## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** 

||Period start date|Period start date|||Period end date|Period end date||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||01|April|2021||31|March|2022|
|**From**||||**To**||||



## Section A                        Reference and administration details 

**Charity name West Berkshire Muslim Centre** 

**Other names charity is known by** WBMC **Registered charity number (if any)** 1163865 **Charity's principal address** 1[st] Floor Riverside Community Centre; Rosemoor Gardens Clay Hill **Postcode RG14 2FG** 

## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)/**<br>**_Committee_**|**Dates acted if not**<br>**for whole year**|**Name of person (or**<br>**body) entitled to**<br>**appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Ismail Nawasra|Education||“|
||Arif Jaan|Events||“|
||Azmal Ahmed Shah|Governance||“|
||Rahan Ahmed|Membership||“|
||Md. Amir Hussain|Finance||“|
||Mohammad Shamim Ahmed|Services||“|
||Hussain Ahmed|Membership||“|
||Umar Mahmood Butt|Fund Raising||“|
||Nokhaz Yaqub|Events||“|
||Mazher Qazi|Finance|||



## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** 

|**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example,**|**any custodian trustees)**|
|---|---|
|**Name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|
|NA||
|NA||
|NA||



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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** 

|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|
|---|---|---|
|**Type of adviser**<br>**Name**<br>**Address**|||
|Independent Examiner|Gillian Down|EJBC – Chartered Accountants: 2 Toomers<br>Wharf, Canal Walk, Newbury RG14 1DY|
|NA|||
|**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||
|NA|||



NA **Section B              Structure, governance and management** 

## **Description of the charity’s trusts** 

**Charitable Incorporated Organisation with voting members other** Type of governing document **than its charity trustees** (‘Association’ Model Constitution) (eg. trust deed, constitution) Association Model Constitution How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Election and/or Selection Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by) **Latest Election/Selection held – 27/01/2019** 

- (eg. trust, association, company) 

## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** 

The West Berkshire Muslim Centre came into being to meet specific You **may choose** to include needs of the local community to establish a community centre. additional information, where relevant, about: The organisation continues to work with other local voluntary • policies and procedures adopted organisations and the West Berkshire District Council. for the induction and training of trustees; WBMC continues to grow, however, due to the Covid pandemic, the • the charity’s organisational momentum has slowed. The ambition and aspiration of the Trustees supported by volunteers from the local community remains high. With structure and any wider network with which the charity works; plans to extend services and increase the Centre utilisations. The plans include to establish a Sunday school delivering the study of Islam and • relationship with any related promoting community cohesion. parties; • trustees’ consideration of major The organisation continues to serve well and develop the framework to risks and the system and build on the Objects that are set out in the constitution. 

- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. 

## **Section C                    Objectives and activities** 

The objects of the CIO are: - 

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

The advancement of the Islamic faith for the benefit of the public, particularly but not exclusively, through the holding of prayer meetings, lectures, and public celebration of religious festivals. 

To further or benefit the residents of West Berkshire and the neighbourhood, without distinction of sex, sexual orientation, race or of political, religious, or other opinions by associating together the said residents and the local authorities, voluntary and other organisations in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation with the objective of improving the 

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conditions of life for the residents. 

In furtherance of these objects but not otherwise, the trustees shall have power: 

to establish or secure the establishment of a community centre and to maintain or manage or co-operate with any statutory authority in the maintenance and management of such a centre for activities promoted by the charity in furtherance of the above objects 

**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)** 

- Community social events 

   - Regular Football 

   - CrossFit gym (for both males and females) 

- Community Iftar Event 

- Community Eid Celebrations 

- Ramadhan Taraweh prayers 

- Saturday and occasional Sunday homework and basic literacy support - _Maths, English and Science._ 

- Regular Friday Prayer meetings 

- Badminton club 

## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** 

- Funding of the organisation is entirely from donations. 

- Restricted funds for the procurement of permanent premises continues to grow with individual projects to secure funds for ongoing activities and rent for the existing Centre. 

- Donations have come from multiple sources: - 

You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: 

- policy on grantmaking; 

- policy programme related investment; 

- contribution made by volunteers. 

