ANNUAL REPORT 2024—2025
The reporting period for the annual report is April 2024-April 2025.
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Contents
| Foreword | 5 |
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| Why Maslaha? | 7 |
| Our Strategy | 8 |
| Case Studies | 11 |
| • Educating public service providers and wider society to better | 12 |
| understand Muslim and other marginalised communities | |
| • Influencing systemic change and replicating local success | 20 |
| at a national level | |
| • Educating and empowering Muslim and other | 26 |
| marginalised communities | |
| • Building a well-functioning organisation with financial | 30 |
| and organisational sustainability | |
| Coming Up | 33 |
| Financial Summary | 36 |
| Legal and Admin | 37 |
| Report of the Trustees | 38 |
| Independent Examiner Report | 39 |
| Accounts | 40 |
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Foreword
Small hands pick up crayons, markers, coloured paper, stickers, and glue and begin to ask questions about history, flags and coins. Importantly, they feel free to express their views on their heritage and history. Based in a community gallery in Birmingham, parents/carers and children learn together, unburdened by the need to be cautious about celebrating who they are.
Our Schools with Roots team, who deliver this programme, are then able to adapt this learning space to create training for teachers. The community is then also helping to shape pedagogy.
Community spaces and training like this have become even more important after the racist riots in the summer of 2024 and a significant far-right march in London in 2025. These events have left communities we work with feeling afraid and questioning their sense of belonging in this country.
But what has also become clear is the breadth of community organising and advocacy we need to enable communities to feel safe and to feel that they have a right to shape society.
This report highlights the ongoing work Muslim Girls Fence carries out in schools and in community centres which is both joyful in its physicality and creativity, but also a safe place to explore the impact of Islamophobia and misogyny. Excitingly, a number of young people who went through the MGF programme are now also facilitators and coaches, delivering and designing programmes.
Recognising the importance of this work, the Women and Equalities Select Committee invited the team to give oral evidence on gendered Islamophobia. The Deputy Mayor of London for Social Justice, Debbie Weekes-Bernard, also visited our programme running in east London.
Our Schools with Roots programme has been regularly working with the University of East London, and the University of Birmingham. The team delivered a series of lectures and seminars for trainee teachers on how racism plays out in schools, tools for building sustainable relationships with parents/carers and the wider community, and how to create cultures of safety through safeguarding practice.
The success of these workshops has meant that we are also being asked to provide training for social workers or those working in the creative industries such as Birmingham Hippodrome. The coming year will also see us delivering training to unions and other educational bodies.
Our criminal justice work continues to highlight abuse of rights Muslims face in prison in our reports and data collection on issues such as the disproportionate use of force Muslims face. We also continue to work with national criminal justice charities such as Samaritans to improve their vital services while building alternative community interventions to support people once they are released.
In response to the racist riots we also saw thousands of people take to the streets to stand with their neighbours, refusing to give up the public space to racism. This spirit of solidarity and care is also fundamental to our work and will be vital in our year ahead.
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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 workover 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.
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.
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 non-Muslims. Negative stereotyping has been shown to act as a barrier to opportunity and engagement with services for Muslims in prison.
EDUCATION There are high levels of
Our Strategic Goals
underachievement and disengagement among young Muslims, which are linked toa 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.
1. Educating public service providers and wider society to better understand Muslim and other marginalized communities.
2. Influencing systemic change and replicating local success at a national level.
3. Educating and empowering Muslim communities.
4. Building a well-functioning organisation with financial and organisational sustainability.
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
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 are70% more likely to be unemployed than white Christian women.
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 com-bine creativity with everyday action and engagement to find new ways to connect and communicate.
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Case Studies
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Educating public service providers and wider society to better understand Muslim and other marginalised communities
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Muslim Girls Fence
Impact of Islamophobia and racism on Muslim women and girls’ wellbeing and safety
Following a summer of racist riots, it became even more important to work with service providers and wider society to increase an understanding of Muslim and other marginalised communities, and the impact of Islamophobia and racism on Muslim women and girls’ wellbeing and safety. The Islamophobia, racism and anti-migrant violence we have witnessed on the streets has deeply affected young people’s mental health, feelings of safety and belonging. As a result, several plans for the summer were cancelled, as young people did not feel safe to come to sessions. This eruption of violent racism has long been simmering under the surface. What is happening is a direct result of years of normalised racism and Islamophobia, enabled by mainstream politicians, policies like Prevent Duty and the British media. It is important to recognise how Muslim teenagers, especially Muslim girls and women, face risks to their safety when Islamophobic rhetoric is high and terror attacks are blamed on Muslims, and how the ongoing portrayal of Muslims by the media and
politicians has long-term effects on their mental health, while also shaping the way others, including services, mental health providers, and schools, treat them.
We have worked with funders for them to understand Muslim communities better through delivering an Induction Day talk on MGF for Comic Relief, highlighting good practice and the impacts of structural Islamophobia on young people’s mental health. In November 2024, we delivered a “Lunch and Learn” on Challenging Structural Islamophobia in Everyday Practice to over 50 mental health professionals with the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition again to provide further education on the impacts of Islamophobia, sexism and racism on young Muslim’s mental health, and to share recommendations for strengthening anti-racist practice and improving services for the Muslim community.
