Al-Farooq Islamic Academy
Charity 1143243
Overview
Summary
Al-Farooq Islamic Academy appears to be an overseas, faith-rooted education charity whose role extends beyond operating an educational establishment in Rawalpindi. Its objects position rural education and Sunni Brelvi religious teaching as mutually reinforcing aims, while its reported beneficiary groups and methods suggest an ambition to support people facing several forms of disadvantage. The available evidence indicates a potentially broad support model, but does not yet show how its educational, welfare and grant-making activities connect in practice.
Operational geography
Coverage: International
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission lists Birmingham City and Pakistan as places where the charity operates, but the public record does not identify any Birmingham delivery location, ward, venue, project or beneficiary area.
- The charity's stated activity is provision of education in rural Pakistan, particularly through educational establishments in Rawalpindi/Pakistan. This supports an international operational footprint, but the latest financial information publicly available is for the year ended 30 April 2019.
- The charity's reporting for financial years from 30 April 2021 onwards is overdue, so it is not possible to confirm from current annual reporting whether Birmingham activity continues, what form it takes, or whether its overseas educational activity remains active.
- The registered contact address should not be treated as a Birmingham operational site.
- No evidence was found of material delivery partnerships, Birmingham premises, or a neighbourhood-, district- or citywide service model within Birmingham.
Additional evidence needed
- A current trustees' annual report or annual return describing services, grants, fundraising and delivery locations.
- Official evidence of any Birmingham-based project, venue, community activity, grant recipient or delivery partner, including an appropriate publicly evidenced location.
- Confirmation from the charity of whether Birmingham is currently a delivery area or only a location from which governance, fundraising or administration is undertaken.
- Current evidence concerning the rural Pakistan educational establishments and any local operating partners.
Areas of work
- Disability
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- Religious Activities
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- People With Disabilities
How they help
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Other Finance
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
Education is framed as both civic provision and faith transmission
The organisation appears to treat general education and religious education as connected rather than separate purposes. Its educational role is explicitly rooted in rural Pakistan, while its religious teaching is defined through a particular Sunni Brelvi tradition.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish the academy from a generic school-support charity: its educational model may be shaped by a clear religious identity, community trust and a specific interpretation of Islamic teaching.
Show evidence
“The charity advances public education in rural areas of Pakistan through educational establishments.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity advances education in the Islamic religion in accordance with Sunni Brelvi teachings.”
Source:Charity Commission
The reported remit is wider than the named academy activity
Although the activity description centres on an educational establishment in Rawalpindi, the charity reports work spanning poverty relief, health, disability, overseas aid and religious activities. This may indicate that the academy functions within a broader welfare-support model.
Why it matters
Understanding whether education is the delivery point for wider support would clarify the organisation's local role, potential partnerships and the needs it is attempting to address.
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“Activities include provision of educational establishments in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity reports work in health, disability, poverty relief, overseas aid and religious activities.”
Source:Charity Commission
It may combine institutional provision with direct material support
The organisation reports providing buildings, services, other finance and grants to individuals, suggesting a model that may combine maintaining facilities with helping people meet individual needs.
Why it matters
This is important because it points to possible flexibility: the charity may be able to respond both through long-term infrastructure and through targeted assistance.
Show evidence
“The charity provides buildings, facilities or open space and provides services.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity makes grants to individuals and provides other finance.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Whether support is delivered mainly in Rawalpindi or across rural areas more widely.
- How children, older people, disabled people and ethnic or racial groups each benefit in practice.
- Whether health, poverty and disability work is delivered directly, through grants or through partner organisations.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or activity reports describing programmes, locations, beneficiary numbers and expenditure.
- Information on the educational establishment, local delivery partners, grant criteria and safeguarding arrangements.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
The charity provides education of the public in rural areas of Pakistan, in particular but not exclusively by the provision of educational establishments Rawalpindi Pakistan.
Charity objects
1. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN RURAL AREAS OF PAKISTAN, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS. 2. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE ISLAMIC RELIGION IN RURAL AREAS OF PAKISTAN IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEACHING OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD (PBUH) FOLLOWING THE DOCTRINES AS TAUGHT BY SUNNI BRELVI SCHOOL OF THOUGHT IN PARTICULAR SHAH AHMED RAZA KHAN, SHEIKH ABDUL HAQ MUHADITH DELHAVI AND THE TEACHING OF KHAWAJA MOHAMMED QASIM SADIQ OF MOHRA SHARIF, IN PAKISTAN (MAY ALLAH BE PLEASED BE WITH THEM) AS RELIGIOUS GUIDES AND BELIEVING IN THEIR INTERPRETATION OF ISLAMIC TEACHING.