**To** ## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 02 January 2024 1st January 2025 **From** ## Section A Reference and administration details |**Charity name**
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)**
**Charity's principal address**|
Nottingham Council of Mosques|
Nottingham Council of Mosques| |---|---|---| |||| ||
NCM|| ||1189899|| ||
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Mr Shujahat Aslam|President||| ||Mr Ahmed
Peerbhai|General Secretary||| ||Mrs Bilquees Akbar|Vice President||| ||Dr Smain Badaoui|Treasurer||| ||Olanrewaju Abdul-
Hakeem Atilade|Vice president||| ||Najam Hussain|Trustee||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** March **2012** **TAR** 1 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of adviser Name Address** ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted - (eg. trust, association, company) Elected by Council Membership 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** **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** To advance the Islamic faith through representing mosques and Islamic centres of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire under the structure of one council. In doing so activities will include promoting understanding and unity amongst the various mosques and Islamic centres; and promoting racial and religious harmony between Muslims and non-Muslims March **2012** **TAR** 2 The Nottingham Council of Mosques continued working primarily in the fields of Health, Cemeteries, Islamophobia and Mosque advocacy to meet our stated objectives above to promote understanding between mosques and to advance the Islamic faith. Significant health improvement work was done by holding Life Saver events and Healthy Ramadan awareness events within mosques thus promoting unity between mosques by working together on the same project. It also advanced the teachings of Islam by helping many muslims realise that health awareness and wellbeing was an important part of Islamic teachings. Nottingham Council of Mosques were involved in supporting many of the burials in Nottingham providing guidance and support to bereaved families. We continued liaising with the City Council to ensure speedy and appropriate burials were carried out for the muslim community. Again, this fulfilled our objective of joining mosques together to promote unity and understanding and improve burial services for muslims thoroughout Nottingham. **Summary of the main** Again, this fulfilled our objective of joining mosques together to promote **activities undertaken for the** unity and understanding and improve burial services for muslims **public benefit in relation to** thoroughout Nottingham. **these objects (include within this section the statutory** The Nottingham Council of Mosques visited schools to educate children **declaration that trustees have** about Islam and to promote unity and cohesiveness within our **had regard to the guidance** communities and fulfil our objective of achieving religious harmony **issued by the Charity** between communities. **Commission on public benefit)** The Nottingham Council of Mosques helped arrange the largest open air The Nottingham Council of Mosques helped arrange the largest open air Ramadan iftar (opening the fast meal) in Nottingham bringing together all sections of the community. The Nottingham Council of Mosques continued to liaise closely with the Police and City Council to tackle islamophobia support the safety of all our communities. We advocated on behalf of the muslim community in many different forums to ensure that our views were heard and services and policies appropriately delivered and developed. We represented Nottingham muslims at forums including Muslim Council of Britain meetings and the National Burial Council ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** March **2012** **TAR** 3 The Trustees are supported by a number of Advisors who are all volunteers and do not claim any expenses (like the Trustees). They provide invaluable support and are greatly valued and appreciated. You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. ## Section D Achievements and performance March **2012** **TAR** 4 Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** |**Health**|| |---|---| |▪|Healthy Ramadan Workshop and awareness session took place
before Ramadan in collaboration with British Islamic Medical| ||Association (BIMA)| |▪|Along with the British Islamic Medical Association (BIMA) held| ||Basic Lifesaver Courses at a number of member Mosques in| ||Nottingham| |**Cemeteries**|| |▪|Continuing to support with End to End Process After Deaths| ||(issue of MCCD, registration, Ghusl, burial etc.)| |▪|Attended National Burial Council Conference in Leicester| |▪|Resolving ongoing issues at the cemeteries. Working more| ||closely and in collaboration with all Nottingham Funeral Directors| ||to support the community and provide representation with| ||external partners| |**Islamophobia**|| |▪|Supported Palestine Solidarity Campaign events and related| ||events| |▪|Continual liaison with Police on masjid / islamophobia matters| |▪|Issued statement on Southport Riots and helped guide community| |▪|NCM Management Committee members have visited schools to| ||educate children about Islam and to promote unity and| ||cohesiveness within our communities.| |**Advocacy**|| |▪|Represent masjids on several influential panels/boards such as,| ||the PCC's scrutiny panel, the Crown Prosecution hate crime| ||panel, the police IAG, the council's hate crime partnership etc.| ||these forums have been effective in escalating Muslim concerns| ||and addressing Islamophobia and influencing Policy. We have| ||been able to influence policy through these channels and deliver| ||Islamic awareness training to key policy makers.| |**National Roles / Feedback**|| ||Regularly attend Muslim Council of Britain meetings.| |**Miscellaneous**|| |▪|Delivered opening fast meal to patients and visitors at the Queens| ||Medical Centre.| |▪|Helped arrange largest open air Ramadan Iftar (opening the fast )| ||bringing to together all members of the community.| |▪|Encouraged muslim community to engage in voting| March **2012** **TAR** 5 Section D Achievements and performance March **2012** **TAR** 6 ## **Section E Financial review** The Charity will endeavour to hold six months of regular income as **Brief statement of the** reserves and Trustees will review this. **charity’s policy on reserves** **Details of any funds materially** None **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** ## **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)** Shujahat Aslam **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** President **etc) Date** 24th September 2025 March **2012** **TAR** 7 ||**Nottingham Council of Mosques**|**Nottingham Council of Mosques**|**Nottingham Council of Mosques**|**1189899**|**1189899**|**1189899**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**|02/01/2024|**To**||01/01/2025||| ||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**127**
**200**
**-**
**-**
**327**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**327**
**199**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**199**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**199**
**128**
**-**
**2,585**
**2,713**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**369**
**-**
**-**
**369**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**369**
**-**
**296**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**296**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**296**
**73**
**-**
**1,774**
**1,847**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**127**
**200**
**369**
**-**
**-**
**696**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**696**
**199**
**296**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**495**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**201**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Member subscriptions|**127**||||||**1,219**| |General Donations|**200**||||||**-**| |Encampment Support|||||||**-**| |Eid with Refugees|**-**||||||**400**| |National Protest Coach Hire|**-**||||||**1,014**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**327**||||||**2,633**| ||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see**|||||||| ||**-**||||||| ||**-**||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||| ||||||||**2,633**| ||||||||| |
Website Hosting|**199**||||||**136**| |Encampment Support|**-**||||||**-**| |Eid with Refugees Campaign|**-**||||||**335**| |National Protest Coach Hire|**-**||||||**1,200**| |National membershipfees|**-**||||||**200**| |Room Hire|**-**||||||**336**| |**_Sub total_ **|**199**||||||**2,207**| ||||||||| |**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_**|||||||| ||||||||**2,207**| ||||||||| ||**128**|**73**|**-**||**201**||**426**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**2,585**|**1,774**|**-**||**4,359**||**3,933**| ||**2,713**|**1,847**|**-**||**4,560**||**4,359**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 11/10/2025 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
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**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s**
**own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
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**Details**
**Details**
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**to nearest £**
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**1,847**
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**to nearest £**
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**Amount due**
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Print Name
SHUJAHAT ASLAM|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
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approval| |||SHUJAHAT ASLAM|24/09/2025| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 11/10/2025 2