In the sports sector, we have been developing coach training with Archery GB, British Fencing, Sunnah Sports, and the Muslim Scouts Association in Tower Hamlets to create more inclusive spaces in sports and support more women coaches. In partnership with these organisations, we are designing lesson plans inspired by Muslim Girls Fence sessions, including hadiths related to sports, to be shared across networks. In February 2025, we piloted a programme of training 12 Muslim Girls Fence participants in the course to become both MGF fencing coaches and archery coaches to Doncaster and Birmingham, delivered by MGF coach Nalette from Sunnah Sports in Bradford.
In the women and girls sector, we were invited to give oral evidence to the Women and Equalities Committee on Gendered Islamophobia in January 2025, aiming to influence policy to better reflect the needs and experiences of Muslim women and highlight how Islamophobia, racism,
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sexism, and the Prevent Duty impact the lives of Muslim women and girls, ensuring their experiences are better understood in decision-making.
For International Women ~~OE~~ ’s Day 2025, Debbie Weekes-Bernard, London’s Deputy Mayor of Communications and Social Justice, visited Sandringham Primary School to meet the girls’ fencing programme as a case study for good practice funded by Go London and the Mayor’s office. In April 2025, Shahin Ashraf, Mayor of Solihull, visited Ladywood Leisure Centre to meet Binni’s Blade fencing club and see its impact on the community, with plans to explore wider rollouts across Birmingham.
Through this work, Muslim Girls Fence is recognised across the sports, education, and health sectors as an example of good practice, influencing culture change nationally and sharing resources to address systemic inequalities faced by Muslim women, girls, and communities. We are shaping how policymakers, mental health professionals, and sector leaders understand the impacts of Islamophobia, racism, Prevent Duty, and sexism on young Muslim women and girls. Rooted in grassroots community practice, our work ensures services are culturally responsive, relevant, and embedded, while supporting sectors to better understand anti-racist approaches for Muslim communities and young people.
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Schools With Roots
Our training and workshops have supported hundreds of educators this year. As part of our long-term relationship with the University of East London, we delivered a series of lectures and seminars for trainee teachers on: understanding how racism plays out in schools, tools for building sustainable relationships with parents/carers and the wider community, and how to create cultures of safety through safeguarding practice. Through this partnership, we are working alongside the university to embed anti-racist practice within their curriculum. For the second year running, we delivered a session for PGCE students at the University of Birmingham, on engaging with parents/carers through an anti-racist lens and practical ways to involve them in their child’s learning at school.
“The session was very insightful into dynamics I hadn’t considered due to my own positionality, and taught me lots about how to implement these ideas into my classroom culture.”
Student from UoB
It was a pleasure to be invited to deliver training for a wide range of organisations and practitioners, sharing our approach to education and resources
from our practice. This included The Birmingham Hippodrome and Senior Lectures in Social Work at City University and the University of Kent, in January 2025. In October 2024, we spoke at an online event for teachers, hosted by Project Free and Be Truth to Power, on ‘Challenging Islamophobia in the Classroom’, and at the start of the academic year in September 2024, partnered with the Centre for Lebanese Studies to deliver ‘Learning to Resist;’ a national conference on Palestine, attended by around 70 participants from across the country. Topics discussed at the conference were shaped directly by feedback from over 100 educators and parents, gathered through research carried out by a team at the University of Cambridge. Sessions supported teachers to embed anti-racist strategies into their schools, address Islamophobia and antisemitism, and teach in ways that reflect the experiences of their students and wider communities.
As a result of the conversations we’ve had in these spaces, we have developed a number of resources and toolkits for educators, bringing together the work we’ve been doing in partnership with schools, families and young people. These include:
Building your anti-racist classroom a response to the racist and Islamophobic violence that erupted across the UK over the summer.
Lesson Prompts and Creative Making Ideas around Palestine helping teachers teach global events in ways that connect to the curriculum.
Awareness Days through an Anti-Racist lens, including Remembrance Day and Christmas how to teach calendar events in locally and culturally relevant ways.
Children’s mental health practical ways for practitioners to adopt an anti-racist approach when thinking about and responding to the mental wellbeing of young people.
Ramadhan in Schools practical ways to create welcoming and inclusive spaces in schools during Ramadhan.
“Such an important perspective! True mental wellness means addressing the whole person and the systems that impact them. Every child deserves that level of care.”
Mental Health Therapist
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“The Lecture/Seminar was the best session since starting the course. It felt like it had weight and real world implications with really helpful practical strategies.”
Student Feedback from UEL
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Criminal Justice
Our work in the criminal legal system has focused on raising awareness of and halting the unequal and discriminatory treatment Muslims receive in the prison system. This work has become even more pressing as the number of Muslim men in prison has doubled in the past 18 years making up 19% of the prison population, while Muslim communities as a whole only make up 6% of the general population.
Our work is responsive to the practical needs of Muslims in prison and their families, while also aiming to inform, influence and change policy and practice of service providers.
We have been working with the voluntary sector for several years, including Samaritans, PACT and Prisoner Education Trust, to understand how racism and discrimination in the prison system affects uptake of their services, and to improve Muslims access to them. The culmination of this work has led to adaptations to service providers’ public materials, continued use of our staff training guidance particularly during Ramadan, and the inclusion of suggested adaptations e.g. around confidentiality, into practices. For some
organisations it is the first time in their history that they have incorporated faith and translated services into their operations. We have also been asked to share our expertise and experiences directly in staff training days and sector meetings, including in prisons with large Muslim populations.
