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2023-03-31-accounts

ANNUAL REPORT 20A_2023 ENTRE

The reporting period for the annual report is April 2022-April 2023.

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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 22
success at a national level
3. Educating and empowering Muslim and 27
other marginalised communities
4. Building a well-functioning organisation with 31
financial and organisational sustainability
Coming Up 32
Financial Summary 34
Legal and Admin 35
Report of the Trustees 36
Independent Examiner Report 37
Accounts 38

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Foreword

It was the bright red and green of the Masai fabrics and jewellery and the history of the cloth that opened up a space in a Coventry school. A mother and daughter explained to teachers, pupils and families, the depth of the rich knowledge that exists with the wider school community, through the intricate stitching and folding of garments.

A team member on our Schools with Roots team described how in that session, the Primary school which wanted to build stronger relationships with its families, worked with us to create a space for parents and careers to talk about their heritage. It unlocked an opportunity to not just talk about heritage but also the understanding that there is deep knowledge within our communities.

Creating a space to unlock that expertise has been key to the work of Muslim Girls Fence in schools. The team worked with Muslim pupils to create a zine, Making Space for Healing , a mental health resource for young people that understand the intersection of gender, religion and race, when so many mental health interventions are generic, one size-fits all interventions.

The School with Roots team continues to work with schools to increase their parental engagement by shaping how lessons are taught and the importance of understanding the context of communities. They have also been delivering training to over 300 trainee primary and secondary school teachers with the University of East London and University of Wolverhampton.

We have also been building up a body of research that highlights the specific institutional racism that Muslims in the prison system face through interviews and focus groups which we have captured in audio pieces and comics. These are due to be published in the next financial year and serve to fill a gap in reports by Government and mainstream charities.

We continue to work with larger charities such as the Samaritans and Pact to ensure their services are meeting the specific needs of Muslims in prison. Our focus in in ensuring that these vital services not only understand the specific cultural and religious needs of Muslims in prison but also understand that their services will be affected by a culture of Islamophobia.

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We are sad to say that our Chair, Emran Mian, has decided to step down after many years of helping to build our programmes of work over many cups of coffee and breakfasts. We want to take this opportunity to thank him for his leadership and unwavering commitment to the organisation and his support for our work during these turbulent times. He has been vital to the growth of the organisation and we will miss his contributions to our trustee meetings.

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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

IN-DEPTH SCHOOLWORK WITH MULBERRY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS

We have spent time building relationships with senior leaders, teachers and students at Mulberry School for Girls in Tower Hamlets, London, working with them during the academic year of 2022-2023 in order to understand the context of the school and the experiences of the students. For the first time in our long-term relationship, this has been the first academic year we have worked with all the year groups across the school, from Year 7 to Year 13. MGF were excited to explore these relationships with the school, students and Head of Enrichment to co-design and create bespoke sessions plans tailored to needs of the young girls and women – ranging from topics such as wellbeing, resistance, activism, Islamophobia, and sexism.

“Some people think that Muslim girls are quiet, can’t do sports, and have to stay at home. We’re breaking stereotypes because fencing is a white male dominated posh sport. Muslim girls can do whatever we want to do, we’re sporty, we’re confident, we’re strong, we can be whatever we want to be”

Year 7 MGF participant Mulberry School for Girls

“You might think a fencer wouldn’t look like me, but I am a fencer. When I’m fencing, I feel powerful, I feel strong, I feel sisterhood and I feel free.”

Year 10 MGF participant Mulberry School for Girls

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YOUTH-LED MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCE & FILM

These rich relationships have also informed our youth-led mental health resource. We are creating a youth-led mental health resource with the young people from Mulberry, in a zine format due to be launched this year, called ‘Making Space for Healing’.

