Anjuman-E-Badri (Birmingham)

Charity 1080090

Overview

Summary

Sources:Civic AtlasAI-assisted

Anjuman-E-Badri appears to be a community-rooted faith charity whose role extends beyond worship: it provides a shared institutional base for the Dawoodi Bohra Jamaat of Birmingham while combining religious continuity with education, welfare support and social participation. Its stated remit suggests a model that serves a defined community but uses several practical routes—services, people and individual grants—to strengthen members’ day-to-day wellbeing, including across generations.

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Operational geography

Sources:ONSCivic AtlasAI-assisted

Coverage: Regional

Operational areas:

Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Soho and Jewellery Quarter

Confidence: high

The organisation’s current portal identifies Saifee Masjid as the place where it serves the Birmingham Dawoodi Bohra community and provides mosque, education, meal-registration and community services. Birmingham City Council material places Saifee Mosque in Soho and Jewellery Quarter ward.

  • Anjuman-e-Badri Birmingham Community Portal
    The portal states that Anjuman-e-Badri serves the Dawoodi Bohra community in Birmingham at Saifee Masjid. It describes FMB and thaali meal services, madrassa administration, community services and event bookings.
  • Birmingham City Council, Housing and Economic Land Availability Schedule 2024
    The council schedule identifies 'Safee Mosque' in Hockley and places it in Soho and Jewellery Quarter.
  • Charity Commission Register, charity 1080090
    The registered charity contact address is Saifee Mosque, Birmingham.
Remaining uncertainties
  • Direct evidence supports an active operational site at Saifee Masjid rather than merely a correspondence address, but it does not identify further Birmingham delivery venues.
  • The Charity Commission record currently reports that the charity operates in Birmingham City and several other local-authority areas, including Cardiff, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton. This supports a regional overall footprint, but the available evidence does not specify what activity is delivered in those areas, at which sites, or how regularly.
  • The available sources do not evidence material delivery partnerships that extend the organisation's reach within Birmingham.
  • Within Birmingham, the evidence indicates a service model centred on the Birmingham Dawoodi Bohra community and one mosque-based site. It does not establish that services are delivered citywide across neighbourhoods, even though beneficiaries may travel to the site from elsewhere.
Additional evidence needed
  • The latest trustees' annual report or activity report, showing the locations and scale of services delivered during the most recent financial year.
  • A current programme, events calendar or venue list identifying any services delivered away from Saifee Masjid.
  • Official confirmation of any partner organisations, satellite venues or arrangements responsible for activity outside the Saifee Masjid site.
  • More detailed evidence behind the Charity Commission's reported operating areas, to distinguish direct delivery from occasional support, grants or beneficiary residence.

Areas of work

Source:Charity Commission
  • Amateur Sport
  • Education/training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
  • Religious Activities
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

Who they help

Source:Charity Commission
  • Children/young People
  • Elderly/old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities

How they help

Source:Charity Commission
  • Makes Grants To Individuals
  • Provides Human Resources
  • Provides Services

Discoveries involving this organisation

The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.

Observations

Sources:Civic AtlasAI-assisted

  • Faith is the organising framework, not a standalone activity

    The organisation appears to use Dawoodi Bohra religious practice, culture and traditions as the framework through which it advances education, welfare and community life, rather than treating these as separate programmes.

    Why it matters

    This suggests that understanding the organisation requires attention to its community relationships and cultural legitimacy, not only to conventional service categories.

    Show evidence

    • “The objects include preaching and practising Islam in conformity with Fatimi philosophy, culture and traditions as interpreted by Al-Dai Al-Mutlaq.”

      Source:Charity Commission

    • “Its activities combine Islamic religion, culture and traditions with education, relief of need, recreation, hardship and distress.”

      Source:Organisation

  • A potentially broad internal support infrastructure

    The stated mix of grants to individuals, services and human resources may indicate that the charity can respond to different forms of need rather than relying on a single programme or venue-based offer.

    Why it matters

    This makes the organisation potentially significant as a practical support hub within its community, including for needs that may not be visible through public services alone.

    Show evidence

    • “The charity makes grants to individuals, provides human resources and provides services.”

      Source:Charity Commission

    • “Its objects include the relief of need, hardship and distress.”

      Source:Charity Commission

  • Intergenerational participation appears central

    The charity appears designed to sustain participation across life stages, with particular attention to women and young people alongside stated support for children, older people and people with disabilities.

    Why it matters

    This may make it an important connector between generations and a place where social inclusion, recreation and cultural continuity reinforce one another.

    Show evidence

    • “The objects refer particularly to women and young people in providing recreation and leisure-time facilities.”

      Source:Charity Commission

    • “The charity helps children or young people, elderly or old people, and people with disabilities.”

      Source:Charity Commission

    Remaining uncertainties

  • Whether support is limited to Dawoodi Bohra members or reaches the wider Birmingham community.
  • Which services, grants or recreational activities are active, and at what scale.
  • Whether the charity works with other local organisations or operates mainly through its own community networks.

    Additional evidence needed

  • Recent annual reports or activity reports describing programmes, beneficiary numbers and grant-making.
  • Evidence of partnerships, referral routes, facilities and community participation.
Charity Commission profile
Source:Charity Commission

Activities

To benefit the community and in particular the members of the Dawoodi Bohra Jamaat of Birmingham for the preaching and practising of the Islamic religion, culture and traditions, as interpreted by Al-Dai Al-Mutlaq, for the advancement of education, the relief of need, recreation, hardship and distress in the interests of social welfare so that their conditions of life may be improved.

Charity objects

THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE TRUST FUND AND ITS INCOME UPON TRUST TO APPLY THEM FOR ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY AND IN PARTICULAR THE MEMBERS OF THE DAWOODI BOHRA JAMAAT OF BIRMINGHAM AND IN PARTICULAR FOR THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES (1) THE PREACHING AND PRACTISING OF THE ISLAMIC RELIGION IN CONFORMITY WITH AL-QURAN, ISLAMIC SHARIAT AND THE FATIMI (FATIMID) PHILOSOPHY, CULTURE AND TRADITIONS, ALL AS INTERPRETED BY AL-DAI AL-MUTLAQ (2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION (3) THE RELIEF OF NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS (4) THE PROVISION AND ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATIONS OF THE SAID BENEFICIARIES PARTICULARLY FOR WOMEN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND SO THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED