Finance Score: -7

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 9

Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -3 times
Reasonable growth: +1
Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3

Grant maker support: +9

Overall GiG Score: 5

PRESTON MUSLIM FORUM LIMITED

to develop, support, engage and empower persons mainly but not exclusively Muslims in and around Preston in the fields of education, employment, training, health, capacity building, regeneration and community development.to ensure participation and raise awareness of issues faced by beneficiries who are disadvantaged by providing advice, guidance and counselling, with a view to releive poverty

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Accounts have been filed late on 3 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Established: 27 years
(28 years as a company)

www.pmforum.org.uk

office@pmforum.org.uk

01772 889431

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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
31/03/23		£91	£111	£-20	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	8
31/03/22	*	£91	£111	£-20	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/21	*	£256	£106	£149	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/20	*	£336	£40	£296	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/03/19		£73	£89	£-16	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/18	*	£63	£70	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£68	£40	£27	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£20	£23	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£43	£36	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£30	£29	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£50	£37	£13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£39	£40	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£45	£53	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10?		£18	£47	£-29	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	*	£209	£155	£54	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£144	£129	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	*	£105	£108	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£109	£89	£21	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£67	£77	£-11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Amateur Sport
Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Disability
Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information

Where it operates

Lancashire,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
8 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years

The Pilgrim Trust	£91,150
DCMS	£32,658
Co-Op Foundation	£19,935
Cumbria Community Foundation	£8,300
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside	£3,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to Preston Muslim Forum Limited
£91,150	05/12/2023	Minds United: Provide appropriate services and support to BME young women aged 16-25 experiencing mental health problems and empower them to access help for their mental health.
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - 'Fed, Informed & Inspired'
£3,000	10/05/2023	To establish a lunch club for older people where they can receive advice regarding benefits, energy bills, and the cost of living crisis.
Co-Op Foundation - Preston Muslim Forum Limited STC Expand application
£10,000	18/12/2020	To help you build on the work and impact from Space to Connect Explore funding, aimed at providing communities with a space to connect
Cumbria Community Foundation - Operational and running costs
£8,300	10/07/2020	Operational and running costs
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£32,658	08/07/2020	"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more "The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
Co-Op Foundation - STC Explore
£9,935	03/10/2019	Plan to deliver community engagement events, conversations, activities and workshops to reduce social isolation, strengthen relationships and get new ideas and perspectives.
National Lottery Community Fund - Hamara Community Hub
£452,603	24/05/2018 60	Preston Muslim Forum Limited (PMF) will extend and refurbish their facilities to develop its role as a community hub. The building extension involves adding a single storey and reconfiguring the ....more Preston Muslim Forum Limited (PMF) will extend and refurbish their facilities to develop its role as a community hub. The building extension involves adding a single storey and reconfiguring the existing ground floor space. The project aims to provide an IT suite, offices, meeting rooms, a large multi-purpose activity. By expanding their building the group will be able to offer a much broader range of services and activities to reach more people in the local community.
National Lottery Community Fund - Hamaara Youth Club
£9,720	02/08/2017 12	The funding will be used to run youth club activities and youth leadership training for young men in the local Muslim community. The project aim to provide positive activities for young people to ....more The funding will be used to run youth club activities and youth leadership training for young men in the local Muslim community. The project aim to provide positive activities for young people to take part in.
National Lottery Community Fund - Aspire & Achieve
£100,787	16/12/2015 35	A project to provide employment skills and training for people facing multiple disadvantage. The scheme will provide a range of support including CV writing, job searches, completing application ....more A project to provide employment skills and training for people facing multiple disadvantage. The scheme will provide a range of support including CV writing, job searches, completing application forms, IT, job workshops, and exploring volunteer opportunities. The project will also provide community based lifelong learning initiatives to promote mental and physical health, including workshops on confidence building, arts and crafts, healthy living, and light exercise classes.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 38-68

ISAMAIL DAOUD, Occupation: Director

ISMAIL SULEMAN RAWAT (Chair) Appointed: 2010, Occupation: Director

MARTIN HORTON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Trustee

SARFRAZ ISMAIL Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director

YASMIN AHMED Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Trustee

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 26/09/1997, number: 1064609
Registered at Companies House on 10/05/1995, number: 03054937

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

19 returns made; AR22: 205 days late, AR21: 11 days late, AR20: 9 days late, AR18: 21 days late, AR08: 24 days late, AR07: 44 days late, AR06: 10 days late, AR05: 101 days late, AR04: 233 days late,

Main office

PRESTON MUSLIM FORUM
HAMARA CENTRE
REAR OF 158 CASTLETON ROAD
PRESTON
PR1 6QH

Objectives

Primarily but not exclusively for the benefit of Muslims or those of Muslim decent ('beneficiaries') in Preston and the surrounding area ('area of benefit') by:(a) Relieving the poverty, hardship and distress arising therefrom of such beneficiaries through the provision of information, advice and guidance to improve both the social and economic circumstances, mental and physical health and well-being, by whatever charitable means the Trustees think fit;(b) Advancing the education of such beneficiaries through the provision of training sessions, vocational and non-vocational classes, employment advice and other assistance in gaining employment;(c) Providing facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation for those who have need by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, financial circumstances or social and/or economic circumstances or for the public at large in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving the conditions of life of such persons.’

Defined Area of Benefit:

PRESTON

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