Capturing public imagination: uncovering the experiences of Muslims in prison
Political rhetoric and media that shape public narratives often offer negative portrayals of both Muslims and those in prison, fuelling Islamophobia and racism. At the same time, the full picture of what happens in prison is often missing – in official reports and through what is shared across the sector. We use a variety of platforms - print, social media, audio visual - to help the wider public better understand the experiences of Muslims and other racialised groups in prison, and help them situate this within wider systemic issues.
A pamphlet series - UnCaptured - expands the knowledge produced and narratives told about incarcerated Muslims. The publication, launched in April 2024, has been shared widely online and
in print to over 700 people, including voluntary service providers, racial justice organisations, probation and prison services, mosques, community groups, and importantly, those who have experienced incarceration directly or indirectly, including those in prison and their families.
The next edition is due to launch in July 2025. It focuses on the theme of families, recognising the ripple effect of imprisonment beyond prison walls and the impact on loved ones. The editorial and publication process involves collecting testimonies from men and women to understand the multiple ways prison affects Muslim families and communities, including navigating a discriminatory system, and the relationships of care and support that are built inside, across and outside prison walls.
We have been recording a podcast series with Surviving Society on the prison system and how racialised communities are affected and experience racism. The podcast features interviews with members of the team, people who have experienced prison, academics, and community organisations.
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“Asalaamu alaykum ikwaan wa akawaatee Inshaallah this letter finds you in the best of health and emaan. I just wanted to send in a poem for the UnCaptured publication. I enjoyed reading the first issue and I think it’s a very helpful guide for all the brothers and sisters, and Imams, to use to understand better their rights as Muslims and the reality of our situation. I also liked the quote at beginning from Khalida Jarrar, it's amazing to hear people's experiences around the world and especially prisoners rights now that we hear the voices of the Palestinians, who are suffering so much right now. As harsh as our experiences can be in the UK, I’m sure it's much worse there and it’s a reminder to all of us to be grateful for what we do have and do receive in the UK. I hope Inshaallah that Allah makes it easy for all the Palestinians who are suffering and gives them the steadfastness to persevere always! Mat he soften the hearts of the Israelis and the world. Ameen”
UnCaptured feedback from somebody in prison.
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Muslim Girls Fence
Young people as changemakers and capturing public imagination
This year, young people who started as participants in Muslim Girls Fence have become facilitators, coaches, creators and campaigners - leading their own sessions, running events, and creating campaigns. We now have four young facilitators from Harrow, Hammersmith, Tower Hamlets and Camden, all paid for their time, whose work is rooted in their voices and experiences. They design and deliver workshops that understand the overlap of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexuality and ability, making space for Muslim girls to speak freely about issues that matter to them in a climate of censorship and Islamophobia. Through the Youth Facilitator programme, they are creating resources, supporting other young people to join our workforce, and turning the local changes they’ve made in schools and communities into campaigns and projects that capture the public imagination about what it means to be a Muslim girl.
In a school in Tower Hamlets, MGF Youth Facilitator Aisha B (age 17) facilitated sessions for a group of Year 7-8 students. The group scripted, recorded and edited a campaign called Our Stories, Our Resistance, a podcast tackling stereotypes and sharing real experiences of Islamophobia, sexism, and racism. The podcast reflects conversations
from MGF sessions, exploring themes such as home, family, bodily autonomy, safe spaces and mental health, and carries these ideas beyond the school setting and reaching wider audiences including youth service providers. As they describe it:
“People stereotype us as silly little girls, terrorists, oppressed, or that we belong in the kitchen. If we don’t talk about the issues we face, no one will.”
The same group also contributed to Maslaha’s - community anti racist demands during the 2024 general election, taking ideas developed in their ~~—~~ local sessions and helping shape a manifesto and campaign materials that reached a national audience. It has been incredible to see when young people are given the tools and freedom to express themselves without fear of punishment, they are able to be changemakers and campaigners beyond their school and community to a wider level fighting for systemic change and capturing public imagination on the needs of Muslim girls.
At Hammersmith Academy, 17-year-old MGF Youth Facilitator Aisha H led a 12-week
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programme with Year 9 - 10 students, created a creative photo and textile campaign which they presented to senior leadership team about bodily autonomy, Islamophobia in the school and how the school could change their uniform and policies to be more inclusive and support Muslim students. It was fantastic to see young people being listened to and valued, gaining the confidence to campaign on issues that matter to them, and recognising that they hold the expertise, knowledge, and power to create radical change to liberate our communities.
At Sandringham Primary School, Year 6 girls joined our after school club to explore workers’ rights, feminism, racial justice and migrant justice through art and fencing. They created a multilingual banner “We Want Freedom for All” , to express what resistance means to them. The girls also spoke to BBC World Service and BBC Newshour about access to sport for Muslim girls and the need for community-led resources.
At Morpeth Academy, the group made a film campaign about slicing up stereotypes to show what it’s like to do fencing as a Muslim girl and how to celebrate yourself, your identity and your faith - the film was showcased at the school network Morpeth TV.
