Eritrean Community In Birmingham And Surrounding

Charity 1179398

Overview

Summary

Sources:Civic AtlasAI-assisted

The available evidence suggests that Eritrean Community In Birmingham And Surrounding is positioned as a broad, community-rooted support organisation rather than a narrowly defined service provider. Its charitable remit combines settlement support for refugees and people seeking asylum with wider poverty relief, advice, inclusion and recreational activity. This may allow it to act across different stages of need—from immediate navigation and advocacy to longer-term participation in community life—while serving both a particular ethnic community and the wider public.

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Operational geography

Sources:ONSCivic AtlasAI-assisted

Coverage: Regional

Operational areas:

    Evidence and reasoning
    Supporting evidence
    Remaining uncertainties
    • The Charity Commission record directly reports that the charity operates in Birmingham City, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton. This supports a regional declared footprint, but does not identify neighbourhoods, service venues or delivery patterns within Birmingham.
    • The charity has a contact address in Birmingham, but the address may be administrative or correspondence-only and is not sufficient evidence that the charity currently delivers services there.
    • The Charity Commission reports zero income and zero expenditure for each recorded financial year from 2021 to 2025, and states that the charity does not own or lease land or property. This materially limits confidence that currently reported geographic coverage reflects active delivery rather than stated intended reach.
    • No official website, current annual report, project information, venue listing or partner evidence was available to confirm specific current services, physical delivery sites, outreach locations or material partnerships.
    • There is insufficient evidence to classify the organisation's operational identity within Birmingham as neighbourhood-based, district-wide or citywide. Its reported Birmingham-wide operation is a declaration of coverage rather than evidence of delivery across the city.
    Additional evidence needed
    • A current programme timetable or service description identifying where advocacy, advice, support, training or community activities are delivered.
    • Confirmation from the charity of whether its contact address is an active delivery venue, office only, or correspondence address.
    • Current evidence of delivery agreements, referral arrangements or funded partnerships showing which Birmingham locations are materially served.
    • A recent annual report, accounts narrative or impact report explaining active services and beneficiary geography.

    Areas of work

    Source:Charity Commission
    • Amateur Sport
    • Arts/culture/heritage/science
    • Disability
    • Economic/community Development/employment
    • Education/training
    • General Charitable Purposes
    • Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
    • Other Charitable Purposes
    • Recreation
    • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

    Who they help

    Source:Charity Commission
    • Children/young People
    • Elderly/old People
    • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
    • Other Defined Groups
    • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
    • People With Disabilities
    • The General Public/mankind

    How they help

    Source:Charity Commission
    • Provides Advocacy/advice/information

    Discoveries involving this organisation

    The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.

    Observations

    Sources:Civic AtlasAI-assisted

    • A bridge between settlement and belonging

      The organisation appears to view support for refugees and people seeking asylum as extending beyond immediate practical assistance into longer-term settlement, social participation and improved quality of life.

      Why it matters

      This suggests its role may be relational as well as advisory: potentially helping people connect to local life rather than only resolve individual problems. It may therefore complement specialist immigration, welfare or housing services.

      Show evidence

      • “The charity relieves need for refugees and those seeking asylum through support, training, services, facilities and assistance with settlement into life in the United Kingdom.”

        Source:Charity Commission

      • “Its objects include providing recreational or leisure-time facilities in the interests of social welfare and improving conditions of life.”

        Source:Charity Commission

    • A deliberately broad response to disadvantage

      The organisation appears designed to respond to overlapping forms of disadvantage, including financial hardship, disability, age, youth and migration-related need, rather than treating these as separate issues.

      Why it matters

      This broad remit may make it a useful access point for people whose needs do not fit neatly within single-service categories. It also raises a useful question about how it prioritises support when needs compete.

      Show evidence

      • “The charity relieves those in need because of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage.”

        Source:Charity Commission

      • “The charity helps children and young people, elderly people, people with disabilities, people of a particular ethnic or racial origin and the general public.”

        Source:Charity Commission

    • Advice may be its main connecting capability

      Advocacy, advice and information appear to be the clearest stated delivery mechanism within a much wider charitable remit. The organisation may therefore function as a trusted navigator between community members and other services or institutions.

      Why it matters

      If this interpretation is correct, its value may lie partly in reducing barriers to support—such as unfamiliarity, exclusion or difficulty navigating systems—rather than in delivering every specialist service itself.

      Show evidence

      • “Activities include community activities and community support.”

        Source:Organisation

      • “The charity provides advocacy, advice and information.”

        Source:Charity Commission

      Remaining uncertainties

    • Which communities are currently reached, and whether support is primarily Eritrean-focused or wider.
    • Whether the organisation delivers services directly, refers people onward, or combines both approaches.
    • Its current partnerships, geographic reach, staffing capacity and evidence of impact.

      Additional evidence needed

    • Recent service descriptions, annual reports or beneficiary feedback showing what support is actually delivered.
    • Information on referral routes, partnerships and the organisations or public services it works alongside.
    Charity Commission profile
    Source:Charity Commission

    Activities

    COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES, COMMUNITY SUPPORT

    Charity objects

    1. THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED IN BIRMINGHAM AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE. 2. TO RELIEVE NEED FOR REFUGEES AND THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM BY THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT, TRAINING, SERVICES, FACILITIES AND ASSISTING WITH THEIR SETTLEMENT INTO LIFE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. 3. TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF BIRMINGHAM AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS. 4. TO FURTHER SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE