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All projects are incubated by Mercy Mission until they are able to establish their own governance and localized infrastructure. The work of the organization focuses on building leadership and the financial resources to succeed.

Success stories.

Mercy Mission has been empowering young people to rebuild their futures for over 15 years

Iqbal Nasim

Discovered a passion for the chief financial instrument of Islam as it were, Zakat, and wanted to focus on truly establishing this pillar in the UK.

Sajad Mahmood

Provided creative direction and leadership in fundraising for a number of years at Mercy Mission UK.

Shadim Hussain

His focus was responding to the needs of young people and those trying to navigate the care system.

Akhter Raouf

Brought traditional islamic learning to a new generation of students in 35 cities across the world through AlKauthar.

Akmal Saleem

After exiting the country’s first Islamic challenger bank he co-founded, Akmal joined Mercy Mission UK’s incubation, the One Endowment Trust. Within weeks he spearheaded a major pivot in the world’s first digital endowment offering, and co-founded Waqfinity.

It's important to build plans with a focus on responding to changing realities.

Mercy Mission supports projects and ideas that help the Muslim community the UK respond to the realities of our time.

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    Liberate from the firm grip of poverty.

    Iqbal Nasim joined Mercy Mission UK as Chief Financial Officer in 2011 from investment banking. Within a short time, he discovered a passion for the chief financial instrument of Islam as it were, Zakat, and wanted to focus on truly establishing this pillar in the UK. 

    He was appointed initially as a national manager and then formally as CEO of a fledging National Zakat Foundation, which at the time was in incubation. Since then he set about a journey of discovery for Zakat management in the context of Muslim minorities, and built the foundation into an enterprise that has empowered thousands of people to calculate and pay their Zakat in line with the prophetic tradition and liberate close to 40,000 from the firm grip of poverty and often helplessness.

    Feeds one million meals per month

    Sajad Mahmood was chosen for the post of Chief Executive of Charity Right in 2013 after having provided creative direction and leadership in fundraising for a number of years at Mercy Mission UK. His passion for utilising humanitarian assistance to liberate people from cycles of poverty, through strategically directing interventions into places of learning and training set the foundation for a new entry to the UK development space. 

    He has grown the organisation from a simple intention to an organisation that feeds one million meals per month.

    Focus on the needs of young people

    Shadim Hussain joined Mercy Mission in 2017. His focus was responding to the needs of young people and those trying to navigate the care system. After having provided an unprecedented level of support in establishing the country’s first digital carer recruitment agency, he was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the Muslim Fostering Network, which evolved into My Foster Family. 

    He has worked tirelessly to connect faith into the statutory sector and empower BAME communities to be able to participate in the care of the children the state has in its care.

    Took traditional Islamic learning to a new generation of students.

    Akhter Raouf was inspired to take traditional Islamic learning to a new generation of students. Graduate and professionals that were not necessarily able to maintain regular commitments for mosque-based learning but motivated to learn, were to be given a new and structured format of study.

    With that a new format of learning was born, AlKauthar and working with a team they took the institute to 35 cities across the world.

    Creating revolution in philanthropy

    Akmal Saleem, after exiting the country’s first Islamic challenger bank he co-founded, Akmal joined Mercy Mission UK’s incubation, the One Endowment Trust. Within weeks he spearheaded a major pivot in the world’s first digital endowment offering, and co-founded Waqfinity. 

    Waqfinity is creating a global revolution in the way Muslim minorities consider personal and business philanthropy and he is eager to ensure the UK entity is able to take the world on a journey in the coming years.

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    Liberate from the firm grip of poverty.

    Iqbal Nasim joined Mercy Mission UK as Chief Financial Officer in 2011 from investment banking. Within a short time, he discovered a passion for the chief financial instrument of Islam as it were, Zakat, and wanted to focus on truly establishing this pillar in the UK. 

    He was appointed initially as a national manager and then formally as CEO of a fledging National Zakat Foundation, which at the time was in incubation. Since then he set about a journey of discovery for Zakat management in the context of Muslim minorities, and built the foundation into an enterprise that has empowered thousands of people to calculate and pay their Zakat in line with the prophetic tradition and liberate close to 40,000 from the firm grip of poverty and often helplessness.

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    All that is required is that you must be a taxpayer and that would have paid or will pay sufficient Income and/or Capital Gains Tax to cover all the Gift Aid claimed on all your donations in that tax year. Please note that it is your responsibility to pay any difference.

    The amount of tax we claim will be 25% of the total value of your donations in that tax year. Furthermore, if you are a higher taxpayer, you are also entitled to claim the difference between the basic rate which we will claim and the amount of tax you have actually paid. For further details on how you can do this, please contact your tax office. If your tax situation changes and your gifts will no longer be eligible for the Gift Aid scheme please contact us and we will amend your record accordingly.

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