“I love fencing matches the most, but what I also really like is all the effort that we really put into it and the people that make it, it’s just fun”
Morpeth MGF participant
“We want more girl inclusive clubs because for some reason, people think that boys can do whatever and girls just stay at home, can’t do certain things… But doing fencing is a way of embracing yourself as a girl”
Morpeth MGF participant
From our school work we have seen young people in our communities hold vital expertise and knowledge that is valued, listened to as they have the power to create systemic change in both the local and national level.
This strategy to change public imagination and political education from Muslim girls resulted in the Community Care, Not Control campaign led by Youth Facilitators. It explores feminism across education, prisons, borders, and housing, using a series of audio interviews with illustrations featuring different community groups and organisers, to highlight how systemic misogyny is embedded within state institutions. We have interviewed young people from Revoke, No More Exclusions, Bent Bars, Nijjormanoush.
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Criminal Justice
There is a lack of racial literacy in the criminal justice sector: data and insights on the specific experiences of Muslims is either absent or shallow in formal reports. Alongside helping practitioners, services and the prison system to better understand and respond to the impact of discrimination and Islamophobia on delivery of services, mental health and wellbeing, we highlight gaps between current equalities regulations and practices in the prison estate, and the failure of ‘cultural competency’ and ‘unconscious bias’ trainings within the sector to adequately respond to racial injustice.
Throughout 2024 and 2025 we built up a comprehensive picture of use of force in prisons through a number of Freedom of Information requests, and interviews with Muslims who have been in prison, providing more real-life testimony to statistics. The FOI data pointed to the disproportionate use of specific techniques, such as rigid bar handcuffs, against Muslims, as well as the failure to scrutinise use of force in line with mandatory guidelines – with disproportionality in use of force against Muslims or other racialised groups not being identified within individual prisons. The data casted doubt on the assertions made in some official reports that disparities in the
treatment of different groups are being monitored and scrutinised, and that there are no obvious patterns in relation to “ethnicity, religion or age”. These findings were shared in a briefng (The Hidden Lives of Muslims in Prison). The briefing was shared widely across the sector and was reported by the Guardian (read the article here). The briefing was shared with over 200 people in the sector, and online through audio-visual social media posts.
Through a number of working groups and networks we influence and shape criminal legal policy and practice, including the Alliance for Youth Justice, Safety not Surveillance Coalition, and Ministry of Justice Segregation Advisory Group. This allows us to share our work more widely, inform policy processes and outputs, and make sure the experiences of Muslims and other racialised groups are recognised and drawn on to create meaningful changes. As often the only Muslim organisation in the room, and one of the very few non-white charities, we have a key role in bringing sharper focus on the issue of racial justice to the conversations which often miss race e.g. regarding the introduction of Pava in children’s prisons.
Building Community reponses to the harms of prison
Within a system that often views Islam as a risk or something to fear, it is important to highlight the role that Islam and practice of faith plays for many Muslims in prison as a supportive factor. Coming Home, a community response to the harms of prison criminalisation and surveillance, is a counselling service offered by Muslim therapists for Muslims. It recognises faith as a vital and practical tool in supporting those affected by the criminal legal system. Through mostly on-line sessions and some in person sessions, we have had over 50 people accessing the service, with up to 4 counselling sessions being provided each week. It continues to be used by a number of people as part of parole hearings, and we receive referrals from numerous prison-leaver support services across the country. Collective supervision sessions for therapists highlights the need for such a service, allowing reflection on the ways that conventional therapeutic health services are ill-suited to recognising the impacts of systemic racism and discrimination on well-being and mental health, and the possibilities of faith as a supportive factor.
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“The talking and understating what is going on in my head, breaking it down for me in terms I can understand. I also found that having that support reassured me that I am not going through this alone. I liked the service as a whole, and would recommend to people coming out, there is nothing I disliked. Thanks for all the support, we need more services like this for ex Muslim prisoners coming out.”
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Schools With Roots
Family Workshops
Since May 2024, we have been running regular workshops for families in Birmingham, creating spaces where parents/carers and children can bring their full selves and where learning is responsive to their experiences and backgrounds. This project was set up with the support of Ort Gallery, an organisation that works with community members in Balsall Heath who are often overlooked. Workshops are held at The Museum of Islamic Arts & Heritage (MIAH), whose work increases the representation and engagement of people of colour and minority groups of Muslim heritage with the arts. Through the sessions, we bring together families to work collaboratively, exploring the themes of identity, community, and resistance in creative ways. Every session is planned and delivered alongside parents/carers and children, utilising their unique skills and experiences. We have welcomed a total of 30 children and parents/ carers to each session and families have shared that they value the sense of community it has nurtured and the space to think creatively about global issues important to them.
"I wanted to say a huge thank you for the workshop during half term. We all really loved it and the children really immersed
themselves into the activities. It's given me a lot of inspiration and food for thought! Thank you so much. Looking forward to the next one!”
“These workshops are so meaningful. This morning my children have been telling their family all about what they learnt. They’re always excited to find out even more about what we learned about together.”
Parent who has attended all the sessions so far.
“We look forward to coming to these sessions as they’re always so fun and both children and adults get to learn so much!”