We recognised there is a real need for ‘culturally competent’ mental health resources that understand the impact of racism, Islamophobia and structural inequalities on mental health and wellbeing in young people. This has been clear from our research, developing the resource with young people, teachers, parents, mental health professionals, as well as with key charities and organisations such as Anna Freud Centre, Centre for Mental Health, Mind and Home Girls Unite. We hope to showcase new ways of working and influence mental health policymakers and leading youth and mental health organisations to have a multi-dimensional and accurate reflection of the

mental health needs and experiences of Muslim women and girls through our findings, evidence, and research.

The resource is targeted towards young women and girls across the country and is presented in a zine format, addressing the topics of care and wellbeing. It focuses on how Islamophobia and racism impact young people’s mental health, as well as looking at the impact of creativity and physical activity in improving young people’s wellbeing. It was written alongside young Muslim women from East London, as well as Muslim women professionals such as Dr Sara Alsaraf (psychiatrist and creative arts therapist), Lubna Dar (psychologist), Myria Khan (counsellor and founder of the Muslim Counselling and Psychotherapy Network), activists from No More Exclusions and artists Tazneim Zyada, Farah Soobhan and Soofiyah.

Co-creating with young people is culturally responsive, relevant, and embedded work that focuses on not only their mental health, but the impacts of structural racism and systemic

inequalities, which are often overlooked by mainstream mental health resources. In their own words we explore the impacts of racism, sexism and Islamophobia on the mental health and wellbeing of young girls and women, as well as the tools that can be used to improve their wellbeing and give them strength and power. As we know, centring the voices of young Muslim women and girls is at the core of making change happen.

“You don’t really get represented correctly, there aren’t that many projects aimed specifically for Muslim girls. It’s really nice to be able to explore what that means to me and say I feel proud to be a Muslim Girl! Being a Muslim girl means being creative, kind, sisterhood, friends and family.”

Year 8 MGF Participant, Mulberry School for Girls

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Alongside this, with the same group of young girls at Mulberry, the students have co-directed and written a film to discuss the importance of having creative, physical, and safe spaces like Muslim Girls Fence in schools, and the positive impact this has on their wellbeing. The film, called Centring Muslim Girls’ Mental Wellbeing, is aimed at teachers, and will be launched alongside lesson plans, resources, and exercises to help teachers reflect on what they can do in their practice, as well as the wider school, to allow Muslim girls to bring their whole selves to the classroom. We hope that teachers will reflect about if and how they are creating spaces and learning environments for Muslim girls to express themselves fully and creatively.

“It’s so important for the girls to have a safe space where they can be creative, get physically active and talk about issues affecting them like Islamophobia and sexism. It feels like an important wellbeing intervention. It is powerful that it is called ‘Muslim Girls Fence’ as it tells our girls they can take up space, fence and that their voices matter as Muslim girls.” Head of Enrichment, Mulberry School for Girls

Muslim Girls Fence is a vital space for Muslim women and girls to voice and share their feelings and define themselves beyond mainstream assumptions and narratives about them. This longterm relationship with the young people at Mulberry and the youth-led mental health resources help to reinstate girls as their own storytellers and opens a space for Muslim girls to express and celebrate their identity on their own terms.

Alongside this is a long-term strategy to bolster young Muslim women’s engagement in issues that affect them beyond the workshops and in their school, by sharing and disseminating these youthled mental health resources more widely. We are working to change public imagination, seeking to influence and shape public debates and media narratives about Muslim young women and mental health.

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MAYOR OF LONDON’S EID IN THE SQUARE

We were also invited by the Mayor of London’s office to run a MGF fencing session at Trafalgar Square for the second year in a row as part of the Mayor of London’s Eid in the Square celebrations. The fencing coaches (Zohra and Ruhana) who delivered have both been fencing with Muslim Girls Fence in Whitechapel for over 2 years, before progressing into community coaches through the support of MGF and our sustainable project model. We had over 400 young people try out fencing for the first time, and following this, several people have signed up to our community sessions, expressing desire to start their own community sessions too, hopefully following suit of coaches such as Zohra and Ruhana.

WOMEN OF THE WORLD (WOW) BARN FESTIVAL IN LEEDS

Towards the end of the financial year Muslim Girls Fence was also invited to the Women of the World Barn Festival as part of Leeds Year of Culture 2023. The WOW Barn was built in 24 hours by 300 women, girls, and non-binary people.

