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Our Vision

Creating a transformative waqf focused on the democratisation of leadership and decision-making in the UK.

Our Aims

Short Term

4 year
Set up a strong a resilient endowment/waqf capable of lasting over 100 years.

Set up specific in-house projects focused on creating a new pipeline of diverse leaders.

Medium Term

5 - 10 year
Stabilise in-house projects focused on education, pathways and access.

Fund strategic investments and projects seeking to improve access for communities to decision-making roles.

Prepare well rounded leaders for better decision making.

Long Term

10 years +
Investing the waqf in dynamic manners which uplift communities and the UK.

Underpinning the leaders and projects created by the Foundation.

Institutionalise the democratising of views and decision making in UK and abroad.

Our Impact

Invested over £1,000,000 in political parties.
Grown influenced seats to over 80 MPs.
Impacted language and policy decisions on Gaza and domestic rhetoric.
Invested over £4,000,000 into community hubs and engagement.
Development of facilities and projects enabling the community in the UK to level up.

Invested over £2,000,000 into students and their educational and community development.
Over 30% attending Oxford or Cambridge.

Our Methodology

Development

Develop highly skilled and well networked leaders capable of taking leadership roles, with the right ethos and values

Engagement

Cultivate relationships, networks and influence with current and future decision makers through integration.

Power

Ensure all investments are coordinated and directed in alignment with the best interest of the community.

Our Founder

Safwan Adam

Safwan is a self made seasoned executive with many years ofexperience in business leadership. Throughout his career, hehas demonstrated exceptional strategic vision and a proventrack record of driving growth and profitability in diverseindustries.

His focus now is to use this expertise in charity, Civil Society andpolitics. In just six months, he has become the 7th largestfunder of any political party and is merited with spearheadingthe Liberal Democrats becoming the largest third party in Britishhistory. In creating this Waqf, he has been recognised as an un-conventional visionary in a time where most British Charitableendowments are spending down or closing.

Our Advisors

Lord Sir Ken Macdonald KC

Leading British lawyer and politician who served as Director of Public Prosecutions.

Imam Asim Hafiz OBE

Most senior Muslim advisor in the Ministry of Defence in the UK.

Major-General Nicholas David Ashmore CB OBE

Gilbert Hughes joined Hub Constructon in 1955 as an estimator/project manager, after previously working months as a laborer.

The Waqf

A globally leading endowment for a better society.
Investment

Creation of a £100 million Waqf which will be used to invest or loan in projects in alignment of the Foundation.

Returns will then fund charitable initiatives in the UK.

Waqf will also invest in businesses and ventures aligning with it’s vision.

Reputation

Registered in the UK to uphold the best due diligence and governance practices.

Diverse board representing interest of funders, donors and beneficiaries.

Fortified

Fund to be protected by investing globally and tactfully backed by business and wealth funds.

Protection and greater impact during times of global financial instability.

Impact

All investments and charitable impact to be tracked and reported.

Investments designed to act in accordance with principles, strategy and furthering long term sustainability.

Key Performance Indicators

Waqf Value


Ensuring the growth and
preservation of the Waqf.

Social Impact


Ensuring consistent tracking of
projects and real impact

Openness


Achieve inclusive practices removing the need for intervention.