R.H. Educational And Welfare Trust
Charity 1106770
Overview
Summary
R.H. Educational And Welfare Trust appears to combine faith-based community development in the West Midlands with direct welfare provision in Pakistan. Its role is unusually broad: it links Islamic religious advancement, education and training, health, poverty relief and support for a specifically defined family lineage. The available evidence suggests an operating model that mixes local partnership delivery, particularly with further-education colleges, with overseas institutions and relief activities, rather than focusing on a single service or population.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Bordesley Green
Confidence: high
Direct evidence in the charity's 2024 annual report identifies its main service as managing Qamarul Islam Mosque in Small Heath, Birmingham. Birmingham City Council's current ward mapping identifies the mosque location as within Bordesley Green ward. The report describes worship, free Islamic education, conferences and Ramadan provision delivered from the mosque and recently expanded adjacent premises.
- R.H. Educational and Welfare Trust Annual Report and Accounts, year ended 31 August 2024
States that the charity's main service is management of Qamarul Islam Mosque in Small Heath, Birmingham; identifies the principal office at the mosque; and reports worship, Islamic education, conferences, Ramadan meals and use of newly converted adjacent premises. - Birmingham City Council, Bordesley Green Ward Map
Current council ward mapping identifies the mosque location as being within Bordesley Green ward.
Remaining uncertainties
- The evidence supports a strongly neighbourhood-based Birmingham operational base at the mosque, rather than evidence of services delivered across multiple Birmingham wards. Although the mosque attracts worshippers from further afield and the charity reports a growing regional reputation, this indicates a wider catchment rather than separately evidenced delivery sites.
- The Charity Commission register says the trust provides free education and training in England in partnership with further-education colleges, but neither the current register entry nor the 2024 annual report identifies the colleges, venues, or Birmingham areas involved. Those partnerships therefore cannot currently be mapped as operational areas.
- The organisation's overall coverage is classified as international because its current Charity Commission activity statement reports schools, an orphanage centre and medical camps in Pakistan. The available Birmingham-focused evidence does not identify the locations or current scale of those services.
- The annual report substantiates the mosque as an operational site, so it is not treated merely as a correspondence address.
Additional evidence needed
- Names of the further-education college partners, plus confirmation of whether education and training sessions are currently delivered at college sites or solely at Qamarul Islam Mosque.
- A current service timetable or programme showing the locations, frequency and intended catchment of the mosque's education, community and welfare activities.
- Confirmation of the function of the adjacent premises brought into use during the year ended 31 August 2024.
Areas of work
- Amateur Sport
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Disability
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- General Charitable Purposes
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- Religious Activities
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A bridge between local learning and overseas welfare
The trust appears to operate across two connected geographies: education and training in England, principally the West Midlands, and schools, an orphanage centre and medical camps in Pakistan. This may indicate a model that combines local inclusion with transnational charitable commitments.
Why it matters
Understanding this dual focus helps explain why the charity's purposes and activities span both community development and overseas aid. It may also shape its networks, funding needs and volunteer base.
Show evidence
“The charity promotes health, welfare, education and training in the United Kingdom, principally in the West Midlands.”
Source:Charity Commission“The trust runs schools, an orphanage centre and medical camps in Pakistan.”
Source:Organisation
Partnership is central to its local delivery model
Its free education and training work appears to be delivered with further-education colleges rather than solely through the trust's own facilities. This may position the charity as a connector between communities and mainstream education providers.
Why it matters
This suggests that the trust's local value may lie partly in access, trust and referral relationships, not only in delivering services itself. It raises useful questions about which communities those partnerships reach.
Show evidence
“The charity provides free education and training to the community in partnership with FE colleges.”
Source:Organisation“Education and training is listed among the charity's activities.”
Source:Charity Commission
A broad public mission alongside a lineage-specific commitment
The trust combines services for people of all ages and faiths with a specific object to support poor and needy members of the Sadaat (Syed) family. This may reflect an organisation balancing universal welfare aims with a more particular community obligation.
Why it matters
This distinction is important for understanding who may be prioritised, how the charity explains its identity and whether different strands of work use different eligibility criteria.
Show evidence
“The charity promotes health, welfare, education and training for people of all ages and faiths living in the United Kingdom.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity promotes the welfare of poor and needy people belonging to the Sadaat (Syed) family.”
Source:Charity Commission
- How resources, governance and decision-making are divided between UK and Pakistan activity.
- Which communities use the FE-college partnerships and whether the trust reaches groups underserved by other providers.
- Whether the wide range of listed charitable activities reflects current delivery or broad constitutional powers.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or accounts showing expenditure, partners, locations and beneficiary numbers.
- Information on programme outcomes, eligibility criteria and the relationship between the trust's religious and wider public-benefit work.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Charity is operating in England by providing free education and training to community (in partnership with FE colleges). Trust is also running Schools, Orphanage Centre and Medical Camps in Pakistan to help the poor and needy people.
Charity objects
1) TO ADVANCE THE ISLAMIC RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEACHINGS OF THE HOLY QU'RAN AND OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD 2) TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH, WELFARE, EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF PEOPLE OF ALL AGES AND FAITHS LIVING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, BUT PRINCIPALLY IN WEST MIDLANDS. IN PARTICULAR TO DEVELOP THEIR INTELLECTUAL, PHYSICAL, ECONOMIC AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES. 3) TO FURTHER THE WELFARE OF UNDERPRIVILEGED AND DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE LIVING ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD OUTSIDE THE UNITED KINGDOM. 4) TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF POOR AND NEEDY PEOPLE BELONGING TO THE SADAAT (SYED) FAMILY.