the Word, SelfMadeHero and We Are Bridge.

This year, we have partnered with the Roundhouse, Soho Theatre, Rich Mix and Oxford House to provide the Writers Lab group with space for regular meetings. MFest have organised and facilitated monthly meetings to ensure artists have space to work on MFest programming and projects, as well as their own individual creative projects.

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4. Building a well-functioning organisation with financial and organisational sustainability

MEDIA/ APPEARANCES

EVENTS

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Coming Up

Working closely with communities and families in Birmingham and London, SWR will continue to produce accessible, multilingual resources to help families support their children’s learning.

Muslim Girls Fence will continue to deliver workshops in schools across the UK, focusing on the impact of racism and Islamophobia on mental health and wellbeing in young people, to build on our mental health resource which will be launched and disseminated in March 2023. Additionally, MGF will continue to be involved in international initiatives such as the ‘The Walk’ (Little Amal) arts festival, and work with organisations such as Kids of Colour and Asra Club, as well as continue to build on our national MGF alumni/ambassador programme.

We will continue to work with CW+ on their ‘Best For You’ programme to promote our MGF mental health resource develop a partnership focused on young people and wellbeing.

MFest will continue to build infrastructure and create opportunities for Muslim writers at different stages of their careers and we are currently planning our next festival with the British Library.

Our criminal justice programme will continue to collaborate with our various partners to help make their services more accessible to Muslims in prison, as well as build approaches to mental health and education that are relevant for Muslims within the criminal justice system. We will also continue a conversation to highlight the real-life discrimination Muslims face in prisons through different creative methods. Our influence at policy and institutional levels, through the different sector networks that we contribute to, continues to be vital to create the change that we seek.

Moreover, we also plan to invest resources in activities for next year.

Thanks

Maslaha gratefully acknowledges funding in 2021/2022 from:

Pears Foundation National Lottery Barrow Cadbury Lloyds Foundation A B Charitable Trust Network for Social Change Sport England Comic Relief Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust Tudor Trust Esmee Fairbairn

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Financial Summary

Financial Review

During the year 2022 Maslaha made a net surplus of £182, 048 (2021: £84, 181) resulting in net assets of £555, 343 (2021: £373, 295).

The organisation has a number of multi-year grants with principal sources of funding from a variety of charitable foundations, as well as donations and consultancy work. All expenditure for the year is directly related to fulfilling the aims and objectives of the funder’s requirements.

Reserves Policy

In the Trustees’ view, the reserves should provide the charity with adequate financial stability through maintaining sufficient reserves in liquid form to meet short term obligations. As Maslaha develops its own internal infrastructure, the reserve level will be reviewed to ensure sufficient to support the organisation to meet its charitable objectives for the foreseeable future. The trustees propose to maintain the charity’s reserves at a level which is at least equivalent to three months overhead expenditure. This level has been set giving due regard to its manner of operation & likely funding streams. At present, this is taken as £50k.

The Trustees acknowledge that as a small & growing organisation Maslaha may need to utilise reserves to support cash flow; this is permitted in the following circumstances:

If either of the above are triggered and would be deemed to de-stabilise the organisation, a case is to be put to trustees for consideration and authorisation prior to spend.

The Trustees regularly review the amount of reserves that are required to ensure that they are adequate to fulfil the charity’s continuing obligations.

Please note, surpluses are retained as reserves for the future operating activities of the charity.

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Legal and Admin

The objects of the Charity are:

(a) raising public sector awareness and understanding of Islam and the need for services that are appropriately tailored for and sensitive to the practices of Muslim communities; and

(b) promoting and informing dialogue, debate and greater understanding between Muslims and non-Muslims on issues of cohesion and integration. In practice this is achieved through our approach.

