Registered charity · London
Islington Somali Community
- 10 trustees
- Income £147k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Essa ALIChair
- Ahmed TaniTrustee · since 2021
- Bashir NurTrustee · since 2014
- Cabdulraxmaan Sharif AhmedTrustee · since 2025
- Fadhiya ElmiTrustee
- Guled AhmedTrustee · since 2021
- Ismail EgalTrustee · since 2019
- Mohamed Warera AbdullahiTrustee · since 2025
- Muna MohamedTrustee · since 2021
- Nimmo Yassin AliTrustee · since 2025
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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Amateur Sport
- Where
- Islington
- Website
- islingtonsomalicommunity.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Islington Somali Community
- Registered
- 2010
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£147k£145k
- 2024£142k£120k
- 2023£125k£106k
Earlier years
- 2022£91k£88k
- 2021£108k£108k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 47%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
A TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF ISLINGTON AND THE SOMALI PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTSB TO ESTABLISH, OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE SAME (WHETHER ALONE OR IN CO-OPERATION WITH ANY LOCAL AUTHORITY OR OTHER PERSON OR BODY) IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTSC THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AND THE RELIEF OF THE DISABLED AND ELDERLY
Grants received
23 grants · £490,727 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
- City Bridge Trust · £128,000
- People's Health Trust · £101,388 (3 grants)
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £79,204 (7 grants)
- BBC Children in Need · £74,115 (4 grants)
- Trust for London · £46,500 (2 grants)
Most recent
- The National Lottery Community Fund
- Greater London Authority
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.
10 trustees on the board
- Essa ALI Chair
- Ahmed Tani since 2021
- Bashir Nur since 2014
- Cabdulraxmaan Sharif Ahmed since 2025
- Fadhiya Elmi
- Guled Ahmed since 2021
- Ismail Egal since 2019
- Mohamed Warera Abdullahi since 2025
- Muna Mohamed since 2021
- Nimmo Yassin Ali since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Bashir Nur since 2014
- Ismail Egal since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (10)
- Essa ALI Chair
- Ahmed Tani since 2021
- Bashir Nur since 2014
- Cabdulraxmaan Sharif Ahmed since 2025
- Fadhiya Elmi
- Guled Ahmed since 2021
- Ismail Egal since 2019
- Mohamed Warera Abdullahi since 2025
- Muna Mohamed since 2021
- Nimmo Yassin Ali since 2025
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.
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.
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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1136720
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 05/02/2008
- Companies House
- Company number 06495712 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02072720550 · Y.AHMED@ISC26.ORG.UK
- 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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