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The Ramadan 2027 iftar rota is open: 140 volunteer shifts for the first ten nights Pick a night

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Small Heath, Birmingham

A masjid that keeps its doors open

Free iftars every Ramadan night, a food pantry for 310 families a week and classes for 186 children. Give Zakat, Sadaqah or Lillah in a minute.

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Families sit in long rows on the floor of a bright hall, waiting to open their fast A shared iftar platter of rice, lamb, dates and fruit in the middle of a community table Three girls in school hijabs read a textbook together at their desk

Jamaat today

Wednesday 14 October

  1. Fajr06:15
  2. Zuhr13:30
  3. Asr16:15
  4. Maghrib, next prayer18:16
  5. Isha20:00
  6. Jumu'ah13:15 & 14:00
Pantry open Friday4pm to 7pm, side door on Wright Street

Give in under a minute

Your Zakat stays with Small Heath families

Three funds, kept in three separate accounts. Choose where your gift goes and we report back every Ramadan, line by line.

  • Zakat

    Only for eligible households in B9, B10 and B11, checked by our Zakat committee.

  • Sadaqah

    Iftars, the food pantry and emergency grocery cards, wherever need is sharpest.

  • Lillah

    The masjid itself: the extension, heating, classes and upkeep.

1 · Choose a fund
2 · Choose an amount

Savings, gold, silver and money owed to you, minus debts due now.

Zakat due £310

Every week, the same doors

Three programmes that run all year, with the same volunteers and the same teachers, so families know exactly when to come.

Pantry volunteers carry a crate of groceries through the community kitchen

Tue & Fri4pm to 7pm

Food pantry

Free groceries for any household in B9, B10 or B11. No referral, no questions about faith.

310 families a week

A teacher explains a lesson to a young boy at his desk in a bright classroom

Sat & Sun10am to 1pm

Youth classes

Qur'an, Arabic and Islamic studies for ages 6 to 16 with 14 DBS-checked teachers. £15 a month, free when money is tight.

12 places left for January

Five schoolgirls hold up their maths and science textbooks in class

Mon to Thu5pm to 6:30pm

Homework club

GCSE maths and English help in the upstairs classroom, run by volunteer tutors who came through the club themselves.

Ages 11 to 16 · free

Ramadan 2027 iftar appeal

Feed a fasting neighbour this Ramadan

Every night of Ramadan we lay out iftar for 400 people in the main hall and on the forecourt. Last Ramadan that came to 11,200 plates.

4,860of 12,000 iftar plates sponsored

  • £4one iftar plate
  • £120a family for the month
  • £1,600a full night for 400
Sponsor iftar plates
A volunteer in an orange hijab serves rice and salad onto plates laid out on a floor mat

Our year, 2025 to 2026

A year of your giving, counted

Figures from our 2025–26 annual report, checked by our trustees and an independent examiner.

Sunlit stone arches and columns along a masjid colonnade

Masjid extension · Lillah

Room for 600 more on Fridays

Jumu'ah already fills the hall, the car park and the pavement on Wright Street. The extension adds a sisters' prayer hall, four classrooms and a community kitchen.

Raised£1,184,300

of a £1,850,000 goal · 2,140 donors

  1. Done · March 2026

    1 · Groundworks and steel frame

    £620,000

  2. Building now

    2 · Sisters' hall and classrooms

    £860,000 · open by Ramadan 2027

  3. Summer 2027

    3 · Community kitchen

    £370,000

Give Lillah to the build

Neighbours, in their own words

“My boys come home from Saturday class and teach me the Arabic letters. The teachers know every child's name.”
Rukhsana BegumParent, Sparkbrook
“I came for groceries in 2023. Now I pack them on Fridays. Nobody ever asks why you're in the queue.”
Tariq MahmoodPantry volunteer, Small Heath
A kitchen volunteer spoons sambal into bags beside bowls of curry and rice prepared for iftar

Questions about giving

Straight answers on Zakat, Gift Aid and how to get involved. Imam Yusuf takes harder Zakat questions after Zuhr on Saturdays.

Ask the Zakat desk
Is my Zakat kept apart from other gifts?

Yes. Zakat sits in its own account and goes only to eligible households. It never pays for buildings or wages.

How do I work out the Zakat I owe?

Add savings, gold, silver and money owed to you, take off debts due now, and if the total is above the nisab, give 2.5%. The calculator above does the sum.

Can I add Gift Aid?

Yes, if you pay UK income tax. Tick the box and HMRC adds 25p to every £1 on Zakat, Sadaqah and Lillah, at no cost to you.

Who can use the food pantry?

Any household in B9, B10 or B11. Bring proof of address on your first visit. There is no referral and no question about faith.

How do I volunteer at the iftars?

Pick a night, a three-hour shift and a role on the 2027 rota: cooking, serving or clean-up. Brothers' and sisters' teams run side by side.

Iftar boxes for Ramadan 2027

Send an iftar box to a neighbour

£28 fills a box with dates, rice, lentils, oil and chicken for a family of four. Volunteers drop it at the door before Maghrib in Small Heath and Sparkbrook.

Send an iftar box
A boy holds an iftar box of fresh bread and pastries on his lap