Exousia Worldwide Ministries
Charity 1017816
Overview
Summary
Exousia Worldwide Ministries appears to be a faith-led organisation using church life as a platform for broader community support. Its stated purposes combine Christian worship and teaching with advice, counselling, childcare, youth activity, vocational religious training and temporary accommodation for people experiencing homelessness. This suggests an organisation whose role may extend beyond a conventional congregation: it potentially connects pastoral relationships, practical assistance and community-facing services, while retaining a strongly Christian basis for its work.
Operational geography
Coverage: Citywide
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct evidence: the Charity Commission register records Birmingham City and Lewisham as places where the charity operates, and describes current activity as church meetings and community assistance. This supports current operational presence in Birmingham but does not identify a Birmingham venue, ward, neighbourhood or beneficiary catchment.
- Reasonable interpretation: Birmingham City is the only Birmingham-scale geography reported by the charity, so its Birmingham footprint is best classified as citywide rather than attributed to a particular ward. This does not demonstrate delivery in every Birmingham ward.
- The charity's registered contact address is in London, and the Charity Commission records that it does not own or lease land or property. It may therefore use hired, shared or partner premises in Birmingham, but no current premises can be confirmed from the available evidence.
- A 2019–20 trustees' annual report evidences Sunday services, prayer meetings, family support, children's church, Bible study and community outreach, including activity outside a church building. However, it does not name the building or locate those activities, and is not sufficiently recent to identify a current Birmingham site.
- No material Birmingham-based delivery partners, subsidiaries or projects were identified in the authoritative sources consulted.
Additional evidence needed
- A current service timetable, venue-hire record, annual report or official church communication naming Birmingham delivery locations.
- Confirmation from the organisation of whether Birmingham services are delivered from one venue, multiple venues, in community settings or through partner organisations.
- Current evidence identifying any formal partners that host, refer into or jointly deliver the charity's Birmingham activities.
Areas of work
- General Charitable Purposes
Who they help
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
Faith activity appears to underpin a wider support role
The available evidence suggests that Christian worship, teaching and pastoral care are not separate from the organisation's social work, but may provide the relationships and values through which practical support is offered.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish the organisation from a specialist advice or housing provider. Its potential strength may lie in combining spiritual community with ongoing personal support.
Show evidence
“The objects include advancing Christian faith, worship, preaching, teaching and pastoral care.”
Source:Charity Commission“Activities include community assistance through advice and guidance, support and counselling.”
Source:Organisation
The organisation has an unusually broad potential service pathway
Its objects span children and young people, adults in hardship, people who are homeless, and prospective preachers or evangelists. This may indicate an ambition to support people across different life stages and needs rather than focus on one defined group.
Why it matters
A broad remit can create opportunities for referral, continuity and family-level support, but it also raises questions about which parts of this extensive mandate are active in practice.
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“The objects include relief for people in need, hardship, distress, old age or sickness.”
Source:Charity Commission“The objects include childcare, holiday play schemes, vocational training and temporary accommodation for homeless people.”
Source:Charity Commission
Group-based activity may be a key operating mechanism
Women, men and youth meetings may function as more than church programming: they could create distinct entry points for support, belonging and informal identification of need within the wider community.
Why it matters
Understanding these groups as possible relationship infrastructure could reveal how the organisation reaches people who may not approach formal services directly.
Show evidence
“Activities include women, men and youth meetings.”
Source:Organisation“Activities include support and counselling.”
Source:Organisation
- Which charitable objects are currently delivered, rather than retained as broad constitutional powers.
- Whether community assistance is available beyond the worshipping congregation and how people access it.
- Whether the organisation works with housing, childcare, advice or other local partners.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or service information showing current programmes, numbers reached and geographic focus.
- Evidence of referral routes, partnerships and the practical relationship between church groups and community support.
- Information on eligibility, safeguarding and provision of homelessness or childcare services.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
general church activities, women, men and youth meetings, community assistance (advice and guidance, support and counselling)
Charity objects
(1)TO ADVANCE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND THE WORSHIP OF GOD BY ANY MEANS WHATSOEVER INCLUDING (BUT NOT BY WAY OF LIMITATION) THE PREACHING AND PROCLAMATION OF THE CHRISTIAN GOSPEL AND THE TEACHING OF THE CHRISTIAN GOSPEL AND PRINCIPLES AND THE PASTORAL CARE OF CHRISTIAN PEOPLE AND THE PRINTING AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN LITERATURE INCLUDING VIDEO AND AUDIO RECORDINGS OR TAPES AND BY ANY OTHER MEDIA WHICH IS OR MAY BECOME AVAILABLE.(2) THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OR WHO ARE AGED OR SICK (3) THE PROVISION OF A CRECH, NURSERY AND HOLIDAY PLAY SCHEME FOR THE STATE CARE AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN BELOW THE AGE OF 16 AND THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR THE SAID CHILDREN WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE. (4) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION ON THE BASIS OF CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES AND WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING THE PROVISION OF ANY ONE OR MORE CHARITABLE VOCATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOLS FOR THE VOCATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOLS FOR THE RELIGIOUS TRAINING OF PREACHERS AND EVANGALISTS. (5) THE PROVISION OF TEMPORARY ACCOMODATION FOR THE HOMELESS PERSONS IN NEED OR IN NECESSITIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.