After School Club
We are grateful to be able to continue working in partnership with one of the founding schools of the project, Sandringham Primary School in Newham, London. In May, we set up an after school club for families. This is the first time a club has involved parents/carers with learning and making for children and their adults alongside each other. All spaces were filled up with a total of 30 children
and their parents/carers attending the weekly sessions. We designed and delivered the sessions alongside local partners Sustainably Muslim and Ardh. The theme of the workshops was Environment and Sustainability. Families went mini-beast hunting on school grounds, made seed-balls, used clay to make leaf moulds and decorated totebags - all while learning about how communities around the world protect our planet.
“It was such a joyful experience. The feedback from parents and children has been so lovely — they’re already asking when you’ll be back for more!”
Parent.
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Criminal Justice
Practical support to those in prison
Another aspect of our practical support has been through Jami’an - a resource which provides guidance to families on how to navigate the prison system, particularly in the first days after a loved one has been imprisoned. Jami’an was launched in September 2024 and has been recognised as a needed and useful resource – it is now being shared directly with family members attending court hearings through PACT volunteer court liaisons, it is available through over 50 community organisations and grassroots groups, mosques, Muslim and non-Muslim organisations across the country. The Muslim Chaplaincy in the Ministry of Justice has shared it with all 243 prison Imams for them to share within prisons and through mosques, and commented ‘The Imams were absolutely gobsmacked that this excellent booklet actually exists. There is no doubt it will be incredibly useful.’
Based on requests for in person ‘clinics’ on Jami’an , in March 2025 we held a drop-in support session in Leicester for those affected by prison or with a loved one in prison. This is both practical - answering questions and provide advice about prison regimes, guidelines, and mandatory provisions that should be available – but also emotional support as people often feel isolated and lost, and benefit from reassurance.
In solidarity with those in prison
As a community led response, Coming Home is intended to offer holistic therapeutic support to those harmed by the criminal legal system. We piloted a women-led space for women affected by prison. Along with community chaplains we organised and held an Iftaar during Ramadan in March 2025. This offered a space for women with shared experiences to come together and talk about issues they were facing or been through in
a supportive, non-judgmental, and warm setting. One participant commented ‘it’s like being back in prison without having to be in prison, the community that we had there’.
It is important that our resources are useful and relevant to those currently in prison. We know that Islamophobia and discrimination increases during Ramadan, including through the denial of basic rights and access to faith. We are able to re-share the Know your Rights in Ramadan section in the first edition of UnCaptured, to provide people in prison and their families with knowledge about what they should be able to expect from prison and staff during Ramadan and Eid, so they can hold them to account. We shared it directly with over 60 people in prison and a number of prisoner and prisoner family support groups, as well as community organisations, including through social media.
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Media/Appearances
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BBC World Service & BBC News hour - Muslim Girls Fence Sandringham Primary School participants and coach Zohra interviewed about Muslim Girls Fence, breaking down barriers and access to sport for Muslim girls and women (August 2024)
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LBC News – Raheel was interviewed by LBC News and called for the government to address the structural racism that resulted in the racist violence on the streets (August 2024)
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Raheel wrote an opinion piece for LBC News - Recent violence is result of structural racism and Islamophobia: the government must take action (August 2024)
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Gave oral evidence for the Women and Equalities Committee on ‘Gendered Islamophobia’ (January 2025) - Allia and Raheel
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Surviving Society Podcast - Maslaha partnered with Surviving Society on this podcast series to explore Islamophobia and anti-Blackness in the prison system (March 2025) - Raheel, Zahbia and Suleman
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The Guardian – Muslim prisoners in England more likely to be subjected to force, charity finds (April 2025)
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Eastern Eye – Muslim prisoners in England more likely to be subjected to force, charity finds (April 2025)
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The New Arab – UK: Muslim inmates more likely to be faced with excessive violence, Islamophobia in jail, data reveals (April 2025)
Events
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Summer School at Springboard Youth Academy to 80 young people. Springboard Youth Academy offers an innovative space and summer school for newly arrived teenagers from migrant backgrounds (August 2024) - Allia, Fabiolla, coaches Rumisa and Minahil, Muslim Girls Fence
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Muslim Girls Fence Youth Facilitator delivered a workshop on feminism, Prevent duty and activism to 30 young people from Revoke, a grassroots organisation advocating for the rights and welfare of displaced and migrant young people and connect with social justice movements (November 2024) - Aisha H, Allia, Fabiolla, Muslim Girls Fence
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Muslim Girls Fence delivered a lunch and learn on ‘Challenging structural Islamophobia in everyday practice’ to over 50 mental health professionals with the Children Young People’s Mental Health Coalition (November 2024) - Allia, Muslim
Girls Fence
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Comic Relief Organisation Induction Day Talk on Muslim Girls Fence, good practice and the impacts of Structural Islamophobia (December 2025) - Allia, Raheel, Muslim Girls Fence
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Muslim Girls Fence core coach training to 12 women and girls to become qualified and trained Muslim Girls Fence coaches who can now deliver fencing in their local community in Tower Hamlets (February 2024) - Allia, Nalette, Helen, Muslim Girls Fence
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Muslims Girls Fence and Archery GB pilot coach
training to 12 women to become coaches in fencing and archery in Birmingham (February 2025) - Nalette, Binni, Sunnah Sports and Muslim Girls Fence
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Muslims Girls Fence and Archery GB pilot coach training to 12 women to become coaches in fencing and archery in Doncaster (February 2025) - Nalette, Binni, Sunnah Sports and Muslim Girls Fence
