2025-04-02-accounts - Bangladesh Islamic Culture Centre

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Registered Number 1141413

BANGLADESH ISLAMIC CULTURE CENTRE

Report and Financial Statements

For the Year ended 02 April 2025

BANGLADESH ISLAMIC CULTURE CENTRE

REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS For the Year ended 02 April 2025

Contents	Page
Legal and Administrative Information	3
Report of the Trustees	4-8
Independent Examiner's report	9
Statement of Financial Activities	10
Balance sheet	11
Notes forming part of the financial statements	12-13

BANGLADESH ISLAMIC CULTURE CENTRE

REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

For the Year ended 02 April 2025

TRUSTEES

Mr. Abdul Gofur Mr. Abdul Kuddus

Mr Mumin Ali Ali

Mr. Ayub Miah

Mr. JamalL Uddin Uddin

Mr. Abdul Sufan

REGISTERED OFFICE

30 Cooks Spinney

Harlow

Essex

CM20 3BJ

BANKERS

Barclays Bank Harlow

Essex

EXAMINER

RASHEED SALIU (FCA, FCCA, FTA) AACSL ACCOUNTANTS LIMITED 1st Floor, North Westgate House

Harlow

Essex

CM20 1YS

CHARITY NUMBER

1141413

BANGLADESH ISLAMIC CULTURE CENTRE

REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES

For the Year ended 02 April 2025

The Trustees, for the purposes of the Charities Act 1993 as amended and Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) 2005, submit their annual report and financial statements For the Year ended 02 April 2025. The Trustees have adopted the provisions of the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) “Accounting and Reporting by Charities” issued in March 2005 in preparing the annual report and financial statements of the Charity. The Charity is governed by a Memorandum and Articles of Association.

PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES, AIMS AND ORGANISATION OF THE CHARITY

The primary objective of the charity is to build an Islamic Centre with separate Arabic and Quranic classes for boys and girls aged 5-12years.

This project presents a great challenge and a valuable opportunity for Muslims to contribute to this ongoing charity, the rewards for which will accompany them after the end of this life. BANGLADESH ISLAMIC CULTURE CENTRE is a registered charity. All trustees, management committee members, and volunteers are unpaid.

We believe in a lifelong learning process. We believe in bringing positive changes to the lives of individuals who come to the centre. We have shared values about being inclusive and value-led.

THE MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE ORGANISATION DURING THE PERIOD WERE:

➢ Continuous establishment of regular daily and Friday prayers in the hall.
➢ Establishment of a Mosque committee to co-ordinate the activities of the charity. This committee has organised various events within the year, including the recent “Community wellbeing.”
➢ Established partnerships with the local Council and the immediate community. This is being achieved through various events organised as mentioned above.
➢ Establishment of weekly Sunday Lecture by different scholars within the immediate community to serve as remembrance to the members (through Ibaadurraheem).
➢ Regular Neighbourhood and Policing (NAP) meeting
➢ Liaising with the police on Anti-social behaviour
➢ Crime prevention workshops
➢ Fire safety workshop.

BANGLADESH ISLAMIC CULTURE CENTRE

REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES (Continued)

For the Year ended 02 April 2025

PLANS FOR THE FUTURE

➢ The Charity will continue to consolidate its programmes and seek their sustainability through individual worshippers.
➢ Continue to impact Islamic knowledge through the organised Arabic classes for boys and girls.
➢ We plan to develop the Centre as contained in our objectives.
➢ Ensure the Centre is open 5 times a day, every day of the year, in order to uphold the established regular daily and Friday prayers.
➢ Position the Centre to host Islamic activities, such as marriages and other functions.
➢ Purchase and establish a fully functioning Car Park for the use of the worshipers and the community.

INCOME GENERATION

The Charity has generated £35,582 (£68,118 in the year ended 02 April 2024) in donations during the year ended 02 April 2025. This includes both direct transfers into charity’s account and cash donations.

RISKS

The factors that may affect the Charity’s delivery of its objectives include:

a) Reputation of Charity and the relationship with the community.

BANGLADESH ISLAMIC CULTURE CENTRE produces an annual plan for delivery against its objectives. This plan outlines the targets for the year and is then broken down into a work plan. BANGLADESH ISLAMIC CULTURE CENTRE has developed a strategy, which specifies how it will deliver the key programmes of work. The strategy also identifies targets and performance indicators.

RESERVES POLICY

The Charity aims to build a reserve which will enable it to meet its average annual operational need. The Trustees review the reserves held by the Charity regularly to ensure that an appropriate level of funds is maintained to meet the Charity's policy going forward. The Charity's fund is unrestricted.

