Ameenia Sultania Educational Trust
Charity 1142194
Overview
Summary
Ameenia Sultania Educational Trust appears to be a faith-rooted local institution whose current visible activity is centred on congregational worship and children’s religious education. Its charitable objects give it a much broader potential role: a mosque-based community platform for education, wellbeing, recreation, advice and poverty relief in Birmingham and beyond. The available evidence suggests that its practical operating model may currently be narrower than its formal remit, leaving open questions about how far its wider social-welfare purposes are active.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Gravelly Hill
Confidence: low
Direct evidence identifies recurring religious gatherings at the organisation's advertised venue in Erdington, Birmingham. The available evidence does not directly establish ward-level operational geography. The latest named events on the organisation's website are dated March 2025, so the site is well evidenced but its precise current programme frequency is not independently confirmed.
- Ameenia Sultania Educational Trust official website, Events page
Lists Hadith and Dhikr Gatherings at Ameenia Sultania Educational Trust in Erdington, Birmingham, on 6 and 20 March 2025. - Charity Commission annual report and accounts for year ended 31 October 2023
Identifies the trust's principal office in Birmingham. - Charity Commission charity register, charity number 1142194
Records current activities as congregational prayers and religious-education evening classes for children in the Muslim community.
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission register records the charity as operating in Birmingham City, but the available direct evidence identifies only one delivery site. This supports a neighbourhood-based operational identity more strongly than a demonstrated citywide delivery footprint, but does not directly establish ward-level operational geography.
- The charity's registered contact address differs from its principal office and event venue. The evidence does not establish that the registered contact address is an operational site.
- No current evidence was found of additional Birmingham service locations, outreach venues, or partnerships that materially extend delivery beyond the identified delivery site.
- The charitable objects include provision for Birmingham and surrounding areas and poverty relief anywhere in the world, but these are purposes rather than evidence of current delivery geography.
Additional evidence needed
- A current programme timetable or annual report identifying all active classes, prayers, advice, recreation, poverty-relief or health activities and their locations.
- Confirmation from the organisation of whether its advertised event venue remains its active mosque and principal delivery site.
- Details of any formal delivery partners, funded projects, satellite venues or beneficiary referral arrangements in other Birmingham wards.
- Evidence distinguishing any citywide beneficiaries from services actually delivered outside the identified delivery site.
Areas of work
- Amateur Sport
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Recreation
- Religious Activities
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A mosque-centred platform with a wider civic mandate
The trust appears to use religious practice and a physical community space as its foundation, while holding formal purposes that could support wider educational, health, recreation and poverty-relief work.
Why it matters
This suggests the organisation may be better understood as potential community infrastructure, not solely as a provider of worship. Its premises, relationships and trusted position may create opportunities for activity beyond its currently stated services.
Show evidence
“The objects include hiring, maintaining or building and maintaining a mosque for the local and surrounding Muslim community in Birmingham.”
Source:Charity Commission“Activities include congregational prayers and religious education evening classes for children of the Muslim community.”
Source:Organisation“The objects include education, social welfare facilities, healthy living and poverty relief.”
Source:Charity Commission
Children may be the clearest current service focus
Although the trust identifies several beneficiary groups, the only specific service described is evening religious education for children, indicating that children and families may be its most active current constituency.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish formal beneficiary categories from evidenced delivery. It points to the trust’s possible role in intergenerational community connection, while cautioning against assuming equivalent provision for older people or other groups.
Show evidence
“Activities include religious education evening classes for children of the Muslim community.”
Source:Organisation“The charity helps children or young people and elderly or old people.”
Source:Charity Commission
A broad remit with limited evidence of implementation
There appears to be a gap between the trust’s expansive objects and the narrow set of activities currently documented. This may indicate unrealised capacity, selectively reported activity, or a deliberately focused operating model.
Why it matters
The distinction matters for potential partners: the trust may hold permissions and ambitions relevant to health, recreation, advice and poverty relief, but the evidence does not yet show whether it delivers these functions.
Show evidence
“The charity states that it provides buildings, facilities or open space, services, and advocacy, advice or information.”
Source:Charity Commission“Activities include congregational prayers and religious education evening classes for children of the Muslim community.”
Source:Organisation“What the charity does includes poverty relief, amateur sport, recreation, education or training and religious activities.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Whether health, recreation, advice and poverty-relief activity is currently delivered, and to whom.
- Whether the trust owns or operates a mosque or other community premises.
- Its relationships with other Birmingham organisations and referral networks.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, accounts or activity reports showing programmes, reach and expenditure.
- Information on premises, partnerships, volunteer capacity and services for older people or people facing hardship.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Congregational prayers and religious education evening classes for childern of muslim community.
Charity objects
TO ADVANCE RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEACHINGS OF ISLAM AS TAUGHT BY THE AHLE SUNNAT WAL JAMAAT, IMAM AHMED RAZA KHAN, FAZIL-E-BARELVI, AND SHEIKH ABDULHAQ MUHADDITH DELHAVI, (MAY BLESSINGS OF ALLAH BE UPON THEM) AS GUIDES AND BELIEVING IN THEIR INTERPRETATION OF THE ISLAMIC TEACHINGS. IN FURTHERANCE OF THIS TO HIRE AND MAINTAIN, OR BUILD AND MAINTAIN, A MOSQUE IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE LOCAL AND SURROUNDING MUSLIM COMMUNITY IN BIRMINGHAM, WEST MIDLANDS, UK; TO ADVANCE EDUCATION.TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF BIRMINGHAM AND THE SURROUNDING AREA THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES OF SPORT, RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR PEOPLE 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 THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS. TO PROMOTE HEALTH BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK APPROPRIATE INCLUDING BY PROMOTING HEALTHY LIVING. THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD BY PROVIDING: GRANTS, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.