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Introduction to fencing session led by a young person Emlijia to 20 girls and 38 boys from Muslim Scouts Fellowship in Tower Hamlets from the ages 12-14 (February 2025) - Emlijia, Allia, Muslim Girls Fence
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Community iftar in Tower Hamlets with Revoke, Migrant’s Rights Network for the local migrant and refugee community to over 70 people (March 2025) - Aisha H, Allia, Muslim Girls Fence
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Community iftar in with Madaniya and London for Sudan- a space for connection, reflection and action for Sudan. We wanted to raise awareness and discuss ways to support Sudan, write to MPs to action, Ramadan intentions, mental health discussions, fundraiser for Sudan Benefit fundraiser to over 100 people (March 2025) - Aisha H, Allia and Muslim Girls Fence
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For International Women’s Day in 2025 Debbie Weekes-Bernard London’s Deputy Mayor of Communications and Social Justice for visiting and meeting the incredible fencers at Sandringham Primary School, as one of the case studies for good practice for Go London, Mayor of London funding (March 2025) - Sandringham Primary School Muslim Girls Fence
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Coming Up
Muslim Girls Fence
Muslim Girls Fence will continue to develop our young people’s programme and centring young people’s voices and skills in everything we do. The Youth Facilitators hope to plan more events, workshops specifically around Prevent Duty, knowing your rights in schools and create more resources around issues that matter to them such as mental health, Islamophobia, sexism and racism. We hope through this work to showcase new ways of working and influence policymakers, funders and youth, sport, mental health and VAWG sector and organisations to have a multi-dimensional and accurate reflection of the needs and experiences of Muslim women and girls through our youth-led findings, evidence, resources and research. We will be developing our coach development programme across the country to support our coach workforce through bespoke training, resources and development plans as well looking to secure and support with localised funding for local community Muslim Girls Fence groups.
Schools With Roots
We are excited to continue working directly with parents/carers and families in London and Birmingham, embedding the work from this
year. We plan to turn the session plans that have been designed and delivered alongside families into a resource that can be used by educators in different spaces, as an example of how teaching can be socially, locally and culturally relevant and responsive to the children and communities they work with.
We look forward to sharing our approach and resources through upcoming workshops, including restarting sessions at the University of East London and training on Islamophobia for staff at the Association of Education Psychologists. We look forward to strengthening existing partnerships and nurturing new ones - in the coming months we will be working with the team at Anti-Racist Cumbria as they develop their programme for young people in the region.
We plan to build a community of teachers, bringing together educators in London and Birmingham, inperson, to further develop the work we have been doing. We plan to use this space to collaboratively work on resources that can then be implemented into practice in the schools that teachers come from. They can then also influence change more widely and challenge the current approach to education, through providing alternatives that are rooted in practice.
Criminal Justice
We will continue to work with partners to improve access to services for Muslims in prison. We will aim to increase religious and racial literacy within these organisations, including an understanding of how Islamophobia and racism affect uptake of their services and the wellbeing of Muslims.
We will continue to build and offer practical interventions to those in prison and their families through services like Coming Home , as well as expand the tools we use to do so: one-to-one support; drop-in clinics; peer-to-peer support; development and dissemination of practical guidance such as Jam'ian ; and education and learning opportunities.
We will be focusing on centring the voices and experiences of those harmed by criminalisation and prisons to build knowledge and evidence of Muslims in prison. This will be used to shape public imagination and community awareness, and mobilise wider community support for affected individuals and families.
We will use evidence to continue to critically analyse and interrogate prison policy and guidelines to better hold prisons to account. We will focus on building coalitions to challenge and shift the increasingly worrying trends in the ‘use of force’ in prisons, particularly against racialised communities, including the public narratives that underpin them.
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Thanks
Maslaha gratefully acknowledges funding in 2024/2025 from:
Barrow Cadbury Lloyds Foundation
Barrow Cadbury Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust Lloyds Foundation National Lottery A B Charitable Trust Tudor Trust Network for Social Change Esmee Fairbairn Sport England Pears Foundation Comic Relief
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Financial Summary
Financial Review Reserves Policy
During the year 2025 Maslaha made a net loss of £21,077 (2023: net loss of £29,817) resulting in net assets of £692,901 (2023: £713,978). 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.
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:
To support cash flow during a timing discrepancy within a project which is demonstrably on budget overall
To cover unexpected or unforeseen costs that need to be borne by the organisation.
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:
1. To advance the education of the public in the subject of the Islamic faith and its practice and to there- by promote a greater awareness and understanding of Islam and its daily practice amongst Muslims and non-Muslims alike;
2. To promote equality and diversity for the public benefit in particular but not exclusively by:
(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
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 – Communications and Project Manager
Our trustees
Alia Alzougbi Jane Earl Jodie Beck Sameer Rahim Shereen Fernandez
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
Goldwins Chartered accountants 75 Maygrove Road, West Hampstead, London NW6 2EG
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Report of the trustees
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:
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Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
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Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
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State whether the policies adopted are in accordance with the Companies Act 2006 and with applicable accounting standards and statements of recommended practice, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;
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Prepare the financial statements on an ongoing concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue in business.