Our team

Raheel Mohammed – Director Sahra Mohamed – Head of Delivery Emily Mason – Senior Project Manager Allia Fredericks – Senior Project Manager Zahbia Yousuf – Senior Project Manger Saara Quested – Senior Project Manager Suleman Amad – Project Manager Nirad Abrol – Project Manager Fabiolla Lorusso – Project Manager

Our trustees

Emran Mian – Chair Jane Earl Alia Alzougbi Sameer Rahim Isabel Lucena Martin Rose

Thank you to all the staff who have contributed their hard work and expertise to our work and have moved on, and excited to be working with new colleagues.

Our address

Maslaha

Oxford House Derbyshire Street London E2 6HG

Bank details

HSBC Bank PLC

465 Bethnal Green Road, Bethnal Green, London E2 9QW

Independent examiner

Anthony Epton BA FCA CTA FCIE

Goldwins Chartered accountants 75 Maygrove Road, West Hampstead, London NW6 2EG

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Report of the trustees

The Trustees are responsible for keeping proper accountancy records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time, the financial position of the company and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The Trustees are required by law to prepare financial statements for each financial year, which show a true and fair view of the financial activities of the company and of its financial position at the end of that year.

In preparing those financial statements, the Trustees are required to:

The principle objects of the charity during the year are stated in the Legal & Admin section of this report. The trustees are aware of the Charity Commission guidance on public benefit reporting as set out in Section 17 Charities Act 2011. The Trustees believe that the charity achieves a public benefit as detailed elsewhere in this report.

Approved by and signed on behalf oh the trustees, on 1 December 2022:

Emran Mian

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Independent examiner’s report to the Trustees of Maslaha for the year ended 31 March 2022

I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Company for the year ended 31 March 2022.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity’s trustees of the Company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 (‘the 2006 Act’).

Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the Company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity’s accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the 2011 Act’). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5) (b) of the 2011 Act.

Independent examiner’s statement

Since the Company’s gross income exceeded £250,000, I confirm that I am qualified to undertake the examination because I am a member of the ICAEW, which is one of the listed bodies.

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe:

1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Company as required by section 386 of the 2006 Act; or

2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or

3. the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination; or

4. the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102).

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.

Anthony Epton BA FCA CTA FCIE

Goldwins Chartered accountants 75 Maygrove Road, West Hampstead, London NW6 2EG

02/12/2022

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Accounts

Statement of financial activities (incorporating an income and expenditure account)
For the year ended 31 March 2022		 2022
2021
Unrestricted
Funds
Restricted
Funds
Total
Funds
Total
Funds
Note
£
£
£
£
Income from:
3
562
-
562
25
4
181,665
372,574
554,239
436,038
5
3,675
-
3,675
1,400
185,902
372,574
558,476
437,463
6
46,983
329,445
376,428
353,282
46,983
329,445
376,428
353,282
7
138,919
43,129
182,048
84,181
-
-
-
-
138,919
43,129
182,048
84,181
Reconciliation of funds:
139,161
234,134
373,295
289,114
278,080
277,263
555,343
373,295
Donations and legacies
All of the above results are derived from continuing activities. There were no other recognised gains or
losses other than those stated above. Movements in funds are disclosed in Note 16 to the financial
statements.
Charitable activities
Net movement in funds
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward
Net income for the year
Transfers between funds
Total expenditure
Total income
Expenditure on:
Charitable activities
Other trading activities

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Maslaha Balance sheet As at 31 March 2022 2022
2022
2021
2021		 Note
£
£
£
£		 Fixed assets: 12
-
-
Tangible assets		 Current assets: 13
49,991
45,210
Debtors		 514,722
343,083
Cash at bank and in hand		 564,713
388,293		 Liabilities: 14
9,370
14,998
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year		 555,343
373,295
Net current assets		 15
555,343
373,295
Total net assets		 16
Funds		 277,263
234,134
Restricted funds		 Unrestricted funds: 278,080
139,161
General funds		 Total unrestricted funds
278,080
139,161		 555,343
373,295
Total funds		 For the year ending 31 March 2022 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies. The members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.The directors acknowledge their responsibility for.complying with the requirements of the Act withrespect to accounting records and for the preparation of accounts.These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companiessubject to the small companies regime. Approved by the trustees on ………………………………
1 December 2022		 and signed on their behalf by: Emran Mian Trustee Company registration no. 7309979 The attached notes form part of the financial statements.

