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Registered Charity Number: 1203958

MUSLIM UNITY CENTRE

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2025

LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Charity Name Muslim Unity Centre Charity Registration Number 1203958 Principle Office 100 HIRST CRESCENT WEMBLEY Middlesex HA9 7HH Board of Trustees Asmuddin Mohammed Karim Wasim Mohamed Saqeeb Abdulla Niazi Kashmir Khan Hamat Abdulhadi Frotan Bankers Lloyds Bank 98 Victoria St London SW1E 5JL

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CONTENTS

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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES 4-7
STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES’ RESPONSIBILITIES 8
INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT 9
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES 10
BALANCE SHEET 11
NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS 12-13

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MUSLIM UNITY CENTRE

REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2025

The Trustees present their annual report and financial statements for the year ended 30 April 2025 and confirm that they comply with the Charities Act 2011, the trust deed and the Charities SORP (FRS 102).

Public Benefit Statement

The trustees have complied with their duty in section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to guidance published by the Charity Commission.

Aims and Objectives

Our Aims

To further or benefit the residents of Brent and the neighbourhoods without distinction of sex, race, ethnicity or language by associating together the said residents and the local authorities, voluntary and other organisations in a common effort to advance education, training and religious activities to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare and betterment of the conditions of life for the residents by providing advocacy, advice and information.

In furtherance of these objects but not otherwise, the trustees shall have power: To establish or secure the establishment of a community centre and to maintain or manage or cooperate with any statutory authority in the maintenance and management of such a centre for activities promoted by the charity in furtherance of the above objects.

Our Objectives

The Muslim Unity Centre’s primary objective is to raise funds (through various fundraising streams) to help construct a multipurpose community centre that offers a wide range of educational and recreational activities for everyone, especially youth. Muslim Unity Centre hopes to form the ideal place to address community problems and provide solutions for the entire community. The prospect of a community centre offers a much-needed resource to bring all communities together.

In addition to fundraising, we also try to implement the following objectives:

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Review of activities and achievements

Mentoring

Professional volunteers deliver effective mentoring for people seeking guidance in their lives. This guidance may relate to education, careers, health, spirituality, religious understanding, and community cohesion. Tackling extremist ideas is also a central theme for our volunteers to ensure we live in a harmonious society.

Education

Teaching young teenagers, the basic and primary education of their religious backgrounds, spirituality, how to behave with their elders and respect, and helping women and elders who need help by organising online and in-person courses for them.

Organising Iftar Events

The community organised iftar events in the month of Ramadan for the residents of Brent and surrounding areas, which helped people get together, have conversations, share their experiences, advise teenagers, learn from each other, and use that for the betterment of their society.

Plans for Future Periods

We intend to continue raising funds through fundraising events for the construction of the multipurpose community centre and expand our existing range of community activities for the residents of Brent and the surrounding areas.

Financial Review

During 2024-2025, the charity’s activities continued to focus on meeting the community's needs and establishing a multipurpose community Centre.

The charity’s incoming resources totalled £67k in the year, including donations and collections. A surplus of £17k is recorded for the period, and on 30 April 2025, reserves of £28k are shown, including the previous year's reserve.

Reserves Policy

There are no current operating costs, and the current policy is to maximise reserves to finance future activities, including the establishment of a multipurpose community centre.

Principal Funding Sources

The charity’s main sources of income are donations and fundraising event revenue.

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Structure, Governance and Management

Governing Document

Muslim Unity Centre is a charitable trust registered with the Charity Commission on 12 July 2023 under charity number 1203958.

Organisational Structure

The charity trustees are responsible for the general control and management of the charity. The trustees give their time freely and receive no remuneration or other financial benefit.

The trustees meet at least twice a year and are responsible for all decisions regarding the charity's community facilities and activities.

Recruitment and appointment of trustees

The existing trustees are responsible for appointing new trustees and will consider the views and recommendations of both the elders and community leaders. This approach ensures that the new trustees are respected members of the local community, fostering good relations with the people of the local community we serve.

In selecting new trustees, we seek to identify people who regularly attend fundraising events and charitable activities organised by the charity and are willing to volunteer to help in our broader community work, especially for youth work. Potential trustees are invited to attend trustees’ meetings as observers and are given more details of the charity’s aim and objectives and, if all agree, they are then proposed as a new trustee at the subsequent trustee’s meeting. This process allows due consideration of the person’s eligibility, personal competence, specialist knowledge and skills.

Induction and training of trustees

Following the appointment, new trustees are introduced to their new role and given copies of the trust deed and a guide to the policies and procedures adopted by our charity. A number of publications from the Charity Commission are also provided, including the guidance on charities and public benefit. This ensures that new trustees know the scope of their responsibilities under the Charities Act. Initially, new trustees work with an existing trustee, assisting with particular activities and projects run by the charity. After satisfactory feedback from existing trustees, they are tasked with leading a particular activity or project, reporting progress at trustees’ meetings.

All trustees and members of the subcommittees will have access to a wide variety of training opportunities to equip them to fulfil the charity's aims and objectives.

Risk Management

The trustees have assessed the risks to the charity and review these risks regularly during the meetings held throughout the year. Risks are continually being identified and their impacts are assessed. It can be

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reported that, to date, the risk management exercise has identified minimal areas of concern, though it is recognised that systems can only provide reasonable, not absolute, assurance that all major risks have been adequately identified.

