The Zakat Relief Fund
Charity 1121051
Overview
Summary
The Zakat Relief Fund appears to be an internationally oriented relief charity combining immediate material assistance with support for longer-term care infrastructure. Its stated work spans disaster response, poverty relief and health, with particular attention to people described as poor, sick or vulnerable. The organisation’s role seems to sit between direct aid delivery and resourcing local care settings, such as orphanages and hospitals, although the available evidence does not show how it selects locations or delivery partners.
Operational geography
Coverage: International
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct evidence from the Charity Commission confirms that the charity operates in Birmingham City as well as India, Malawi, Mali, Nepal, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan and Somalia. This supports an international operational footprint, but does not identify any Birmingham ward, neighbourhood or service-delivery location.
- The registered contact address may be a correspondence or trustee address rather than a site where services are delivered, so it is not treated as evidence of an operational site.
- The current public record describes relief activity including delivery of emergency goods, meals and clothing, support for orphanages, and funding for hospitals, but does not specify which of these activities are delivered in Birmingham or name local beneficiaries, projects or partners.
- No current evidence identifies material Birmingham partnerships that extend the charity's local operational reach.
Additional evidence needed
- A current trustee annual report or project-level accounts identifying the locations and recipients of Birmingham expenditure.
- Official confirmation of whether the registered contact address is an office, storage, service-delivery or correspondence-only address.
- Official project information naming any current Birmingham delivery venues, local partner organisations or neighbourhood-based beneficiaries.
Areas of work
- 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
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
How they help
- Other Charitable Activities
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A bridge between emergency relief and ongoing care
The organisation appears to operate across different time horizons: supplying tents, blankets and medicines after disasters while also contributing to hospital construction and running costs. This may indicate an approach that connects immediate survival needs with longer-term recovery and health provision.
Why it matters
This distinguishes the charity from a purely emergency-focused fund. It may make it relevant to organisations working at the transition between humanitarian response, local health systems and sustained community recovery.
Show evidence
“Buy and deliver blankets, tents, medicines and similar items to areas suffering from natural disasters.”
Source:Organisation“Provision of funding to areas suffering hardship by contributing to the construction and running of hospitals.”
Source:Organisation
A delivery model that may depend on local intermediaries
Payments into orphanages and contributions to hospitals suggest that the charity may often strengthen existing institutions rather than only deliver aid directly to individuals. The evidence does not identify these institutions or clarify whether they are formal partners.
Why it matters
Understanding this potential intermediary role is important because the charity’s reach, accountability and local relationships may depend substantially on the organisations it funds.
Show evidence
“Payments of funds into orphanges to assist with looking after the vulnerable.”
Source:Organisation“Provision of funding to areas suffering hardship by contributing to the construction and running of hospitals.”
Source:Organisation
Broad remit, potentially selective practical focus
The charity’s objects permit global support for disaster victims, people facing financial hardship and people who are sick, while its activities concentrate on basic goods, meals, orphanage support and hospitals. This may indicate a broad legal mandate paired with a practical focus on essential welfare and health needs.
Why it matters
The distinction helps separate what the charity is authorised to do from its apparent operating priorities, and raises useful questions about whether its work is concentrated in particular countries, crises or population groups.
Show evidence
“The charity's objects include relief of hardship, sickness and disaster impacts among people anywhere in the world.”
Source:Charity Commission“To provide cooked meals, basic clothing and similar items to poor living in cities and villages.”
Source:Organisation
- Which countries, communities and crises receive support, and whether assistance is concentrated in particular regions.
- Whether aid is delivered directly, through local partners, or through a mixture of both.
- How beneficiaries, orphanages and hospital projects are selected and monitored.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or accounts showing expenditure by country, programme type and delivery partner.
- Project-level information describing named hospital, orphanage, disaster-response and local implementing partners.
- Evidence of outcomes, beneficiary reach and safeguarding or grant-monitoring processes.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Buy and deliver blankets, tents, medicines and similar items to areas suffering from natural disasters. To provide cooked meals, basic clothing and similar items to poor living in cities and villages. Payments of funds into orphanges to assist with looking after the vulnerable. Provision of funding to areas suffering hardship by contributing to the construction and running of hospitals.
Charity objects
A) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL NEEDS AND SUFFERING AMONG VICTIMS OF NATURAL AND OTHER KINDS OF DISASTER IN THE FORM OF MONEY (OR OTHER SUITABLE MEANS) FOR PERSONS, BODIES, ORGANISATIONS AND/OR COUNTRIES. B) THE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE OF PEOPLE IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD WHO ARE VICTIMS OF WAR OR NATURAL CATASTROPHE IN PARTICULAR BY THE SUPPLY OF MEDICAL AID TO SUCH PERSONS. C) THE RELIEF OF FINICAL HARDSHIP AMONG PEOPLE LIVING OR WORKING IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH BASIC GOODS AND SERVICES WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD THROUGH LACK OF MEANS. D) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP. EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY OF PEOPLE LIVING ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD BY MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY FOR PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR ITEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES. E) THE RELIEF OF THE SICK/POOR LIVING ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF GRANTS, GOODS OR SERVICES. F) THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AMONG PEOPLE RESIDING PERMANENTLY OR TEMPORARILY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.