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Maslaha
Statement of cash flows
For the year ended 31 March 2022		 Note
2022
2021
Cash flows from operating activities:
£
£
a
171,639
99,647
Cash flows from investing activities:
Sale/ (purchase) of fixed assets
-
-
Change in cash and cash equivalents
in the year
171,639
99,647
Cash and cash equivalents at the
beginning of the year
343,083
243,436
Cash and cash equivalents at the end
of the year
b
514,722
343,083
a)
2022
2021
£
£
Net income / (expenditure) for the
reporting period(as per the
statement of financial activities)
182,048
84,181
Depreciation
-
709
Decrease / (Increase) in debtors
(4,781)
11,806
Increase in creditors
(5,628)
2,951
Net cash provided by / (used in)
operating activities
171,639
99,647
b) Analysis of cash and cash equivalents
Cash flows
£
£
£
£
Cash at bank and in hand
343,083
171,639
-
514,722
Total cash and cash equivalents
343,083
171,639
-
514,722
At
31 March
2022
At 1 April
2021
Other
changes
Net cash provided by / (used in)
operating activities
Reconciliation of net income /
(expenditure) to net cash flow from

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Maslaha
Notes to the financial statements
For the year ended 31 March 2022		 1
Accounting policies
a) Basis of preparation
b) Reconciliation with previously Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (GAAP)
c) Going concern
d) Income
e) Donations of gifts, services and facilities
f)
Interest receivable
g) Fund accounting
The trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties about the charitable company's ability to continue as a going
concern.
Income is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the income have
been met, it is probable that the income will be received and that the amount can be measured reliably.
Income from government and other grants, whether ‘capital’ grants or ‘revenue’ grants, is recognised when the charity has
entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the grants have been met, it is probable that the income will
be received and the amount can be measured reliably and is not deferred. Income received in advance for the provision of
specified service is deferred until the criteria for income recognition are met.
For legacies, entitlement is taken as the earlier of the date on which either: the charity is aware that probate has been
granted, the estate has been finalised and notification has been made by the executor(s) to the charity that a distribution will
be made, or when a distribution is received from the estate. Receipt of a legacy, in whole or in part, is only considered
probable when the amount can be measured reliably and the charity has been notified of the executor’s intention to make a
distribution. Where legacies have been notified to the charity, or the charity is aware of the granting of probate, and the
criteria for income recognition have not been met, then the legacy is a treated as a contingent asset and disclosed if material.
Donated professional services and donated facilities are recognised as income when the charity has control over the item or
received the service, any conditions associated with the donation have been met, the receipt of economic benefit from the use
by the charity of the item is probable and that economic benefit can be measured reliably. In accordance with the Charities
SORP (FRS 102), volunteer time is not recognised so refer to the trustees’ annual report for more information about their
contribution.
On receipt, donated gifts, professional services and donated facilities are recognised on the basis of the value of the gift to the
charity which is the amount the charity would have been willing to pay to obtain services or facilities of equivalent economic
benefit on the open market; a corresponding amount is then recognised in expenditure in the period of receipt.
Interest on funds held on deposit is included when receivable and the amount can be measured reliably by the charity; this is
normally upon notification of the interest paid or payable by the bank.
Unrestricted funds are available to spend on activities that further any of the purposes of charity. Designated funds are
unrestricted funds of the charity which the trustees have decided at their discretion to set aside to use for a specific purpose.
Restricted funds are donations which the donor has specified are to be solely used for particular areas of the charity’s work or
for specific projects being undertaken by the charity.
In preparing the accounts, the trustees have considered whether in applying the accounting policies required by FRS 102 and
the Charities SORP FRS 102 a restatement of comparative items was required.
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of
Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard
applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102 - effective 1 January 2015) - (Charities SORP FRS 102) and the Companies
Act 2006.

