When you cannot fast, you can still feed.
Age and lasting illness can put fasting out of reach. Fidya is the way Islam keeps you in Ramadan even then: for every day you cannot keep, a person who is hungry is fed in your place.
Give your Fidya
Follow our simple step-by-step guide before you begin.
HF Trust UK
How to Donate
Payment first. Submit afterwards.
Complete the form, make your payment, return to the form, verify your payment, then press Submit.
Your donation journey
- 1 Choose your donation
- 2 Enter your details
- 3 Make your payment
- 4 Verify your payment
- 5 Submit
1 Donation details
- Donation type. Choose what your donation is for.
- Donation frequency. One-time donates once. Monthly makes a recurring monthly donation when available.
- Donation amount. Choose a suggested amount, or enter your own amount.
- Currency and country. Choose the country that matches how you will make your payment.
- GB United Kingdom → pay in GBP
- US United States → pay in USD by international bank transfer
- BD Bangladesh → pay in BDT through a mobile wallet
Press Continue.
2 Your information
- Full name. Enter your full name.
- Email address. Enter the email address where you want to receive your donation receipt.
- Mobile number. Enter your mobile number.
- Address. Optional.
Click Continue to go to Payment.
3 Payment
Now make your payment using your own bank app or mobile wallet app. Keep this page open and return to the donation form after your payment is complete.
GB US United Kingdom & United States
Pay by bank transfer.
- United Kingdom. Make the payment in GBP.
- United States. Make the payment in USD using the Trust's international bank transfer details, where your bank supports the transfer.
- Bank Name
- NatWest
- Account Name
- HAZRAT FATIMATUZZUHURA (RA) TRUST UK
- Account Number
- 34924531
- Sort Code
- 56-00-59
- IBAN
- GB37NWBK56005934924531
- BIC
- NWBKGB2L
How to make the payment
- Complete Step 1 and Step 2 of the donation form.
- Look at the Reference shown in the form.
- Click Copy to copy the Reference.
- Open your bank app or online banking.
- Enter the Trust's bank details.
- Enter the same donation amount.
- Put the copied Reference into the bank transfer reference field.
- Send the bank transfer.
- Return to the donation form.
- Complete Verification.
- Press Submit.
Complete Form → Copy Reference → Open Bank App → Bank Transfer → Use Same Reference → Return to Form → Verify → Submit
GB US Reference
Your Reference is provided by the donation form. You never create it and you never change it.
See it → Copy it → Use the same Reference in the bank transfer
You must copy the Reference before Submit can be used.
The Reference helps us match your bank payment with your donation. Once the payment has been checked and approved, your receipt is sent to the email address you entered in the form.
BD Bangladesh
Pay by mobile wallet.
bKashNagadRocketUpay
Send the donation to the payment number below.
How to make the payment
- Complete Step 1 and Step 2 of the donation form.
- Copy the payment number: 01948365311
- Open your bKash, Nagad, Rocket or Upay app.
- Go to Send Money.
- Enter 01948365311.
- Enter the same donation amount shown in the form.
- Complete the payment.
- Keep the Transaction ID given by your wallet after payment.
- Return to the donation form.
- Enter the Transaction ID in Verification.
- Press Submit.
Complete Form → Copy Number → Open Wallet App → Send Money → Payment Complete → Get Transaction ID → Return to Form → Verify → Submit
Reference and Transaction ID
These are two different things. You only ever need one of them.
GB US Reference
Copied from the donation form and used in the bank transfer.
BD Transaction ID
Given by the wallet after payment and entered into the donation form.
When to Submit
Payment first. Submit afterwards.
GB US Make the bank payment first.
Copy Reference → Bank Transfer → Return to Form → Verification → Submit
BD Make the wallet payment first.
Get Transaction ID → Return to Form → Verification → Submit
What happens after Submit
- Donation receivedYou see a confirmation on screen.
- Payment checkedThe payment is matched with your donation.
- Donation approvedOnce the payment has been matched.
- Receipt emailedSent to the email address you entered, with the receipt PDF.
Your receipt is sent after the payment is checked and approved. It is not sent simply because you pressed Submit.
- GB US The bank payment is matched using the Reference.
- BD The wallet payment is matched using the Transaction ID.
Monthly donations
Monthly donations continue each month.
Make Payment → Submit Form → Payment Verified → Receipt Emailed → Monthly Donation Continues
A reminder email is sent one day before your next monthly payment is due. Your payment date is the same day each month.
Staying safe
You always make the payment from your own bank or wallet app. The website never asks for your card details or your PIN.
Choose your donation → Enter your details → Make your payment → Return to the form → Verify → Submit → Payment matched → Receipt sent to your email
- 1 Donation details
- 2 Your information
- 3 Payment
Why Give Fidya
A concession, not a failing
Fidya means a ransom or a substitute. In Ramadan it is the food given on behalf of someone who cannot fast and cannot make the days up later.
It is meant for a settled situation rather than a passing one: old age, or a lasting illness with no real expectation of recovery. The Quran provides this alternative directly, and there is no blame in taking it.
Where the reason is temporary the fast is normally made up later as qada, and scholars differ on pregnancy and breastfeeding. Fidya is also not Kaffarah, which follows deliberately breaking a fast. If you are unsure which applies, please ask a scholar you trust.
Who Can Benefit
One day missed, one person fed
The obligation is counted in days and paid in meals. For each day of fasting that is beyond you, food is provided for one person who needs it.
HF Trust UK gives Fidya as food: rice, lentils, cooking oil and the rest of a real meal, bought locally and distributed by teams who know which families are genuinely short.
Because it is tied to days it arrives as a run of meals rather than one gesture, which suits the households it reaches: an elderly person living alone, a family whose earner is out of work, a home still recovering after flooding.
Why Choose Us
Given as food, as prescribed
Fidya is specific: it is food, for people who are eligible to receive it. So it should not be handed over as an unspecified donation and left to chance.
When you choose Fidya on the form above it is recorded as Fidya and used for food. HF Trust UK is a charity registered in England and Wales, working in Bangladesh through established local teams who identify the households, buy the staples and deliver them directly.
Those same teams carry the Trust's wider work in orphan care, food, clean water, medical support and emergency relief. If you are unsure whether your situation calls for Fidya, please ask us or a scholar you trust before settling an amount.
Quran & Hadith
Fidya in the sources
Quran
"Fast a prescribed number of days. But whoever of you is ill or on a journey, then let them fast an equal number of days after Ramadan. For those who can only fast with extreme difficulty, compensation can be made by feeding a needy person for every day not fasted. But whoever volunteers to give more, it is better for them."
Hadith
The Prophet (peace be upon him) was asked which aspect of Islam was best, and answered that it was to feed people and to give the greeting of peace to those you know and those you do not.
Fulfil Your Fidya
Keep your Ramadan, one meal at a time
Not being able to fast is not a failure, and Fidya is not a fine. It is the way the month still counts for you: for every day you cannot keep, a person in Bangladesh who would have gone without sits down to a proper meal. Choose your amount above and we will see that it is given as food.