Ad-Duha Foundation
Charity 1180615
Overview
Summary
Ad-Duha Foundation appears to be developing from a children’s Quran-learning initiative into a locally rooted Islamic community institution in Hall Green, Birmingham. Its model combines formal religious education with pastoral, social and outreach activity, creating multiple entry points for children, adults, women and older people. The available evidence suggests that its distinctive role is not simply teaching Islam, but using a mosque-centred setting to build participation, belonging and intergenerational religious learning.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Hall Green North
Confidence: low
The organisation identifies its Hall Green centre as a place to visit and as a location from which it delivers courses and social activities, but the available evidence does not establish a ward-level location.
- Ad-Duha Institute website, Contact Us page
The organisation invites visitors to its Hall Green centre and states that it provides children's and adult Islamic courses and social activities from there. - Ad-Duha Institute website, homepage
The organisation describes its origins in Quran-reading classes for neighbouring children and says it has expanded services to meet the needs of the local community.
Remaining uncertainties
- The website says courses are available to people in the Birmingham area and refers to serving the wider community, but it does not identify regular delivery sites, outreach locations or service bases outside Hall Green.
- An online Maktab course is listed, but the available evidence does not establish the geographic distribution of its learners.
- No material delivery partnerships or partner-operated venues extending the organisation's Birmingham footprint were identified in the reviewed evidence.
- The available evidence identifies the Hall Green centre as an actively promoted service site because the organisation explicitly invites visits and describes delivery from there, but it does not establish its ward-level location.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual report, impact report or service-register data showing participants' home areas and any recurring outreach venues.
- A current programme or event schedule identifying locations for activities described as outreach.
- Confirmation from the organisation of whether any regular services are delivered at locations beyond its Hall Green centre.
Areas of work
- Religious Activities
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
Education appears to be the organisation’s core platform for wider community connection
The foundation appears to use Islamic education as the main route through which it develops broader community participation, rather than operating as a narrowly defined tuition provider.
Why it matters
This helps explain why courses, youth activity, outreach, social projects and congregational life appear alongside one another: education may be its organising infrastructure for relationships with local families and residents.
Show evidence
“The organisation was established in 2011 to offer Quran reading classes to neighbouring children.”
Source:Organisation“It now offers Islamic courses to children and adults in Birmingham and outreach activities to increase community engagement.”
Source:Organisation“Its objects include advancing public education and providing facilities for Islamic education.”
Source:Charity Commission
The organisation is building a life-stage model rather than focusing on one age group
Ad-Duha appears to be creating continuity from early childhood learning through adult education, while also providing women’s gatherings and support-oriented activities for older people.
Why it matters
A life-stage model can make the organisation a durable community anchor: families may remain connected as children grow, and participants may enter through different needs rather than a single programme.
Show evidence
“Courses are available from pre-maktab classes for children aged four to adult Arabic, Tajweed and Qur’an learning.”
Source:Organisation“Weekly activities include sisters’ Islamic gatherings and a sisters befriending service.”
Source:Organisation“The charity identifies children and young people, elderly people and the general public as beneficiaries.”
Source:Charity Commission
There are signs of a shift from programme delivery toward permanent local infrastructure
The purchase and development of a building may indicate a strategy to increase capacity and establish a more permanent base for community activity.
Why it matters
A permanent site can change an organisation’s civic role, enabling more regular activity and potentially making it a convening space for local relationships beyond individual classes.
Show evidence
“The organisation states that it has purchased a building and is preparing and developing the space for the community.”
Source:Organisation“It provides activities from its Hall Green centre in Birmingham.”
Source:Organisation
- Whether its outreach and advocacy extend beyond its existing Muslim community.
- Which local organisations, schools or faith groups it collaborates with.
- Whether demand exceeds provision, particularly for working adults.
Remaining uncertainties
- Participation data by age, gender, programme and local area.
- Details of partnerships, referral relationships and use of the new building.
- Evidence of outcomes from education, befriending and outreach activities.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Providing and servicing of Islamic values, peace and harmony through educational classes, tuition and youth clubs
Charity objects
1) TO ADVANCE THE ISLAMIC RELIGION WITHIN THE MIDLANDS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE HOLDING OF PRAYER MEETINGS, LECTURES,TEACHING, PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF LITERATURE ON THE ISLAMIC FAITH ENLIGHTEN OTHERS ABOUT THE ISLAMIC RELIGION. 2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND PUPILS REGISTERED WITH THIS CHARITY BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR ISLAMIC EDUCATION.