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1
Accounting policies (continued)		 h) Expenditure and irrecoverable VAT Expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to make a payment to a third party, it is probable that settlement will be required and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is classified under the following activity headings: ● Costs of raising funds comprise of trading costs and the costs incurred by the charitable company in inducing third parties to make voluntary contributions to it, as well as the cost of any activities with a fundraising purpose. ●
Other expenditure represents those items not falling into any other heading.		 Irrecoverable VAT is charged as a cost against the activity for which the expenditure was incurred. i)
Allocation of support costs		 Support costs are those functions that assist the work of the charity but do not directly undertake charitable activities. Support costs include back office costs, finance, personnel, payroll and governance costs which support the activities. These costs have been allocated between cost of raising funds and expenditure on charitable activities. The bases on which support costs have been allocated are set out in note 6. j)
Tangible fixed assets		 Items of equipment are capitalised where the purchase price exceeds £500. Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write down the cost of each asset to its estimated residual value over its expected useful life. The depreciation rates in use are as follows: Computer equipment
on 3 years straight line basis		 k)
Debtors		 Trade and other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount due after any trade discount offered. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid net of any trade discounts due. l)
Cash at bank and in hand		 Cash at bank and cash in hand includes cash and short term highly liquid investments with a short maturity of three months or less from the date of acquisition or opening of the deposit or similar account. m)
Creditors and provisions		 Creditors and provisions are recognised where the charity has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably. Creditors and provisions are normally recognised at their settlement amount after allowing for any trade discounts due.

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2021 Total Funds £ 25 50,000 29,250 12,069 60,000 34,504 15,000 94,750 99,990 15,000 21,750 3,725 1,400 437,463 353,282 353,282 84,181 - 84,181 - 84,181 84,181 289,114 373,295 2021 Total Funds £ 25 25
Restricte d Funds £ - - 29,250 12,069 60,000 34,504 - 94,750 99,990 - 21,750 - - 352,313 294,551 294,551 57,762 - 57,762 - 57,762 57,762 174,530 232,292 2022 Total Funds £ 562 562
Unrestricte d Funds £ 25 50,000 - - - - 15,000 - - 15,000 - 3,725 1,400 85,150 58,731 58,731 26,419 - 26,419 - 26,419 26,419 114,584 141,003 Restricted Funds £ - -
Income from: Donations and legacies Charitable activities: Grants Pears Foundation Barrow Cadbury Trust Sports England Porticus Foundation COVID-19 Response Noel Buxton Trust Comic relief/GLA National Lottery AB Charitable Trust Stichting Events Foundation Misc Other income Total income Expenditure on: Charitable activities: Total expenditure Net income before gains / (losses) on investments Net gains / (losses) on investments Net income Transfers between funds Net income before other recognised gains and losses Net movement in funds Total funds brought forward Income from donations and legacies Unrestricte d Funds £ Donations
562		 562

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Maslaha
Notes to the financial statements
For the year ended 31 March 2022		 4
2022
2021
Unrestricte
d Funds
Total
Funds
Total
Funds
£
£
£
£
Pears Foundation
50,000
-
50,000
50,000
Barrow Cadbury Trust
-
9,750
9,750
29,250
Sports England
-
39,033
39,033
12,069
Esmee Fairbairn
50,000
-
50,000
-
Tudor Trust
50,000
-
50,000
-
Lloyds Foundation
-
174,960
174,960
-
Porticus Foundation
-
-
-
60,000
Joseph Rowntree
11,665
-
11,665
-
National Lottery
-
99,982
99,982
99,990
Baring Foundation
-
48,849
48,849
-
COVID-19 Response
-
-
-
34,504
Noel Buxton Trust
-
-
-
15,000
AB Charitable Trust
20,000
-
20,000
15,000
Stichting Events Foundation
-
-
-
21,750
Misc
-
-
-
3,725
Comic Relief/GLA
-
-
-
94,750
181,665
372,574
554,239
436,038
5
2022
2021
Unrestricte
d Funds
Total
Funds
Total
Funds
£
£
£
£
3,675
-
3,675
1,400
3,675
-
3,675
1,400
Restricted
Funds
Income from charitable activities
Consultancy fees
Restricted
Funds
Total income from charitable activities
Income earned from charitable activities
Income from other trading activities
Grants

