Himmah Ramadan Poverty Appeal

In Ramadan Muslims choose to fast, but many in this city have no choice but hunger. Please donate generously to our projects to deliver food parcels, hot meals and advice & advocacy services for all those in our city who go hungry. Our projects are Zakat eligible, please indicate in the comments section if you are making a Zakat donation.

Himmah is a social justice charity set up by Sajid Mohammed (Director) in 2010 and then became a registered CIO in 2015. Sajid met a destitute asylum seeker through the Islamic Centre in Nottingham and once he heard Ahmed's story he felt compelled to act and started conversations about how to support people facing destitution in Nottingham. That was the moment that Himmah was born.

Since then Himmah has raised funds to support people mostly through food poverty projects such as our foodbank, our social supermarkets (Foodprint) and hot meals.

This Crowdfunding Appeal means that anyone can donate up to £250 online and have their donation matched, meaning we can feed more individuals and families in Nottingham in need.

Ramadan is a key focus as a charity founded on Islamic principles, but open to people of all faiths and none,  for our fundraising from individuals and businesses - we really thank you for your support in helping us to ensure that no one need go hungry in Nottingham over the coming year. Please donate and share with your friends and family to support our funding needs, which are currently growing astronomically due to difficulties in sourcing the food we are distributing which means our food-parcels have tripled in price over the last 2 years alone.

The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: He is not a believer whose stomach is filled while his neighbour goes hungry.

'Serve Allah, and join not any partners with Him; and do good to parents, kinsfolk, orphans, those in need, neighbours who are near, neighbours who are strangers...' (Qur'an 4:36)

Help local people in crisis by donating to the Himmah Food Bank and Hot Meals project. Every donation up to £250 will be doubled by match funding from Aviva. Meaning that if you donate £250, Aviva will also donate £250, so we receive £500 to continue feeding more people in Nottingham.

There isn't long to go, so please donate now! Please also share this appeal with friends and family - we need all the support as our food supply costs are constantly increasing along with the needs of families experiencing food poverty!

Last year (2024), we distributed over 12,000 food parcels to local families in need. We know we need £15 to feed one person for a week which is £780 a year - but with demand only rising the need for our food aid keeps on climbing to new record highs.

£780 feeds 1 person for a year

£65 feeds 1person for a month

£15 feeds 1 person for a week

Our additional wrap around support means people can benefit from our social supermarkets, where they can buy food at subsidised prices to ensure a small budget can go further. Our budgeting classes help people to calculate how much their income and expenditure is, so they know how much money they need to pay their bills and avoid getting into debt which then adds more pressure to a low budget. Finally, our cooking classes help people learn basic cooking techniques and how to be creative and cook tasty meals from food they get in a food parcel or can buy through our social supermarkets. 

Please contact us on [email protected] to be added to our mailing list and also follow us on social media as we need your support to continue to meet demand for 2025 and beyond.

Please leave a comment or private message to [email protected] if you would like your donation to be allocated as Zakat so that we may treat your donation accordingly.