Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 9
  • Volatile income: -3
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

MUSLIM WOMEN'S COUNCIL

? PROVIDES SERVICES? PROVIDES ADVOCACY / ADVICE / INFORMATION? SPONSORS OR UNDERTAKES RESEARCH
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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 dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
28/02/23£161£193£-32n/an/an/an/an/an/a
28/02/22£219£207£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
28/02/21£270£201£69n/an/an/an/an/an/a
29/02/20£186£191£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
28/02/19*£162£149£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
28/02/18£87£84£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
28/02/17£52£142£-91n/an/an/an/an/an/a
29/02/16£209£108£101n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 10 years
(13 years as a company)

www.muslimwomenscouncil.org.uk

directorsoffice@muslimwomenscouncil.org.uk

01274 223230

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Practical support, advice & companionship
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Bradford City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years
Friends Provident Foundation£150,208
Leeds Community Foundation£74,239
DCMS£66,496
Tudor Trust£52,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£46,500
National Lottery Community Fund£29,078
Rosa UK£8,000
Sport England£6,400
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Leeds Community Foundation - Muslim Women’s Choir
£15,000 24/06/2024
6
Grant to Muslim Women's Council
Sport England - Our Deen is Green - Walking For Wellbeing
£6,400 13/12/2023
11
This project will provide funding for a walking project for Muslim women from across Bradford. This will be for 20 walks and hopefully recruit 20 local women per walk. The project will also include the training of 10 local Muslim women to be walk ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Our Deen is Green Upcycling Project
£9,300 22/09/2023
The funding will be used by the project to run upcycling workshops for Muslim women. The will provide participants with a space to develop their creativity and learn new transferable skills that promotes environmental sustainability. This aims to ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£40,000 02/08/2023
24
Funding for core costs to help make MWC more effective and efficient
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£6,500 17/06/2022
WCA Winner 2022-2023
Leeds Community Foundation - Curry Circle
£30,000 18/05/2022
We would like to use the grant to help sustain the services and activities we are delivering to support local families facing poverty due to being homeless or other factors, through our Curry Circle free food project. And our organisational ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Art through Words
£9,550 24/03/2022
Our idea is to hold 9 workshops hosted by Arabic Calligrapher Razwan Ul-Haq, for local Muslim women to discuss and contribute to the development of the art through calligraphy. These workshops will help them express their feelings and interaction ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Our Deen is Green - Living the environmental spirit of Islam
£10,000 15/10/2021
This group will use the funding to hold 10 activity workshops for Muslim women & girls to educate them about climate action. This will include local visits to forests allotments lakes and rivers - places for them to understand the impact of ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Survive Recover and Re-engage
£9,778 14/05/2021
The funding will be used to develop and deliver online and remotely accessible family-based intervention targeted at supporting mothers and children from BAME communities. The aim of the project is to help them recover and re-engage from traumas ....more
Rosa UK - C19 R4-MUSWOMC-2021
£8,000 30/03/2021
A grant of £8,000 was awarded for a new telephone bereavement helpline. Whilst there is a clear need for this service, and the dedicated telephone support for bereaved women dovetails with the existing telephone helpline, the panel should note that ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Muslim Women's Council
£2,000 13/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Friends Provident Foundation - Muslim Women's Council-Think + Do Tank’ - a hub for Muslim women to explore new economic approaches
£150,208 01/01/2021
We want to establish a 'Think + Do Tank' that engages Muslim women on their lived experience of poverty, barriers to employment, enterprise and finance, to take them from the margins to the heart of designing better economic systems and policy that ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Pathways
£9,889 18/11/2020
10
Grant to Muslim Women's Council
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£66,496 05/08/2020
"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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Grant to Muslim Women's Council
£9,800 21/07/2020
4
Support for ongoing delivery and adapting operating/funding model.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Muslim Women's Council
£50,000 07/07/2020
24
over two years as continuation funding towards core costs for a Bradford-based charity supporting and advocating for Muslim women and promoting their involvement in society
CAF - Grant to Muslim Women's Council
£3,600 28/05/2020
3
Grant to Muslim Women's Council to support the organisation through COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - Muslim Women Think Tank
£29,777 29/03/2019
11
This project is to support Muslim Women's Council to train Muslim women with lived experience of domestic violence, hate crime, Islamophobia, sexual exploitation and polygamy to become leaders and influence policy and debate surrounding issues that ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Curry Circle
£20,000 24/10/2018
12
Grant to Muslim Women's Council
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to Muslim Women's Council
£25,000 13/09/2018
36
FRAGILE Network; to support and respond to women and girls facing child sexual exploitation issues
Tudor Trust - Grant to Muslim Women's Council
£50,000 11/07/2018
24
over two years towards the CEO's salary for a Bradford-based charity aiming to enable Muslim women to be heard and to play a full role in UK society
National Lottery Community Fund - Women's Support Circle
£10,000 20/04/2018
12
The group will provide guidance and support to women in the local community who are undergoing family, marriage and divorce problems, providing the opportunity to access advice to increase emotional confidence.
Comic Relief - Fragile
£60,000 30/09/2015
24
The project will address child sexual exploitation issues within the Muslim community in Bradford. In the context of recent high profile cases, it seeks to open up and carefully facilitate discussion on the issue; enable community members to ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Muslim Women's Council
£49,600 23/07/2015
Our Head Coverings
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Muslim Women's Council
£30,000 09/02/2015
24
Towards addressing issues around sexual grooming within the South Asian communities in Bradford and Keighley.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 42-58
  • BANA GORA Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Director
  • DR SHURUQ NAGUIB Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Director
  • KEHKSHAN ANDLEEB AHMED Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Solicitor
  • SELINA PARBIN ULLAH Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director
  • SHAHIDA KISHVER MOUGHUL Appointed: 2021
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/09/2014, number: 1158560
  • Registered at Companies House on 07/02/2011, number: 07518555
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • 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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
8 returns made; AR19: 34 days late,
Main office

Muslim Women's Council
3-7 Saltaire Road
SHIPLEY
West Yorkshire
BD18 3HH

Objectives

(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS, AND THE PROMOTION AND PRESERVATION OF GOOD HEALTH, PARTICULARLY THOUGH NOT EXCLUSIVELY AMONGST MUSLIM WOMEN;(B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ISSUES AFFECTING MUSLIM WOMEN, INCLUDING THE CONDUCT OF RESEARCH AND PUBLISHING THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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