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

Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 09 10 2020 **To** 31 03 2022 

## Section A Reference and administration details 

**Charity name** Al-Mahdi Institute 

**Other names charity is known by** 

**Registered charity number (if any)** 11911746 

|**red charity number (if any)**|11911746|11911746|
|---|---|---|
|**Charity's principal address**|60 Weoley Park Road||
||Birmingham||
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||**Postcode**|B29 6RB|



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

|1<br>2<br>3|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee (if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Shaykh Arif Abdul<br>Hussein||09-10-2020||
||Abbas Ali Datoo||09-10-2020||
||Mehboob Ladak||09-10-2020||



## **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)** 

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

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

Type of governing document 

Constitution 

- (eg. trust deed, constitution) 

How the charity is constituted 

> [Charitable Incorporated Organisation] 

**TAR** 

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(eg. trust, association, company) 

The trustees are elected by the members at the annual general meeting Trustee selection methods and serve office for a period of three years after which they may put (eg. appointed by, elected by) themselves up for re-election. The constitution provides for a minimum of three trustees and not more than five trustees due for re-appointment in any one year. 

## **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** The principle objectives of the charity, in line with those set out in the governing document, include: Provision of an Institute for Islamic research and resources. Undertaking research and publication of any useful results for the benefit of the public. More specifically this includes, but is not limited to: i. To educate and train scholars and orators who are capable of positively engaging with challenges of plural contemporary societies, through a thorough grounding in the tools of Muslim scholarship and their value in promoting common human values. ii. To conduct research and studies, to publish scholarly and grass roots works in pursuit of the objectives of the **Summary of the objects of the** Institute. **charity set out in its governing document** iii. To maintain libraries and centres to facilitate the attainment of the objectives. iv. Conduct outreach activities disseminating the scholarly work of the institute and serving humanitarian goals. v. Intra and inter-faith activities as a platform for public engagement and social cohesion on matters arising from the plural context of society and in pursuit of shared human goals. vi. Community service programmes seeking to aid volunteering and third sector work in general, with particular focus on capacity building amongst youth groups and women's networks. 

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vii. To raise funds and invite and receive contributions from any person or persons whosoever including business organisations by way of subscriptions, donations or otherwise for its charitable objects. 

The trustees confirm that they have complied with the requirements of section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission for England and Wales. 

**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)** 

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**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. 

## Section D                      Achievements and performance 

**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** 

During the period, the charity has been in the process of transferring assets and activities across from an existing unincorporated charity that has been registered with the Charity Commission since May 2000 under registration number 1080962. No other activities have taken place during the period. 

## **Section E                    Financial review** 

**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** 

Once activities commence under this entity, the charity aims to build up and keep sufficient reserves in order to meet its charitable objectives. 

**Details of any funds materially in deficit** 

None 

## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** 

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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)** 

Sheikh Arif Abdulhussein **Full name(s)** Mehboob Ladak **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Trustee Trustee **etc) Date** 16 March 2023 

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**Al-Mahdi Institute** 

**1191746** 

## **Receipts and payments accounts** 

**For the period from** 

**To** 

31/03/2022 

09/10/2020 

**CC16a** 

## **Section A Receipts and payments** 

**Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds** 

**Total funds Last year** 

**to the nearest      £ to the nearest £** 

**to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £** 

## **A1 Receipts** 

|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||||
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|Donations,Legacies andgrants|**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||
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||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||
||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_||||||||||||||
|_AR)_|**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**||||||||||||||
|**(see table).**||||||||||||||
||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||||
||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||||**-**|
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|**_Total receipts_ **|**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||||**-**|
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||||||
|Costs of fundraigingevents|**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||
|Costs of charitable activities|**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||
|Governance costs|**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||
||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||
||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||
||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||
||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||
||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||
||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||
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|**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||||||
|**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||||||
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||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||||**-**|
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|**_Total payments_ **|**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**|||**-**||**-**|||**-**||||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**-**|||**-**||**-**|||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Cash funds this year end_**|**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||||**-**|



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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

|**Categories**<br>Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees<br>**B5 Liabilities**<br>**B3 Investment assets**<br>**B2 Other monetary assets**<br>**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**<br>**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))<br>Cash at bank<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>Signature|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>OK<br>OK<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**<br>**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>Print Name<br>Mehboob Ladak<br>Sheikh Arif Abdulhussein|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
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||||Date of<br>approval|
|||Mehboob Ladak|16-Mar-23|
|||Sheikh Arif Abdulhussein|16-Mar-23|



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