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About AnsarPool

Be among the Ansar of these works.

What is AnsarPool?

Serving our faith, by serving society. Some useful work costs too little to win a grant, but too much for one person to pay. Think of mapping every food bank in a town, translating an old book, or building a small tool that anyone can use free. AnsarPool lets a community chip in together, watch the work happen live, and see every pound accounted for.

How it works

1
A project is proposed
Anyone can propose a project — one person, a group, or an organisation. We calculate the AI cost, add a safety buffer, and set a funding goal in clean £5 increments. Start a campaign.
2
The community funds it
Supporters pledge £25 at a time. You can give as many as you like. Once the goal is reached, the work starts automatically. You can watch live as it runs.
3
Costs are published and any surplus passed forward
When the work is done, the actual cost is published openly for anyone to verify. Any money left over goes into a shared community fund. The budget is then closed. No further spending is possible.

What happens to leftover money?

We do not add a platform fee on top of your pledge. A campaign's goal already covers our running costs. We never keep overfunded money as profit. If a campaign raises more than the work costs, your share goes to a shared community fund:

Pass it forward — the surplus goes into a shared community fund. Anyone who can't quite cover their project can draw from this fund, with the same transparency and the same public record.

We are still building a second option, so you can ask for your share back instead. It is not live yet. Until it is, every surplus share goes to the community fund.

Every pound in and every pound out is recorded on our public transparency page — you can check it any time.

What “Ansar” means here

The Ansar were the helpers — the Madinan Muslims who welcomed and supported the early Muslim community. We chose the name because we want donors to see themselves as enablers, not buyers. You are not buying a product. You are making something possible that would not happen otherwise. The work keeps helping people long after the campaign ends — a gift that keeps giving (sadaqa jariyah), in spirit if not in legal form.

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