We were part of the incredible 24-hour barn raising and delivered fencing workshops to over 300 people in Leeds. Akeela Mohammed from Muslim GIrls Fence in Doncaster was part of the WOW ‘Big Ideas’ panel where she discussed what being part of Muslim Girls Fence means to her and how sport builds love, happiness, and community. We also closed the first ever WOW festival in Leeds alongside WOW Founder Jude Kelly and Mayor West Yorkshire Tracy Brabin with a Muslim Girls Fence performance. Maleehah a young person from Muslim Girls Fence in Bradford performed a powerful poem alongside a fencing exhibition. We hope to continue to bring community and grassroot organisations into spaces where they can perform and inform sports organisations, the women and girls’ sector, and key stakeholders.

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Schools with Roots

TEACHER TRAINING

This year, we adapted and refreshed our training materials, ready for in-person delivery. Through our established relationship with the University of East London, we ran lectures and facilitated workshops for both primary and secondary trainee teachers. We worked with over 300 trainees in total, introducing them to socially, culturally, and locally relevant pedagogies in November 2022, so that learning can be made engaging and meaningful for children from all backgrounds. In February 2023, we also ran workshops on ‘Power and Positionality,’ looking at how racism operates at school level, and in May 2023, ‘Bridging the Gap Between Classrooms and Communities,’ to equip trainees with our tools for engaging with families and the wider community through an anti-racist lens.

Feedback from the participants was overwhelmingly positive.

“It was really informative and has helped me to think of ways I can facilitate a safer learning environment for the families I work with.” Trainee teacher

“It was so important and made us think about how we can improve our practice at school.” Trainee teacher

We were also invited to deliver a session for trainee teachers at the University of Wolverhampton in January 2023. We shared our work on Safeguarding, so that teachers are able to identify the root causes of harm and respond in a way that is contextual to the families they are working with.

“Thank you for your inspiring talk. All the trainees were exceptionally positive about the session and the contents really made them think.”

Professor at University of Wolverhampton

We are excited to expand the universities and Initial Teacher Training providers we partner with for the next academic year, supporting trainees at the start of their teaching journey.

Over the year, we’ve also been exploring new, creative ways to connect with and support our community. One of these has been through running ‘teach-out’ days for educators, to explore the themes of our work in more detail. Our first one was held at the GAP community arts centre in Birmingham in March 2023 and created a space for practitioners to learn from our pedagogy and tools.

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“All the trainees were exceptionally positive about the session and the contents really made them think.”

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Criminal Justice

We have continued to work with our partners in the criminal justice sector to ensure that vital services understand and are equipped to meet the needs of Muslims in the prison system. Our partnerships with PACT, Samaritans and the Prisoners’ Education Trust allows us to have an overview of a range of vital services spanning mental health, family services and education.

This service design work has also enabled us to highlight how Islamophobia faced by Muslims in prison can also be an obstacle to accessing services.

We have been able to make a number of visits to both prisons for men and women, holding focus groups which allow us to hear directly what needs are being met and what improvement is needed. It also highlights constantly the need to develop services that are sensitive to culture, religion, gender, education, class, language, and racism. Generic services will always fall short on meeting the needs of communities we work with.

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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 professionals 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 raise awareness about the discrimination faced by Muslims in prison through a mixture of audio/visual content. This has included:

We have also been building and curating an extensive archive of interviews with individuals who have diverse experiences within the prison system, for a podcast series. This series will serve as a platform to share compelling narratives, drawing from the rich pool of interviews we have conducted over the years. By incorporating clips from these interviews, we aim to provide listeners with a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by individuals and the impact of the criminal justice system on their lives. This will be coupled with thought-provoking conversations with academics and professionals within the criminal justice/racial justice field.

