## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name AB LAHER CHARITABLE TRUST **members of**
**On accounts for the year** 30/06/2023 **Charity no** 1170699 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1 TO 2 (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 30/06/2023.
- **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 examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention 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.
**Signed:**[FSuleman ] **Date:** 28/04/2024
**Name:** Fayyaz Suleman **Relevant professional** Accountant **qualification(s) or body (if any):**
**Address:** c/o Accounts Examination Department Fusion Accounting Ltd
398A East Park Road, Leicester LE5 5HH
## **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).
**October 2018**
**IER**
1
**Give here brief details of** None **any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
**October 2018**
**IER**
2
**Charity Name** No (if any) **AB LAHER CHARITABLE TRUST 1170699 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from 01/07/2022 30/06/2023**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**29,632**
**17,811**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**47,443**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**47,443**
**25**
**1,635**
**2,507**
**-**
**4,520**
**562**
**80**
**-**
**-**
**9,329**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,329**
**38,114**
**-**
**13,864**
**51,978**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donations|**29,632**|**62,389**||**-**||**92,021**||**235,801**|
|Rental Income|**17,811**|**-**||**-**||**17,811**||**8,138**|
||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**47,443**|**62,389**||**-**||**109,832**||**243,939**|
||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||
|**Loans for Property**|**-**|||||||**-**|
||**-**|||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**|||||||||
|||||||**109,832**||**243,939**|
|||||||**25**
**1,635**
**2,507**
**-**
**4,520**
**562**
**80**
**-**
**-**
**9,329**
**350,000**
**55,831**
**-**
**405,831**
**415,160**
**- 305,328**|||
|Bank Charges|**25**|||||||**-**|
|Utilitycosts|**1,635**|||||||**-**|
|Legal Fees|**2,507**|||||||**-**|
|AgencyFees|**-**|||||||**-**|
|Rates|**4,520**|||||||**1,832**|
|Telephone|**562**|||||||**443**|
|Sundry|**80**|||||||**-**|
||**-**|||||||**-**|
||**-**|||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**9,329**|||||||**2,275**|
||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||
|DavenportRoadProperty|**-**|||||||**-**|
|Loan repayment|**-**|||||||**57,258**|
||**-**|||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||||**57,258**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||
|||||||||**59,533**|
||||||||||
||**38,114**|**- 343,442**||||**- 305,328**||**184,406**|
||**-**|**-**||||**-**||**-**|
||**13,864**|**554,659**||||**568,523**||**384,117**|
||**51,978**|**211,217**||||**263,195**||**568,523**|
Spreadsheet version of CC16a
Page 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**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
Professional Fees
Loans
Accounts Examination Fee 2020, 2021
Account Examination Fee 2022
Account Examination Fee 2023
**Details**
**Details**
Cash held in bank
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
Investment Properties
~~Page 2~~|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**51,978**||**211,217**||**-**|
|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**51,978**||**211,217**||**-**|
|||||||OK|
|||||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
|||||||Date of
approval|
|||||||28/04/2024|
||||||||
|||||||~~ion of CC16a~~|
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 01 07 2022 **To** 30 06 2023
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name**
AB LAHER CHARITABLE TRUST
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1170699
**Charity's principal address** 4 SUNNYFIELD CLOSE
LEICESTER **Postcode LE5 6SP**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|1
2
3
4
5
19
20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||SHABIR AHMED
ESSOP LAHER||||
||MOHAMEDRAFI
AHOMED PATEL||||
||ESSOP ISMAIL
LAHER||||
||MOHAMMAD
NAJEEB PATEL||||
||MAHMED AMIN
ESSOP LAHER||||
||||||
||||||
## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
**TAR**
March **2012**
1
**Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 12/12/2016 AS AMENDED ON 11/12/2019 Type of governing document
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION (CIO) How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
TRUSTEE MAJORITY APPROVAL Trustee selection methods
- (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**
TO ADVANCE THE RELIGION OF ISLAM, BY MEANS OF, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, PROMOTING THE TEACHINGS AND TENETS OF ISLAM, PROVISION OR ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR WORSHIP AND ISLAMIC EDUCATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEACHINGS OF THE QURAN AND SUNNAH OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD (PEACE AND BLESSINGS BE UPON HIM) AS INTERPRETED BY THE AHLE SUNNAH WAL JAMAAH SCHOOL OF THOUGHT;
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, DISTRESS AND SUFFERING AMONG POOR PEOPLE, VICTIMS OF NATURAL DISASTERS AND OTHER PEOPLE IN NEED BY MEANS OF, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, MAKING GRANTS OR LOANS FOR PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR ITEMS, EQUIPMENT, SERVICES AND FACILITIES, INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF FOOD, CLOTHING, AND ACCOMMODATION FOR THE SAID PERSONS;
TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE POOR, THE UNDERPRIVILEGED AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC BY MEANS OF, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THE PROVISION OR THE ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF
**TAR**
March **2012**
2
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND FACILITIES, SUCH AS SCHOOLS, SUPPLEMENTARY SCHOOLS, NURSERIES AND TRAINING CENTRES..
