Cephas Charitable Trust
Charity 1009248
Overview
Summary
Cephas Charitable Trust appears to be a faith-rooted charitable vehicle focused on restoration: combining Christian ministry with practical support for people experiencing hardship, illness, age-related need or distress. Its stated remit is broad, spanning direct provision, advice, counselling, accommodation and donations to other charities. This suggests an organisation whose role may be as much about enabling and supporting a wider charitable ecosystem as delivering a single defined service.
Operational geography
Coverage: Regional
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- No direct evidence identifies any current service delivery, physical site, project or material partnership within Birmingham.
- The Charity Commission contact address is in Stourbridge, outside Birmingham; it may be a correspondence address rather than an operational base.
- The charity's stated activities describe Christian ministry and support needs but do not specify places, delivery settings, beneficiaries' locations or partner organisations.
- The organisation's website could not be retrieved, so it could not be used to confirm current programmes, venues or geographic reach.
- The available evidence does not establish a defined regional delivery footprint.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual report or trustees' annual return describing activities, delivery locations and any grants or partnerships.
- Accessible current content from the organisation's official website or verified social-media channels identifying services, events or venues.
- Confirmation from the charity of whether it currently delivers any services in Birmingham and, if so, the relevant wards or places.
- Evidence of any current agreements, referrals, hosted activities or projects with Birmingham-based churches, venues, charities or public bodies.
Areas of work
- Religious Activities
Who they help
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
Restoration is the organisation's connecting idea
The language of “Restoring and Rebuilding” appears to connect spiritual ministry with responses to physical and emotional need. This may indicate a holistic model in which faith, wellbeing and practical recovery are treated as interdependent rather than separate activities.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish the trust from a purely religious body or a purely welfare provider. Its potential contribution may lie in bridging pastoral support with practical rehabilitation.
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“To promote the Christian vision to minister into the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the family of God.”
Source:Organisation“Our Twin Aim is Restoring and Rebuilding.”
Source:Organisation
The trust may operate through more than one route to impact
Its objects allow for both direct support, including accommodation and counselling, and donations to charitable institutions. This suggests a potentially flexible operating model that could combine service delivery with grant-making or partnership support.
Why it matters
Understanding whether the trust funds others, delivers services itself, or does both is important for identifying its relationships and possible role within a local support network.
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“The provision of facilities for rehabilitation, including residential or other accommodation, advice and counselling.”
Source:Charity Commission“To make donations to such charitable institution or institutions.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its beneficiary focus is broad but its stated pastoral language is narrower
There is a possible tension between a formal remit covering the general public and other charities, and activity language centred on “the family of God.” This may indicate either an explicitly Christian service orientation or a broader public-facing mission expressed through Christian framing.
Why it matters
This distinction affects who may perceive the organisation as accessible, which communities it reaches, and what partners may be most relevant.
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“Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies, The General Public/mankind.”
Source:Charity Commission“To promote the Christian vision to minister into the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the family of God.”
Source:Organisation
- Whether the trust currently provides services directly, makes grants, or both.
- Which people, places and partner organisations it actually reaches.
- Whether support is open to people beyond Christian communities.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or accounts showing expenditure, grants and service activity.
- Information on current programmes, referral routes, locations and beneficiary eligibility.
- Examples of delivery partners, funded charities or accommodation and counselling provision.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
To promote the Christian vision to minister into the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the family of God. Our Twin Aim is Restoring and Rebuilding.
Charity objects
PROMOTING THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.FOR THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OR WHO ARE AGED OR SICK AND WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE REHABILITATION OF SUCH PERSONS,SUCH FACILITIES TO INCLUDE RESIDENTIAL OR OTHER ACCOMODATION AND TO FURTHER INCLUDE ADVICE AND COUNSELLING OF SUCH PERSONS.SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AND TO MAKE DONATIONS TO SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTIONS.