Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
    • Grant maker support: +1
    Overall GiG Score: -4 ?

    STEVENAGE MUSLIM COMMUNITY CENTRE 

    SMCC is the representative body for the Muslims in the East and North Herts. The Charity is a Mosque and a community centre, providing facilities for community services, Islamic education for children and classes for learning the Holy Qur'an and Arabic. It organises discussions, lectures and meetings on religious topics to the community and accommodates local schools for religious education.
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently

    Financial issues to consider:

    • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
    • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

    Financial Data ?

    Income & Spending ?
    Sources of Income ?
    Y/E Income
    £k
    Spending
    £k
    Surplus/
    Deficit
    Fundraising
    Cost £k
    Total
    Funds £k
    Unrestricted
    Funds £k
    Mths
    Rsrvs
    Staff Volun-
    teers
    31/01/23£111£248£-138n/an/an/an/an/a3
    31/01/22£261£127£134n/an/an/an/an/a2
    31/01/21£154£136£19n/an/an/an/an/a3
    31/01/20£119£126£-6n/an/an/an/an/a2
    31/01/19£154£186£-32n/an/an/an/an/a3
    31/01/18£229£205£25£0£0£0n/a00
    31/01/17£114£166£-52£0£0£0n/a00
    31/01/16£123£88£35£0£0£0n/a00
    31/01/15£132£168£-36£0£0£0n/a00
    31/01/14*£101£94£7£0£0£0n/a00
    31/01/13*£51£78£-27£0£0£0n/a00
    31/01/12£77£37£40£0£0£0n/a00
    31/01/11£45£35£9£0£0£0n/a00
    31/01/10*£90£61£30£0£0£0n/a00
    31/01/09£78£70£8£0£0£0n/a00
    31/01/08?*£62£57£5£0£0£0n/a00
    31/01/04*£51£57£-6£0£0£0n/a00

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Established: 33 years

    www.smcc786.co.uk

    info@smcc786.co.uk

    07810007531

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
    • Education/Training
    • General Charitable Purposes
    • Other Charitable Purposes
    • Religious Activities
    • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
    GiG Classification
    • Muslim congregations
    How it operates
    • Other charitable activities
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Hertfordshire,
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    • Elderly/Old People
    • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
    Who works here?
    • Unknown number of employees
    • 3 volunteers

    Who's supporting them? ?

    Donations from Grant Makers ?

    We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Grant to Stevenage Muslim Community Centre
    £1,000 18/08/2021
    Promote via website, Notification on the community app and weekly announcements and notice board. Our main target will be ethnic minority of our community. Website consolations and development ....more
    Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Grant to Stevenage Muslim Community Centre
    £5,000 29/03/2021
    Providing meals and support, Visit time to time

    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (9)
    Current Trustees appointed

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 23/11/1990, number: 1001003
    Gift Aid
    • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
    • Complaints handling
    • Complaints policy and procedures
    • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
    • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
    • Internal risk management policy and procedures
    • Risk management
    • Safeguarding policy and procedures
    • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
    • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
    • Social media policy and procedures
    • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
    Filing Record
    17 returns made; AR14: 105 days late, AR13: 78 days late, AR10: 57 days late, AR08: 14 days late, AR04: 127 days late,
    Main office

    HILLCREST HOUSE
    STEVENAGE ROAD
    ASHBROOK
    HITCHIN
    SG4 7JY

    Objectives

    1) TO PROMOTE THE RELIGION OF ISLAM BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR CONGREGATIONAL PRAYERS AND BY ARRANGING FUNERAL AND MARRIAGE SERVICES 2) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TENETS AND DOCTRINES OF ISLAM 3) TO RELIEVE THE SICK AND ELDERLY AND THOSE WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF FINANCIAL NEED

    Defined Area of Benefit:

    STEVENAGE AND SURROUNDING AREAS

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase
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