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

Muslim Girls Fence

CAMPAIGNS, PUBLIC IMAGINATION & POLICY – THIS GIRL CAN CAMPAIGN

Muslim Girls Fence is now seen among the sports sector, education sector, and the intersection with health, physical and mental wellbeing, as an example of good practice, influencing a culture change nationally to share resources and approaches that address systemic inequalities faced by Muslim women, girls, and communities.

Most notably, Muslim Girls Fence was part of the National This Girl Can National Enjoyment gap campaign in February 2023. 2.4 million fewer women than men strongly agree they enjoy sport and activity - this is what Sports England calls the Enjoyment Gap. Muslim Girls Fence aims to close the enjoyment gap by demonstrating that when sports and policy makers centre communities and women and girls’ experiences, you are able to create inclusive, enjoyable, and accessible sports spaces. The campaign focused on the local Muslim Girls Fence sessions in Birmingham at the Ladywood Leisure Centre, focusing on the social and community impact of Muslim Girls Fence.

“At Muslim Girls Fence we make sure everyone feels included. The group is very diverse, but we focus on what we have in common; we are women who love to fence and spend time together. We build self-worth, give power to voices and most importantly, we bring communities together, to share questions and ideas, and to break the negative stereotypes that we carry on a daily basis. The social aspect of our activity is essential: it’s vital that there is that place where you can feel safe and comfortable to be yourself, and know and believe that you won’t be judged.” Binni, Muslim Girls Fence coach in Birmingham

Alongside the national campaign, our Birmingham coach Binni and Muslim Girls Fence community coordinator Akeela from Doncaster, were part of the launch event and panel to share learning and insights on how to close the enjoyment gap in the West Midlands. From being embedded at a local level to sharing our learning at a strategic level with a national audience, we continue to work to ensure

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the expertise of our local coaches are shared in a way that will inform public services in the sport for development sector, statutory bodies, and funders such as Sports England with decision-making.

Muslim Girls Fence was also announced as a finalist alongside 16 other projects for The 2022 National Lottery Awards, an annual search to find the UK’s favourite Lottery-funded projects and people.

On a local level, we are working with the Mayor of Tower Hamlets lead researcher and sports advisor to the executive on how to make young people and young women and girls sports more inclusive, focusing on Muslim women and girls.

We continue to work to influence and change practice to address systemic inequalities and create better services for Muslim women and girls, alongside changing the public imagination of Muslim women and girls to provide an alternative version of what is like to be young woman in the UK today, while providing a platform for them to create their own stories.

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“The female estate has been left behind”

Muslim female prisoner (from HMP Send)

Criminal Justice

We continue to engage and collaborate with key organisations and alliances such as the Ministry of Justice (MOJ), HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), Clinks, T2A Alliance (Transition to Adulthood), and FOME (Female Offender Ethnic Minority working group) as part of our commitment to fostering positive change in the criminal justice system. We are part of steering groups for the Wales Criminal Justice anti-racism plan, specifically the Education & Competency Working Group and the Community Engagement group. Being part of these groups is essential because it allows us to contribute to the development and shaping of policies that focus on inclusivity for Muslim prisoners. By participating in these discussions, we can advocate for the specific needs of Muslim prisoners and ensure their voices are heard, thus working towards a fairer criminal justice system for all.

Our primary objective is to increase awareness and put an end to inequalities faces by Muslims in the criminal justice system. Maslaha aims to bring about significant changes within the criminal justice field through various approaches. These include

actively informing and shaping official policy at both local and national levels, closely examining the government’s and the broader sector’s treatment of Muslims in the criminal justice system and advocating for their specific requirements.

USE OF LEGAL TOOLS

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

We are submitting several FOI requests for more data on key issues facing Muslims in prison. For example, on adjudications in prison which suggests Muslims are more likely to be punished by removing them from activity and living units; the Prevent programme and counter-radicalisation processes

in prison which disproportionately impact Muslims and have traumatic consequences for individuals and communities. Our evidence gathering has also found that the complaints process in prison is not fit for purpose. Muslims report responses to complaints are late and inadequate and that the process is designed to cover staff rather than a mechanism to challenge poor practice or discrimination.