**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)**
DURING THE PERIOD, THE CHARITY CONTINUED TO ESTABLISH LINKS WITH GRASSROOTS CHARITIES IN AFRICA AND PLEDGED A GRANT TO A LOCAL MOSQUE FOR THEIR PREMISES APPEAL. IT IS HOPED THAT THE TRUSTEES ARE ABLE TO UNDERTAKE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP RELIEF PROJECTS IN THE COMING YEAR AND SUPPORT PROJECTS TO ADVANCE ISLAM.
THE TRUSTEES HAVE HAD DUE REGARD TO THE PUBLIC BENEFIT GUIDANCE OF THE CHARITY COMMISSION AND ARE SATISFIED THAT THEY WILL BE RELIEVING FINANCIAL HARDSHIP FOR THOSE IN NEED AND ADVANCING ISLAM FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
**TAR**
March **2012**
3
## Section D Achievements and performance
DURING THE PERIOD, THE CHARITY CONTINUED TO ESTABLISH **Summary of the main** LINKS WITH GRASSROOTS CHARITIES IN AFRICA AND PLEDGED **achievements of the charity** A GRANT TO A LOCAL MOSQUE FOR THEIR PREMISES APPEAL. **during the year** IT IS HOPED THAT THE TRUSTEES ARE ABLE TO UNDERTAKE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP RELIEF PROJECTS IN THE COMING YEAR AND SUPPORT PROJECTS TO ADVANCE ISLAM.
## **Section E Financial review**
DURING THE PERIOD, THE CHARTY SECURED INCOME OF **Brief statement of the** £109,832 WHICH COMPRISED OF RESTRICTED DONATIONS **charity’s policy on reserves** (£32,389) BY A TRUSTEE TO PURCHASE PROPERTY TO BE HELD BY THE CHARITY TO GENERATE INCOME FOR CHARITY PROJECTS, OTHER DONATIONS OF £29,632 AND RENTAL INCOME OF £17,811. THE EXPENDITURE DURING THE YEAR WAS £9,329 WHICH WAS MAINLY PROPERTY COSTS. THE CHARITY ALSO PURCHASED AN INVESTMENT PROPERTY AND REPAID SOME PART OF THE LOANS OWED.
AT THE END OF THE PERIOD, THE CHARITY HAD RESTRICTED CASH RESERVES OF £211,217 AND £51,978 UNRESTRICTED RESERVES.
THE TRUSTEES HAVE A POLICY NOT TO RETAIN ANY FUNDS AS RESERVES, BUT ALL SURPLUSES WILL BE USED FOR FUTURE CHARITABLE EXPENDITURE, ACQUIRING PROPERTY INVESTMENTS AND ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **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**
**TAR**
March **2012**
4
## **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)** MOHAMMAD NAJEEB PATEL **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** CHAIRMAN & TRUSTEE **etc) Date** 28-04-2024
**TAR**
March **2012**
5