Haroon Tariq Jahan Foundation
Charity 1165656
Overview
Summary
The Haroon Tariq Jahan Foundation appears to be a broad, values-led charity combining immediate relief with longer-term social development. Its stated model spans grants and services, support in the UK and abroad, and a distinctive combination of poverty relief, education, youth development, faith activity, community harmony and domestic-abuse-related support. This breadth may allow it to respond to interconnected needs, but the available evidence does not yet show which priorities receive most attention or how its different aims connect in practice.
Operational geography
Coverage: International
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission currently records Birmingham City as the place where the charity operates, but does not identify particular Birmingham wards, neighbourhoods, delivery venues, grant recipients or service locations.
- The registered/principal address is not treated as an operational site: the Charity Commission records that the charity does not own or lease land or property, and the available evidence does not show that services are delivered from that address.
- The charity's current activity description refers to projects for people in the UK and abroad, and its 2022–23 annual report evidences work supporting flood victims and Qurbani activity in Pakistan. However, the public information available does not establish the locations, scale or continuity of its current overseas work after that reporting period.
- No material delivery partnership, hosted venue, subsidiary or local delivery organisation was evidenced in the sources consulted.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual report, grant list or impact report identifying the places and organisations supported in Birmingham during 2024–25 or 2025–26.
- Confirmation from the charity of whether its registered address is solely a correspondence address or is used for administration, fundraising or service delivery.
- Current project information identifying any Birmingham venues, neighbourhood-based programmes, referral arrangements or delivery partners.
Areas of work
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- Recreation
- Religious Activities
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A bridge between crisis relief and longer-term inclusion
The organisation appears designed to address both urgent material hardship and conditions that may contribute to exclusion over time, including educational disadvantage, youth development and safety.
Why it matters
This suggests its role may be broader than emergency aid: it could potentially connect immediate support with routes towards resilience and participation.
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“Its objects include providing food, clothing, accommodation, water wells, grants or loans for people in need.”
Source:Charity Commission“Its objects include mentoring, career counselling, educational activities and leisure-time activities for young people.”
Source:Charity Commission
An unusually wide charitable perimeter
The foundation may operate as a flexible umbrella for several forms of need rather than as a specialist provider focused on one issue or population.
Why it matters
Its breadth could create opportunities to identify needs crossing conventional service boundaries, but it also leaves its practical strategic focus unclear.
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“The charity reports charitable projects for needy persons in the UK and abroad.”
Source:Charity Commission“Its purposes include poverty relief, education, youth development, racial and religious harmony, Islamic education, health protection and domestic-abuse-related support.”
Source:Charity Commission
Faith is paired with outward-facing civic aims
Islamic religious advancement appears to sit alongside an explicit commitment to racial and religious understanding, suggesting faith may be intended as a source of both community support and wider social cohesion.
Why it matters
This may make the organisation a potentially important connector between faith-based activity and cross-community relationship-building, rather than a solely inward-facing religious charity.
Show evidence
“Its objects include advancing Islam through promoting its teachings and providing facilities for Islamic education.”
Source:Charity Commission“Its objects include promoting knowledge and mutual understanding between racial and faith groups to reduce conflict and create trust, unity and peace.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which charitable aims are active priorities, and how resources are divided between UK and overseas work.
- Whether the charity delivers services directly, mainly funds others, or uses a mixed model in practice.
- Which communities, places and partner organisations it currently reaches.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, accounts or project updates showing spending, delivery methods and beneficiary reach.
- Information on current programmes, grants, delivery partners and outcomes.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
CHARITABLE PROJECTS FOR NEEDY PERSONS IN THE UK AND ABROAD
Charity objects
(I) TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, DISTRESS AND SUFFERING AMONG POOR PEOPLE, WIDOWS, ORPHANS, REFUGEES, VICTIMS OF NATURAL DISASTERS AND OTHER PEOPLE IN NEED, BY MEANS OF, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, MAKING GRANTS OR LOANS FOR PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR ITEMS, EQUIPMENT, SERVICES AND FACILITIES, INCLUDING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF WATER WELLS AND THE PROVISION OF FOOD, CLOTHING, AND ACCOMMODATION FOR THE SAID PERSONS; (II) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE UNDERPRIVILEGED, THOSE AT RISK OF EXCLUSION FROM SCHOOLS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC BY MEANS OF, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THE PROVISION OR THE ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF MENTORING, CAREER COUNSELLING AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES AS DETERMINED FROM TIME TO TIME FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT; (III) TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES, SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR CAPABILITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY; (IV) TO PROMOTE RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS HARMONY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY PROMOTING KNOWLEDGE AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN DIFFERENT RACIAL AND FAITH GROUPS, IN WAYS THAT REDUCES CONFLICT AND CREATES TRUST, UNITY AND PEACE BETWEEN THEM; (V) TO ADVANCE THE RELIGION OF ISLAM, BY MEANS OF, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, PROMOTING THE TEACHINGS AND TENETS OF ISLAM, AND PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR ISLAMIC EDUCATION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEACHINGS OF THE QUR?AAN AND THE SUNNAH OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD (PBUH) AS EXPOUNDED BY THE AHLE-SUNNAH-WAL-JAMAAH; (VI) THE RELIEF OF DISTRESS AND SUFFERING, AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH, FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT, PARTICULARLY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, OF THOSE WHO HAVE SUFFERED OR ARE EXPOSED TO DOMESTIC ABUSE, BY PROVISION OF ADVICE AND INFORMATION AND SUCH WAYS AS SHALL BE DETERMINED FROM TIME TO TIME.