Bradical Employment Rights CIO
Charity 1166780
https://bradicalemploymentrights.co.uk
Overview
Summary
Bradical Employment Rights CIO appears to occupy a focused access-to-justice role in Birmingham: reducing the financial barrier to employment-rights advice for people unable to pay for it. Its remit connects immediate economic insecurity, such as unpaid wages, with equality and human-rights concerns, such as discrimination. The available evidence suggests a specialist, advice-led organisation rather than a broad welfare provider, potentially helping people address workplace problems before they deepen into poverty or exclusion.
Operational geography
Coverage: Citywide
Operational areas:
- City Centre
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
City Centre
Confidence: medium
Direct evidence identifies Gazette Buildings as the charity's current contact/principal address, and a partner-hosted trustee recruitment notice refers to this as the organisation's offices. This supports a physical base in the City Centre, but does not expressly confirm that client advice is delivered there.
- Charity Commission Register of Charities, BRADICAL Employment Rights CIO, charity 1166780
Lists the contact address at Gazette Buildings, Birmingham. - We Are BRIG, "Become a Trustee for Employment Rights"
States that trustee meetings take place remotely or "at our offices at Gazette Buildings."
Remaining uncertainties
- The evidence supports Birmingham-wide service eligibility and activity, but does not identify the neighbourhoods or wards in which clients live or receive advice.
- It is not clear whether advice is delivered face-to-face from the organisation's offices, remotely, at courts or tribunals, or through other venues.
- No current evidence identifies outreach locations, satellite sites, or named partner organisations that materially extend service delivery across Birmingham.
- The Charity Commission record reports overdue annual returns and accounts for the years ending 30 June 2024 and 30 June 2025, limiting confidence that the publicly recorded operating arrangements remain fully current.
Additional evidence needed
- A current service-access statement from the organisation confirming how clients can receive advice and whether appointments take place at the organisation's offices.
- A current annual report, impact report, or service statistics showing the geographic distribution of clients or any outreach delivery locations.
- Confirmation of any active referral, venue-hosting, legal-support, or community partnerships and the locations at which they affect delivery.
Areas of work
- Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
Employment advice is framed as anti-poverty support
The organisation appears to treat employment rights as a route to preventing or relieving financial hardship, rather than as a purely legal or procedural issue.
Why it matters
This indicates that its role may sit at the intersection of legal support and economic resilience: recovering wages or challenging unfair dismissal can be materially important to households with limited financial reserves.
Show evidence
“The charity's object is the relief of financial hardship through free legal advice and assistance on employment matters.”
Source:Charity Commission“It provides advice and support on dismissal, unpaid wages and holiday pay.”
Source:Organisation
The organisation may provide a bridge between equality rights and everyday workplace problems
Its work appears to combine practical disputes over pay and dismissal with discrimination-related concerns, potentially making it a single point of support for people whose financial and equality problems overlap.
Why it matters
This is distinctive because workplace discrimination can be difficult to separate from income loss, job insecurity and reduced access to advice. The combined focus may make the organisation relevant to a wider support network than legal services alone.
Show evidence
“It provides support on discrimination on grounds including pregnancy, disability, race and sex.”
Source:Organisation“The charity works in human rights, equality or diversity, and prevention or relief of poverty.”
Source:Charity Commission
Geographic focus may enable local accessibility but leaves its reach unclear
The organisation appears intentionally concentrated on Birmingham residents who cannot afford employment advice, but the evidence does not show whether it reaches particular neighbourhoods, communities or employment sectors.
Why it matters
A Birmingham-specific remit may support local knowledge and referral relationships. However, understanding its actual reach is important for identifying communities who may remain underserved and organisations that could strengthen access routes.
Show evidence
“The charity provides free legal advice and assistance to persons within the City of Birmingham who lack the means to obtain it.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps the general public.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Whether support includes representation, casework, tribunal assistance or advice only.
- Which Birmingham communities, sectors or employment types are most likely to use the service.
- Whether the organisation works through referral partnerships with advice, equality, trade union or welfare organisations.
Remaining uncertainties
- Service data showing client numbers, case types, outcomes and unmet demand.
- Information on referral partners, delivery channels, eligibility rules and languages or accessibility provision.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
BRADICAL Employment Rights CIO provides free advice and support in Birmingham on employment matters such as dismissal, unpaid wages or holiday pay, discrimination on grounds of pregnancy, disability, race, sex etc. Email address: bradicalemploymentrights@gmail.com
Charity objects
THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP BY THE PROVISION OF FREE LEGAL ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE ON EMPLOYMENT MATTERS TO PERSONS WITHIN THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM WHO, THROUGH LACK OF MEANS, WOULD OTHERWISE BE UNABLE TO OBTAIN SUCH ADVICE.