York Street Masjid (Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith) Burton-On-Trent branch.
7-10 York Street Burton-on-Trent DE14 2LX
Annual report & statements for year ended.
29th February 2024
Charity Name : York Street Masjid Charity Registration Number : 514177.
Committee Members: Aftab Hussain Trustee Mohammed Ifrahim Trustee Mohammed Bashir Trustee Mushtaq Hussain Trustee Imran Yousaf Trustee
Imam – Acting Imams that help to lead prayers.
Report Produced By Mr. Imran Yousaf
Organisational Structure
The Masjid committee members work together for the general control and the management of the charity. To help facilitate the smooth running and operations of the Masjid the committee control the management of the Masjid charity. The committee members meet regularly to help make the necessary plans to improve the facilities and services provided by the Masjid. The committee give their time freely to help in making the Masjid function smoothly and receive no remuneration or other financial benefits. The daily activities and events arranged by the Masjid are delegated to volunteers to help provide the services organised by the Masjid.
Masjid Objectives
The Masjid aims to reflect both our faith and community needs to catering for both of the Islamic and nonIslamic faiths. To help in meeting the aims and ambitions of the Masjid, donations from the public especially those who visit the Masjid as part of their prayers are fundamental to help maintain the functioning of the Masjid and to improve facilities to serve the wider public.
Strategies
We want our Masjid to be a place of worship that is accessible to all Muslims and to the wider public that want to know more about our faith. The Masjid has facilities for women that wish to use the Masjid as a place of worship. The Masjid is open every day of the week to facilitate the five daily prayers. An important part of the Islamic faith is to give in charity in accordance to ones’ wealth and the Masjid collects Zakat ul-Fitr during the month of Ramadhan and sends the money to the poor and needy people in different parts of the world at the end of Ramadan.
An important part of the Masjid strategy was to start classes for Muslim students in the community to learn the correct teachings involved in reading and understanding the message in the Quran. The Masjid madrassa program has started with the interest gathering pace for parents to register their children into the Masjid madrassa. The Masjid is working to undertake numerous building projects to improve its facilities for visitors attending the Masjid and students that attend classes in the Madrassa. The ongoing works on the Masjid are planned to help develop a place of worship and educational resource centre that will help benefit the worshipers that attend York Street and students utilising its educational facilities.
The Masjid has started to work with Green Lane Masjid in Birmingham to arrange for learned teachers to help provide Friday Jummah Sermons and to hold lectures at the Masjid to benefit the Muslim community to understand the practices in their faith. The long-term vision and aim of the Masjid is to engage with the Burton community and hold open-days for the wider community. The Masjid sees this as an opportunity to invite people of different faiths and those that have no faith to help build relationships within the community between people of the Muslim faith and community of different faiths and background.
Use of Volunteers
The use of volunteers plays a key role in helping to run a smooth operation of the Masjid. The Masjid utilises different part-time imams to lead the congregational prayers. The Masjid utilises designated volunteers that regularly attend for their place of worship to help maintain the cleanliness of the building. In addition, volunteers help to facilitate the teaching and daily operations involved in running the madrassa.
Activities and Achievements
The Masjid carries out a wide range of activities for the Burton community to access. The committee believe that the activities summarised below benefit those who worship in the Masjid and the youth in receiving Islamic education through the madrassa set up.
Building Achievements
The Masjid has undergone the initial stages of an extension at the front of the building to accommodate more worshipers in order to increase its capacity. The extension at the front of the building will enable the Masjid to increase the capacity of worshipers that use the Masjid.
Religious Activities
York Street Masjid provides a place for the Muslim community to pray and worship. The religious services and activities provided by the Masjid in this twelve-month period are summarised below:
Prayers
The Masjid is open every day for worshipers to perform their five daily prayers. On Fridays for jummah prayers the Masjid is full and facilities are provided for the female worshipers who want to attend either the jummah or five daily prayers.
Ramadhan
The Masjid provides iftar to worshipers that want to break their fasts together. The Masjid provides the additional tarawih prayers after the fifth obligatory daily prayer and during the last ten nights provides the night prayer service for worshipers that want to join in these acts of worship. These additional tarawih and night prayers are open to both male and female worshipers.
Eid
The Masjid provides the two Eid prayers, one after Ramadhan and the second after the pilgrimage of Hajj to both male and female worshipers. Eid is a chance for the worshipers to celebrate these two Muslim festivals.
Funeral Facilities
The Masjid has a designated purpose-built room to do the special body wash ready for the burial in accordance to Islamic practices. The Masjid provides funeral prayers to the deceased Muslims in the Burton and surrounding communities.
Lectures
The Masjid has made arrangements for lectures to be staged on the last Sunday of every month. A monthly lecture series entitled ‘Life of the prophets’ was provided to help benefit the Muslim community attending the Masjid. These lectures were delivered by learned teachers supplied by Green Lane Masjid in Birmingham.
Islamic Marriage (Nikah)
The Masjid provides the Islamic Marriage services for Muslim couples that want to marry, with the imam conducting the ceremony and the family members, relatives and friends of the couple attending the service.
Education
The Masjid’s madrassa has become in high demand for both boys and girls classes. The Masjid continues in its core teachings and recitation of the Quran. The Masjid’s Islamic Studies program is scheduled for every Friday. The Masjid for the first time in its history has a Hifaz program with twelve students. This program is running for six days in the week with the long-term plan to produce students that are able to memorise the Quran within the next five years.
Statements of Trustees Responsibilities
The Charity Trustees’ are responsible for preparing an annual report and financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards. The Trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the charity's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2016. The trustees are responsible for keeping up to date accounting records ensuring that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 1996.
Approved by the trustees and signed on its behalf by:
Aftab Hussain – Chairman.
York Street Masjid Statement of Financial Activities For the Year Ended February 29th 2024
York Street Masjid Statement of Receipts & Payments For the Year Ended February 29th 2024
| Incoming Resources 2023 |
Incoming Resources 2023 |
2024 |
|---|---|---|
| CharityDonatons | 47,771.02 | 50,322.99 |
| Gif Aid | 8,036.66 | - |
| Madrassa Fees | 21,290.00 | 26,813.93 |
| Annual Membership | 1,014.00 | 1,948.00 |
| Ramadan Dates | 1,879.99 | - |
| Total Income Resources 79,991.67 |
79,084.92 |
|
| Resources Expended (Outgoings) 2023 |
2024 |
|
| Media Equipment | 2,341.19 | 3,031.25 |
| Utltes | 11,424.42 | 15,456.69 |
| Ramadan Dates | - | 1,851.80 |
| Hospitality | 20.19 | 150.00 |
| Insurance | 1,049.31 | - |
| Maintenance | 20,172.83 | 7,670.18 |
| Educaton | - | 75.00 |
| Statonery | 200.00 | 88.33 |
| CharityDonatons Expenditure- Stripe | 7,799.00 | 48,329.06 |
| Shelter Project | - | 1,500.00 |
| Professional services | 10,327.80 | 11,555.00 |
| Total Resources Expanded (Outgoings) 53,334.74 |
89,707.31 |
|
| Net Income / Expenditure 26,656.93 |
(10,622.39) |