Bangladesh Islamic Social Organisation And Modina Mosque
Charity 702283
Overview
Summary
Bangladesh Islamic Social Organisation And Modina Mosque appears to operate as a community anchor that combines faith-based space with education and family support. Its role seems broader than religious activity alone: it uses a physical centre to help Bangladeshi children sustain linguistic and cultural connections while helping parents and children participate more confidently in life in the UK. The available evidence suggests an intergenerational model in which education, belonging and community access are closely linked.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Balsall Heath West
Confidence: low
The charity describes providing facilities at its centre, and its official mosque website identifies the organisation as providing daily prayers, Friday Jumu’ah and Qur’an recitation. The Charity Commission also records that it owns and/or leases land or property. However, the available evidence does not independently establish the ward in which this activity takes place.
- Charity Commission register, charity 702283
Records its activities as education/training and religious activities, delivered through buildings/facilities; states that it owns and/or leases land or property; and describes support provided to children and parents at 'the centre'. - Bangladesh Islamic Social Organisation and Modina Mosque official website
Identifies BISOM as a community-focused mosque providing a place for daily prayers, Friday Jumu’ah and Qur’an recitation, with educational and family-support activity described alongside these services.
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission records Birmingham City as the area in which the charity operates, but the available evidence does not show services, venues or delivery partnerships elsewhere in Birmingham. This should not be interpreted as evidence of a citywide operational footprint.
- The official website describes some educational, cultural and family-support activities as subject to availability and operational capacity. It therefore confirms the mosque's current religious role more clearly than the current frequency or scale of each education or support activity.
- No material partnerships extending the organisation's delivery geography were identified in the available evidence.
- No additional physical sites beyond the mosque/centre were identified.
Additional evidence needed
- A current timetable, annual report or service programme confirming which education, language and family-support sessions are presently delivered at the organisation's mosque/centre.
- Evidence of any outreach, satellite venues, commissioned work or formal partnerships outside Balsall Heath West.
- Confirmation from the organisation of whether its Birmingham City Charity Commission operating-area entry reflects active delivery across the city or only its registered local-authority area.
Areas of work
- Education/training
- Religious Activities
Who they help
- Children/young People
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
How they help
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A faith-based setting may function as a family integration hub
The organisation appears to use its mosque or centre not only for religious activity, but as a trusted setting through which children and parents can receive support to engage with schools and wider life in the UK.
Why it matters
This suggests its civic value may lie in bridging households, formal education and local society, rather than serving only as a place of worship.
Show evidence
“Provide facilities for parents to understand their children's activities both at their own schools and at the centre.”
Source:Charity Commission“We provide assistance to both children and parents to understand and participate in the life in the UK.”
Source:Charity Commission
Language teaching appears to connect heritage with participation
Teaching mother tongue, English and Arabic may indicate a deliberate effort to hold together cultural continuity, religious literacy and practical participation in an English-speaking society.
Why it matters
This is distinctive because it frames language as both a source of belonging and a capability for navigating wider civic life, rather than as a single-purpose educational offer.
Show evidence
“Teach children their own mother tongue, English speaking and reading and reading Arabic.”
Source:Charity Commission“FOR ISLAMIC AND BANGLADESHI CHARITABLE, EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL PURPOSES.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its physical premises may be central to its operating model
The organisation appears to deliver value partly by providing accessible communal space, with education and family support likely organised around that place-based resource.
Why it matters
Understanding the premises as an asset helps identify potential opportunities for complementary local activity, referrals or collaboration beyond its existing programmes.
Show evidence
“Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space.”
Source:Charity Commission“Education/training, Religious Activities.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Whether services reach families beyond the immediate mosque community.
- Whether the organisation works with schools, councils or other community organisations.
- The scale, frequency and outcomes of its language and family-support activities.
Remaining uncertainties
- Information on attendance, age groups, languages taught and programme frequency.
- Evidence of partnerships, referrals and use of the premises by other groups.
- Feedback from children and parents about changes in school engagement, confidence or participation.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Teach children their own mother tongue, English speaking and reading and reading Arabic. Provide facilities for parents to understand their children's activities both at their own schools and at the centre. We provide assistance to both children and parents to understand and participate in the life in the UK.
Charity objects
FOR ISLAMIC AND BANGLADESHI CHARITABLE, EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL PURPOSES