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Maslaha
Notes to the financial statements
For the year ended 31 March 2022		 6
Charitable
activities
2022
Total
2021
Total
£
£
£
Staff costs
260,457
260,457
247,929
Direct cost
Depreciation
-
-
709
Project costs
95,114
95,114
87,280
Publicity & Reports
475
475
3,780
Support cost
Office costs
7,058
7,058
4,309
Governance cost
Bank charges
144
144
77
Examiner's fees
980
980
885
Accountancy fees
12,200
12,200
8,313
Total expenditure 2021
376,428
376,428
353,282
Total expenditures 2020
353,282
353,282
Charitable
activities
2021
Total
2020
Total
£
£
£
Staff costs
247,929
247,929
202,157
Direct cost
Consultancy
-
147
Insurance
-
380
Depreciation
709
709
708
Project costs
87,280
87,280
66,301
Publicity & Reports
3,780
3,780
150
Support cost
Office costs
4,309
4,309
4,680
Governance cost
Bank charges
77
77
82
Examiner's fees
885
885
850
Accountancy fees
8,313
8,313
13,075
Total expenditure 2021
353,282
353,282
288,530
Analysis of expenditure-prior year
Analysis of expenditure
Of the total expenditure, £46,983 was unrestricted (2021: £58,731) and £329,445 was
restricted (2021: £294,551).

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Maslaha
Notes to the financial statements
For the year ended 31 March 2022		 7
2022
2021
£
£
833
775
-
709
8
2022
2021
£
£
225,832
216,465
23,058
20,297
9,872
9,155
1,695
2,012
260,457
247,929
2022
2021
1
1
9
2022
2021
No.
No.
3.0
3.0
1.5
1.5
0.5
0.5
5.0
5.0
10
11
Analysis of staff costs, trustee remuneration and expenses, and the cost of key management personnel
Staff costs were as follows:
Net incoming resources for the year
This is stated after charging / crediting:
Independent Examiner's fees net of VAT
Depreciation
The total employee benefits including pension contributions of the key management personnel were
£79,185 (2021: £69,883).
Social security costs
Salaries and wages
Other staff costs
Staff pension costs
Taxation
The charitable company is exempt from corporation tax as all its income is charitable and is applied for
charitable purposes.
The charity is a company limited by guarantee and has no share capital. The liability of each member in
the event of winding up is limited to £1.
Legal status of the charity
Charitable activity
The charity trustees were not paid or received any other benefits from employment with the charity in the
year (2021: £nil). No charity trustee received payment for professional or other services supplied to the
charity (2021: £nil).
No trustees received any payment or reimbursement of travel and subsistence costs.
Staff numbers
The average number of employees during the year was as follows:
Support
Governance
The following number of employees received employee benefits (excluding employer pension) during the
year between:
£60,000 -£69,000