BANGLADESH ISLAMIC CULTURE CENTRE

REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES (continued)

For the Year ended 02 April 2025

GOVERNANCE AND INTERNAL CONTROL

A Board of Trustees governs the Charity. The Board of Trustees selects new Trustees and is subject to re-election every five years. As of 2 April 2025, the Board had a membership of six people.

The Board meets three times a year to agree key policy decisions, set the strategy for the Charity, and oversee its performance. Currently, the Board has committee members responsible for the day-to-day activities of the Charity. None of the committee members is being remunerated.

All Trustees receive the handbook for Trustees provided through the Charity Commission. Each Trustee will have an induction programme by other Trustees and receive an information pack on the Charity and its finances. Furthermore, the Charity adheres to the code of practice for governance developed by the Governance Hub.

Company law requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year, which comply with the Charities Act 1993 as amended.

The systems of internal control are designed to provide reasonable, but not absolute, assurance against material misstatement or loss.

They include:

➢ A strategic plan and annual budget approved by the Trustees;
➢ Regular consideration by the Trustees of financial results, in particular variance from budget; and delegation of authority and segregation of duties.

STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES RESPONSIBILITIES IN RESPECT OF THE TRUSTEES' ANNUAL REPORT AND THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

The trustees are responsible for preparing the Trustees' Annual Report and the financial statements by applicable law and regulations.

Company law requires trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year by UK Accounting Standards and applicable law (UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

The financial statements are required by law to give an accurate and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the excess of income over expenditure for that period

In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:

➢ Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently.
➢ Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent.
➢ state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and
➢ Prepare the financial statements on a going concern basis, unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Charity will continue its activities.

The trustees are responsible for maintaining proper accounting records that disclose, with reasonable accuracy, the financial position of the charitable company at any time and enable them to ensure that its financial statements comply with the Charities Act 1993, as amended. They have general responsibility for taking such steps as are reasonably open to them to safeguard the assets of the charitable company and to prevent, detect, and investigate fraud and other irregularities.

BANGLADESH ISLAMIC CULTURE CENTRE

REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES (continued) YEAR ENDED 02 April 2025

DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION TO EXAMINER

The trustees who held office at the date of approval of this trustees’ report confirm that, so far as they are each aware, there is no relevant information of which the Charity’s examiner is unaware; and each trustee has taken all the steps that he/she ought to have taken as a trustee to make himself/ herself aware of any relevant information and to establish that the Charity’s examiner is aware of that information.

EXAMINER

In line with the provision exemption in the Charities Act 1993 as amended, the trust decided to appoint an examiner, which will review the accounts For the Year ended 02 April 2025. In accordance with this appointment, Mr Rasheed Saliu (FCCA, FFTA, FFA) was appointed as examiner.

Approved by the Board of Trustees and signed on behalf of the Board by:

Mr. Abdul Gofur

On behalf of the trust.

Trustee

Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of BANGLADESH ISLAMIC CULTURE CENTRE

I report on the accounts of the Trust for the Year ended 02 April 2025, which are set out on pages 10 to 13.

Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner

The charity’s trustees are responsible for preparing the accounts. The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year (under section 43(2) of the Charities Act 1993 (the 1993 Act)) and that an independent examination is needed.

It is my responsibility to:

➢ Examine the accounts (under section 43(3)(a) of the 1993 Act);
➢ To follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners (under section 43(7)(b) of the 1993 Act); and
➢ To state whether particular matters have come to my attention.

Basis of independent examiner’s report

My examination was conducted by the General Directions provided by the Charity Commissioners. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit; consequently, I do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts.

Independent examiner’s statement

In connection with my examination, nothing has come to my attention.

(1) Which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect, the requirements?

➢ To keep accounting records by section 41 of the 1993 Act; and
➢ To prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the 1993 Act as amended.

Have not been met; or

(2) To which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

RASHEED SALIU (FCCA, FFTA, FTA)

AACSL ACCOUNTANTS LTD

1st Floor, North Westgate House

Harlow

Essex

CM20 1YS

21 July 2025

BANGLADESH ISLAMIC CULTURE CENTRE

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES (Incorporating an Income and Expenditure Account) YEAR ENDED 02 APRIL 2025

Un-restricted funds 2025 Notes £ INCOMING RESOURCES Donations, Legacies and similar incoming resources 25,221 TOTAL INCOMING RESOURCES 2 25,221 RESOURCES EXPENDED Cost of generating funds: Cost of generating voluntary Income 18,315 Charitable Activities: Community Projects - Mosque Project TOTAL RESOURCES EXPENDED 3 18,315 Net income/(expenditure) 6,906 Funds brought forward 534,589 Net movement in funds and funds balance carried forward as at 02 April 2025 541,495	Restricted Funds 2025 £ 10,360 10,360 - 16,196 16,196 5,836 - - 5,836 -	Total Funds 2025 £ 35,582 35,582 18,315 16,196 34,511 1,071 534,589 535,660	Total Funds 2024 £ 68,118
			68,118
			- 16,640 - 56,676
			73,316
			5,198 - 539,787
			534,589

