The Charity Commission has opened a statutory inquiry into the Islamic Education Centre and Mosque in Sunderland after the charity failed to file accounts on time for five years.
The charity was part of the “double defaulters” class inquiry for charities in relation to its accounts for 2020, 2019 and 2018. As part of this inquiry the Commission ordered the charity to file overdue documents by July 2020. The charity finally complied in December 2021.
Documents for the latest financial year are now four days overdue. It was also late filing its 2017 documents.
In its statement announcing the inquiry the Commission said: “The charity’s failure to submit the necessary accounting documents on time has been a repeated pattern of behaviour. Prior to its submission last December, the charity had gone three years without filing the legally required financial information. This is of serious concern in relation to the trustees’ duty to be accountable and transparent to the public.”
According the documents now filed with the Commission, the charity’s income has been between £77,000 and £118,000 for the past five years.
The Islamic Education Centre and Mosque in Sunderland has four trustees, who were all appointed in 2012. The charity was registered in 2013. Its charitable objectives are to advance the Islamic faith through providing facilities and education.
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