How Muslim Charities Can Make the Most of the First 10 Days of Dhul Hijjah

3 out of 4 UK Muslim adults agree that charitable giving is an important part of their religious and cultural identity.

Because of religious obligation and generosity, charitable activity is always heightened around the sacred times of the Islamic calendar. The first 10 days of Dhul Hijjah are one of those times. During Dhul Hijjah, donors are already in the mindset of:

• multiplying rewards
• giving consistently over a defined period

To maximise their fundraising, charities should run the following campaigns: 

1. Run Scheduled Giving Campaign During The First 10 Days of Dhul Hijjah

While some donors give once, others aim to donate every day during the first 10 days of Dhul Hijjah. Donors are interested in automated donations, particularly these days, so they can focus more on worship without having to manually make a donation. 

For this purpose, charities can best run scheduled giving campaigns, not as an upsell, but as a natural extension of what they’re already trying to achieve. From a fundraising perspective, digital services like ‘First 10 Days of Dhul Hijjah’ help those giving Zakat or sadaqah automatically split their giving into 10 payments in order to ensure they give every first 10 days.

Instead of asking: “Give £50 today.”

Your position: “Automate your giving across the 10 days, or beyond, and maximise your reward.”

Our scheduled giving feature is tailored to how donors think during the sacred periods, such as Ramadan and Dhul Hijjah. Reach out to us and we’ll help set it up within N3O Engage CRM in a few minutes. 

N3O client charities can also run a scheduled giving campaign via our Donation Widget feature.

With it, your donors can give to multiple projects and decide how to split their donations. Moreover, it also handles donor consent preferences and gift aid. Once set up, all your donations land in your Engage CRM. 

2. Run Your Qurbani Campaign Around the Same Time

Eid-ul-Adha is widely regarded as the world's largest grassroots charity event, with an estimated 50-100 million animals sacrificed globally and a significant portion of the meat distributed to those in need. This decentralised, faith-driven act of giving collectively nourishes hundreds of millions of people worldwide every year. 

With the N3O Donation Widget feature, charities like yours can set up their Qurbani Campaigns with an easy-to-follow workflow (this is only available to select charities during Dhul-Hijjah 2026). 

You can allow your donors to choose the quantity, type of animals, and location of their Qurbani. They can also specify on who’s behalf they are making their Qurbani donation. 

Bringing It All Together

The first 10 days of Dhul Hijjah are a structured opportunity to guide donor behaviour.

When you combine:

• scheduled giving campaigns that help donors give consistently across the 10 days
• Qurbani campaigns that fulfil a key religious obligation
• and a frictionless donation experience through your website

You move from simply collecting donations to actively enabling worship.

With N3O’s Engage CRM and Donation Widget, these campaigns don’t sit in isolation. They work together:

• Capturing multiple donations
• Managing donor preferences
• Handling gift aid
• Giving you a complete view of your supporters in one place.

Don’t think of Dhul-Hijjah as a one-off campaign; use it to drive long-term commitment with the right tools and campaign setup. With the right campaign setup, you can not only appeal to your existing donor base (which helps retain them) but also acquire new donors.