Markaz Of Al-Imam Alawzaee Cultural & Educational Centre
Charity 1142918
Overview
Summary
Markaz Of Al-Imam Alawzaee Cultural & Educational Centre appears to be a place-based community-centre organisation using education, advice and recreational activity to support Birmingham residents. Its remit combines broad public benefit with an explicit focus on children and young people and people from particular ethnic or racial backgrounds. The available evidence suggests it may function as both a culturally rooted gathering place and a practical access point for community support, although its specific programmes, partnerships and reach remain unclear.
Operational geography
Coverage: Neighbourhood
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The only location-specific current public record is the charity's registered contact location in Small Heath. This may be a correspondence address and does not by itself establish that services are delivered there or that it is an active community-centre site.
- The Charity Commission record identifies the charity as registered but reports that its reporting is substantially overdue; the latest financial information available is for the year ending 31 March 2020, with £0 income and £0 expenditure. This leaves current delivery activity and geographic reach unverified.
- The governing document expresses Birmingham-wide charitable objects and permits cooperation with authorities and other organisations, but no current evidence identifies active delivery locations, operational partners or services beyond the registered contact location.
- No website or other current official operational information was available to verify whether the organisation remains active, operates from a physical site, or serves multiple Birmingham neighbourhoods.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual return, trustees' report or accounts stating recent activities and where they were delivered.
- Current official contact, venue-hire, programme or social-media information confirming whether the registered contact location is an active operational site.
- Evidence from named local-authority, voluntary-sector or venue partners confirming any current jointly delivered activity and its location.
- A direct confirmation from the charity of its active services, physical sites and regular delivery areas.
Areas of work
- Amateur Sport
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Recreation
- Religious Activities
Who they help
- Children/young People
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A community-centre model rather than a single-service charity
The organisation appears designed to maintain a shared community space through which several forms of support and activity can be offered, rather than concentrating on one narrowly defined intervention.
Why it matters
This suggests its local value may lie partly in convening people and enabling varied activity, relationships and informal support, which can be harder to see in activity labels alone.
Show evidence
“Its objects include establishing, maintaining and managing a community centre.”
Source:Charity Commission“Its purposes include education/training, religious activities, amateur sport and recreation.”
Source:Charity Commission
Cultural specificity may sit within a broad civic remit
Although the organisation's name signals a particular cultural or religious identity, its formal objects frame its work as open to Birmingham inhabitants without distinction and as benefiting the wider public.
Why it matters
This may make the centre an important bridge between a culturally specific community base and wider neighbourhood participation, rather than serving only a single constituency.
Show evidence
“The organisation is named Markaz Of Al-Imam Alawzaee Cultural & Educational Centre.”
Source:Organisation“Its objects promote benefit for inhabitants of Birmingham without distinction of sex, sexual orientation, race or political, religious or other opinions.”
Source:Charity Commission“It helps people of a particular ethnic or racial origin and the general public.”
Source:Charity Commission
Support may combine practical guidance with participation
The organisation appears to pair advocacy, advice and information with education, leisure and recreation, potentially addressing both immediate needs and social connection.
Why it matters
This combination may position it as a useful referral or collaboration partner for organisations whose users need both practical support and routes into community life.
Show evidence
“Its activities include community support services.”
Source:Charity Commission“It provides services and advocacy/advice/information.”
Source:Charity Commission“It helps children and young people.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which communities use the centre and whether its broad public remit is reflected in practice.
- What services, facilities and programmes are currently delivered.
- Whether it works with local authorities, schools, voluntary groups or other community organisations.
Remaining uncertainties
- Current programme, timetable and service information.
- Annual reports or impact evidence showing participation, beneficiary needs and outcomes.
- Information on partnerships, venue use and local referral relationships.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Community Support Services
Charity objects
(I) TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF BIRMINGHAM WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATIONS WITH THE OBJECTS OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS; AND (II) TO ESTABLISH OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE (HEREINAFTER CALLED 'THE CENTRE') AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE SAME (WHETHER ALONE OR IN CO-OPERATION WITH ANY LOCAL AUTHORITY OR PERSON OR BODY) IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS.