The Gujarat Muslim Association UK

Registered charity 1141663 · since 2011thegmauk.org·Gujarat·Updated 30 October 2026

Key takeaways

Its stated focus is Gujarat State, India, and its work is education scholarships and food assistance, so a request outside that area or those themes is unlikely to match what it does.
The annual report gives no grants figure, no grant range is stated, and no application process is publicly published, so a realistic request size cannot be judged from what is available and a short enquiry to the association before a full proposal is the sensible first step.
Its approach identifies students through local community networks and school partnerships, verifies them rigorously before approval and tracks their progress, so an application should explain how students would be found and followed up.
Nothing published describes how competitive it is or whether existing relationships matter, so the reader should ask the association directly.

Overview

The Gujarat Muslim Association UK is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1141663).

The Gujarat Muslim Association UK is a registered charity whose purpose is to centralise, co-ordinate and encourage its members to meet the religious, cultural, educational, social and economic needs of Urdu speaking Muslims of Gujarat State, India, who are settled in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. It also aims to advance Sunni Islamic Education. Its main activity is helping poor and needy students in Gujarat, India, to achieve their academic education, and by its own account it used 100% of funds raised for this, as its normal policy, funding a total of 535 students. It also supports underprivileged families through food distribution during crises.

What they fund

Priority Areas

The Gujarat Muslim Association UK supports poor and needy students in Gujarat to help them achieve academic education, and provides annual scholarships that enable students to pursue engineering, medicine and teaching. It also supports underprivileged families through food distribution during crises and community welfare initiatives. For scholarship distribution, deserving students are identified through local community networks and school partnerships; scholarship approval involves rigorous verification intended to ensure funds reach genuinely deserving candidates. The association monitors student progress to ensure educational goals are met. Its stated approach links educational support with transparent scholarship distribution and academic monitoring.

Themes

Education scholarships
Food assistance

Geographic Focus

Gujarat State, India.

How to apply

Scholarship distribution begins with identifying deserving students through local community networks and school partnerships. A rigorous verification process informs scholarship approval, followed by continuous tracking of student progress.

Application success factors

What the charity says:

Scholarship approval uses rigorous verification to ensure funds reach genuinely deserving candidates.
Student progress is continuously tracked to ensure educational goals are met.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

Gujarat

Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 March 2021	£69,020	£156,916	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2021
year to 31 March 2022	£99,663	£7,302	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2022
year to 10 March 2023	£91,777	£85,614	—	Accounts for year to 10 March 2023
year to 31 March 2024	£97,265	£77,145	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2024
year to 31 March 2025	£93,157	£108,518	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2025

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.