Ummah Help
Charity 1142686
Overview
Summary
Ummah Help appears to be a broadly mandated, values-led relief charity whose formal purpose extends beyond emergency assistance into faith, education, rights, inclusion and community cohesion. Its stated activity is much narrower than its objects, centring on people facing hardship, especially where war, poverty, disaster or discrimination are involved. This may indicate an organisation designed to respond flexibly across crises while retaining a particular commitment to Muslim communities and wider public benefit.
Operational geography
Coverage: International
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission records Birmingham City as an area where Ummah Help operates, but the available current evidence does not identify a Birmingham service venue, event location, delivery programme or ward-specific activity.
- The charity's current contact address cannot confidently be treated as an operational site: the Charity Commission governance record states that the charity does not own or lease land or property.
- The charity's 2024/25 annual report evidences substantial UK-wide delivery through Remembering Srebrenica UK, including English regional boards, country boards and Community Champions, plus educational visits to Srebrenica. It does not show the scale, frequency or nature of any Birmingham-based delivery.
- No current Birmingham partnerships or local delivery partners were evidenced in the consulted primary sources.
Additional evidence needed
- A current Ummah Help or Remembering Srebrenica service, events or impact report identifying Birmingham venues, wards or local delivery activity.
- Confirmation from the organisation of whether its contact address is an active office or service base rather than a correspondence address.
- Current details of any Birmingham-based Community Champions, West Midlands Board activity, partner organisations or hosted events.
Areas of work
- General Charitable Purposes
Who they help
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Other Charitable Activities
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A broad mandate with a focused public description
The organisation appears to hold an unusually wide legal remit, but currently presents its work primarily through humanitarian relief. This may reflect a flexible organisational platform rather than evidence that it actively delivers across every stated area.
Why it matters
This distinction helps avoid assuming that its charitable objects describe its present operating model. It suggests that future activity could extend into education, advocacy, inclusion or cohesion if capacity and priorities change.
Show evidence
“The objects include relief of hardship, advancement of Islam, education, human rights, racial and religious harmony, and social inclusion.”
Source:Charity Commission“Activities are described as relieving those in need, hardship and distress, particularly victims of war, poverty, natural disaster, religious and/or racial discrimination.”
Source:Organisation
Humanitarian relief is linked to discrimination and inclusion
The charity appears to frame need not only as material deprivation or crisis, but also as arising from religious, racial and social exclusion. Its approach may therefore connect relief with dignity, belonging and rights.
Why it matters
This suggests potential relevance to organisations working across humanitarian support, anti-discrimination, Muslim community inclusion and social cohesion, rather than only emergency aid.
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“The objects refer to victims of religious and/or racial discrimination.”
Source:Charity Commission“The objects include promoting racial and religious harmony and social inclusion, particularly for people excluded because of ethnic origin, religion, belief or creed.”
Source:Charity Commission
A globally oriented charity with a Muslim-community emphasis
Ummah Help appears to combine universal eligibility with an explicit intention to support Muslims experiencing financial hardship or exclusion. This may be a targeted identity-aware approach within a wider public-benefit framework.
Why it matters
This helps clarify that a focus on Muslim communities does not necessarily mean a restricted beneficiary base; the available evidence also identifies the general public as beneficiaries.
Show evidence
“The objects include relieving Muslims in financial need, hardship and distress throughout the world.”
Source:Charity Commission“Who the charity helps is recorded as the general public/mankind.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which of the charity's broad objects are currently active in practice.
- Where it operates, how support is delivered, and whether it works through partners or direct services.
- Whether its human-rights and community-cohesion purposes shape current programmes.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, accounts or impact reports showing projects, locations, expenditure and beneficiary groups.
- Information on delivery partners, governance, campaigns and current programme priorities.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
To relieve those in need, hardship and distress in particular but not exclusively those who are victims of war, poverty, natural disaster, religous and/or racial discrimination.
Charity objects
TO FURTHER SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (AS ARE CHARITABLE UNDER ENGLISH LAW) IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING MEANS: (A)TO RELIEVE THOSE IN NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THOSE WHO ARE VICTIMS OF WAR, POVERTY, NATURAL DISASTER, RELIGIOUS AND/OR RACIAL DISCRIMINATION BY SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE DIRECTORS SEE FIT INCLUDING THE PAYMENT OF MONEY (OR OTHER MEANS DEEMED SUITABLE TO RELIEVE THEIR NEEDS) TO PERSONS, BODIES, ORGANISATIONS AND/OR AFFECTED COUNTRIES (INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL AID); (B)TO ADVANCE THE RELIGION OF ISLAM; (C)TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES, UNDERTAKING RESEARCH (AND PUBLISHING THE USEFUL RESULTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC), BY UNDERTAKING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORK, THROUGH LECTURES, CONFERENCES, THE PUBLICATION OF LITERATURE, THROUGH BROADCASTING AND BY ESTABLISHING PROJECTS AND WORKING WITH INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANISATIONS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD WHO FURTHER SOME OR ALL OF THE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY; (D)TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND IN PARTICULAR TO RELIEVE THOSE MUSLIMS IN FINANCIAL NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD WITH THE AIM OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE; (E)TO PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS) THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS: • MONITORING ABUSES OF HUMAN RIGHTS; • OBTAINING REDRESS FOR THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE; • RELIEVING NEED AMONG THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE; • RESEARCH INTO HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES; • PROVIDING TECHNICAL ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AND OTHERS ON HUMAN RIGHTS MATTERS; • CONTRIBUTING TO THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS LAW; • COMMENTING ON PROPOSED HUMAN RIGHTS LEGISLATION; • RAISING AWARENESS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES; • PROMOTING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS; • PROMOTING RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AMONG INDIVIDUALS AND CORPORATIONS; • INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY OF HUMAN RIGHTS; • ELIMINATING INFRINGEMENTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS. IN FURTHERANCE OF THAT OBJECT BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE DIRECTORS SHALL HAVE POWER TO ENGAGE IN POLITICAL ACTIVITY PROVIDED THAT THEY ARE SATISFIED THAT THE PROPOSED ACTIVITIES WILL FURTHER THE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY TO AN EXTENT JUSTIFIED BY THE RESOURCES COMMITTED AND THE ACTIVITY IS NOT THE DOMINANT MEANS BY WHICH THE CHARITY CARRIED OUT ITS OBJECTS. (F)TO PROMOTE RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS HARMONY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC WITH THE AIM OF PROMOTING UNITY AND TOLERANCE; AND (G)TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED ON THE GROUNDS OF THEIR ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF OR CREED (IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY MEMBERS FROM MUSLIM COMMUNITIES) TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF SUCH PEOPLE AND ASSIST THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.