Action After Stroke
Charity 1109862
Overview
Summary
Action After Stroke appears to be a small, specialist rehabilitation charity whose distinctive role is to combine neurological exercise support with a university-based learning environment. Its model seems to create value beyond a weekly exercise session: participants may receive individualised attention while physiotherapy students gain supervised rehabilitation experience. However, the charity is currently inactive, making its immediate civic contribution uncertain and raising questions about whether a potentially valuable bridge between clinical education and community-based recovery has been lost or paused.
Operational geography
Coverage: Neighbourhood
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission record states that Action After Stroke is currently inactive, with zero income and expenditure for the financial year ending 1 January 2025. There is therefore no evidence of a current operational service location within any supplied Birmingham ward or recognised place.
- Historical evidence indicates that the charity's exercise-rehabilitation activity was delivered with or at the University of Birmingham, including a university-based fitness facility. However, the available current record does not confirm that this activity has resumed.
- The University of Birmingham connection suggests a historically single-site, locally based delivery model rather than a citywide service footprint. The exact current or former service location is not confirmed by the Charity Commission record.
- The charity's registered address has not been treated as an operational site, as the available evidence does not show that services were delivered there.
- Historic research refers to referrals and contacts through the Stroke Association in Birmingham, but this does not establish a current material partnership or current operational reach.
Additional evidence needed
- A current statement from Action After Stroke's trustees or the University of Birmingham confirming whether the charity has restarted activity, and identifying any active delivery venue.
- Current programme information confirming the location of any exercise or rehabilitation sessions.
- Evidence of any active referral, delivery or funding partnership with the University of Birmingham, Stroke Association, NHS services or other organisations.
- The charity's next annual return or accounts, showing whether income, expenditure and service activity have resumed.
Areas of work
- Amateur Sport
- Disability
- Education/training
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who they help
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
How they help
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A rehabilitation service embedded in education
The available evidence suggests the organisation operates at the intersection of community rehabilitation and physiotherapy education, using students to support individual participants rather than functioning solely as a conventional exercise group.
Why it matters
This may make the charity a connector between the University of Birmingham and people living with neurological conditions. Its value may therefore include workforce development as well as direct support for participants.
Show evidence
“The group operates with the University of Birmingham.”
Source:Organisation“Each patient is allocated a physiotherapy student.”
Source:Organisation
Individual attention appears central to the model
Allocating a physiotherapy student to each patient may indicate a more personalised rehabilitation experience than is typical in group exercise provision.
Why it matters
This helps explain the organisation's possible niche: it may serve people whose neurological conditions require adaptation, encouragement or close observation, rather than simply access to general physical activity.
Show evidence
“It provides a specialist exercise service for individuals with neurological conditions.”
Source:Organisation“Each patient is allocated a physiotherapy student and exercise rehabilitation is provided.”
Source:Organisation
Its inactivity may leave a specific local gap
Because the charity is inactive, a service combining neurological rehabilitation, regular exercise and student-supported contact may no longer be available through this organisation.
Why it matters
The important question is not only whether the charity will restart, but whether another local organisation now provides this particular combination of support and learning opportunity.
Show evidence
“The charity is currently inactive.”
Source:Organisation“It runs once a week on a Wednesday within 45 minute session.”
Source:Organisation
- Whether the charity's inactivity is temporary, permanent or seasonal.
- Whether people with severe mental illness received services in practice, despite being named in the charity objects.
- How participants were referred, supervised and supported beyond the weekly session.
Remaining uncertainties
- The date, reason and expected duration of inactivity, plus any plans to restart.
- Recent participant numbers, diagnoses, outcomes and referral sources.
- Details of the University of Birmingham partnership and physiotherapy supervision arrangements.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
The charity is currently inactive. When it runs it provides a specialist exercise service for individuals with neurological conditions . The group operates from the with the University of Birmingham. It runs once a week on a Wednesday within 45 minute session. Each patient is alloacted a physiotherapy student and exercise rehabiliation is provided.
Charity objects
TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO HAVE SUFFERED A STROKE OR SUFFER FROM SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION OF REHABILITATIVE EXERCISE AND THERAPY PROGRAMMES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR SUCH PERSONS.