We have agreed a partnership with Bhatt-Murphy law firm who will litigate based on our research and our work with individuals in prison. They will represent an individual who makes a complaint based on how they are treated by a prison officer and the case will then be part of a public campaign to highlight the wider, systemic problems that exist.

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Schools with Roots

IN-DEPTH SCHOOLS-WORK

We are thrilled to be able to continue working in partnership with one of the founding schools of the project, Sandringham Primary School in Newham, London. We are building on previous work around bringing in parents and carers into school life in meaningful ways. The garden area that parents built through the project with us last year has now been expanded by them to include a pond area. It has already been providing valuable opportunities for the children’s learning – from adding tadpoles and watching them grow to using the space to celebrate Earth Day. We are working closely with teachers on how they can continue to make teaching culturally relevant for their students such as through recent learning about South Asian heritage and training with the whole teaching team on how to build impactful relationships with parents and the wider community.

We really value the new relationship we are building this year with St Elizabeth’s Primary School in Foleshill, Coventry. We have been meeting regularly

with parents and carers to understand the unique strengths and experiences that the families bring and exploring together on how this can be brought into the classroom. We’ve been working to establish spaces in school for families to come together and build a community as well as working with teachers to equip them with tools to build sustainable relationships with parents. Many of the parents participated in our Topics Together sessions, which brings teachers, children, and parents together through collective planning and making on a topic that is linked directly to the curriculum.

One of the teachers shared that

“It was the first time I’ve been in a meeting with parents where they’ve been encouraged to share their ideas - it was great to see. I definitely learnt new things about all the parents - you wouldn’t get a chance otherwise to learn personal details about a parent and they seemed to really enjoy engaging in the topic and sharing their experiences.”

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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.

HAJAR PRESS PUBLICATIONS

Mohamed Tonsy, the winner of the 2021 MFest Short Story Competition that we launched in partnership with Hajar Press and with generous support from Spread the Word and Arvon Foundation, has published his debut novel “You must believe in spring” in October 2022. His novel has received outstanding reviews and praises.

“This critical contribution to contemporary Arab literature quietly keeps the flame—and the bruises—of a concussed Egyptian revolution alive.”

Farah Abdessamad, writer, critic and essayist

WRITERS LAB

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, through various means such as our Writers Lab.

“This … is where the most exciting fiction is at this pivotal moment of global political turmoil.”

Elizabeth Chakrabarty, author of Lessons in Love and Other Crimes

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

MEDIA/ APPEARANCES

EVENTS

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Coming Up

Muslim Girls Fence will be focusing on launching our youth-led mental health resources for the new academic year commencing September 2023. We hope alongside the zine, film, and lesson plans, to create a Muslim Girls Fence Mental Health Hub on the website for easy access to our resources, as well as other wellbeing resources for Muslim women and girls. We hope through this work to showcase new ways of working and influence mental health policymakers and leading youth and mental health organisations to have a multi-dimensional and accurate reflection of the mental health needs and experiences of Muslim women and girls through our findings, evidence, and research.

Building on the successes and learnings from this year, we are developing a comprehensive two-year programme for schools to embed principles and practices from the Schools with Roots Project. This will include bespoke teacher training, working directly with parents/carers and providing ongoing opportunities for teachers to engage critically with anti-racist pedagogy and be equipped with tools to nurture positive relationships with families. We are excited to be

building partnerships in the West Midlands, to be able to expand and share the work we do in new regions. Next academic year, we plan to deliver our teacher training to students at the University of Birmingham and to support a primary school in Birmingham which is new to the project. We are in the process of creating a new multilingual animation for families on how they can develop lifelong learning skills in children. This is in partnership with Sandringham Primary School in Newham and directly responds to the needs they have identified in the families they are working with.

