Action For Integrated Development (Aid)
Charity 297944
Overview
Summary
Action For Integrated Development appears to be a broad-based rural development organisation working primarily with poor and marginalised communities in India, especially through education, financial inclusion, livelihoods and access to public systems. Its distinctive role may be as an intermediary: combining community-facing services, practical capability-building and advocacy with partnerships that connect excluded groups to state programmes, technology and finance. The available evidence suggests a multi-sector model rather than a single-issue charity, though its current geographic reach, scale and delivery results remain unclear.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Lozells
Confidence: low
The charity and its website consistently give a Birmingham contact address, and a Birmingham City Council planning record describes that site as being in Lozells. This supports the presence of a contact or administrative base, but does not demonstrate locally delivered services; the Charity Commission says the charity owns or leases no land or property.
- Charity Commission Register, Action for Integrated Development (AID), charity 297944. ([register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk](https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/297944/full-print?utm_source=openai))
Lists the charity's address in Birmingham; records Birmingham City and India as places where it operates; and states that the charity does not own or lease land or property. - AID India official contact page. ([aidindia.com](https://www.aidindia.com/contact.html?utm_source=openai))
Lists an Alternative for India Development contact location in Handsworth, Birmingham, alongside separate offices in Chennai and Ranchi, India. - Birmingham City Council planning record for a Birmingham site. ([eplanning.birmingham.gov.uk](https://eplanning.birmingham.gov.uk/Northgate/PlanningExplorer/Generic/StdDetails.aspx?DAURI=PLANNING&FT=Consultees&PARAM0=548532&PT=Consultees&TYPE=PL%2FConsulteesPK.xml&XMLSIDE=++++++++++++++++++%2FNorthgate%2FPlanningExplorer%2FSiteFiles%2FSkins%2FBirmingham%2FMenus%2FPL.xml&XSLT=%2FNorthgate%2FPlanningExplorer%2FSiteFiles%2FSkins%2FBirmingham%2Fxslt%2FPL%2FPLConsultees.xslt&utm_source=openai))
Describes the site as being in Lozells, Birmingham.
Remaining uncertainties
- There is no current evidence that AID delivers services, runs public activities, or serves beneficiaries within Lozells or elsewhere in Birmingham. The available Birmingham evidence is consistent with a contact, correspondence or fundraising/administrative base.
- The official contact page describes the Birmingham contact location as being in Handsworth, while the Birmingham City Council record describes the site as Lozells. The available evidence does not establish operational activity within either area.
- The Charity Commission records Birmingham City as an operating area, but the charity's objects specify India as its area of benefit and its official website describes programme delivery across Indian states. This suggests Birmingham activity may primarily support overseas work rather than constitute local frontline provision.
- The website's project and infrastructure material is predominantly India-focused and includes some evidently older content, so it cannot by itself confirm the organisation's current operational scale or activities in Birmingham.
Additional evidence needed
- A current trustees' annual report, activity report or financial breakdown identifying any Birmingham-based expenditure, fundraising, advice, advocacy or volunteer activity.
- Confirmation from the organisation of whether its Birmingham contact address is an active office, a correspondence address, or a site from which services are delivered.
- Current evidence establishing whether the organisation delivers activity within Lozells.
- Current evidence of any Birmingham delivery partners, venues, contracts or community programmes, if local service provision is claimed.
Areas of work
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- People With Disabilities
How they help
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Human Resources
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
An intermediary between excluded communities and public systems
The organisation appears to use information, digital access, financial inclusion and advocacy to help poorer communities engage with government and formal services, rather than relying only on direct relief.
Why it matters
This suggests its value may lie in reducing institutional exclusion: helping people access entitlements, information and systems that already exist but may be difficult to navigate.
Show evidence
“Common Service Centers were established in public private partnership mode in Jharkhand.”
Source:Organisation“The advocacy wing provides information to the common public in understandable languages and dialects on important government matters.”
Source:Organisation“Financial inclusion is listed as an area of work.”
Source:Organisation
Education appears to be an entry point into wider social change
Education may function as the organisation's route into communities, from which it expands into health, livelihoods, legal awareness, skills and empowerment.
Why it matters
This helps explain why its portfolio is so wide: education may be treated not as a standalone service, but as a foundation for longer-term community capacity and economic participation.
Show evidence
“Education is one of the key missions of AID and has been the entry point for its work.”
Source:Organisation“The website lists health, livelihood, legal and justice service, skill building, agriculture and forestry, and advocacy.”
Source:Organisation“The charity's objects include relief of poverty and the advancement of education.”
Source:Charity Commission
A focus on groups facing layered exclusion
The organisation appears to target communities affected by overlapping forms of disadvantage, including tribal, Dalit, disabled, women and working children, rather than defining poverty only in economic terms.
Why it matters
This may indicate an equity-oriented operating model that adapts services to social position, language, disability and work conditions. It also raises questions about how these groups shape programme design.
Show evidence
“The website lists gender, tribal and Dalit empowerment, education for carpet-working children, education for mica-working children, and training for physically challenged youth.”
Source:Organisation“The charity helps children and young people, older people, people with disabilities, and people of a particular ethnic or racial origin.”
Source:Charity Commission
- It is unclear which programmes are currently active, their geographic coverage and the number of people reached.
- The relationship between the UK-registered charity, AID India and the Jayaprakash Youth Research Centre is not explained.
- There is no outcome evidence showing whether access, income, education or rights have improved through the programmes.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, audited accounts and programme results disaggregated by location and beneficiary group.
- Information on governance, delivery partners, community participation and the current status of the listed projects.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
VISIT WWW.aidindia.com
Charity objects
TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF INDIA INCLUDING THE RELIEF OF POVERTY DISTRESS AND SUFFERING AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND IN PARTICULAR TO ASSIST THE WORK OF THE JAYAPRAKESH YOUTH RESEARCH CENTRE WHICH IS CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO ENGLISH LAW.