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 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 of the trustees, on 4 December 2025:
Alia Alzougbi
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Independent examiner’s report to the Trustees of Maslaha for the year ended 31 March 2025
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Company for the year ended 31 March 2025.
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
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. A Hh ony Epten Anthony Epton BA FCA CTA
Goldwins Chartered accountants 75 Maygrove Road, West Hampstead, London NW6 2EG
4 December 2025
4. the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for
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Accounts
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| Statement of financial activities (incorporating an income and expenditure account) For the year ended 31 March 2025 |
2025 2024 Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds Total Funds Total Funds Note £ £ £ £ Income from: 3 573 - 573 75 4 125,635 267,012 392,647 428,058 5 5,100 1,000 6,100 1,550 131,308 268,012 399,320 429,683 6 85,574 334,823 420,397 459,500 85,574 334,823 420,397 459,500 7 45,734 (66,811) (21,077) (29,817) - - - - 45,734 (66,811) (21,077) (29,817) Reconciliation of funds: 493,547 220,431 713,978 743,795 539,281 153,620 692,901 713,978 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 Statement of cash flows For the year ended 31 March 2025 |
Note 2025 2024 Cash flows from operating activities: £ £ a 3,048 (26,195) Cash flows from investing activities: Sale/ (purchase) of fixed assets - - Change in cash and cash equivalents in the year 3,048 (26,195) Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year 673,070 699,265 Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year b 676,118 673,070 a) 2025 2024 £ £ Net income / (expenditure) for the reporting period(as per the statement of financial activities) (21,077) (29,817) Decrease / (Increase) in debtors 21,000 5,000 Increase / (Deccrease) in creditors 3,125 (1,378) Net cash provided by / (used in) operating activities 3,048 (26,195) b) Analysis of cash and cash equivalents Cash flows £ £ £ £ Cash at bank and in hand 673,070 3,048 - 676,118 Total cash and cash equivalents 673,070 3,048 - 676,118 At 31 March 2025 At 1 April 2024 Other changes Net cash provided by / (used in) operating activities Reconciliation of net income / (expenditure) to net cash flow from |
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| 1 Accounting policies |
a) Basis of preparation | 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. | b) Reconciliation with previously Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (GAAP) | 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. | c) Going concern | The trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties about the charitable company's ability to continue as a going | concern. | d) Income | 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. | e) Donations of gifts, services and facilities | 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. | f) Interest receivable |
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. | g) Fund accounting | 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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| 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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| 2024 | Total | Funds | £ | 75 | 428,058 | 1,550 | 429,683 | 459,500 | 459,500 | (29,817) | - | (29,817) | - | (29,817) | (29,817) | 743,795 | 713,978 | 2024 | Total | Funds | £ | 75 | 75 | |||
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| Restricted | Funds | £ | - | 226,658 | 500 | 227,158 | 368,533 | 368,533 | (141,375) | - | (141,375) | - | (141,375) | (141,375) | 361,806 | 220,431 | 2025 | Total | Funds | £ | 573 | 573 | ||||
| Unrestricted | Funds | £ | 75 | 201,400 | 1,050 | 202,525 | 90,967 | 90,967 | 111,558 | - | 111,558 | - | 111,558 | 111,558 | 381,989 | 493,547 | Restricted | Funds | £ | - | - | |||||
| Income from: | Donations and legacies | Charitable activities | 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 | 3 Income from donations and legacies |
Unrestricted | Funds | £ | Donations 573 |
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| 2024 | Total | Funds | £ | 50,000 | 10,750 | - | 27,616 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 2,400 | 20,000 | 49,991 | 100,012 | 29,000 | 10,000 | 8,016 | 20,273 | 428,058 | 2024 | Total | Funds | £ | 1,550 | 1,550 | ||||
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| 2025 | Total | Funds | £ | 50,000 | 53,250 | 35,000 | - | 5,000 | 50,000 | - | 16,635 | - | 100,012 | 4,000 | 10,000 | 50,000 | 18,750 | 392,647 | 2025 | Total | Funds | £ | 6,100 | 6,100 | ||||
| Restricted | Funds | £ | - | 53,250 | 35,000 | 100,012 | 10,000 | 50,000 | 18,750 | 267,012 | Restricted | Funds | £ | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||||||||||||
| Unrestricted | Funds | £ | 50,000 | - | - | - | 5,000 | 50,000 | - | 16,635 | 4,000 | 125,635 | Unrestricted | Funds | £ | 5,100 | 5,100 | |||||||||||
| 4 Income from charitable activities |
Income earned from charitable activities | Grants | Pears Foundation | Barrow Cadbury Trust | Comic Relief | Sports England | Esmee Fairbairn | Tudor Trust | King's College | Joseph Rowntree | National Lottery | National Lottery - SWR | AB Charitable Trust | The Bromley Trust | Network For Social NSCCT | Go London | Total income from charitable activities | 5 Income from other trading activities |
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| Maslaha Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 31 March 2025 |
