We Are Friday
We Are Friday

WHERE MUSLIMVOICES SHINE

We help organisations understand Muslim audiences and markets, and turn that understanding into action.

Friday Insights

Our intelligence capability.

Friday Insights brings together our own research into Muslim audiences and markets, the data organisations already hold, and our cultural and faith interpretation. It is the intelligence capability behind our strategy and creative work, built to answer what to do next rather than only what happened. For charities and NGOs, Muslim Giving applies the same capability to donors and faith-led giving.

Friday Insights
Friday research
Friday Insights

Friday research, interpreted

Evidence from completed Friday studies, brought together to show what the findings could mean for organisations.

Adoption drivers

What drives adoption of Islamic finance?

Factors influencing financial decisions among UK Muslim respondents.

Trust and reputation65%
Competitive pricing and incentives56%
Ethical and Shariah-compliant features49%
Ease of use and customer service47%

Friday, Unlocking Islamic Finance in the UK. 400 UK Muslim respondents, fieldwork in 2023 and published in March 2025.

Explore the Islamic Finance research
Signals in review
Zakat and giving
Trust outweighs marketing

34% cited trust and reputation as their main decision driver. Marketing and awareness accounted for 4%.

500 UK-based Muslim respondents, Ramadan 2026.View
Ramadan and Eid
Eid gifting matters

87% said exchanging gifts at Eid was very or somewhat important in their household.

263 participants, April and May 2024.View
Islamic finance
The knowledge gap remains

68% said they did not have enough knowledge about Islamic finance.

400 UK Muslim respondents, fieldwork in 2023.View
What Friday reads into it

Trust, understanding and practical experience repeatedly shape whether awareness becomes action. Organisations need to compete on credibility and usefulness, not visibility alone.

Selected work

WORK THAT MOVES PEOPLE.

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A young girl looking towards a lit lantern in UNRWA's Al Thabat Ramadan campaign film
UNRWA / Ramadan campaign

AL THABAT.

Research, strategy and creative brought together in a Ramadan campaign built around steadfastness, dignity and human storytelling.

3Ramadan campaignsDelivered across digital and TV in English and Arabic.
Read the UNRWA case study
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“We would not hesitate to recommend We Are Friday to any organisation seeking a partner that combines insight-driven strategy with creative execution.”

External Relations & Communications Department, UNRWA

Understanding Muslimaudiences requires morethan representation.

Muslim audiences are not monolithic.

Culture, ethnicity, generation, faith practice and identity shape behaviour differently. Demographics are the starting point, not the destination.

Trust cannot be performative.

Audiences recognise when campaigns are built around moments instead of understanding. Real trust is built over time, through consistency and cultural fluency.

Real engagement starts before Ramadan.

The strongest brands build relevance long before campaigns begin. Audience understanding is a year-round discipline, not a seasonal activation.

Who we work with

Clients.

Some of the organisations we’ve worked with

Mastercard
UNICEF
UNHCR
UNRWA
Wahed
Oxfam
Save the Children
Cancer Research UK
National Zakat Foundation
London's Air Ambulance Charity
Rotary Great Britain & Ireland
International Rescue Committee

Nearly 2 billion Muslims. Never just one audience.

£20.5B

Estimated annual spending power of British Muslims.

Muslim Council of Britain estimate, published 2013.

3.9M

Muslims in England and Wales, Census 2021.

Ramadan

One of the world's largest annual giving moments. Most brands still get it wrong. We don't.

Who we are

Built after Jummah.
Built for purpose.

We started after Friday prayers, in cafés and WhatsApp threads. Talking about the campaigns that missed the mark, the stories that didn't feel like ours, and the research that couldn't see beyond stereotypes.

So we built something different: a Muslim-led agency grounded in culture, trust and lived experience.

Muslim-led

Built by Muslims who understand the communities they speak to.

Insight-first

Strategy shaped by behaviour, trust, identity and lived experience.

Different markets. Same principle.

From the UK and GCC to North America, Africa, Southeast Asia and Australia. Understand the audience first.

Enough about us.
Let's talk about you.

Let's Talkhello@wearefriday.co.uk