Andalucian Mezquita Trust
Charity 1123494
Overview
Summary
The available evidence suggests that Andalucian Mezquita Trust is a grant-making and facilities-oriented charity with an unusually transnational purpose: it is constituted around the social inclusion and educational opportunities of North African immigrants in a specific village in Spain, while also funding organisations that promote understanding between communities. Its stated activity is broader and less geographically specific than its objects, leaving its current practical focus unclear.
Operational geography
Coverage: International
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct Charity Commission data lists Birmingham City among the places where the charity operates, but gives no Birmingham address, project, venue, delivery partner or ward-level location. This does not justify assigning activity to any supplied Birmingham ward or to City Centre.
- The charity's stated activity is fundraising for institutions providing education, and its objects include making funding available to organisations. It is therefore unclear whether any Birmingham presence represents direct delivery, grant-making, or a historical self-reported area of operation.
- The Charity Commission record shows overdue reporting and financial information only through the year ending 5 April 2012. Consequently, there is low confidence that the recorded Birmingham-wide operating geography describes active operations as of August 2026.
- No evidence was found of a physical operational site in Birmingham. The recorded contact address is in London and should not be treated as a Birmingham service location.
- No material Birmingham partnerships were identified in the available official record.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual return, trustees' report or accounts confirming activities and expenditure since 2012, including the locations of funded institutions or services.
- Official information from the charity identifying any current Birmingham projects, grant recipients, community centre or after-school provision.
- Confirmation from named delivery partners or Birmingham venues of an active relationship with the trust.
Areas of work
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Education/training
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- General Charitable Purposes
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- Religious Activities
Who they help
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A place-specific overseas inclusion mission
The Trust appears designed around a defined local community in Spain rather than around overseas aid in general. Its role may be to strengthen inclusion, education and social infrastructure for North African immigrants in Beas de Sequia through joint local action.
Why it matters
This makes the charity distinctive: its geographic focus and migrant-community focus could enable deep local relationships, but also means its relevance depends heavily on conditions in one particular place.
Show evidence
“The objects benefit North African immigrants in the village of Beas de Sequia in Spain.”
Source:Charity Commission“The objects include advancing education and providing facilities for recreation and leisure to improve conditions of life.”
Source:Charity Commission
An intermediary rather than a direct-service charity
The Trust appears to work principally by resourcing other institutions and maintaining shared facilities, rather than by describing direct delivery to individuals.
Why it matters
Understanding it as an enabling organisation shifts attention toward its partners, grant criteria and stewardship of community space—relationships likely to determine its practical impact.
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“Fund raising needy institutions who provide education to young and old.”
Source:Organisation“How the charity helps includes making grants to organisations and providing buildings, facilities or open space.”
Source:Charity Commission
A potentially broad bridge-building mandate
Alongside its place-based migrant-support purpose, the Trust may have a wider role in supporting organisations that improve relations between different communities. This could connect educational and welfare work with longer-term community cohesion.
Why it matters
The combination suggests that the Trust may view social infrastructure and intercommunity understanding as related, creating opportunities to link locally rooted work with wider equality and diversity activity.
Show evidence
“The objects include providing funding to organisations promoting better understanding between people from different communities.”
Source:Charity Commission“What the charity does includes education and training, overseas aid, religious activities, arts and culture, and environment or conservation.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Whether the Trust currently operates in Beas de Sequia, elsewhere, or through grants only.
- Which institutions, communities or local authorities it works with in practice.
- Whether its religious, cultural and environmental purposes are active programmes or broad classifications.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, grant lists and accounts showing expenditure, partners and locations of activity.
- Information on any community centre or after-school provision established, managed or funded by the Trust.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Fund raising needy institutions who provide education to young and old.
Charity objects
THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE TRUST FUND AND ITS INCOME UPON TRUST TO APPLY THE SAME FOR THE FOLLOWING OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT NAMELY - 1A) TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NORTH AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS IN THE VILLAGE OF BEAS DE SEQUIA IN SPAIN WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATIONS WITH THE OBJECTS OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS. 1B) TO ESTABLISH OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE AND AN EDUCATIONAL AFTER SCHOOL PLACE AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE SAME (WHETHER ALONE OR IN CO-OPERATION WITH ANY LOCAL AUTHORITY OR PERSON OR BODY) IN FURTHER OF THESE OBJECTS AND 2) TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY AND GOOD RACE RELATIONS BY PROVIDING FUNDING TO ORGANISATIONS WHOSE WORK IS CONCERNED WITH PROMOTING BETTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES.