The Charity Commission has announced the names of 12 new charities that are under a class inquiry for failing to meet reporting requirements; seven are faith-based and two have unaudited sets of accounts filed on the Commission website.

In September, the Charity Commission stepped up its enforcement action, announcing that it would open inquiries into charities which had not filed with it for two years or more. It initially looked at charities with last known incomes of £500,000 or more.

Today, it has announced the names of 12 charities, with a last known income of between £250,000 and £500,000 that have failed to file annual documents for two years or more. All these organisations are now under the class inquiry.

Seven of the organisations in the Commission’s list are faith-based, but three of these have filed up-to-date information on the Charity Commission website today, suggesting that they may be removed from the inquiry soon.

Two of the organisations, Markazul Uloom which runs an Islamic school, and the Michael Davies Charitable Settlement, have never filed financial information with the regulator correctly. Their most recent accounts filed with the Charity Commission, dating from 2009, are unaudited, despite having incomes of up to £500,000.

Further, the Michael Davies Charitable Settlement’s entry on the Charity Commission website states its charitable objects are “to such charity or charities and for such charitable purpose or purposes as the trustees may in their absolute discretion think fit”.

Its most recent accounts filed with the Charity Commission, from 2009, show it had an income of £323,229, and spent £302,257. The bulk of its spending, £299,000, was grants to other charities.

The majority of its income was from one donation. A £294,953 donation received from Rogers Stirck Harbour Partners Ltd.

In a similar pattern to the first 12 charities placed under a class inquiry with the Charity Commission, many do not have websites and have four trustees or fewer.

The Commission also announced today that it was taking enforcement action against three of the charities named in phase one of the class inquiry. Click here to read more on this.

One of the organisations facing enforcement action, Achiezer Association Ltd, has the same trustees as one of the new charities placed under a class inquiry today, Achiezer.

The names of the new charities under the Commission's class inquiry are -

• Achiezer
• Cymmer Workmens Hall and Institute
• Markazul Uloom
• African Families Support Services
• Jamiat-Ul-Muslemeen Quwat-Ul-Islam Masjed
• The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Peter, Notting Hill
• Michael Davies Charitable Settlement
• Crawley Islamic Centre and Mosque
• Muslim Cultural Society of Birmingham
• Life Line Missions
• The National Patients Support Trust
• Hadley Playing Fields and Recreation Ground