6 Charitable activities 2025 Total 2024 Total £ £ £ Staff costs 306,289 306,289 325,516 Direct cost Project costs 56,435 56,435 102,861 Publicity & Reports 7,245 7,245 - Support cost Office costs 37,001 37,001 18,766 Governance cost Bank charges 126 126 132 Examiner's fees 1,488 1,488 1,200 Accountancy fees 11,813 11,813 11,025 Total expenditure 2025 420,397 420,397 459,500 Total expenditures 2024 459,500 459,500 Charitable activities 2024 Total 2023 Total £ £ £ Staff costs 325,516 325,516 268,864 Direct cost Project costs 102,861 102,861 45,190 Publicity & Reports - - 300 Support cost Office costs 18,766 18,766 19,644 Governance cost Bank charges 132 132 130 Examiner's fees 1,200 1,200 1,100 Accountancy fees 11,025 11,025 4,925 Total expenditure 2024 459,500 459,500 340,153 Total expenditures 2023 340,153 340,153 Analysis of expenditure-prior year Analysis of expenditure Of the total expenditure, £85,574 was unrestricted (2024: £90,967) and £334,823 was restricted (2024: £368,533). |
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| Maslaha Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 31 March 2025 |
7 2025 2024 £ £ 1,000 1,000 8 2025 2024 £ £ 273,643 283,846 20,486 22,802 12,160 13,806 - 5,062 306,289 325,516 2025 2024 1 - - 1 9 2025 2024 No. No. 3.0 3.0 1.5 1.5 0.5 0.5 5.0 5.0 £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 The total employee benefits including pension contributions of the key management personnel were £92,589 (2024: £86,623). Social security costs Salaries and wages Other staff costs Staff pension costs The charity trustees were not paid or received any other benefits from employment with the charity in the year (2024: £nil). No charity trustee received payment for professional or other services supplied to the charity (2024: £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: £80,001 -£89,000 Charitable activity |
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2024 £ 50,000 50,000 2024 £ 6,892 - 2,200 9,092
2025 £ 29,000 29,000 2025 £ 7,013 1,204 4,000 12,217
Legal status of the charity 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. Taxation The charitable company is exempt from corporation tax as all its income is charitable and is applied for charitable purposes. Debtors Accured income Creditors: amounts falling due within one year Taxation & social security Pension liabilities Accruals
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| Maslaha Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 31 March 2025 |
14 General Unrestricted funds Designated Funds Restricted Funds Total funds £ £ £ £ Net current assets 539,281 - 153,620 692,901 Net assets at the end of the year 539,281 - 153,620 692,901 General Unrestricted funds Designated Funds Restricted Funds Total funds £ £ £ £ Net current assets 493,547 - 220,431 713,978 Net assets at the end of the year 493,547 - 220,431 713,978 15 Movements in funds Transfers £ £ £ £ £ Restricted funds: Barrow Cadbury - 53,250 (53,250) - - National Lottery - SWR 59,424 100,012 (68,609) - 90,827 National Lottery 36,053 - (36,053) - - Comic Relief - 36,000 (28,304) - 7,696 Lloyds Foundation 100,547 - (100,547) - - The Bromley Trust - 10,000 (100) - 9,900 Go London 16,391 18,750 (35,141) - - Network For Social NSCCT 8,016 50,000 (12,819) - 45,197 Total restricted funds 220,431 268,012 (334,823) - 153,620 General funds Total Unrestricted Funds 493,547 131,308 (85,574) - 539,281 Total unrestricted funds 493,547 131,308 (85,574) - 539,281 Total funds including pension fund 713,978 399,320 (420,397) - 692,901 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 Analysis of net assets between funds |
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| At the | end of | the year | £ | - | 59,424 | 36,053 | - | 100,547 | - | - | 16,391 | 8,016 | 220,431 | 493,547 | 493,547 | 713,978 | |||
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| Transfers | £ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
| Outgoing | resources & | losses | £ | (10,750) | (94,315) | (84,686) | (68,692) | (65,528) | (30,680) | (10,000) | (3,882) | - | (368,533) | (90,967) | (90,967) | (459,500) | |||
| Incoming | resources & | gains | £ | 10,750 | 100,012 | 49,991 | 27,616 | 500 | - | 10,000 | 20,273 | 8,016 | 227,158 | 202,525 | 202,525 | 429,683 | |||
| At the start | of the year | £ | - | 53,727 | 70,748 | 41,076 | 165,575 | 30,680 | - | - | - | 361,806 | 381,989 | 381,989 | 743,795 | ||||
| Movements in funds-prior year | Restricted funds: | Barrow Cadbury | National Lottery - SWR | National Lottery | Sports England | Lloyds Foundation | Baring Foundation | The Bromley Trust | Go London | Network For Social NSCCT | Total restricted funds | General funds | Total Unrestricted Funds | Total unrestricted funds | Total funds including pension fund |
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| Barrow Cadbury | The purpose of this grant is to improving vital services for Muslims in the prison system and highlighting | systemic racism. | Porticus Foundation | Developing Maslaha methodologies and tools to challenge educational inequality in UK primary schools. | Baring Foundation | Using legal tools to highlight the discrimination faced by Muslims in prison. | Sports England | This is a continuation of Muslim girl Fence in the context of inactivity and economic disadvantage. | 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 | 16 Operating lease commitments |
At the balance sheet date, the charity had no financial commmitment under non-cancellable operating leases. | 17. Related party transactions |
There are no related party transactions to disclose for the year (2024: 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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