- Regular donations by trustees and members of the community 

- Ad-hoc donations by trustees and members of the community 

- • Friday collections 

- Donations directly onto specific projects facilitated through Greenham Common Trust 

• Process for managing donations/funds into WBMC accounts: Finance team to move all funds donated for the establishment of the centre into a separate savings account. Such that any withdrawals from this savings account is approved by the whole committee. _The principle here is that funds in the savings account is towards the procurement of the facilities/community centre only._ 

- All the activities are supported/provided by volunteers. 

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## Section D                      Achievements and performance 

**Summary of the main** The Executive committee along with volunteers continue to promote the **achievements of the charity** facilities to the wider community through events, social media and word **during the year** of mouth. 

This is a testament to the vision and values set out by the trustees, as we continue to promote social and community cohesion, completely in line with the CIO objectives 

Hard work and determination of the trustees to keep focus on the core objectives as **we build trust and promote diversity** and embrace our British multi-cultural identity of the society. A key achievement this year has been in establishing a regular volunteer managed football training. 

## **Section E                    Financial review** 

1. All funds are held in HSBC bank. Presently all funds are allocated as 

**Brief statement of the** per the donation purpose. All donations given for the purpose of **charity’s policy on reserves** procuring the facilities are held in a separate account. (The finance policy provides greater clarity and guidance on managing donations) 

   2. There is a savings account and a current account. Current account holds only the planned expenses budget. The savings account holds the funds for the procurement of the community centre. 

   3. All expenses/spend **must** be approved by the **majority** of trustees 4. Online banking only allows for transfers between the two accounts. 5. Presently no online payment is allowed; however, this is being reviewed by the trustees in line with the changes to banking 

   6. All payments of expenses are made by cheque and signed by two trustees 

**Details of any funds materially** None **in deficit** 

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## **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; 

The charity is funded completely by individual donations and donations from events and activities 

All Expenditures are pre-approved in line with the charity objectives, i.e. hall hire, classroom hire. 

   - No investment was planned or made in this term. All funds remain on account to support the organisation objectives. 

- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. 

## **Section F                     Other optional information** 

Brother Joynal Abedin has moved to Manchester and has resigned as a Trustee for WBMC. We thank his efforts and contributions over the years and pray that he keeps well. 

## **Section G                    Declaration** 

**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

**Signature(s)** _Electronic signature_ 

**Full name(s)** Nokhaz Yaqub **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Events **etc)** 

**Date** 03/02/2023 

**Signature(s)** _Electronic signature_ 

**Full name(s)** Azmal Ahmed Shah **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Governance **etc) Date** 03/02/2023 

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||**WEST BERKSHIRE MUSLIM CENTRE**<br>**Charity Reg Number: 1163865**|**WEST BERKSHIRE MUSLIM CENTRE**<br>**Charity Reg Number: 1163865**|**WEST BERKSHIRE MUSLIM CENTRE**<br>**Charity Reg Number: 1163865**|**WEST BERKSHIRE MUSLIM CENTRE**<br>**Charity Reg Number: 1163865**|**WEST BERKSHIRE MUSLIM CENTRE**<br>**Charity Reg Number: 1163865**|**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||**Receipts and payments accounts**|||||||
||**For the period from**||Period start date<br>1/4/2021||**To**||Period end date<br>31/3/2022|||
|||||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted funds**<br>**to the nearest      £**||**Restricted funds**<br>**to the nearest £**||**Endowment funds**<br>**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**||**Last year**<br>**to the nearest £**|
|Contribution from public|**12,126**||||**-**||**12,126**||**6,129**|
|Box,Event,Tution,Individual donation|**2,367**||**-**||**-**||**2,367**||**1,419**|
|CAF|**3,500**||||**-**||**3,500**||**256**|
|Grant|**14,013**||||**-**||**14,013**||**70**|
|Online donation|**7,315**||||**-**||**7,315**||**410**|
|Gift aid claim|**3,327**||||**-**||**3,327**|||
|Saving account bank interest|||**32**||**-**||**32**||**102**|
|Others/Adjustment from last year|**20**||||||**20**||**34**|
||||||**-**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**42,668**||**32**||**-**||**42,700**||**8,420**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).**||||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
||**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **<br>**A3 Payments**||||||||||
||||||||||**8,420**|
|||||||||||
|Bank charges|**20**||**-**||**-**|||||
|Insurance|**168**||**-**||**-**||**168**|||
|Maintenance|||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
|Printing,Stationaries,WEBSITE|**350**||**-**||**-**||||**120**|
|Education and training|**5,060**||**-**||**-**||**5,060**|||
|Sundry|**809**||**-**||**-**||**809**|||
|Council tax|**118**||**-**||**-**||**118**|||
|Event cost|**1,195**||**-**||**-**||**1,195**|||