Coming up in our Criminal Justice programme for the next year is the launch of our podcast series, “Time to End the Silence - The Podcast”, providing a platform for real life conversations on criminal justice issues. Furthermore, we are proud to introduce “Coming Home,” a mental health therapy project designed to support individuals transitioning from prison back into society. Our ongoing collaboration with PACT ensures our continued work in men and women’s prisons, while our partnership with the Samaritans enables us to extend our efforts to support them in making their services inclusive of the Muslim population.

Thanks

Maslaha gratefully acknowledges funding in 2022/2023 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 2023, Maslaha made a net surplus of £188,452 (2022: £182, 048) resulting in net assets of £743,795 (2022: £555, 343). 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 £126k.

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 Zahbia Yousuf – Senior Project Manger Saara Quested – Senior Project Manager Allia Fredericks – Senior Project Manager Suleman Amad – Project Manager Nirad Abrol – Project Manager Fabiolla Lorusso – Project Manager

Our trustees

Alia Alzougbi Jane Earl

Sameer Rahim Shereen Fernandez

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

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.

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 27 November 2023:

Alia Alzougbi

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Independent examiner’s report to the Trustees of Maslaha for the year ended 31 March 2023

I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Company for the year ended 31 March 2023.

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

27 November 2023

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Accounts 38

Statement of financial activities (incorporating an income and expenditure account)
For the year ended 31 March 2023		 2023
2022
Unrestricted
Funds
Restricted
Funds
Total
Funds
Total
Funds
Note
£
£
£
£
Income from:
3
500
1,000
1,500
562
4
169,000
355,805
524,805
554,239
5
2,300
-
2,300
3,675
171,800
356,805
528,605
558,476
6
67,891
272,262
340,153
376,428
67,891
272,262
340,153
376,428
7
103,909
84,543
188,452
182,048
-
-
-
-
103,909
84,543
188,452
182,048
Reconciliation of funds:
278,080
277,263
555,343
373,295
381,989
361,806
743,795
555,343
Total income
Expenditure on:
Charitable activities
Other trading activities
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

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Maslaha
Balance sheet
As at 31 March 2023		 2023
2023
2022
2022
Note
£
£
£
£
Fixed assets:
12
-
-
Current assets:
13
55,000
49,991
699,265
514,722
754,265
564,713
Liabilities:
14
10,470
9,370
743,795
555,343
15
743,795
555,343
16
361,806
277,263
381,989
278,080
Total unrestricted funds
381,989
278,080
743,795
555,343
Debtors
Cash at bank and in hand
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
Tangible assets
Unrestricted funds:
General funds
Net current assets
Total net assets
Funds
Restricted funds
Total funds
For the year ending 31 March 2023 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 ………………………………
and signed on their behalf by:
Company registration no. 7309979
The attached notes form part of the financial statements.
Trustee
Alia Alzougbi
27 November 2023.

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Maslaha
Statement of cash flows
For the year ended 31 March 2023		 Note
2023
2022
Cash flows from operating activities:
£
£
a
184,543
171,639
Cash flows from investing activities:
Sale/ (purchase) of fixed assets
-
-
Change in cash and cash equivalents
in the year
184,543
171,639
Cash and cash equivalents at the
beginning of the year
514,722
343,083
Cash and cash equivalents at the end
of the year
b
699,265
514,722
a)
2023
2022
£
£
Net income / (expenditure) for the
reporting period(as per the
statement of financial activities)
188,452
182,048
Depreciation
-
-
Decrease / (Increase) in debtors
(5,009)
(4,781)
Increase in creditors
1,100
(5,628)
Net cash provided by / (used in)
operating activities
184,543
171,639
b) Analysis of cash and cash equivalents
Cash flows
£
£
£
£
Cash at bank and in hand
514,722
184,543
-
699,265
Total cash and cash equivalents
514,722
184,543
-
699,265
At
31 March
2023
At 1 April
2022
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 2023		 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
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.
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.

