## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date **From** 01 April 2020 **To** 31 March 2021 ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1161868 Gujarati Sunni Muslim Community Centre Eldon Street Madrasa-E-Talimul Islam **Charity's principal address** 15 Eldon Street Preston Lancashire **Postcode** PR1 7YD ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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0|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Abdulkader Padia|Chairman||| ||Yunus Amla|Treasurer||| ||Ahmed Rawat|Assistant Chairman||| ||Yakub Patel|Assistant Treasurer||| ||Salim Patel|ActingSecretary||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** |**Name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**| |---|---| |Gulam Hussain Mulla|| |Ebrahim Mulla|| |Ashfaque Bhaiyat|| |Abdulkader Padia|| |Ismail Padia|| |Yunus Amla|| ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of adviser Name Address** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** Abdulkader Padia **TAR** March **2012** 1 **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document - (eg. trust deed, constitution) > [Constitution GSMCC/ESM ] How the charity is constituted - (eg. trust, association, company) > [Unincorporated Body ] ## Trustee selection methods - (eg. appointed by, elected by) > [Election ] ## **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 Madrasa has young children attending daily. Safeguarding is a major concern. All staff and volunteers in associated with the Madrasa have DBS clearance and have been given training in safeguarding. All trustees have DBS clearance. - 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** To advance the Islamic religion in the Preston, Plungington area for the benefit of the public through the holding of prayer meetings, lectures, public celebration of Islamic festivals, producing and/or distributing literature on Islam and to enlighten others about the religion of Islam. To improve the conditions of life for the inhabitants of the local area by providing facilities and activities in the interest of social welfare. **TAR** March **2012** 2 Each day of the year we have held prayer meetings for the five daily prayers including Friday prayers. We also held tarawee prayers during the month of Ramadan. The Madrasa (Islamic Education Centre) continues to flourish and student numbers have stabilised to around 20. We have 2 staff members who teach at the Madrasa, 5 days a week. The Ladies weekly classes and the monthly programme continue to have a strong following. **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)** Due to the renovation programme and COVID-19, the KS1 and KS2 packs have once again not been updated. We do continue to engage with local schools and we hope to increase our activity in this area in the future. The number of asylum seekers in the area has reduced again this year however they continue to need help in integrating into the community. We have dedicated a member of the committee to helping them in all facets of living in the UK. Foreign student numbers in the local area stabilised this year and they are mainly from the Asian subcontinent. We continue to help those that do arrive, and the two people who were assigned to help them last year continue helping these students. ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** The need for better toilet and ablution facilities were incorporated into the design of the “It’s time to grow” project last year. This increased the cost of the proposed project but will be a better fit for our requirements. We would like to extend the qualifications of our teachers and will be looking to find appropriate teaching vocational courses in the local area to assist in this goal. This aim is now part and parcel of our investment into our staff. You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; Moving the Madrasa towards an academy and open learning would serve the community better. To this goal we will aim at progressing this in the coming years. We hope the “it’s time to grow” project when completed will give us extra educational teaching space. - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. **TAR** March **2012** 3 Section D Achievements and erformance p |**Summary of the main**
**achievements of the charity**
**during the year**|COVID-19 has dominated the scene this year and has meant considerable effort
has been expended just to keep the centre available when the government has
allowed.
Much of the normal activity was curtailed such as the highly popular Student
Lead Story Session. Also the end of year graduating event had to be cancelled.
Student numbers in the Madrasa remained stable at around 20 and the
sessions are moved from the centre to online as government dictates.
The Madrasa continues to innovate and is now one of the oldest in the city. It is
widely considered one of the most innovative, contemporary cutting edge
Madrasas in Preston. The aligned school and Madrasa academic years works
well and we envisage keeping it the same from now on. We have kept the
financial contribution the same now for several years in line with the vision of
the founders and that was also true this year.
The number of foreign students has stabilised and most of the remaining
students tend to be from the Indian sub-continent. They still need considerable
help in settling in. The help has been similar to that of helping asylum seekers
and so we were well equipped adapt to their needs. We continue to help those
that do arrive and those that continue to need help. We have assisted them in
every facet of living in the UK. Their presence has benefited the centre greatly
and has broadened the cultural experience within the centre.
Adult Islamic education has remained the same this year. We will continue to
monitor interest and adjust classes as required during the coming year.
