Khoja Shia Ithna-Asheri Muslim Community Of Birmingham
Charity 1170675
Overview
Summary
Khoja Shia Ithna-Asheri Muslim Community Of Birmingham appears to be a faith-rooted community institution rather than simply a place of worship. Its programme combines religious observance, education, welfare-oriented support and member infrastructure, while presenting itself as engaged with wider society and humanitarian needs. The available evidence suggests an operating model built around regular communal gatherings, volunteer coordination, dedicated facilities and culturally specific religious continuity, with emerging efforts to make participation more accessible for members with special educational needs.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Balsall Heath West
Confidence: high
Current first-party announcements evidence regular religious programmes, communal meals and special-needs provision at named halls and buildings. Birmingham City Council's planning record identifies the KSIMC-operated Clifton Mosque site as being in Balsall Heath West.
- KSIMC Birmingham official website, Muharram 1448 announcements, June 2026
The organisation directs attendees to its Transition Hall and Sayyida Zainab Building for English and Urdu majalis, ladies' overflow provision and a classroom for its SEN/Specially Me Committee; it also identifies serving locations around these buildings. - KSIMC Birmingham official website, contact details
The website gives KSIMC Birmingham a Birmingham address. - Birmingham City Council planning application 2015/06750/PA
The Council records the site as Clifton Mosque in Balsall Heath, identifies KSIMC as applicant, places it in Balsall Heath West ward, and describes community/prayer, mosque, funeral and sports-hall development.
Remaining uncertainties
- The evidence strongly supports a principal operational campus in Balsall Heath West, but does not establish that KSIMC currently delivers regular in-person services from any additional Birmingham ward.
- The organisation's name, member census and Birmingham-focused identity may indicate a wider city membership or catchment, but available evidence does not show services being delivered across Birmingham. The neighbourhood coverage classification is therefore a cautious interpretation of the evidenced delivery footprint rather than a claim about where all attendees live.
- KSIMC promotes the World Federation's Ramadhan Relief appeal, which may extend the effect of its fundraising internationally, but the available material does not demonstrate that KSIMC itself directly operates overseas services or sites.
- The physical extent and current operational use of the wider estate, including Prospect Place and any commercial property, are not fully clear from the available evidence.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual report or operational/impact report identifying the locations of regular education, welfare, funeral, youth, SEN or outreach services.
- A current site plan or facilities list confirming which premises are directly operated by KSIMC and used for charitable activity.
- Current information on membership and programme attendance catchment, or evidence of recurring services delivered in other Birmingham wards.
- Documentation from KSIMC or the World Federation clarifying whether KSIMC's relief activity is limited to fundraising or includes direct programme delivery outside Birmingham.
Areas of work
- Education/training
- Religious Activities
Who they help
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A community institution built around participation, not only worship
The organisation appears to use religious gatherings as a platform for education, social connection, welfare and community coordination. Its role may therefore extend beyond delivering religious services to sustaining a shared local community infrastructure.
Why it matters
This helps explain why facilities, food, parking, volunteers, announcements and educational activity feature so prominently: they are enabling conditions for community life, not peripheral administration.
Show evidence
“The charity arranges religious functions, provides secular education, supports the social and welfare of its members, and establishes capital projects.”
Source:Charity Commission“Ramadhan programmes included prayer, Quran recitation, lectures, a full iftar meal, announcements and a community gameshow quiz.”
Source:Organisation
Accessibility is becoming a visible part of its community model
The organisation appears to be making a deliberate, though still developing, effort to include members with special educational needs in major religious programming through dedicated space and adapted broadcasting.
Why it matters
This may indicate a shift from assuming that members can participate in standard formats to designing participation around differing needs—an important marker of who the organisation sees as belonging.
Show evidence
“A GLC classroom in the Sayyida Zainab Building was designated for SEN members and the Specially Me Committee during Muharram.”
Source:Organisation“A new YouTube channel was launched to broadcast a shadow stream of Jamaat programmes for the SEN community.”
Source:Organisation
It operates through a dense internal coordination system
The organisation appears to depend on substantial operational coordination across venues, volunteers, security, catering, fundraising and communications, especially during high-attendance religious periods.
Why it matters
This suggests that its organisational capacity may be a significant local asset. It may also create opportunities for knowledge-sharing with other community organisations managing large, recurring gatherings.
Show evidence
“Muharram arrangements specified multiple halls, overflow space, serving locations, parking rules, security guidance and car park volunteers.”
Source:Organisation“Donations for Ramadhan Relief could be made online or at treasury desks in both the gents and ladies halls.”
Source:Organisation
- The evidence does not clarify how far welfare, advice and educational services reach beyond members of the Khoja Shia community.
- There is little evidence about partnerships with Birmingham-based organisations, despite the stated aim of engaging wider society.
- The relationship between the charity's local activity and wider Shia or Khoja networks is not described.
Remaining uncertainties
- Annual reports or impact data showing beneficiary groups, attendance, volunteering and welfare support.
- Evidence of local partnerships, referrals, shared projects or engagement with non-member communities.
- Information from members, including SEN participants, about accessibility, belonging and unmet needs.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
The objective of the charity is to promote Islam and teachings of Islam per the Holy Quran in accordance with the Shia Jaafery faith. The principle objective of the Charity are to arrange religious functions in the Islamic calender, provision of secular education, social & welfare of its members and establish capital projects to care for its needs.
Charity objects
TO ADVANCE ISLAM IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE KHOJA INTERPRETATION OF THE SHIA ITHNA-ASHERI JAFFERI FAITH; AND TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN KHOJA SHIA ITHNA-ASHERI JAFFERI HERITAGE, HISTORY, CULTURE AND PRINCIPLES.