Awayforward Foundation
Charity 1166659
www.awayforwardfoundation.co.uk
Overview
Summary
Awayforward Foundation appears to occupy a practical bridge between housing instability, wellbeing and pathways into safer participation in community life. Its role is broader than counselling or accommodation alone: it combines direct support, mentoring and skills-based prevention with advocacy and partnerships. The available evidence suggests a Birmingham and West Midlands-focused organisation seeking to support people whose health challenges may be compounded by marginalisation, disrupted relationships, low confidence or resettlement needs.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Edgbaston
Confidence: low
The Charity Commission records a current contact address in Birmingham. This supports an organisational presence, but does not establish that it is a service-delivery site; the charity also reports that it does not own or lease land or property.
- Charity Commission Register of Charities, AWAYFORWARD FOUNDATION (charity 1166659)
Lists the charity's contact address in Birmingham and states that the charity does not own and/or lease land or property.
Remaining uncertainties
- The evidence supports Birmingham as a principal service geography, but does not identify current delivery locations by ward, neighbourhood, school, housing property or community venue.
- The charity's recorded contact address may be an administrative or correspondence address rather than a location where beneficiaries receive services.
- The charity's website describes housing, resettlement, mentoring, counselling and crime-prevention activity across Birmingham and the wider West Midlands, but does not provide current, location-specific service coverage.
- The website names Hawkesley Community Centre, Jewellery Quarter secondary schools, Positive Doors Ltd, Gateway2Housing and other organisations as partners, but does not demonstrate the nature, dates or current status of activity at those locations.
- A website page describes counselling work at HMP Birmingham and programmes in Birmingham schools, colleges and communities, but includes references to activity in 2013 and does not provide sufficient evidence that these are current delivery arrangements.
- The Charity Commission currently records operations in Birmingham City, Cardiff, Lancashire and throughout London, while the website foregrounds Birmingham and the wider West Midlands. The available evidence supports a regional footprint, but does not establish the scale or current intensity of activity outside Birmingham.
Additional evidence needed
- A current service directory, annual report, grant report or monitoring return identifying active Birmingham delivery areas or referral catchments.
- Confirmation from the charity of whether its recorded contact address is an administrative base, a beneficiary-facing service site, or both.
- Current confirmation from named partners or venues of active delivery arrangements, without requesting disclosure of safeguarded supported-housing addresses.
- A current breakdown of housing placements and support provision by local authority area or broad Birmingham area, where safe to publish.
Areas of work
- Accommodation/housing
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Other Charitable Purposes
- Recreation
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- Other Defined Groups
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Other Charitable Activities
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
Housing appears to be the organisation's organising platform
Although its charitable objects emphasise relieving sickness through counselling and mentoring, the organisation presents housing, resettlement and supported accommodation partnerships prominently. This may indicate that stabilising someone's living situation is treated as a prerequisite for wider wellbeing, confidence and progression.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish AWFF from a standalone counselling provider: its likely operating model addresses immediate instability alongside longer-term personal development.
Show evidence
“AWFF offers Housing Services & Support, Resettlement, Mentoring, Counselling, and accredited Crime Prevention courses.”
Source:Organisation“AWFF lists Positive Doors Ltd and 16-17 supported accommodations as a partnership.”
Source:Organisation“The charity's purposes include accommodation/housing and the advancement of health.”
Source:Charity Commission
Prevention and progression sit alongside crisis support
The combination of counselling, mentoring, skills training and accredited crime prevention courses suggests AWFF may aim not only to respond to harm but to widen future options for people at risk of exclusion.
Why it matters
This points to a potentially distinctive role linking recovery and resettlement with confidence-building, employability or safer community participation.
Show evidence
“Activities include culturally sensitive counselling, mentoring, housing support, and skills training.”
Source:Organisation“AWFF provides accredited Crime Prevention courses.”
Source:Organisation“The charity works in education/training and economic/community development/employment.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its partnership network may connect voluntary support with public-safety and education systems
Partnerships spanning police, housing pathways, schools, a university, community centres and mentoring bodies suggest AWFF may act as a connector for people whose needs cross institutional boundaries.
Why it matters
The organisation's value may lie partly in relationships: it could help people navigate systems that are often experienced separately, while bringing community-based support into those systems.
Show evidence
“AWFF lists West Midlands Police, Pathway Gateway2Housing, Jewellery Quarter secondary schools, Newman University and Hawkesley Community Centre as partners.”
Source:Organisation“Activities include advocacy, partnerships, fundraising and service delivery.”
Source:Organisation
- Which groups are the primary beneficiaries in practice, and whether support is targeted by age, ethnicity, housing status or another need.
- Whether the organisation delivers housing directly, manages referrals, or relies mainly on partner accommodation.
- What outcomes it achieves for people using its counselling, mentoring, resettlement and prevention support.
Remaining uncertainties
- Service data showing referral routes, numbers supported, accommodation capacity and participant outcomes.
- Partnership agreements or case studies showing how named partners work with AWFF in practice.
- Recent annual reports or accounts showing funding sources, staffing, service priorities and changes over time.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Empowering those facing health challenges, especially from marginalised communities, through culturally sensitive counselling, mentoring, housing support, and skills training. Committed to equity, inclusion, and systemic change. Activities include advocacy, partnerships, fundraising, and service delivery under UK charity law.
Charity objects
TO RELIEVE THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL SICKNESS OF PERSONS IN NEED BY REASONS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY OF SUBSTANCE MISUSE, ADDICTION, FAMILY BREAKDOWNS, LOW SELF ESTEEM AND CONFIDENCE BY IN PARTICULAR THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING, MENTORING SERVICES AND SUPPORT.