Charity No. 1157098
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Muslim Trust Al-Aalami
(A Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
Annual Report and Financial Statements
for the Period from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2024
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Contents
Legal and administrative information
Report of the Trustees
Receipts and Payments Statement of Assets and Liabilities
Notes forming part of the financial statements
Legal and administrative information
Charity number 1157098 Registered address 14 Ferndale Road, Birmingham, B28 9AX Trustees Hafiz Mohammad Hassan (Chair) Tahira Ahmed
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Muslim Trust Al-Aalami
Trustees' Report
The Trustees present their annual report and accounts for the period ended 30 June 2024.
The accounts have been prepared in accordance with the receipts and payments basis in accordance with the Charity Commission guidance
Structure, governance and management
The Charity is constituted as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) Foundation, as a body corporate under Part 11 of the Charities Act 2011 on the 16 May 2014. The CIO registered with the Charity Commission on the same day.
Trustees are legally responsible for the governance and management of the charity. There are three founding Trustees that are appointed for life. Trustees are responsible of setting strategies and policies for ensuring these are implemented.
Risk management
The charity's trustees have considered the major risks to which the charity is exposed and have reviewed potential risks. Systems and procedures have been put in place to manage the risks and to mitigate any adverse outcomes.
Objectives and activities
The governing scheme defines the charity's objects as being to:
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To promote the teachings and tenets of Islam, through worship, rites of passage, and provision of facilities for Islamic education in accordance with the teachings of the holy Qur’an and the Sunnah of the prophet Muhammad (pbuh) as defined by imams and scholars of the Sunni HanafiBarelwi school of thought of the Asian subcontinent.
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To advance education for the public benefit by providing scriptural, cultural and spiritual educational activities as well as organising educational supplementary support and facilitating language classes.
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The prevention or relief of poverty or financial hardship anywhere in the world by providing or assisting in the provision of education, training, healthcare, food, basic necessities, clean water, shelter projects and all the necessary support designed to enable individuals to generate a sustainable income and be self-sufficient.
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To provide facilities for recreation or other leisure-time occupation to those in need by reason of their youth, age, infirmity, disability, financial hardship or social and economic circumstances.
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To promote knowledge and mutual understanding and respect of the beliefs and practices of different religious faiths to the public highlighting shared values and common interests.
Achievements and Performance
The charity has not been able to operate during the period.
Previously, the Trust worked in partnership with a locally registered charity in Pakistan called Mehria Islamic Educational Trust. Muslim Trust Al-Aalami funded a mosque construction project managed by Mehria Islamic Educational Trust.
The mosque is situated in a poor and deprived area in village of District Khushab of Pakistan, Punjab province. The Mosque once complete will cater for over 1000 worshipers and will provide many facilities such as:
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Daily prayers
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Eid and funeral prayers
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Religious evening school for all ages
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Hosting of large community and religious gatherings
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This year the following progress was made:
Ground Floor building was constructed.
Windows and Doors were purchased and fitted.
Further materials have been purchased, to continue with the next phase.
Financial review
The charity raised £9.9k (2023: £14.4k) and spent £3,400 (2023: £225). The remaining bank balance of the charity is £20.9k.
Future plans
The Trust plans to continue to fund the construction of a school, a hostel for boys and girls, an orphanage for the orphans and a hospital which will provide free health care for the public.
Future plan in the UK is to help the poor and needy by working alongside other charities and organising food banks and soup kitchens.
Trustees' responsibilities statement
The trustees are responsible for preparing the Trustees’ Annual Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
The law applicable to charities in England & Wales requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources of the charity for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:
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select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
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observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP;
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make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
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state whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;
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prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in operation.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the provisions of the trust deed. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities
This report was approved by the trustees on 31 May 2025 and signed on their behalf by:
Tahira Ahmed
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Tahira Ahmed Trustee
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MUSLIM TRUST AL-AALAMI (Reg.1157098) Receipts and Payments Accounts
From 1st July 2022 to 30th June 2024
| Receipts Donations Sub total Assets and Investment sales Total receipts Payments Fund Raising Printing Independent examiner's fee Advertising and publicity Subtotal Assets and Investment purchases Total payments Net of receipts/(payments) Transfers between funds Cash funds last as at last year end Cash funds as at year end |
Unrestricted Restricted Total Total Funds Funds 2024 2023 £ £ £ £ 0 9,937 9,937 14,421 |
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| 0 9,937 9,937 14,421 0 0 0 0 |
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| 0 9,937 9,937 14,421 |
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| 1,300 1,300 0 0 0 0 225 0 900 900 0 0 1,200 1,200 0 |
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| 0 3,400 3,400 225 0 0 0 0 |
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| 0 3,400 3,400 225 |
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| 0 6,537 6,537 14,196 |
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| 0 0 0 0 0 14,458 14,458 262 |
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| 0 20,995 20,995 14,458 |
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MUSLIM TRUST AL-AALAMI (Reg.1157098)
Statement of Assets and Liabilities
As at 30 June 2024
| Cash Funds Cash at Bank Total Cash funds Assets retained for the charity’s own use Free hold land and Building Total Liabilities |
Unrestricted Restricted Total Total Funds Funds 2024 2023 £ £ £ £ 20,995 0 20,995 14,458 |
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| 20,995 0 20,995 14,458 |
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| 0 0 0 0 |
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| 0 0 0 0 |
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| 0 0 0 0 |
Approved by the trustees on 31 May 2025 and signed on their behalf by:
Tahira Ahmed
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Tahira Ahmed Trustee
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Notes forming part of the financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2024
1. Accounting policies
(a) Basis of preparation
The accounts have been prepared in accordance with the receipts and payments basis in accordance with the Charity Commission guidance.
- (b) Charity status
Muslim Trust Al-Aalami Trust was established under a CIO Foundation constitution and is a registered with the Charity Commission under the reference of 1157098. The Trustees are appointed and function in accordance with the Constitution.
- (c) Fund accounting
General funds are unrestricted funds which are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general 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 cost of raising and administering such funds are charged against the specific fund. The aim and use of each restricted fund is set out in the notes to the financial statements.
(d) Receipts
All incoming resources are included in the Receipt & payment Accounts when the charity actually obtains legally entitled income.
(e) Payments
All expenditure is accounted for on payments basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all costs related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with use of the resources.
2. Member liabilities
The members of the CIO have no liability to contribute to its assets and no personal responsibility for settling its debts and liabilities.
3. Debt outstanding
There is no particulars of any debt outstanding at the date the statement of assets and liabilities which is owed by the Muslim Trust Al-Aalami Trust and which is secured by an express charge on any of the assets of the Muslim Trust Al-Aalami Trust.
4. Related Parties
Controlling entity
The charity is controlled by the trustees. During the year the Trustees received no emoluments or incurred any expenses using Trust funds.
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