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Notes to the financial statements
For the year ended 31 March 2023		 1
Accounting policies (continued)
h) Expenditure and irrecoverable VAT
●
●
i)
Allocation of support costs
j)
Computer equipment
k)
l)
m)
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.
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:
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.
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.
Tangible fixed assets
on 3 years straight line basis
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.
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.
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.
Creditors and provisions

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Maslaha
Notes to the financial statements
For the year ended 31 March 2023		 2
2022
Restricted
Funds
Total
Funds
£
£
£
Donations and legacies
562
-
562
Charitable activities
181,665
372,574
554,239
Other income
3,675
-
3,675
185,902
372,574
558,476
Charitable activities:
46,983
329,445
376,428
46,983
329,445
376,428
138,919
43,129
182,048
-
-
-
138,919
43,129
182,048
-
-
-
138,919
43,129
182,048
138,919
43,129
182,048
139,161
234,134
373,295
278,080
277,263
555,343
3
2023
2022
Unrestricted
Funds
Total
Funds
Total
Funds
£
£
£
£
Donations
500
1,000
1,500
562
500
1,000
1,500
562
Income from donations and legacies
Restricted
Funds
Net movement in funds
Total funds brought forward
Total income
Expenditure on:
Net income before gains / (losses) on investments
Net gains / (losses) on investments
Transfers between funds
Net income before other recognised gains and losses
Net income
Total expenditure
Income from:
Detailed comparatives for the statement of financial activities
Unrestricted
Funds

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2022 Total Funds £ 50,000 9,750 39,033 50,000 50,000 174,960 11,665 99,982 48,849 - 20,000 554,239 2022 Total Funds £ 3,675 3,675
2023 Total Funds £ 50,000 10,250 63,157 65,000 - 130,441 29,000 49,991 1,954 100,012 25,000 524,805 2023 Total Funds £ 2,300 2,300
Restricted Funds £ - 10,250 63,157 - - 130,441 49,991 1,954 100,012 355,805 Restricted Funds £ - -
Unrestricted Funds £ 50,000 - - 65,000 - - 29,000 - - - 25,000 169,000 Unrestricted Funds £ 2,300 2,300
4
Income from charitable activities		 Income earned from charitable activities Grants Pears Foundation Barrow Cadbury Trust Sports England Esmee Fairbairn Tudor Trust Lloyds Foundation Joseph Rowntree National Lottery Baring Foundation National Lottery - SWR AB Charitable Trust Total income from charitable activities 5
Income from other trading activities		 Consultancy fees

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Maslaha
Notes to the financial statements
For the year ended 31 March 2023		 6
Charitable
activities
2023
Total
2022
Total
£
£
£
Staff costs
268,864
268,864
260,457
Direct cost
Depreciation
-
-
-
Project costs
45,190
45,190
95,114
Publicity & Reports
300
300
475
Support cost
Office costs
19,644
19,644
7,058
Governance cost
Bank charges
130
130
144
Examiner's fees
1,100
1,100
980
Accountancy fees
4,925
4,925
12,200
Total expenditure 2023
340,153
340,153
376,428
Total expenditures 2022
376,428
376,428
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
Telephone
-
-
IT support
-
-
Governance cost
Bank charges
144
144
77
Examiner's fees
980
980
885
Accountancy fees
12,200
12,200
8,313
Total expenditure 2022
376,428
376,428
353,282
Total expenditures 2021
353,282
353,282
Analysis of expenditure-prior year
Analysis of expenditure
Of the total expenditure, £67,891 was unrestricted (2022: £46,983) and £272,262 was
restricted (2022: £329,445).

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Maslaha
Notes to the financial statements
For the year ended 31 March 2023		 7
2023
2022
£
£
900
833
8
2023
2022
£
£
238,633
225,832
20,926
23,058
8,132
9,872
1,173
1,695
268,864
260,457
2023
2022
-
1
1
-
9
2023
2022
No.
No.
3.0
3.0
1.5
1.5
0.5
0.5
5.0
5.0
The following number of employees received employee benefits (excluding employer pension) during the
year between:
£60,000 -£69,000
Charitable activity
The charity trustees were not paid or received any other benefits from employment with the charity in the
year (2022: £nil). No charity trustee received payment for professional or other services supplied to the
charity (2022: £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 total employee benefits including pension contributions of the key management personnel were
£81,955 (2022: £79,185).
Social security costs
Salaries and wages
Other staff costs
Staff pension costs
£70,000 -£79,000
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

