Registered charity · Surrey
Merton Somali Community (Mesco)
- 6 trustees
- Income £33k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: Ossob Ali.
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 4 more
- Where
- Throughout London
- Website
- mescocommunity.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1998
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£33k£33k
- 2024£43k£43k
- 2023£24k£20k
Earlier years
- 2022£17k£15k
- 2021£0£0
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 100%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
(1) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN GREATER LONDON AND ELSEWHERE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IN PARTICULAR FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO ARE SOMALI BY RELIEVING PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS, BY ADVANCING EDUCATION AND BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT TOF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THOSE PERSONS FOR WHOM THE FACILITIES ARE PROVIDED. (2) FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY OF SOMALI REFUGEES WHO ARE RESIDENT OR WHO ARE INTENDING TO RESIDE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH FREE AND CONFIDENTIAL ADVICE, ASSISTANCE, REPRESENTATION, COUNSELLING, TRANSLATING AND INTERPRETING SERVICES IN MATTERS SUCH AS IMMIGRATION, MONEY DEBTS, WELFARE BENEFITS, HEALTH, HOUSING, SOCIAL SECURITY, EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT.
Grants received
11 grants · £121,297 total360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.
Top funders
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £62,004 (2 grants)
- Sport England · £30,366 (3 grants)
- Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £13,009
- The Wimbledon Foundation · £10,318 (3 grants)
- The Clothworkers' Foundation · £4,100
Most recent
- Department for Culture, Media & Sport
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
5 trustees on the board
- Abdullahi Addo Chair since 2015
- Hiis Abdulle since 2018
- Mahad Mohamed since 2017
- Nasra Hassan since 2018
- Ossob Ali since 2019
- Zakaria Ali since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Abdullahi Addo Chair since 2015
- Hiis Abdulle since 2018
- Mahad Mohamed since 2017
- Nasra Hassan since 2018
- Ossob Ali since 2019
- Zakaria Ali since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Abdullahi Addo Chair since 2015
- Hiis Abdulle since 2018
- Mahad Mohamed since 2017
- Nasra Hassan since 2018
- Zakaria Ali since 2019
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1071152
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 7TH DECEMBER 1997
- Contact on the register
- 02034900943 · MESCO.ORG@GMAIL.COM
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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