Once again this year we attempted to upgrade the Key stage packs but once
again we gave priority to other events including the “It’s time to grow project”
and COVID-19 measures which need constant updating. We hope to progress
next year in an attempt to enhance the experience for school visits in the
future. This should make any further visits a more integrated educational
experience. Work continues in this regard.
The “It’s Time To Grow” project has now received building regulations approval.
However due to COVID-19 there has been no progress at all in this matter. We
have started to use the space to a small degree just to increase space during
prayer times as social distancing has reduced the centres capacity dramatically.
As soon as lockdowns ease and builders are once again available we will
progress this matter.
As stated last year it is envisaged that the project has increased in cost with the
design of the combined properties with the overall project cost being around
the £250,000 mark. We will know a more accurate figure once builders assess
the full work. We hope to keep the momentum going on this project and
integrate both properties to form one larger centre next year.
We still have no information screens in the centre but the CCTV works well with
cameras in almost every room and outside.| |---|---| **TAR** March **2012** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** The yearly membership donation gives us approximately 6 months of reserve and we aim to have approximately 3 months of reserve at any one time. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** None ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - 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)** **Full name(s)** Abdulkader Padia **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)**[Chairman ] **Date** 01 May 2021 **TAR** March **2012** 5 EXAMINER'S UNQUALIFIED REPORT NON£OMPANY CHARITY This is the Independent examinerfs reFQrt to the trustees of Gujarati Sunni Muslim Communty Centre (GSMCC) also operatsng as Eklon Street MadrasaE-Talimul Islam (ESM) l am reFQrting on the accounts of the chanty for the year erKled 31 Mar 2021, which are set out on pages 2-3. tive res nsibilities of trustees and examlner The chartty's trustees are testM)n&ble for the preparation of the accounts. The charity's trustees COn￿der that an audit is not required for this year under section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act) and that an independent examination ts needed. It is my responsibility to= - examine the atuunts under section 145 of the 2011 A - to follow the procedures ￿ld down in the general Directions given by the commission under section 145(5)(b) d the 2011 Act - to state whether Par￿￿r matters have come lo my attention Basis of inde ndent examinerfs re My examination was cartied out in accordan￿ the general Directrons given by the Charity Commission. An examination indudes a review of the accounting re(￿rdS kept by the chanty and comparison of the presented with those records. It also indudes consideration of any unusual rtems or disck)sures in the aC(￿unt5. and seeking explanations from you as trustees conceming any such matters. The prO￿dureS undertaken do not promde all the evidence Ihat NM)uld be required in an audit and consequendy no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a Irue and fair and the re￿rt is limited to Ihose matters set out in the next slatement. Inde ndent examlnerfs statsment In connection with my examinalion, no matter has o)me to my attention: (1) which gpRs me reasonable cause to telieve that in any material ￿SpeCt the requirements: - to keep ￿)Unting records in a￿O[darK£ wilh section 130 of the 2011 Act and . to prepare rnnts which ￿)rd the accounting ￿ordS and comply wbth the accounting requirements of the 2011 Act have not been met or (2) to which, in my ow"nion, attention sh(xld be drawn in order to enable a proper Signed: Name: Relevant professiona qualification or body: Address: LJyL4L4 <7, yé.. Date: 2 6 Ll em) |**Charity Name**|**No (if any)**|| |---|---|---| |**Gujarati Sunni Muslim Community Centre**
**1161868**||| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**||**CC16a**| |**For the period**
**from**
Period start date
01-Apr-20|**To**
Period end date
31-Mar-21|| ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**70**
