Islamic Ansaar Foundation
Charity 1158902
Overview
Summary
Islamic Ansaar Foundation appears to be a faith-motivated relief charity that combines international humanitarian appeals with locally rooted support in Birmingham. Its role is broader than emergency aid: it links immediate material assistance with longer-term self-sufficiency, including education, healthcare, training and income-generation. The available evidence suggests a donor-funded model organised around Islamic charitable giving, while presenting assistance as available regardless of race, religion or gender. Its local activities may provide a practical community base for an otherwise globally oriented organisation.
Operational geography
Coverage: International
Operational areas:
- City Centre
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
City Centre
Confidence: medium
The organisation currently publishes a Birmingham contact and registered-office address. This supports a current administrative base in Birmingham, but does not demonstrate that services are delivered from the address.
- Islamic Ansaar Foundation website, contact information and privacy policy
The organisation lists a Birmingham address as its contact and registered-office address. - Charity Commission Register of Charities, Islamic Ansaar Foundation (1158902)
The Charity Commission lists the same Birmingham address as the charity's contact address.
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission records Birmingham City as a place where the charity operates, and describes national projects including a food bank, burial fund, drug/alcohol awareness and youth integration. However, it provides no current Birmingham delivery locations, beneficiary catchments, session venues or ward-level activity.
- The charity's food-bank project page says outreach occurs within the West Midlands, but also describes the appeal as pending and awaiting implementation. This does not reliably establish an active food-distribution location in Birmingham.
- No material Birmingham delivery partnerships, host venues or subcontracted providers were identified in the official sources reviewed.
- The Charity Commission states that the charity does not own or lease land or property. The Birmingham address may therefore be an administrative or correspondence base rather than a dedicated service site.
- The organisation has a materially international operational identity: its current Charity Commission record lists Birmingham alongside Bangladesh, Burma, India, Madagascar, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan and Turkey, while its website presents international relief appeals. Available evidence does not establish whether Birmingham activity is neighbourhood-based, district-wide or genuinely citywide in practice.
Additional evidence needed
- A current trustee annual report or impact report specifying the dates, venues, frequency and beneficiary areas of Birmingham-based services.
- Current information from the organisation identifying where its food-bank, burial-fund, awareness and youth-integration work is actually delivered.
- Confirmation of any Birmingham host venues, referral partners, supermarkets or community organisations that materially extend local operational reach.
- Clarification from the organisation on whether its Birmingham address is staffed and used for service delivery, rather than solely for administration or correspondence.
Areas of work
- Accommodation/housing
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Other Charitable Purposes
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Other Charitable Activities
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A bridge between local community support and global relief
The organisation appears to operate across two connected scales: local support and awareness activity in the UK, alongside international humanitarian assistance. This may allow it to translate local donor relationships into support for overseas crises while retaining a visible role in its immediate community.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish IAF from a solely international appeals charity or a solely neighbourhood-based provider. Its local work may be important to how it builds trust, legitimacy and donor engagement.
Show evidence
“Projects include nationally: Food Bank, Burial Fund, Community drug/alcohol awareness programmes and Youth Society Integration.”
Source:Organisation“Projects include internationally: Feed the Poor, Winter Appeal, Disaster Management Relief, Education Program, Medical Provisions, Refugee Support and Orphan Support.”
Source:Organisation
Relief is framed as a route toward self-sufficiency
IAF’s stated purpose suggests it does not define poverty relief only as emergency provision. For widows and dependants in particular, it appears to connect aid with education, training, healthcare and sustainable income generation.
Why it matters
This indicates a potentially distinctive strategic tension and opportunity: balancing urgent aid with longer-term capability-building. Understanding how resources are divided between these approaches would clarify the organisation’s practical role.
Show evidence
“The charity’s objects include providing education, training, healthcare projects and projects designed to enable widows and their dependants to generate a sustainable income and be self-sufficient.”
Source:Charity Commission“The website lists Entrepreneurship and Construction among its appeals.”
Source:Organisation
Faith is both a motivating framework and a fundraising infrastructure
Islamic faith appears central to IAF’s identity and donor model, through references to Zakat, Sadaqah, Fidyah and religious teaching on charity. At the same time, the organisation states that it seeks to alleviate suffering regardless of race, religion or gender, suggesting a faith-rooted but outward-facing charitable position.
Why it matters
This may explain how IAF mobilises resources and relationships that other civic organisations cannot easily access, while also shaping potential collaboration with Muslim community institutions and wider humanitarian networks.
Show evidence
“Donation types include Most Needy, Zakat, Sadaqah and Masjid.”
Source:Organisation“The organisation states that it is motivated by faith in Islam and will alleviate suffering regardless of race, religion or gender.”
Source:Organisation
- There is no evidence of the number, location or characteristics of people reached by each programme.
- It is unclear which listed projects are current, how they are delivered, and whether they are run directly or through partners.
- No evidence identifies local referral networks, overseas delivery partners, funding distribution or measured outcomes.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, accounts and impact reports showing expenditure, programme scale and outcomes by location.
- Information on delivery partners, referral routes, volunteer networks and relationships with local community organisations.
- Dated project updates that distinguish active programmes from historic or appeal-based activity.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
IAF works both Internationally and Nationally.Projects include: NATIONALY: Food Bank, Burial Fund, Community drug/alcohol awareness programmes, Youth Society Integration INTERNATIONALY: Feed the Poor, Winter Appeal, Disaster Management Relief, Education Program, Medical Provisions, Refugee Support, Orphan Support As a charity we believe the donor is as important as those receiving aid.
Charity objects
(1) TO PROVIDE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE TO REFUGEES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD WHO ARE VICTIMS OF WAR, NATURAL DISASTER OR CATASTROPHE. IN PARTICULAR PROVIDING FOOD, SHELTER, CLOTHING AND MEDICAL AID. (2) TO RELIEVE POVERTY AMONG ORPHANS, BY PROVIDING THE ESSENTIALS (AS MENTIONED IN 1 ABOVE) INCLUDING THE RIGHT OF EDUCATION. (3) TO RELIEVE POVERTY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONG WIDOWS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS, BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING, HEALTHCARE PROJECTS AND ALL THE NECESSARY PROJECTS DESIGNED TO ENABLE INDIVIDUALS TO GENERATE A SUSTAINABLE INCOME AND BE SELF-SUFFICIENT.