Salam Trust
Charity 1166526
Overview
Summary
Salam Trust appears to be a faith-centred community institution whose evidenced day-to-day role is congregational Islamic worship, while its governing objects authorise a much broader platform for welfare, education, recreation and humanitarian relief. Its potential civic significance lies in combining a regular gathering space with permission to support people facing hardship and exclusion. However, the available evidence does not show how far these wider charitable purposes are currently active in practice.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Ward End
Confidence: medium
Direct evidence places an Eid congregation in Ward End Park during 2023/24, while the charity's current registered address is the Jamia't Us-Salam mosque site at 818 Alum Rock Road, which Birmingham City Council records as being in Ward End. The latest Charity Commission return confirms continuing prayer-led activity, but does not specify its current venues.
- Salam Trust trustees' report for the year ended 31 March 2024, filed with the Charity Commission
The report says that Salam Trust arranged Eid prayers at local Ward End Park, alongside congregational prayers, Friday sermons, holiday schools and evening classes; it describes the mosque as serving the local and surrounding Muslim community in Birmingham. - Birmingham City Council planning application 2007/07046/PA
The Council records 818 Alum Rock Road, Ward End, B8 2TX as the site of a proposed Islamic cultural and welfare centre for Jamat-Us-Salam Educational and Welfare, and identifies the ward as Ward End. - Charity Commission Register of Charities, Salam Trust (1166526), financial year ended 31 March 2025
The current charity record confirms ongoing programmes of prayers, Islamic-calendar celebrations, congregational prayers, Friday sermons and Eid prayers; it also records 818 Alum Rock Road as the charity address and states that the charity owns and/or leases land or property.
Remaining uncertainties
- The latest available 2025 Charity Commission return confirms continuing worship activity but does not identify the venues used, so it cannot by itself confirm that all current services remain in Ward End.
- The organisation reports operating in Birmingham City to the Charity Commission, but the service-level evidence located is concentrated in Ward End and describes a local and surrounding community. This is insufficient to establish a genuinely citywide delivery footprint.
- The Jamia-Tus Salam website refers to temporary education premises and to planned future facilities, but its page contains dated material and does not provide reliable confirmation that those arrangements remain current.
- No current material delivery partnerships extending Salam Trust's operational geography beyond Ward End were identified.
Additional evidence needed
- A current timetable, annual report or official statement identifying the mosque, education and Eid-prayer venues used in 2025/26.
- Confirmation from Salam Trust or Jamia-Tus Salam of whether its temporary education premises are currently used for classes or other services.
- Current evidence of any regular services, events or delivery partners outside Ward End, including the areas served and frequency of activity.
Areas of work
- Education/training
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- Recreation
- Religious Activities
- 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
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A broad charitable mandate anchored by a narrow evidenced delivery model
The Trust’s objects allow it to operate across worship, poverty relief, education, recreation and overseas aid, but the reported activities focus exclusively on prayers, sermons and Islamic-calendar celebrations. This may indicate that worship is its current operating core, with wider functions retained as capacity or opportunity develops.
Why it matters
This distinguishes what the organisation is authorised to do from what it is known to be doing. Potential partners should not assume that all stated charitable purposes are active services.
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“The charity’s objects include Islamic worship and education, poverty relief, educational facilities, recreation and social-welfare facilities.”
Source:Charity Commission“The Trust provides congregational prayers, Friday sermons and Eid prayers.”
Source:Organisation
Potentially a community-access point rather than only a worship venue
By opening activities to everyone in the community and identifying children, older people and disabled people among its beneficiaries, the Trust appears to position its religious space as having a wider community-facing role.
Why it matters
Regular communal gathering can create trusted routes to information, mutual support and future service delivery, especially for people who may be less connected to mainstream institutions.
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“Activities are opened for everyone in the community.”
Source:Organisation“The charity helps children and young people, elderly people, people with disabilities and the general public.”
Source:Charity Commission
A possible bridge between local belonging and wider humanitarian concern
The objects connect Birmingham-focused social welfare with relief for poor people, refugees and disaster victims, including overseas aid. This suggests an organisational identity capable of linking local religious life to wider networks of solidarity.
Why it matters
This may make the Trust a useful connector for initiatives that combine neighbourhood support with humanitarian giving, though current activity in either area is unconfirmed.
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“The objects include relief for poor people, refugees and victims of natural disasters.”
Source:Charity Commission“The objects refer particularly to residents of Birmingham needing social-welfare facilities.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Whether poverty relief, grants, education, recreation or overseas aid are currently delivered.
- Who attends, benefits from or helps shape the Trust’s activities.
- Whether the Trust works with other Birmingham organisations or Muslim community networks.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, accounts or programme descriptions showing expenditure and activities beyond worship.
- Information on premises use, beneficiary reach, volunteer capacity and formal partnerships.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
THE SALAM TRUST PROVIDES PUBLIC BENEFIT THROUGH ITS PROGRAMMES OF PRAYERS AND CELEBRATION OF THE KEY EVENTS IN THE ISLAMIC CALENDER. ACTIVITIES ARE OPENED FOR EVERYONE IN THE COMMUNITY. THE SALAM TRUST PROVIDES CONGREGATIONAL PRAYERS, FRIDAY SERMONS AND EID PRAYERS.
Charity objects
(1) TO ADVANCE THE RELIGION OF ISLAM, BY MEANS OF, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, PROMOTING THE TEACHINGS AND TENETS OF ISLAM, PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR WORSHIP AND PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR ISLAMIC EDUCATION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEACHINGS OF THE QURAN AND SUNNAH OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD PBUH AS EXPOUNDED BY THE AHLE SUNNAH WAL JAMAH SCHOOL OF THOUGHT; (2) TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, DISTRESS AND SUFFERING AMONG POOR PEOPLE, REFUGEES, VICTIMS OF NATURAL DISASTERS AND OTHER PEOPLE IN NEED, BY MEANS OF, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, MAKING GRANTS OR LOANS FOR PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR ITEMS, EQUIPMENT, SERVICES AND FACILITIES, INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF FOOD, CLOTHING, AND ACCOMMODATION FOR THE SAID PERSONS; (3) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE POOR, THE UNDERPRIVILEGED AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC BY MEANS OF, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THE PROVISION OR THE ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND FACILITIES, SUCH AS SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES AND TRAINING CENTRES; (4) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS, PARTICULARLY, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, RESIDENTS OF BIRMINGHAM, WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.