Al-Sunnah Community Education And Recreation Centre
Charity 1121624
Overview
Summary
Al-Sunnah Community Education And Recreation Centre appears to be a broad, place-based community charity whose role is to connect education, practical advice and recreation as routes to wellbeing in Birmingham. Its stated remit spans young people, older people and disabled people, suggesting an inclusive community-centre model rather than a narrowly specialised service. The available evidence indicates an ambition to address both immediate hardship and longer-term participation, although it does not show which activities are currently active or how the different groups are reached.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Small Heath
Confidence: high
The organisation's official website identifies Masjid Al-Sunnah as charity number 1121624, gives its location as Small Heath, and describes daily prayer, education, madrasah, appointment-based ruqyah and weekly programmes delivered at the masjid. This is direct evidence of an active physical service site in Small Heath.
- Masjid Al-Sunnah official website, Contact page
Identifies Masjid Al-Sunnah as charity number 1121624, gives its location as Small Heath, Birmingham, and states that it is open daily for every prayer. - Masjid Al-Sunnah official website, homepage
Lists daily congregational prayers, Al-Sunnah Madrasah, adult and youth Islamic education, marriage services, ruqyah and charity/zakat services; describes weekly programmes and lectures as being provided in the masjid. - Charity Commission annual report and accounts for year ended 31 May 2021
States that the charity's principal office was in Small Heath, Birmingham.
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission record says the charity operates in Birmingham City, and the official website says it serves the Birmingham community. This supports a citywide overall coverage classification, but the available evidence does not identify service delivery sites or regular programmes in specific wards beyond Small Heath.
- The organisation's current public-facing services appear primarily to be delivered from its Small Heath masjid. It is therefore unclear how much of its Birmingham-wide reach represents people travelling to this site, citywide beneficiaries of advice, education or charitable assistance, or delivery elsewhere.
- No material operational partnerships, satellite venues, outreach locations or subsidiary organisations were evidenced in the sources consulted.
- The latest detailed annual report located was for the year ended 31 May 2021; the Charity Commission record contains financial data for the year ended 31 May 2024 but does not provide a current geographical breakdown of activities.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual report, impact report or service-delivery return specifying the locations of education, advice, poverty-relief, recreation and zakat-distribution activity.
- Current programme information identifying whether any activities are delivered at partner venues, in residents' homes, online, or in wards outside Small Heath.
- Evidence on the geographic origin and reach of beneficiaries, distinguishing Birmingham-wide access to the Small Heath site from direct delivery in other parts of the city.
- Confirmation from the organisation of any active delivery partnerships and the locations to which those partnerships extend its operational reach.
Areas of work
- Amateur Sport
- Education/training
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A multi-route approach to social inclusion
The organisation appears to treat exclusion as more than an income problem: it combines education and employment support, advice, health-related relief and leisure opportunities. This may indicate a model intended to improve participation as well as respond to hardship.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish the organisation from a single-purpose poverty or training provider. It may be a useful connector for residents whose needs cross employment, wellbeing and social participation.
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“The objects include education, training and relief of unemployment; relief of poverty, sickness and distress; promotion of good health through advice and information; and recreation facilities.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity reports education/training, prevention or relief of poverty, and amateur sport.”
Source:Charity Commission
Potentially intergenerational rather than youth-only
Although youth employment and education are prominent, the organisation's beneficiary groups and recreation remit suggest it may be designed to serve several life stages, including older people and disabled people.
Why it matters
This broadens understanding of who may be connected through the centre. It may have potential to create relationships across groups that are often served separately.
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“The charity helps children/young people, elderly/old people, and people with disabilities.”
Source:Charity Commission“The objects provide for recreation or leisure facilities for people affected by youth, age, infirmity, disablement, financial hardship or social and economic circumstances.”
Source:Charity Commission
Advice may be a central access point
Advocacy, advice and information appear to be the only explicitly identified delivery method, suggesting that guidance may be an important way the organisation connects people to support, alongside its education and recreation aims.
Why it matters
If advice is a principal entry point, the organisation may hold useful insight into unmet needs and referral relationships across Birmingham; this is worth investigating.
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“The charity provides advocacy, advice and information.”
Source:Charity Commission“The objects promote good health particularly through the provision of advice and information.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which services are currently delivered, and at what scale.
- Whether activities are delivered directly, through partners, or by referral.
- Which Birmingham communities and neighbourhoods are most reached.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent activity reports, programme descriptions and participant numbers.
- Information on delivery locations, partners, referral routes and service outcomes.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Provision of education, training and relief of unemployment of young people in birmingham relieve poverty, sickness and distress and promote good health particularly by the provision of advice and information.to promote for the benefit of the inhabitants of birmingham facilities for recreation or other leisure time occupation of individuals who have need of such facilities.
Charity objects
(D) OBJECTIVES OBJECTS ("THE OBJECTS") ARE 1 - THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, TRAINING AND RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN BIRMINGHAM 2 - RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AND PROMOTE GOOD HEALTH PARTICULARLY BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE AND INFORMATION 3 - TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF BIRMINGHAM AND THE SURROUNDING AREA THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THEINTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS. 4 - TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY OF BIRMINGHAM AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.