Build A Future In Kenya
Charity 1112412
Overview
Summary
Build A Future In Kenya appears to be a UK-facing fundraising and grant-making charity with a deliberately focused overseas relationship: improving education and health for disabled and economically or socially disadvantaged orphans in Kenya, particularly through support for the By Grace Disabled Orphans Centre in Nairobi. Its role seems less to deliver services directly than to mobilise resources for a named local organisation, combining a broad beneficiary mandate with a potentially concentrated delivery partnership.
Operational geography
Coverage: International
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission records Birmingham City as an area where the charity operates, but the available evidence does not identify Birmingham service locations, events, fundraising venues or delivery partners at ward level.
- The registered contact address is not supported by sufficient evidence to treat it as an operational site. The Charity Commission also records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.
- The evidence indicates that the charity's substantive beneficiary-facing work is in Kenya, including support for the By Grace Disabled Orphans Centre in Nairobi. It does not establish how much of the charity's Birmingham activity consists of fundraising, administration or other activity.
- No current website content, annual report or project documentation was available to confirm whether the charity currently undertakes activity across Birmingham generally or only from a limited local base.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual return narrative, trustees' report or activity report describing where Birmingham fundraising, administration or other UK-based work takes place.
- Official organisation information confirming whether the registered contact address is an active office, a trustee or correspondence address, or a venue used for charitable activity.
- Official details of any Birmingham venues, community partners, fundraising events or volunteer networks currently used by the charity.
Areas of work
- General Charitable Purposes
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- People With Disabilities
How they help
- Makes Grants To Organisations
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A fundraising intermediary with a local delivery focus
The available evidence suggests the charity primarily raises funds and channels grants to organisations rather than operating education or health services itself. Its stated support for a named Nairobi centre may indicate that local delivery capacity is central to its model.
Why it matters
This distinguishes the charity from a direct-service provider. Understanding it as a connector between donors and local delivery may clarify where its influence, accountability and partnership opportunities sit.
Show evidence
“General fund raising activities.”
Source:Charity Commission“Makes Grants To Organisations.”
Source:Charity Commission“Supporting the By Grace Disabled Orphans Centre in Nairobi.”
Source:Charity Commission
Disability is embedded within, rather than separate from, its orphan support
The charity's objects suggest it treats disability, poverty and orphanhood as overlapping disadvantages, rather than defining its work around only one of these groups.
Why it matters
This may make the organisation relevant to partners working across disability inclusion, child welfare, education and health, especially where needs are compounded rather than neatly separated.
Show evidence
“To advance education and to preserve and protect good health among disabled and economically and socially disadvantaged orphans in Kenya.”
Source:Charity Commission“Children/young People, People With Disabilities, Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies.”
Source:Charity Commission
A broad purpose may rely on a narrow visible partnership
Although the objects allow support for disadvantaged orphans in Kenya more broadly, the only named delivery relationship is the By Grace Disabled Orphans Centre. This may indicate a concentrated partnership, but the evidence does not establish whether other organisations receive support.
Why it matters
Concentration can create depth, trust and contextual knowledge, while also making the charity's reach more dependent on one partner. This is an important question for understanding resilience and scale.
Show evidence
“Disabled and economically and socially disadvantaged orphans in Kenya.”
Source:Charity Commission“Supporting the By Grace Disabled Orphans Centre in Nairobi to further the same.”
Source:Charity Commission“Makes Grants To Organisations.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Whether the By Grace Disabled Orphans Centre is the sole or principal grant recipient.
- What education and health support is funded, and how beneficiaries shape priorities.
- The charity's geographic reach beyond Nairobi and its scale of activity.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or accounts showing grant recipients, amounts and fundraising costs.
- Information from the charity or partner on programmes, beneficiary numbers, outcomes and governance of the relationship.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
General fund raising activities
Charity objects
TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT GOOD HEALTH AMONG DISABLED AND ECONOMICALLY AND SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED ORPHANS IN KENYA, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY: A) PROVIDING, OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF, THE NECESSARY FACILITIES AND ITEMS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ORPHANS B) SUPPORTING THE BY GRACE DISABLED ORPHANS CENTRE IN NAIROBI TO FURTHER THE SAME.