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£ - - - £ £ £ - £ -
Total 2,824 2,824 2,824 - 2,824 - - 2021 45,210 45,210 2021 11,672 1,126 2,200 14,998 Total funds 555,343 555,343 Total funds 373,295 373,295
Office Equipment £ 2,824 - - 2,824 2,824 - - 2,824 - - 2022 £ 49,991 49,991 2022 £ 3,473 497 5,400 9,370 Restricted Funds £ - 277,263 277,263 Restricted Funds £ - 234,134 234,134
Designated Funds £ - - - Designated Funds £ - - -
General Unrestricte d funds £ - 278,080 278,080 General Unrestricte d funds £ - 139,161 139,161
Tangible fixed assets Cost At the start of the year Additions in year Disposals in year At the end of the year Depreciation At the start of the year Charge for the year Eliminated on disposal At the end of the year Net book value At the end of the year At the start of the year Debtors Accured income Creditors: amounts falling due within one year Taxation & social security Pension liabilities Accruals Analysis of net assets between funds Tangible fixed assets Net current assets Net assets at the end of the year Analysis of net assets between funds-prior year Tangible fixed assets Net current assets Net assets at the end of the year
Maslaha Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 31 March 2022 12 13 14 15
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Maslaha
Notes to the financial statements
For the year ended 31 March 2022		 16 Movements in funds
Transfers
£
£
£
£
£
Restricted funds:
Barrow Cadbury
19,445
9,750
(26,056)
-
3,139
Comic Relief Recovery
7,449
-
(7,449)
-
-
Covid-19 Response
17,737
-
(17,737)
-
-
National Lottery
59,233
99,982
(79,247)
-
79,968
Stichting Events Foundation
21,000
-
(10,347)
-
10,653
Sports England
-
39,033
(37,849)
-
1,184
Porticus Foundation
65,748
-
(54,488)
-
11,260
Lloyds Foundation
30,540
174,960
(81,290)
-
124,210
Comic Relief/GLA
12,982
-
(12,982)
-
-
Baring Foundation
-
48,849
(2,000)
-
46,849
Total restricted funds
234,134
372,574
(329,445)
-
277,263
General funds
Total Unrestricted Funds
139,161
185,902
(46,983)
-
278,080
Total unrestricted funds
139,161
185,902
(46,983)
-
278,080
Total funds including pension fund
373,295
558,476
(376,428)
-
555,343
Movements in funds-prior year
Transfers
£
£
£
£
£
Restricted funds:
Barrow Cadbury
3,677
29,250
(15,324)
1,842
19,445
Comic Relief Recovery
-
39,250
(31,801)
-
7,449
Covid-19 Response
-
34,504
(16,767)
-
17,737
National Lottery
-
99,990
(40,757)
-
59,233
0
-
21,750
(750)
-
21,000
Sports England
32,506
12,069
(44,575)
-
-
Porticus Foundation
66,284
60,000
(60,536)
-
65,748
Lloyds Foundation
69,536
-
(38,995)
-
30,541
Comic Relief/GLA
2,528
55,500
(45,046)
-
12,982
Total restricted funds
174,530
352,313
(294,551)
1,842
234,134
General funds
Total Unrestricted Funds
114,584
85,150
(58,731)
(1,842)
139,161
Total unrestricted funds
114,584
85,150
(58,731)
(1,842)
139,161
Total funds including pension fund
289,114
437,463
(353,282)
-
373,295
Barrow Cadbury
Comic Relief
Google Foundtion of Tides Foundation
Comic Relief/GLA
Sports England
Lloyds Foundation
Improving vital services for Muslims in the prison system and highlighting systemic racism.
At the
start of
the year
Incoming
resources
& gains
Outgoing
resources
& losses
At the
end of
the year
This is a continuation of Muslim girl Fence in the context of inactivity and economic disadvantage.
At the
start of
the year
Incoming
resources
& gains
Outgoing
resources
& losses
At the
end of
the year
Developing Maslaha methodologies and tools to challenge educational inequality in UK primary schools.
This is a continuation of Muslim girls Fence Project in London and Birmingham.
This is a continuation of Muslim girl Fence Project across 5 cities.
This is a continuation of Muslim girls Fence Project in London.
Porticus Foundation
The purpose of this grant is to improving vital services for Muslims in the prison system and highlighting
systemic racism.

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Maslaha was incorporated as a limited liability company (7309979) on July 9[th] 2010 and was registered as a charity in England and Wales (1139560) on December 29[th] 2010.

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