## **The Peace Institute**
# **Trustees Report**
**For the year ending 01 January 2024**
_**The Peace Institute CIO - Charity Commission Reference No: 1170207**_ **Registered charity number 1170207** _**Trustee's Annual Report**_
_**Financial Year Ending - 01 Jan 2024**_
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## **Contents**
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|**1.0**|**Overview**........................................................................................................... 4|
|**2.0**|**Reference and Administrative Information**..................................................... 4|
|**3.0**|**Structure, Governance and Governing Document**......................................... 4|
|**4.0**|**Organisational Structure**................................................................................. 4|
|**5.0**|**Appointment and Induction of Trustees**.......................................................... 5|
|**6.0**|**Risk Management**............................................................................................. 5|
|**7.0**|**Objectives of the Organisation**........................................................................ 6|
|**8.0**|**Strategies**.......................................................................................................... 7|
|**9.0**|**Activities for the Financial Year**...................................................................... 7|
|9.1|Interfaith Forums ............................................................................................ 7|
|9.2|Faith Advisory Service with School, Colleges and Universities ....................... 7|
|9.3|Encouraging Democratic Participation ............................................................ 8|
|9.4|Plight of Muslims Globally ............................................................................... 8|
|9.5|Islamic Marriage and counselling .................................................................... 8|
|9.6|Adult Islamic Learning .................................................................................... 8|
|**10.0**|**Income Sources**.............................................................................................. 9|
|**11.0**|**Going Concerns**.............................................................................................. 9|
|**12.0**|**Trustees' Responsibilities**.............................................................................. 9|
|**13.0**|**Financial Summary**....................................................................................... 10|
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## **1.0 Overview**
The Peace Institute, a charity incorporated organisation (COI) presents its annual report and accounts for the year ending 01 January 2024. The trustees confirm they comply with the Charities Act 1993, as amended by the Charities Act 2006 and the trust deed.
## **2.0 Reference and Administrative Information**
**Charity Name** The Peace Institute
**Charity Registration Number** 1170207 **Principal Office** 125 High Street (Correspondence) West Town Dewsbury WF13 2QG
**Board of Trustees** Mohammed Amin Pandor (Mufti) Halima Hossain Yousaf Baig (Mufti)
**Bankers** Barclays Bank 10 Market Street Bradford BD1 1EG
## **3.0 Structure, Governance and Governing Document**
The Charitable Incorporated Organisation (COI), The Peace Institute has been registered with the Charity Commission since November 2016 under charity number 1170207. Further details are available on the Charity Commission's website.
## **4.0 Organisational Structure**
The trustees have overall responsibility for the control and management of the Charity. All the trustees freely volunteer their time and receive no remuneration or other financial benefits.
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The trustees meet regularly as required and are responsible for all decisions taken about running the organisation and the activities provided by the COI. To assist in the smooth running of the charity the trustees recruit volunteers on a project-by-project basis.
## **5.0 Appointment and Induction of Trustees**
The Board is responsible for the recruitment of all new trustees. No new trustees have been appointed this year. As and when new trustees are recruited they will be chosen for their understanding of the community and will have earned the respect of the wider community or have the potential to do so.
When recruiting new trustees, we will seek to identify young people who,
- Regularly attend events and functions organised by the charity.
- Are willing to volunteer to help in our broader community work.
- Can represent Islam as a peaceful way of life.
Potential trustees will be invited to attend trustees' meetings as observers and will be given more details of the charity's aims and activities. Following this, if all agree, they will then be proposed as new trustees at the subsequent trustees' meeting. This process allows due consideration of the person's eligibility, personal competence, specialist knowledge and skills.
Following the appointment, new trustees will be introduced to their role and given copies of the trust deed and a guide to the policies and procedures adopted by our charity. Several publications from the Charity Commission are also signposted including the guidance on charities and public benefit and the advancement of religion for the public benefit. This ensures that new trustees are aware of the scope of their responsibilities under the Charities Act. Initially, new trustees will work with an existing trustee assisting with particular activities and projects run by the charity.
## **6.0 Risk Management**
To safeguard the organisation, the trustees assess risks on a project-by-project basis and satisfy themselves that adequate systems are put in place.
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## **7.0 Objectives of the Organisation**
Our objectives have been set out in our governing document as follows;
- 1) To advance the Islamic faith as a peaceful way of life in the UK and abroad for the benefit of the public through:
- a) Providing places of worship, conducting religious ceremonies and safe social facilities and spaces for youth and others for moral and spiritual improvement.
- b) Holding of religious worship.
- c) Producing and disseminating of religious communications including lectures, dialogue, literature, advice and awareness of Islam using all forms of media.
- d) Resolving conflicts and challenges about peaceful Islamic beliefs and practices.
- e) Researching, responding, challenging and disseminating information on contemporary issues and challenges affecting Islam.
- f) Engaging and interacting with the wider public and other institutions to raise awareness and understanding of the peaceful nature of Islam.
- 2) The prevention or relief of poverty or financial hardship anywhere in the world and to anyone by providing and/or assisting in the provision of food, housing, education, training, healthcare projects and all the necessary support designed to enable individuals to generate a sustainable income and be self-sufficient.
- 3) The relief of financial need and suffering among victims of war, natural disaster, trouble, catastrophe or other kinds of disaster in the form of money or other means deemed suitable for persons, bodies, organisations and/or countries affected including the provision of medical aid.
- 4) The promotion of religious and racial harmony for the public benefit through:
- a) Promoting knowledge and mutual understanding between different groups on the different belief systems and no belief systems.
