Your donations allow the East London Mosque to deliver vital services and help those in need.

As our institution has grown over the years, it has been able to diversify its income, such as our Waqf initiative, and the hiring of our facilities. These sources provide more than half of the Mosque’s income, and pay for our administrative costs.

This means the whole amount of every donation is used for the charitable purpose for which it is given.

Here we give a bit more detail about the different types of donations.

Zakah & Zakat al-Fitr

We distribute Zakah directly to eligible local recipients, such as the poor or refugees. We also send some Zakah through our charity partners to help the needy overseas.

We pass on the whole amount of Zakah, without any deduction.

All the Zakat al-Fitr we collect in Ramadan is sent to the poor and needy in several countries, passed through our charity partners.

We have been advised that Gift Aid is not considered part of Zakah or Zakat al-Fitr, so it is used as general Sadaqah (charity).

Click here to pay your Zakah

Special appeals for ELM

If we have a special appeal for something we do at ELM, such as replacing the dome, or providing Iftar meals, then the donations received are used for that specific purpose.

Any surplus is used as general Sadaqah, along with any Gift Aid.

Emergency appeals

We sometimes launch special appeals for natural disasters, such as floods and earthquakes, or for other humanitarian emergencies.

All the donations, without any deduction, are passed to our charity partners who are able to provide the emergency relief.

Gift Aid is not considered part of the appeal, so it is used as general Sadaqah (charity).

General donations

General donations, along with any Gift Aid, are used to support our charitable activities.

Click here to make a donation

Website ‘cover our costs’

For any donation made on our website, there is an option to give an extra 2%, which helps to cover the charges we have to pay to the payment providers for processing every transaction.