City Centre Dawah

Analysis

City Centre Dawah is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Birmingham. It was registered in October 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, overseas aid/famine relief, religious activities and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides other finance, provides human resources and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending August 2025, City Centre Dawah reported income of £253k and spending of £281k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income fell from £383k to £253k (-34%), an average of -9.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2025, when income dropped by 64%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 1,223 England and Wales charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, City Centre Dawah sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Welwyn and Woolmer Green (£251k), Jain Samaj, Manchester (£254k) and Upton Baptist Church, Chester (£250k).