- b) Advancing education and raising awareness about different racial,
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religious and non-religious groups to promote good relations and highlight common ground to promote humanity and harmony.
- c) Working towards the elimination of discrimination and mistrust on the grounds of race, religion and no religion.
## **8.0 Strategies**
The trustees have a long term aim to build a "Peace Centre" which will be a onestop facility where all people (people of faith and no faith, Muslims and nonMuslims) or those who wish to know more about our faith can gather together to learn.
This facility will be accessible to all who wish to understand real Islam in the 21st century and its compatibility with global universal values and train the next generation of youth.
## **9.0 Activities for the Financial Year**
The activities of "The Peace Institute" have been curtailed. The work undertaken has been varied and mainly concerning nurturing youth and raising concerns regarding injustices and prejudices mainly in the holy lands.
Our activities and initiatives included the following;
## **9.1 Interfaith Forums**
The forum is supposed to be impartial and support the various faith and no faith people in their hour of need. With up to 40,000 Palestinian (mainly women and children) have been killed at the time of writing this report according to CNN. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/15/middleeast/gaza-death-toll-40000-israel-war-intl/index.html
The trustees felt the forum was not supportive of this suffering and the trustees resigned from the interfaith earlier in the year due to its insensitivities towards the plight of the Palestinians people and other local factors.
## **9.2 Faith Advisory Service with School, Colleges and Universities**
Schools and Colleges throughout England continue to contact The Peace Institute directors for faith-related expertise to offer confidential advice and resolve conflicts / potential conflicts.
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## **9.3 Encouraging Democratic Participation**
The Peace Institute facilitate local people to make informed choices and above all participate in the democratic process without endorsing any particular political party.
## **9.4 Plight of Muslims Globally**
The Peace Institute continues to raise awareness through seminars, public meetings, collecting donations, writing to officials and holding special prayers. This year we have been active in supporting the plight of Muslims and Christians in Palestine and India.
## **9.5 Islamic Marriage and counselling**
Directors continue to offer,
- a) Conduct Islamic marriages after appropriate due diligence. Normally marriages are conducted in Mosques.
- b) Offer marriage counselling service or couples going through difficult situation based on Islamic principles.
## **9.6 Adult Islamic Learning**
The scholars of the Peace Institute conduct weekly classes both face to face and on social media for adults at a basic to an advanced level. Subjects include;
- Quran reading with proper pronunciations,
- Quranic Exegesis (explanation).
- Belief (Aqeeda).
- Classical Arabic.
- Hadith.
- Jurisprudence.
- Islamic History and Modern Challenges.
- Discussions on related and unrelated issues.
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## **10.0 Income Sources**
All the funds received by The Peace Institute are solely from Muslim donors in the form of Zakat, Sadaqa, Fitrana and Lillah. We have not received funding from any other source this year or previously.
## **11.0 Going Concerns**
The Peace Institute is a stable organisation and can meet its obligations and continue its charitable work for the foreseeable future. Its activities are run by the trustees and volunteers in a purely voluntary capacity.
## **12.0 Trustees' Responsibilities**
The Charities Act 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 surplus of the charity for that period. In preparing those financial statements the trustees are required to;
- Select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently.
- Make judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent.
- State whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements.
- Prepare the financial statements on a going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records, which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the trust. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the trust and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
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## **13.0 Financial Summary**
||**The Peace Institute**|**The Peace Institute**|**The Peace Institute**|**The Peace Institute**|**1170207**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||
||**For the period**
**from**||**02/01/2022**|**To**|**01/01/2023**||
||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|**carry over from lastyear**|**-**||**13**
**8,420**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**13**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**17/04/21 - Zakat**|**-**|||**-**|**8,420**||
||**-**|||**-**|**-**||
||**-**|||**-**|**-**||
||**-**|||**-**|**-**||
||**-**|||**-**|**-**||
||**-**|||**-**|**-**||
||**-**|||**-**|**-**||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**-**||**8,433**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,433**|**-**|**8,433**|**-**|
||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment**
**sales, (see table).**|||||||
||**-**|||**-**|**-**|**-**
**-**|
||**-**|||**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**||
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||
|||||**-**|**8,433**|**-**|
||||||||
|**One nation Charity for Afghanistan**|**-**||**8,420**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**8,420**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
||**-**|||**-**|**-**||
||**-**|||**-**|**-**||
||**-**|||**-**|**-**||
||**-**|||**-**|**-**||
||**-**|||**-**|**-**||
||**-**|||**-**|**-**||
||**-**|||**-**|**-**||
||**-**|||**-**|**-**||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**8,420**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,420**
**13**|**-**|**8,420**|**-**|
||||||||
|**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_**|||||**8,420**||
|||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||
||**-**|||**-**|**13**|**-**|
||**-**|
|**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**
**-**|
||**-**|||**-**|**-**||
||**-**||**13**|**-**|**13**|**-**|
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**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
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Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Categories Details funds funds funds
to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £
B1 Cash funds - - -
- - -
- - -
Total cash funds - - -
(agree balances w ith receipts and payments
account(s)) OK Agreement Error OK
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
funds funds funds
Details to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £
B2 Other monetary assets - - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
Fund to which Current value
Details asset belongs Cost (optional) (optional)
B3 Investment assets - -
- -
- -
- -
- -
Fund to which Current value
Details asset belongs Cost (optional) (optional)
B4 Assets retained for the - -
charity’s own use - -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
Fund to which Amount due When due
Details liability relates (optional) (optional)
B5 Liabilities -
-
-
-
-
Signed by one or two trustees on Date of
behalf of all the trustees Signature Print Name approval
M A Pandor M A Pandor 22/10/2024
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