BANGLADESH ISLAMIC CULTURE CENTRE BALANCE SHEET

AS AT 02 APRIL 2025

FIXED ASSETS Building at cost Accumulated depreciation TOTAL FIXED ASSETS CURRENT ASSETS Debtors and accrued income Cash at bank and in hand CREDITORS: amount falling due within one year Creditors & Accrued Expenses Net Current assets/(Liabilities) TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES FINANCED BY: Unrestricted funds Restricted Funds TOTAL FUNDS	2025 Total £ 545,000 (16,350)	2024 Total £ 545,000 10,900 -
	528,650	534,100
	8,527 8,527 1,517	2,006
		2,006
		1,517
	1,517	1,517

	535,660	534,589
	541,495 5,836 -	561,109 26,520 -
	535,660	534,589

BANGLADESH ISLAMIC CULTURE CENTRE

NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS

For the Year ended 02 April 2025

Note 1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of preparation

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP), “Accounting and Reporting by Charities” (2005), the Charity Act 1993 and applicable UK accounting standards.

Cash flow statement

Under FRS 1 the Charity is exempt from the requirement to prepare a cash flow statement on the grounds that the charity is below the threshold specified in Appendix 2 of the FRS1.

Fund accounting

General funds are unrestricted funds which are available for use at the discretion of the Trustees in furtherance of the objectives of the Charity and which have not been designated for other purposes.

Restricted funds are funds which are to be used in accordance with specific restrictions imposed by donors or which have been raised by the Charity for particular purposes. The costs of raising and administering such funds are charged against the specific fund. The aim and use of each restricted fund are set out in Note 2.

Investment income and gains are allocated to the appropriate fund.

Incoming resources

All incoming resources are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) when the Charity is legally entitled to the income and the amount can be quantified with reasonable accuracy. The grant income is related to performance, and specific deliverables are accounted for as the Charity earns the right to consideration by its performance. Where income is received in advance, its recognition is deferred and included in the creditors' accounts. Where entitlement occurs before income is received, the revenue is accrued.

Resources expended

All expenditures are accounted for on an accruals basis and have been classified under headings that aggregate all costs related to each category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings, they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources. Premises overheads have been allocated on a floor-by-floor basis, and other overheads have been assigned based on head count.

Community project costs refer to expenses incurred directly in support of the objects of the Charity. The community project cost includes other support costs incurred in support of the Charity's objectives. Governance costs are those incurred in connection with governance arrangements of the Charity, which relate to the general running of the Charity and compliance with constitutional and statutory requirements. The basis for allocating support costs and governance costs is explained in Note 3.

Note 2. TOTAL INCOMING RESOURCES

Voluntary Income Un-restricted: Other income Restricted: Other Income - Mosque Project Note 3. TOTAL RESOURCES EXPENDED Cost of generating funds Restricted - Mosque Project Governance Costs - Depreciation Note 4. FIXED ASSETS Cost Additions Revaluation Disposal Total Costs Basis Rate Balance brought forward Charge for the year Revaluation Impairment Disposal Transfers Balance carried forward	2025 2025 2024 £ £ £ 25,221 25,221 37,962 10,360 10,360 497,200 35,582 35,582 535,162 Direct Support 2025 2024 Costs Costs Total Total £ £ £ £ 12,865 - 12,865 11,190 16,196 16,196 56,676 5,450 - 5,450 5,450 18,315 16,196 34,511 73,316 2025 2024 Freehold Land Building Roof Equipment Total £ £ £ £ £ - 545,000 - - - - - - - 545,000 - - - - - - - - - -
	- 545,000 - - 545,000
	0% 1% 4% 4% 10,900 - - 5,450 - 5,450 - - 5,450
	- 16,350 - - 10,900

The Charity continues to use component accounting in acordance with provision of FRS15 and Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice on tangible assets

Note 5 CREDITORS: amount falling due within one year

This is made up as follows: Water supply - last quarter Note 6. Total Funds Reserve brought Forward Surplus/(DeficIt) for the year	2025 2024 £ £ 1,517 1,517 1,517 1,517 2025 2024 2023 £ £ £ 534,589 539,787 141,275 1,071 5,198 - 398,512.00
	535,660 534,589 539,787

Note 7. TAXATION

BANGLADESH ISLAMIC CULTURE CENTRE is a registered charity and is thus exempt from taxation of its income and gains falling within Section 505 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 or Section 256 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 to the extent that they are applied to its charitable objectives. No tax charge has arisen in the year.