Use of Volunteers

Volunteers are an important resource in our community work. All volunteers also give up their time freely. We encourage all community members to be involved in voluntary activities and to share skills with each other. All volunteers working on projects involving children or other vulnerable groups are required to undergo Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks.

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STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES’ RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2025

The charity’s trustees are responsible for preparing an annual report and financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom accounting standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

The law applicable to charities in England and Wales requires charity trustees to prepare financial statements for each year that give an accurate and fair view of the charity's state of affairs and its incoming resources for that period. In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are required to:

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that, at any time, disclose the charity's financial position with reasonable accuracy and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008, and the provisions of the trust deed. They are also responsible for safeguarding the charity's assets and taking reasonable steps to prevent and detect fraud and other irregularities.

The trustees for the purposes of charity law who served during the year-end and up to the date of this report are set out on the Legal and administrative information page of this report.

Approved by the trustees on 27[th] February 2026 and signed on their behalf by:

Asmuddin Mohammed Karim (Chair of Trustees) 27[th] February 2026

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INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF MUSLIM UNITY CENTRE

I report to the trustees on my examination of the Muslim Unity Centre Trust's (the Trust) accounts for the year ended 30 April 2025.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation 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 all 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 giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:

  1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or

  2. the accounts do not accord with those records.

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached

Signed:

Hedayatullah Yahya FCCA Chartered Certified Accountant Yahya & Co Accountants Ltd 164 West Hendon Broadway London NW9 7AA

27[th] February 2026

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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 April 2025

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 April 2025
Notes
INCOMING RESOURCES
Incoming resources from
generated funds:
Donation & legacies
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Charitable Activities
Other trading activities
Other incoming resources
TOTAL INCOMING RESOURCES		 Unrestricted
Funds
Total Funds
2025
Total Funds
2024
£
£
£
67,108
67,108
48,746
0
0
0
0
0
0
67,108
67,108
48,746
RESOURCES EXPENDED
4
Costs of generating funds
5
Charitable activities
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TOTAL RESOURCES EXPENDED		 43,364
43,364
35,568
6,240
6,240
2,000
49,604
49,604
37,568
NET MOVEMENTS IN FUNDS
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD		 17,504
17,504
11,178
17,504
17,504
11,178
28,682
28,682
17,504

The statement of Financial Activities included all gains and losses in the year.

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BALANCE SHEET AS AT 30 April 2025

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Note 2025 2024
£ £ £ £
Current Assets
Cash on Hand 559
Cash at Bank 28,682 10,618
Total Current Assets 28,682 11,177
Non Current Assets
Debtors 7 10,666 10,666
Total Non Current Assets 10,666 10,666
Liabilities
Creditors: Amounts falling due within
one year 0 0
Net Current Assets or (Liabilities) 28,682 11,177
Creditors: Amounts falling due after
more than one year 0 0
0 0
Net Assets/(Liabilities) 28,682 11,177
The funds of the charity:
Unrestricted funds 8 28,682 11,177
Total charity funds 28,682 11,177
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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2025

1. Accounting Policies

1.1 Basis of accounting

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities (SORP 2005), issued in March 2005, and applicable to UK Accounting Standards and the Charities Act 2011.

1.2 Fund structure

Unrestricted income funds comprise those funds that the trustees are free to use for any purpose in furtherance of the charitable objects. Unrestricted funds also include designated funds where the trustees, at their discretion, have set aside resources for a specific purpose.

Restricted funds are used in accordance with specific restrictions imposed by the donor or the terms of a specific appeal.

1.3 Incoming resources

All incoming resources are recognised once the charity has entitlement to the resources. The resources will undoubtedly be received, and the monetary value of incoming resources can be measured with sufficient reliability. The following specific policies are applied to categories of income:

Voluntary Income is received through donations, collections, and charity boxes and is included in the Statement of Financial Activities on a receipt basis.

Income resources from generating funds are accounted for when earned.

Donated services and facilities are included at the charity's value, where this can be quantified. The value of services donated by volunteers has not been included in these accounts, except where the services provided are professional services where a fee would otherwise be charged, in which case the donated service is valued at its chargeable rate.

Income resources from charitable trading activity are accounted for when earned.

1.4 Resources expended

Liabilities are recognised as soon as the charity has a legal or constructive obligation to pay out resources. All expenditures are considered on an accrual basis and classified under appropriate headings in the statement of financial activities.

1.5 Cost of generating funds

The costs of generating funds are those incurred in attracting voluntary income or in trading activities undertaken to raise funds.

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1.6 Charitable activities

Charitable expenditure comprises costs incurred by the charity in delivering its activities and services to its beneficiaries. It includes both direct pay and non-pay costs, as well as support costs relating to those activities.

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2025

1.7 Debtors

The debtors include £8,000.00 to the landlord as a deposit and £2,666.00 for one month's rent in advance.

1.8 Unrestricted Funds

The unrestricted funds as of 30[th] of April 2025 are £28,682.00

2. Related party transactions and trustees’ remuneration

There were no donated services from trustees (2025: £nil). Trustees received no emoluments (2025: £nil).

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