Mahmud Sabir Masjid
Charity 1197269
Overview
Summary
Mahmud Sabir Masjid appears to be a faith-centred community institution whose role extends beyond congregational worship. Its stated purposes combine Islamic practice and learning with pastoral support, youth engagement, poverty relief, environmental conservation and community development. The available evidence suggests a locally rooted Birmingham organisation that may use its religious setting as a platform for both direct support and resource-sharing with people and other voluntary bodies, while retaining an outward-looking concern for overseas need.
Operational geography
Coverage: International
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct evidence: the Charity Commission records that the charity operates in Birmingham City, Kenya and Pakistan. This supports an international overall footprint, but does not identify particular Birmingham wards, neighbourhoods or delivery venues.
- The charity has a registered contact address. This may be an operational base, particularly given the charity's working name and stated religious-service activity, but the Charity Commission record does not confirm that services are delivered there.
- The Charity Commission states that the charity does not own or lease land or property. This increases uncertainty about whether the registered address is a service venue, a shared premises, or a correspondence address.
- No accessible official website, current project information, annual-report narrative, or partner evidence was found that identifies current Birmingham delivery locations, material local partnerships, or whether Birmingham activity is concentrated locally or distributed citywide.
- A Birmingham City Council electoral notice identifies Tyseley Community Centre within polling district HGN1, but this is insufficient on its own to establish that the charity operates in the supplied Hall Green North ward.
Additional evidence needed
- The narrative trustees' annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2024, particularly any descriptions of grants, service venues, beneficiary locations and delivery partners.
- Current official confirmation from Mahmud Sabir Masjid of the address or addresses used for prayer, education, pastoral care, community development and poverty-relief activity.
- Current official project pages, timetables, venue-booking records or named partner confirmations identifying where Birmingham services and grants are delivered.
- Evidence distinguishing Birmingham-wide grant making or outreach from activity centred on a single mosque or neighbourhood.
Areas of work
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Other Charitable Purposes
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- Religious Activities
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- 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
Faith appears to be the organisation's operating platform
The evidence suggests that religious worship, learning and pastoral care are not separate from its wider charitable work; they may provide the relationships, trust and regular contact through which community support is organised.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish the masjid from a general service provider: its potential civic value may lie in connecting spiritual, educational and practical support within an established community setting.
Show evidence
“The charity advances the Islamic faith through prayer meetings, lectures, religious festivals, religious learning, spiritual guidance and pastoral care.”
Source:Charity Commission“Activities include community development initiatives to enhance the well-being of individuals.”
Source:Organisation
The organisation has a broader support model than worship alone
Its remit appears to combine services with grants to individuals and organisations, indicating that it may respond to needs through more than one route: direct delivery, personal assistance and support for other civic groups.
Why it matters
This suggests it could be a potential connector or resource-holder within local voluntary networks, rather than solely a provider for its own congregation.
Show evidence
“The charity makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides services.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps other charities or voluntary bodies and the general public.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its concerns span local belonging and global responsibility
The organisation appears locally focused, mainly in Birmingham, while also positioning poverty relief and aid beyond the immediate area as part of its charitable role.
Why it matters
This may shape its partnerships and fundraising priorities: local community needs could sit alongside transnational humanitarian commitments rather than compete with a purely neighbourhood-based mission.
Show evidence
“The charity advances the Islamic faith mainly but not exclusively in Birmingham.”
Source:Charity Commission“Activities include alleviating local and global poverty.”
Source:Organisation“The charity's work includes overseas aid and famine relief.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which communities use its services beyond worshippers, and whether support reaches people outside its immediate faith network.
- The scale, geography and practical form of its grants, poverty relief, environmental work and youth activity.
- Whether it currently collaborates with schools, environmental groups, local authorities or other charities.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or activity reports showing programmes, grant recipients, beneficiary numbers and spending by activity.
- Information on current partnerships, service locations, volunteer capacity and the perspectives of people using its support.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Facilitating religious services, promoting youth education and engagement, alleviating local and global poverty, championing environmental conservation, and undertaking community development initiatives to enhance the well-being of individuals.
Charity objects
TO ADVANCE THE ISLAMIC FAITH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, MAINLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN BIRMINGHAM, INCLUDING HOLDING PRAYER MEETINGS, LECTURES, CELEBRATING RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS, ORGANISING AND PROVIDING RELIGIOUS LEARNING, SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE, PASTORAL CARE AND PRODUCING OR DISTRIBUTING LITERATURE ABOUT THE ISLAMIC FAITH.