Hazrat Fatimatuzzuhura (RA) Trust U.K. began as one man's charity work in 1983 and became a registered UK charity in 2011. After a pause from 2020, the Trust is restarting its work in 2026.
Our Story
The Trust did not begin with a registration certificate. It began with one person giving what he could, in a country far from the one he was helping, and it grew from there.
1983
The work begins, in Dubai
1996
It moves to the UK
After 2000
A volunteer team forms
2011
Registered as a UK charity
2020–2026
Activities temporarily paused
2026
The work restarts
To advance education, relief of poverty, sickness and distress of Bangladeshi people residing in Bangladesh by the provision of resources for education, health and welfare. To provide or assist in the provision of facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation, culture or other leisure time occupation of individuals who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disability, financial hardship or social circumstances, with the object of improving their conditions of life.
Est. 1983
The work behind HF Trust UK began in 1983, when Mohammed Moinuddin started supporting people in need while living and working in Dubai. There was no organisation behind it then, and no name on it.
It was simply help, given directly, by someone who had seen what was needed. In 1996 he moved to the United Kingdom, and the work moved with him.
Education comes first in our registered objects, and that ordering was deliberate. It is the one form of help that cannot be used up, taken back, or washed away in a flood.
Our work supports Islamic education alongside the literacy and numeracy a child needs to make their own way. Both matter, and treating them as alternatives has never served the families we work with.
The second half of our remit is the harder half to plan for. Illness arrives without notice. So do floods, and the months when work simply is not there.
After 2000 the work stopped being one person's effort: a team of volunteers formed around it, which made it possible to reach more people than any one person could alone. In June 2011 it became a registered charity.
2026
From 2020 the Trust's activities were temporarily paused. We would rather say that plainly than let anyone assume the last few years looked like the years before them.
In 2026 the work is restarting, and this website is the first part of it. The registration has been in place throughout, and the purpose written down in 2011 has not changed.
What We Do
Our registered objects cover education, health and welfare. In practice that has meant these areas, each with its own page.
Support for children who have lost a parent, through sponsorship and ongoing care.
Clean water for communities that have to travel or pay for it.
Food for families in the months when work and income are not there.
Help with treatment and care for people who cannot meet the cost of it.
Help after floods, cyclones and fires, when families lose everything at once.
Zakat, Sadaqah, Lillah and the other causes we accept donations for.
Hazrat Fatimatuzzuhura (RA) Hafiziya Madrashtul Modina stands in Madanipur (Kalipur), Kamalganj, Moulvibazar. More than a hundred students study there, almost all of them living on site.
They learn the Qur'an by heart alongside the traditional Islamic sciences, in a building the Trust helped construct in 2011.
Foyzane Ahle Bait Jame Mosque stands alongside the Madrasah, on land the same family gave for both. It has served the community since 1983 and holds more than 350 worshippers.
Its 111 domes are its most distinctive feature. Development work between 2010 and 2016 remains partly unfinished.
Where We Are Now
The work restarts in the same areas and the same country as before. If you supported the Trust in earlier years, this is where it picks up again.
Governance
The Trust is governed by a board of five trustees and is accountable to the Charity Commission for England and Wales. The trustees are named on the public register, so you can see who is responsible for the Trust without taking our word for it. Everything below can be checked there too.
Registered since June 2011
A board of five trustees
Accounts filed publicly
All work in Bangladesh
Our registered area of operation is Bangladesh. That is a deliberate limit, and we would rather state it plainly than imply a reach we do not have.
A small charity that works in one country can know the people it works through. It can ask what a village actually needs instead of arriving with an answer already decided in an office four thousand miles away.
The Trust is run from Newport, in south Wales, by a volunteer board. The work happens in Bangladesh, through people who live there.
Support Our Work
Education, health and welfare for people in Bangladesh: that is what we said we would do in 2011, and it is what your donation pays for. Choose the cause that matters most to you, or let us direct it where the need is greatest.