2025-03-30-accounts - Zainabiya Welfare Foundation

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date 01 04 2024 31 03 2025

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Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Zainabiya Welfare Foundation Other names charity is known by Zainabiya Reading

Zainabiya Welfare Foundation

	Registered charity number (if any) 1153961 Charity's principal address 4-6 School Road Tilehurst Reading Postcode RG31 5AL ~~ee~~	Registered charity number (if any) 1153961 Charity's principal address 4-6 School Road Tilehurst Reading Postcode RG31 5AL ~~ee~~	Registered charity number (if any) 1153961 Charity's principal address 4-6 School Road Tilehurst Reading Postcode RG31 5AL ~~ee~~	Registered charity number (if any) 1153961 Charity's principal address 4-6 School Road Tilehurst Reading Postcode RG31 5AL ~~ee~~
	Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
1	Hussain Haidry
2	Mumtaz Ali Shigri
3	Mohammad Amir Saqlain
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14 15 16 17 18 19 20	Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees) ~~=== ==~~
	Name		Dates acted if not for whole year

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser	Name	Address




Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document

Constitution

(eg. trust deed, constitution)

Trust

How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Elected Members Trustee selection methods

(eg. trust, association, company)
(eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
relationship with any related parties;
trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

(I)To advance the religion of Islam, by means of promoting the teaching and tenets of Islam, provision of facilities for worship and religious ceremonies and provision of services for Islamic education in accordance with the teachings of the Shia ItnaAshri doctrine (II) To relieve financial hardship among the poor, the underprivileged, victims of natural and manmade disasters and people in need

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Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

The trustees in planning the activities for the year, reviewed the guidance on public benefit issued by charity commission. The following are broadly heading under which the main activities are classified. 1) The Advancement of religion- One of the main objective of the charity is to advance the religion of Islam and provide the facilities for worship and religious ceremonies. Zainabiya held the Thursday evening programs and Friday Prayers for the whole 52 weeks of the year for its members. We also organised all major festivals of the Islam's Shia sect. 2) The Advancement of Education- Zainabiya also holds Sunday School Club for children. This is where the children have a play club and also are encouraged to learn the values of family and community. Along with this they are also given basic knowledge of Islamic principles. 3) The Prevention or Relief of Poverty. Zainabiya will continue to work actively for prevention or relief of poverty. We provide free food to people in need during our Thursday programs. Continue to work with and support other charities to also help on a wider society. 4) During the Year the charity also started a Funeral Fund to help support charity members during bereavement of family members.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;
contribution made by volunteers.

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Section D Achievements and performance

The Friday prayers and Thursday evening community program both were Summary of the main held for the whole year. Also all major Shia religious programs were achievements of the charity celebrated. Sunday school club was run. during the year

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Section E Financial review

The charity doesn’t have a reserve policy.

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

The accounts show a net loss of £765, but it is mitigated by the fact that a Details of any funds materially loan of £5000 was returned and as such some expenses could be in deficit incurred based on these extra funds. Charity adjusts its activity in line with available cashflow.

Further financial review details (Optional information)

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the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) H I Haidry

Full name(s) Hussain Haidry

Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Trustee etc)

Date 26/01/2026

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||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Zainabiya Welfare Foundation|1153961| |Receipts and payments accounts|CC16a| |For the period|01/05/2024|31/03/2025| |To| |from| |es|ee|Oo| |Section A Receipts and payments| |Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment| |Total funds|Last year| |funds|funds|funds| |to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £| |A1 Receipts| |Donations|62,075|9,336|-|71,412|70,870| |Gift Aid|4,212|-|-|4,212| |-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| |Sub total|(Gross income for| |AR)|[ 66,287 ]|9,336|-|75,624|70,870| |A2 Asset and investment sales,| |(see table).| |-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| |Sub total|-|-|-|-|-| |Total receipts|66,287|9,336|-|75,624|70,870| |—|—| |A3 Payments| |Expense For Maulana|23,367|-|-|23,367|25,625| |Catering|18,148|-|-|18,148|5,695| |Utilities|4,347|-|-|4,347|4,180| |Rates|600|-|-|600|900| |Charity Relief|-|-|-|-| |Building Refurb|750|-|-|750|1,335| |Loan Int|8,578|-|-|10,981|7,983| |Loan Cap|2,403|-|-|-|3,033| |Madersa Sunday|8,860|-|-|8,860|8,381| |Sub total|[ 67,053 ]|-|-|67,053|57,132| |A4 Asset and investment| |purchases, (see table)| |-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-| |Sub total|[ - ]|-|-|-|-| |Total payments|———|[ 67,053 ]|-|-|——|67,053|57,132| |Net of receipts/(payments)|- 765|9,336|- 8,571|13,738| |A5 Transfers between funds|-|- -|-|-| |A6 Cash funds last year end|21,662|-|21,662|-| |Cash funds this year end|20,897|9,336|- 30,233|13,738|

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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

30/01/2026

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at	Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at	the end of the period
Categories Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B5 Liabilities B3 Investment assets	Signature H I Haidry Lloyds Loan Details Details Trust Building Bank Account Loan To Member Details Details *Total cash funds* (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details	Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 20,897 9,336 - - - 20,897 9,336 OK OK Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) 395,000 - - - - - - - - Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) 102,927 - - - - Print Name Hussain Haidry	Endowment funds to nearest £ - - -
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			Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - - - Current value (optional) - - - - - Current value (optional) - - - - - - - - - When due (optional) Date of approval 26/01/2026

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

30/01/2026

Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/ Zainabiya Welfare Foundation members of On accounts for the year 31[st] March 2025 Charity no 1153961 ended (if any) Set out on pages

(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 / 03 / 2025 .

Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have examiner's statement come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.

Date: 26/01/2026 Signed: ~~we| |~~ Name: Pushpal Basnet ~~Ps~~ Relevant professional ACCA qualification(s) or body (if any):

Address: The Blossoms Tiverton Close, Woodley RG5 3BE

October 2018

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Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

October 2018

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