2025-03-31-accounts

Charity number: 1177352 (England and Wales)

Tamil Muslim Community (TMC Birmingham)

Trustees' report and unaudited financial statements For the year ended 31[st] March 2025

Tamil Muslim Community Birmingham

Contents Page Legal and administrative information 1 Report of the trustees 2-4 Statement of financial activities 5 Balance sheet 6 Notes to the financial statements 7-8

Tamil Muslim Community Birmingham

Legal and administrative information

Charity number 1177352 Business address Tamil Muslim Community 17 Grove Road Birmingham B11 4DB Registered office Tamil Muslim Community 17 Grove Road Birmingham B11 4DB eMail [e-mail] Trustees Dr. Asghar Ali Seyed Mubarack Mr. Mohamed Amin Sayed Farook Dr. Ziaudeen Ansari Mr. Mougamadou Moubarack Mr. Mohideen Abdul Kader Jamal Abdul Wahab Bankers Barclays Bank Plc 534 Coventry Road Birmingham B10 0UP

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Tamil Muslim Community Birmingham

Report of the trustees for the year ended 31 March 2025

The Trustees present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31[st] March 2025. The Trustees who served during the year and up to the date of this report are set out on page 1.

Structure, governance and management

Governing document

The organisation is governed by its constitution which was adopted on 2nd February 2018. The organisation registered as a charity on 18 February 2018. The charity also carries out its activities under the style of TMC Birmingham.

Recruitment and appointment of Trustees

The Trustees hold a wide range of skills and experience essential to the development and good governance of the charity. In the period covered by this report, no new Trustees were appointed.

The Trustees look to grow and strengthen the Board in the coming years in concert with the evolving governance and strategic needs of the charity. Current Trustees can appoint a new member to the charity by ordinary resolution with a simple majority. The maximum number of Trustees of the charity is not limited. In recruiting new Trustees the current full Board fulfils the role of a nomination committee. No plans are in place to recruit further Trustees at this point in time.

Organisational structure

All Trustees are equally responsible for the day-to-day leadership and management of the charity. From time-to-time, individual trustees provide formal reports to the full Board of Trustees during the regular meetings which it holds. Any individual Trustee can consult with the full Board for advice as needed on strategic issues.

Risk management

The Board conducts a review of the major risks to which the charity is exposed on a regular basis. A risk register has been established and is maintained by the Board. Where appropriate, systems or procedures have been established to mitigate the risks the charity faces.

Objectives and activities

Objectives

The objects of the charity are to:

1. advance education according to the sources of Islam, namely the Holy scripture ‘Quran’ and the Prophetic traditions of the ‘Hadith’;

2. advance the Islamic religion;

3. relieve poverty in particular but not exclusively of Tamil speaking persons residing in the United Kingdom;

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Report of the trustees for the year ended 31 March 2025

1. To organise group meetings and lectures on Islam, primarily in the Tamil language;

2. organise and provide Islamic cultural activities as approved by the sources of Islam;

3. provide and to promote facilities in the field of relief works and aids for the poor of any communities irrespective of their colour, race or religion; and,

4. Co-operate with any other charitable organisation having similar objects to ours.

Objectives and activities for the period

The charity's main objectives and activities for the period were to:

1. grow the fundraising and donor engagement infrastructure;

2. continue the development of Islamic classes, speeches and debates;

3. organise and perform Funeral prayers whenever required;

4. organise, manage and host the annual conference in Tamil attracting audiences from various parts of England;

5. celebrate the two annual Eid get together;

6. incorporate strategies and practices to promote the community to uphold British values and integrate with the wider British society

Financial review

Review of the financial position of the charity

The financial position of the charity is set out on pages 5 and 6.

Notably, individual donations received during the course of the year came through advocacy, communications and formal fundraising activities.

Reserves policy

The charity's policy on reserves is to maintain reserves such that the budgeted operating and fund generation function costs of the charity can be covered for the next 12 months at any point in time and for future reconstruction and expansion of the charity.

The unrestricted reserves at the year ended 31[st] March 2025 amounted to £329,301 (2024 £87,957).

Period of account

These financial statements have been prepared for the 12 months ended 31st March 2025.

Statement of Trustees' responsibilities

The Trustees are responsible for preparing the Trustees' Annual Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice.

The Charities Act 2011 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, including the income and expenditure of the charity for that period.

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Tamil Muslim Community Birmingham

Report of the trustees for the year ended 31 March 2025

In preparing these financial statements, the Trustees are required to:

• select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;

• observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP;

• make judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;

• state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and

• 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 which enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011. 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 Board on ……….……….………. 2025 and signed on its behalf by

……………………………………. …………………………………….

Trustee Trustee

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Tamil Muslim Community Birmingham

Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2025

2025 £ Fixed Assets Tangible Assets 212,759 Investment 212,759 Current Assets Stock Other Debtors Cash at Bank and in Hand 189,542 189,542 Creditors:Amount falling due within one year 73,000 Net Current Assets 116,542 Total Assets less Current Liabilities 329,301 Creditors:Amount falling due after more than one year Net Assets 329,301 Funds Unrestricted Income Funds 329,301 Total Funds 329,301	2024 £ - - - 87,957 87,957 - 87,957 87,957 - 87,957 87,957 87,957

The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on ................... 2025 and signed on its behalf by

Mohamed Amin Sayed Farook Mougamadou Moubarack Trustee Trustee

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Tamil Muslim Community Birmingham

Notes to financial statements for the year ended 31st March 2025

1. Accounting policies

The principal accounting policies are summarised below. The accounting policies have been applied consistently throughout the year and the preceding year.

1.1. Basis of accounting

The financial statements of the charity, which is a public benefit entity under FRS 102, have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (effective 1 January 2019)' and the Charities Act 2011.The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.

1.2. Incoming resources

All incoming resources are included in the statement of financial activities when the charity is entitled to the income and the amount can be quantified with reasonable accuracy. The following specific policies are applied to particular categories of income:

Voluntary income is received by way of subscriptions and donations and it is included in full in the statement of financial activities when receivable.

1.3. Resources expended

Expenditure is recognised on an accrual basis as a liability is incurred. Expenditure includes any VAT which cannot be fully recovered, and is reported as part of the expenditure to which it relates.

Charitable expenditure comprises those costs incurred by the charity in the delivery of its activities and services towards the objects of the Charity. It includes both costs that can be allocated directly to such activities and those costs of an indirect nature necessary to support them.

Support costs are those costs incurred directly in support of expenditure on the objects of the charity

2. Voluntary income

Unrestricted Funds Subscriptions and donations received	2025 245,946 245,946	2024 19,588 19,588

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Notes to financial statements for the year ended 31st March 2025

3. Costs of charitable activities Lecture & conference cost 4. Employees Employment costs	2025 4603 4603 0	2024 7032 7032 0

Number of employees

The average monthly numbers of employees and trustees during the year was as follows:

Trustees Staffs	5 0 5	5 0 5

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