OSCR Scottish charity profile

Jamiat Ittihad-Ul-Muslimin

Known as Glasgow Central Mosque'

ActiveCharity number SC013142
Registered1 January 1902
Main locationGlasgow City
Legal formUnincorporated association

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 4 November 2026
OSCR charity number
SC013142
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
More than one local authority area in Scotland
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
42
Postcode
G5 9TA

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The aims and objectives of the Jamiat Ittihad Ul Muslimin are: - To provide a meeting place for ethnic minority groups settled in and around Glasgow. - To promote a greater awareness of religion and education by holding various classes and lectures on topics affecting the community. - To promote the language skills of the various ethnic minorities groups in and around Glasgow. - To provide a platform for the issues concerning the ethnic minorities. - To promote ethnic arts and skills. - To increase awareness of the advantages of education and to help ethnic minority groups improve their standard of life through community education.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of religion

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • People with a particular ethnic or racial origin
  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

3.1. The aims and objects of the Society shall be: 3.2. To serve the cause of Islam, truly and practically, by creating facilities for the observance of its principles. 3.2.1. By taking all legitimate and honourable steps in conformity with the principles of Islam to raise funds for building a Mosque in Glasgow, and to build a Mosque or Mosques in Glasgow and in any other place or places and to purchase, hold and own or take on lease any property in Glasgow and elsewhere, and to alter, repair, reconstruct and maintain and use the same as a Mosque or Mosques or for any other purposes of the Society. 3.2.2. By creating an endowment to provide for the maintenance and upkeep of the Mosque or Mosques or other places which are the property of the Society. 3.2.3. By opening a school (or schools) for the training and education of Muslims generally, and to look after and provide for the education of orphans and other poor Muslim children. 3.2.4. By providing and maintaining a special library of newspapers, journals and books on all subjects of Islamic interest, thought and culture. 3.2.5. By arranging and attending to the burials of poor and destitute Muslims, and generally doing all to help and alleviate the misery and want of the poor and needy. 3.2.6. By insisting upon the observance by Members of all the tenets of Islam, and lead a life of true Muslim, thus creating unity, amity and general brotherhood, the underlying idea of Islam. 3.2.7. By starting classes of 'Dars' of the Holy Qur'an and the Hadith, and by generally doing everything that is good and righteous and is enjoined upon Muslims in the Holy Qur'an. 3.3. To promote the preservation of a permanent union between the Muslims of different countries and different nationalities. 3.4. To provide and maintain a comfortable place of meeting to bring together and promote social intercourse between the resident Muslims and visitors to this country. 3.5. To arrange meetings and organise functions with a view to propagate and serve the cause of Islam. 3.6. To produce a weekly newspaper or a Monthly journal, religious in tone and policy with a view to advancing the interests of Islam and generally to adopt all practical and legitimate means by work for the moral intellectual and economic advancement of the Muslims throughout the world.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endTotal incomeDonationsCharitable activities incomeTrading incomeInvestment incomeOther incomeTotal expenditureRaising fundsCharitable activities spendingOther spendingStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£1,289,322£1,285,006£0£3,811£0£505£1,620,478£0£1,620,478£04217 April 2026
31 March 2024£1,579,233£1,579,233£0£0£0£0£1,570,620£0£1,570,620£04214 October 2025
31 March 2023£1,616,101£1,616,101£0£0£0£0£1,679,871£0£1,679,871£04223 April 2025
31 March 2022£1,199,192£384,371£490,306£0£0£324,515£1,266,114£0£1,266,114£0424 July 2024
31 March 2021£704,008£207,117£496,891£0£0£0£1,382,829£0£1,382,829£04226 February 2024

Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.

04 Contact record

Principal office or trustees address

Address supplied to OSCR
1 Mosque Avenue, Gorbals, Glasgow
Website supplied to OSCR
https://www.centralmosque.co.uk/
Parent charity
Not supplied
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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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