**-**
**3,834**
**-**
**-**
**12,814**
**5,471**
**9,316**
**8,498**
**-**

**40,003**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**40,003**
**258**
**1,244**
**210**
**-**
**1,427**
**1,195**
**2,121**
**664**
**1,587**
**20,686**
**379**
**29,771**
**-**
**-**
**29,771**
**10,232**
**32,811**
**43,043**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**300**
**-**
**3,000**
**3,226**
**-**
**6,526**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,526**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,526**
**74,981**
**81,507**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**70**
**-**
**3,834**
**-**
**-**
**12,814**
**5,471**
**9,316**
**300**
**8,498**
**3,000**
**3,226**
**-**
**46,529**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**46,529**
**258**
**1,244**
**210**
**-**
**1,427**
**1,195**
**2,121**
**664**
**-**
**1,587**
**20,686**
**379**
**-**
**-**
**29,771**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**70**
**-**
**3,834**
**-**
**-**
**12,814**
**5,471**
**9,316**
**300**
**8,498**
**3,000**
**3,226**
**-**
**46,529**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**46,529**
**258**
**1,244**
**210**
**-**
**1,427**
**1,195**
**2,121**
**664**
**-**
**1,587**
**20,686**
**379**
**-**
**-**
**29,771**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Eid Lillah|**70**|||||**-**| |External Chunda Collection|**-**|||||| |Giftaid|**3,834**|||||**-**| |Jalsa Donation|**-**|||||**-**| |Jumma Lunch|**-**|||||**-**| |Lillah|**12,814**|||||**-**| |Madrasa Donation|**5,471**|||||**-**| |MembershipDonation|**9,316**|||||**-**| |Musalla Donation||||||**-**| |Other Income|**8,498**|||||**-**| |Qarz-e-Hasana||||||| |Renovation Donation||||||**-**| |Tajweed Class Donation|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**40,003**|||||**-**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| |Yorkshire|**-**|||||| |Barclays
|**-**
|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||**-**| |||||||| |Broadband|**258**|||||**-**| |Council Tax|**1,244**|||||| |Electricity|**210**|||||**-**| |External Chunda Payment|**-**|||||**-**| |Gas & Electric|**1,427**|||||**-**| |Insurance|**1,195**|||||**-**| |Other Expenditure|**2,121**|||||**-**| |Pension|**664**|||||**-**| |Qarz-e-Hasana Returned||||||| |Tax/NI|**1,587**|||||**-**| |Wages|**20,686**|||||**-**| |Water|**379**|||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**29,771**|||||**-**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| |||||||**-**| |||||||| ||**10,232**|**6,526**|**-**|**16,758**||**-**| ||||**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**32,811**|**74,981**|**-**|**107,792**||**-**| ||**43,043**|**81,507**|**-**|**124,550**||**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 28/05/2021 1 ## **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**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**|(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
Normal Account
Renovation Account
Cash in Hand
**_Total cash funds_**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Main Property
No13 Property Next Door
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**42,891**
**-**
**-**
**81,507**
**152**
**43,043**
**81,507**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
Unrestricted
**-**
Unrestricted
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
A.Padia|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| |||A.Padia|01-May-21| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 28/05/2021 2 EXAMINER'S UNQUALIFIED REPORT NON£OMPANY CHARITY This is the Independent examinerfs reFQrt to the trustees of Gujarati Sunni Muslim Communty Centre (GSMCC) also operatsng as Eklon Street MadrasaE-Talimul Islam (ESM) l am reFQrting on the accounts of the chanty for the year erKled 31 Mar 2021, which are set out on pages 2-3. tive res nsibilities of trustees and examlner The chartty's trustees are testM)n&ble for the preparation of the accounts. The charity's trustees COn￿der that an audit is not required for this year under section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act) and that an independent examination ts needed. It is my responsibility to= - examine the atuunts under section 145 of the 2011 A - to follow the procedures ￿ld down in the general Directions given by the commission under section 145(5)(b) d the 2011 Act - to state whether Par￿￿r matters have come lo my attention Basis of inde ndent examinerfs re My examination was cartied out in accordan￿ the general Directrons given by the Charity Commission. An examination indudes a review of the accounting re(￿rdS kept by the chanty and comparison of the presented with those records. It also indudes consideration of any unusual rtems or disck)sures in the aC(￿unt5. and seeking explanations from you as trustees conceming any such matters. The prO￿dureS undertaken do not promde all the evidence Ihat NM)uld be required in an audit and consequendy no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a Irue and fair and the re￿rt is limited to Ihose matters set out in the next slatement. Inde ndent examlnerfs statsment In connection with my examinalion, no matter has o)me to my attention: (1) which gpRs me reasonable cause to telieve that in any material ￿SpeCt the requirements: - to keep ￿)Unting records in a￿O[darK£ wilh section 130 of the 2011 Act and . to prepare rnnts which ￿)rd the accounting ￿ordS and comply wbth the accounting requirements of the 2011 Act have not been met or (2) to which, in my ow"nion, attention sh(xld be drawn in order to enable a proper Signed: Name: Relevant professiona qualification or body: Address: LJyL4L4 <7, yé.. Date: 2 6 Ll em)