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|Premesis Rent|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**2,000**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**_Sub total_ **|**7,719**||||**-**||**7,719**||**2,120**|
|||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see**||||||||||
|**PRINTER,KITCHEN EQUIPMENT**||||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_ **<br>**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
||||||||||**2,120**|
|||||||||||
||**34,948**||**32**||**-**||**34,980**||**6,300**|
||**-                        27,150**|<br>|**27,150**|<br>|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**4,569**||**210,978**||**-**||**215,547**||**-**|
||**12,367**||**238,160**||**-**||**250,527**||**6,300**|



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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**<br>**B1 Cash funds**<br>**B2 Other monetary assets**<br>**B3 Investment assets**<br>**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**|(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))<br>**Details**<br>Balance on current /saving accounts<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>**Details**||**Unrestricted funds**<br>**to nearest £**||**Restricted funds**<br>**to nearest £**||**Endowment funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
||||**12,367**||**238,160**||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||**-**||||**-**|
||||**12,367**||**238,160**||**-**|
||||||||OK|
||||||||**Endowment funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
||balance on saving accounts||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**||**Fund to which asset**<br>~~**belons**~~||**Cost(optional)**||**Current value**<br>~~**(otional)**~~|
||||~~**g**~~||**-**||~~**p**~~<br>**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**||**Fund to which asset**<br>~~**belons**~~||**Cost(optional)**||**Current value**<br>~~**(otional)**~~|
||||~~**g**~~||**-**||~~**p**~~<br>**-**|



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## **B5 Liabilities** 

|||||**-**||**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|**Details**||**Fund to which**||**Amount due**||**When due (optional)**|
|||||**-**|||
|||||**-**|||
|||||**-**|||
|||||**-**|||
|||||**-**|||



Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the 

Signature Print Name Date of approval A. Hussain Amir Hussain 11/12/2022 

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Section B
Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs lo highlight matters of concern (see CC32,
Independent examination of charity accounts.. directions and guidan￿ for
examiners).
Give hère brief details of
any items that the
examiner wishes to
disclose.
IER
November 2021

CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND ANO WALES
Independent examiner's
report on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examinerfs Report
Report to Ihe trusteesl
members of
West Berkshire Muslim Centre IWBMC)
On accounts for the year
ended
31 March 2022
Charity no
lif any)
1163865
Set out on pages
Respective The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts.
responsibilities of The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year
trustees and examiner under section 144 of the Chanties Act 2011 (the Chanlies Act) and that an
independent examination is needed_
It is my responsibility to".
examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act,
to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the
Charity Commission (under section 145151(b} of the Charities Act, and
to stale whether particular matters have come to my attention.
Basis of independent My examination was cartied out in accordance wrth general Directions given
examlnerfs statement by the Charty Commission. 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 the
trustees conceming any such matters. The proce(lures undertaken do not
provide all the evidence that would be required in an audrt, and
onsequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true
and fair, view and the report is limrted to those matters set out in the
statement below.
Independent In connection wrth my examination, no material matters have come to my
examinerfs statement attention which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect..
accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of
the Charrties Act or
the accounts do not accord wrth the accounting re¢ords
I have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to
which attention should be drawn in order lo enable a proper understanding
ofthe accounts to be reached.
Signed:
Date:
Is
Name:
JLLI
Relevant professional
qualification{sl or body
(if any):
Qc4. ufr ÈAELJ
Address:
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IER
November 2021