Beyond The Horizon Charity
Charity 1155755
Overview
Summary
Beyond the Horizon appears to occupy a focused early-intervention and recovery role for Birmingham children and families experiencing relational loss: bereavement, parental separation and domestic abuse. Its model combines direct therapeutic support with family and parenting work, school/community access and professional training. This suggests it works not only with individual distress but with the family and institutional environments that shape a child’s ability to recover.
Operational geography
No operational geography is currently available for this organisation.
Areas of work
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Other Defined Groups
How they help
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
Loss is treated as relational, not only bereavement
The organisation appears to frame death, relationship breakdown and domestic abuse as connected forms of loss and disruption requiring emotional support. This may allow it to serve children whose needs fall between bereavement services, family support and domestic-abuse provision.
Why it matters
This clarifies a distinctive role: Beyond the Horizon may bridge service categories that are often commissioned and understood separately, while responding to how children experience changing family relationships.
Show evidence
“The objects are to relieve distress and/or protect the good health of children and families who have experienced bereavement, domestic abuse or relationship breakdown.”
Source:Charity Commission“We help children, young people and families who have been affected by bereavement, divorce, separation, and domestic abuse.”
Source:Organisation
The delivery model reaches children through their everyday systems
Beyond the Horizon appears to combine one-to-one therapy with family, parenting and group support, delivered in schools and community locations. This may reduce reliance on a clinic-based referral pathway and involve adults around the child in recovery.
Why it matters
Understanding this mixed model helps distinguish the organisation from a counselling-only provider and points to potential relationships with schools, parents and other child-facing services.
Show evidence
“We visit children in schools and community locations to give them one to one therapy.”
Source:Organisation“We offer family support sessions, parenting support sessions and group courses for parents and carers.”
Source:Organisation
It may act as a specialist capacity-builder, not solely a provider
Training other professionals suggests the charity may extend its influence beyond its own caseload by helping practitioners recognise and respond to bereavement and loss.
Why it matters
This creates a potentially important leverage point: its local contribution may include improving the confidence of schools and services that encounter affected children before specialist support is sought.
Show evidence
“We provide training in Bereavement and Loss to other professionals.”
Source:Charity Commission“How the charity helps includes acting as an umbrella or resource body.”
Source:Charity Commission
- The scale of support, waiting times, funding model and geographic reach beyond Birmingham are unknown.
- There is no evidence about referral relationships, partnership organisations or outcomes for children and families.
Remaining uncertainties
- Annual-report data on beneficiaries, service volumes, outcomes, demographics and unmet demand.
- Information on referral sources, school partnerships, professional-training audiences and funding arrangements.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
We provide loss & bereavement support for children, young people and their families following a death of someone close to them or family relationship breakdown. The supports we offer include individual counselling sessions, family sessions and group sessions. We provide training in Bereavement and Loss to to other professionals.
Charity objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS AND/OR TO PROTECT THE GOOD HEALTH OF CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED BEREAVEMENT, DOMESTIC ABUSE OR RELATIONSHIP BREAKDOWN.