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Maslaha
Notes to the financial statements
For the year ended 31 March 2023		 10
11
12 Tangible fixed assets
Total
£
£
Cost
At the start of the year
2,824
2,824
Additions in year
-
-
Disposals in year
(2,824)
-
At the end of the year
-
-
Depreciation
At the start of the year
2,824
2,824
Charge for the year
-
-
Eliminated on disposal
(2,824)
-
At the end of the year
-
-
Net book value
At the end of the year
-
-
At the start of the year
-
-
13
2023
2022
£
£
55,000
49,991
55,000
49,991
14
2023
2022
£
£
7,689
3,473
881
497
1,900
5,400
10,470
9,370
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
Accruals
Debtors
Pension liabilities
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
Accured income
Taxation & social security
Office
Equipment
Taxation
The charitable company is exempt from corporation tax as all its income is charitable and is applied for
charitable purposes.

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Maslaha
Notes to the financial statements
For the year ended 31 March 2023		 15
General
Unrestricte
d funds
Designated
Funds
Restricted
Funds
Total
funds
£
£
£
£
Tangible fixed assets
-
-
-
-
Net current assets
381,989
-
361,806
743,795
Net assets at the end of the year
381,989
-
361,806
743,795
General
Unrestricte
d funds
Designated
Funds
Restricted
Funds
Total
funds
£
£
£
£
Tangible fixed assets
-
-
-
-
Net current assets
278,080
-
277,263
555,343
Net assets at the end of the year
278,080
-
277,263
555,343
16 Movements in funds
Transfers
£
£
£
£
£
Restricted funds:
Barrow Cadbury
3,139
10,250
(13,389)
-
-
National Lottery - SWR
-
100,012
(46,285)
-
53,727
National Lottery
79,968
50,991
(60,211)
-
70,748
Evens Foundation
10,653
-
(10,653)
-
-
Sports England
1,184
63,157
(23,265)
-
41,076
Porticus Foundation
11,260
-
(11,260)
-
-
Lloyds Foundation
124,210
130,441
(89,076)
-
165,575
Baring Foundation
46,849
1,954
(18,123)
-
30,680
Total restricted funds
277,263
356,805
(272,262)
-
361,806
General funds
Total Unrestricted Funds
278,080
171,800
(67,891)
-
381,989
Total unrestricted funds
278,080
171,800
(67,891)
-
381,989
Total funds including pension fund
555,343
528,605
(340,153)
-
743,795
Analysis of net assets between funds
At the start
of the year
Incoming
resources
& gains
Outgoing
resources
& losses
At the
end of
the year
Analysis of net assets between funds-prior year

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Maslaha
Notes to the financial statements
For the year ended 31 March 2023		 Movements in funds-prior year
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
Evens 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
At the start
of the year
Incoming
resources
& gains
Outgoing
resources
& losses
At the
end of
the year

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Notes to the financial statements
For the year ended 31 March 2023		 Barrow Cadbury
Baring Foundation
Sports England
Lloyds Foundation
Improving vital services for Muslims in the prison system and highlighting systemic racism.
National Lottery- continuation of the Muslim Girls Fence project and National Lottery
Connecting communities to schools
17
18
This is a continuation of Muslim girl Fence in the context of inactivity and economic disadvantage.
Developing Maslaha methodologies and tools to challenge educational inequality in UK primary schools.
Using legal tools to highlight the discrimination faced by Muslims in prison.
Porticus Foundation
The purpose of this grant is to improving vital services for Muslims in the prison system and highlighting
systemic racism.
Operating lease commitments
At the balance sheet date, the charity had no financial commmitment under non-cancellable operating
leases.
Related party transactions
There are no related party transactions to disclose for the year (2022: none).

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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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