Al Madad Welfare Trust
Charity 1153806
Overview
Summary
Al Madad Welfare Trust appears to be a narrowly focused overseas poverty-relief charity whose role is to channel practical support towards people and organisations in Pakistan. Its stated model combines direct assistance to individuals with support for other charities or organisations, suggesting it may operate both as a frontline funder and as an intermediary. The evidence indicates broad eligibility across age and disability groups, but provides little insight into how needs are prioritised, where support is concentrated, or which local relationships make delivery possible.
Operational geography
Coverage: International
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission currently lists Birmingham City as an area where the charity operates, but provides no Birmingham address, ward, venue, project, service description or partner through which this can be located within the supplied Birmingham geography.
- The latest available trustees' report and accounts are for the period ended 24 April 2019. The Charity Commission records subsequent annual returns and accounts as overdue, so there is insufficient current evidence to establish whether Birmingham activity remains active in 2026.
- The 2019 accounts refer to an 'operational building' requiring refurbishment, but identify the principal office only in Bradford; they do not establish that this building was in Birmingham or identify any Birmingham site.
- No material delivery partnerships extending the organisation's reach within Birmingham were identified in the consulted official records.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual report, annual return or trustee confirmation specifying the charity's present Birmingham activities and the locations where they are delivered.
- Official project, venue or partner information that identifies any Birmingham service site or the ward in which activity takes place.
- Evidence distinguishing whether Birmingham is a fundraising, administrative, grant-making or direct-service location for the charity.
Areas of work
- General Charitable Purposes
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Other Finance
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A dual direct-and-partnership delivery model
The trust appears to combine grants or support to individuals with assistance to charities and other organisations. This may indicate a hybrid role: meeting urgent individual need while using local organisations to extend reach or deliver aid.
Why it matters
This distinguishes the trust from a purely grant-making or purely direct-service charity. Understanding which route dominates would clarify its relationships, operational capacity and potential role in local aid networks.
Show evidence
“The charity provides grants, items and services to individuals in need and/or charities, or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity makes grants to individuals, provides other finance and provides human resources.”
Source:Charity Commission
A geographically concentrated mission with broad beneficiary scope
The trust's mission is explicitly confined to poverty in Pakistan, while its beneficiary groups span children, older people, disabled people and the general public. It may therefore prioritise place-based need over a single demographic specialism.
Why it matters
This suggests the organisation could respond across several forms of hardship within one national context, but may also face difficult choices about which communities and needs receive attention.
Show evidence
“The prevention or relief of poverty in Pakistan is the charity's stated object.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps children and young people, elderly people, people with disabilities and the general public.”
Source:Charity Commission
Human resources may be part of the charity's contribution
Alongside financial and material aid, the trust reports providing human resources. This may indicate that its contribution includes volunteer effort, staffing support or practical capacity for delivery, rather than funding alone.
Why it matters
If confirmed, this could make the trust a more active participant in aid delivery and a potentially useful collaborator for organisations needing people or implementation capacity.
Show evidence
“The charity provides human resources.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity provides grants, items and services.”
Source:Charity Commission
- There is no evidence of the locations, communities or types of poverty the trust prioritises within Pakistan.
- It is unclear whether support to other organisations is occasional or central to the trust's operating model.
- No evidence identifies delivery partners, funding scale, outcomes or the meaning of 'human resources' in practice.
Remaining uncertainties
- Annual reports or activity updates showing grants, projects, locations and numbers of people reached.
- Information on partner organisations and how direct aid is balanced with organisational support.
- Evidence of decision-making criteria, beneficiary voice and outcomes from funded assistance.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
The prevention/relief of poverty in Pakistan by providing grants, items and services to individuals in need and/or charities or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty.
Charity objects
THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN PAKISTAN BY PROVIDING: GRANTS, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.