Mumin Aid
Charity 1122896
Overview
Summary
Mumin Aid appears to operate as a Birmingham-based faith-rooted charity that combines a local Muslim community hub with international poverty-relief and infrastructure projects. Its role is broader than emergency aid: the available evidence suggests it uses religious education, worship, community activities and practical support in the UK as a base for longer-term overseas interventions, including mosques, madrasahs, schools and household relief. This creates a distinctive bridge between local religious participation, diaspora-linked giving and international development.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Small Heath
Confidence: low
Mumin Aid publishes a contact address in Small Heath in both its current website footer and Charity Commission record. Its reported UK activities include religious education, classes, prayers, youth activity and practical help. However, a contact or official address is not, by itself, evidence of operational activity, and the available evidence does not explicitly confirm which, if any, of those services are delivered in Small Heath.
- Mumin Aid official website, accessed August 2026
The website gives Mumin Aid's contact address as Small Heath, Birmingham. - Charity Commission register entry and 2023-24 trustees' report for Mumin Aid (charity 1122896)
Both identify the charity's official address as Birmingham Muslim Foundation, Small Heath, Birmingham; the trustees' report also records a volunteer team and predominantly UK expenditure.
Remaining uncertainties
- The evidence identifies a Small Heath contact and official address but does not explicitly locate Mumin Aid's madrasa, adult classes, prayers, youth club, marriage registration, circles or assistance services there.
- The current website promotes support for Yardley Muslim Centre, but the available material does not provide its address, establish whether it is operational, or show whether Mumin Aid manages services there rather than acting as a fundraising supporter.
- The Charity Commission records Birmingham City as an area of operation and the trustees' report says most income is spent in the UK, but neither source identifies other current Birmingham delivery locations. This does not justify treating the charity's Birmingham service footprint as citywide.
- Mumin Aid's international operational footprint is well evidenced at country level through the Charity Commission and current website project reporting, but the supplied Birmingham area list cannot represent those locations.
Additional evidence needed
- A current timetable, venue list or service-page confirmation showing where each UK activity is delivered.
- Current documentation from Yardley Muslim Centre identifying its location, operating status and the nature of Mumin Aid's role.
- The latest trustees' annual report or impact report with geographically disaggregated UK beneficiaries, grants and service locations.
Areas of work
- Accommodation/housing
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Religious Activities
- 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 Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A local faith hub appears to underpin global aid
The evidence suggests Mumin Aid's UK activities are not separate from its international work: its local religious and social programme may create the relationships, trust and donor base that sustain overseas projects.
Why it matters
This helps explain its operating model. The organisation may be best understood as a community institution that converts local participation into international charitable action, rather than as a conventional overseas-aid charity alone.
Show evidence
“Main UK projects include prayers, madrasa and makhtab, youth club, sisters classes, marriage registration and helping people.”
Source:Organisation“Global projects include building masjid, setting up schools, providing shelters, supporting orphans and widows, emergency relief, food and water.”
Source:Organisation
Built religious infrastructure is a central long-term strategy
Mumin Aid appears to frame mosques and madrasahs as durable community assets, alongside immediate assistance such as food packs, water, cataract surgery and emergency relief.
Why it matters
This distinguishes the charity from organisations focused solely on crisis response. Its interventions may aim to combine material relief with religious education, community gathering and locally rooted institutions.
Show evidence
“The website invites donations to build a Masjid for £5,000 and a Madrasah for £3,500.”
Source:Organisation“The website states that Mumin Aid is helping to build mosques and madrasahs in communities where they are needed most.”
Source:Organisation“The charity's objects include the advancement of education and relief of poverty and suffering in deprived countries.”
Source:Charity Commission
The organisation spans both universal and community-specific need
Mumin Aid's formal remit and public activity suggest a dual orientation: broad humanitarian assistance for people affected by poverty and disasters, delivered through a specifically Muslim civic and religious setting.
Why it matters
This may shape who encounters the charity, how it mobilises support and where it has trusted relationships. It also raises a useful question about whether its local services reach beyond its existing faith community.
Show evidence
“The charity helps children and young people and the general public/mankind.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity's objects include relief of poverty, hardship and distress among persons in areas affected by disasters.”
Source:Charity Commission“Main UK projects include Dawah Circle, prayers, Tajweed Class, Sisters circle/classes and Study Circle.”
Source:Organisation
- Which countries, communities and delivery partners receive its international support is not specified.
- There is no evidence of beneficiary numbers, project outcomes, safeguarding arrangements or the scale of funds allocated between UK and overseas work.
- It is unclear whether the planned Yardley Muslim Centre is operated by Mumin Aid, supported through fundraising, or governed with another organisation.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports and accounts showing income sources, expenditure, grants, reserves and the division between UK and overseas activities.
- Project-level information identifying locations, local partners, beneficiary reach, completion status and outcomes.
- Evidence on referral routes, participation and accessibility for local services, including whether they serve people beyond existing mosque networks.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Main UK projects include: Madrasa & Makhtab, Adult Class, Prayers, Dawah Circle, Youth Club, Marriage registration, Dars, Kids Circle, Tajweed Class, Magazine, Sisters circle/classes, Study Circle and helping people. Mumin Aid's global projects include building masjid, setting up schools, providing shelters, supporting orphans & widows, emergency relief and proving food and water.
Charity objects
1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF PERSONS LIVING IN DEPRIVED COUNTRIES AND/OR PERSONS ORIGINATING FROM DEPRIVED COUNTRIES NOW LIVING IN THE UK, AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DECIDE. 2. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SUFFERING OF PERSONS LIVING IN DEPRIVED COUNTRIES AND/OR PERSONS ORIGINATING FROM DEPRIVED COUNTRIES NOW LIVING IN THE UK, AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DECIDE. 3. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS AMONG PERSONS IN AREAS AFFECTED BY DISASTERS.