Father Hudson'S Caritas
Charity 512992
Overview
Summary
Father Hudson's Caritas appears to be a faith-rooted social-care organisation with an unusually broad life-course remit, spanning children, families, disability, later life, homelessness and migration. Its Catholic identity seems to provide an organising purpose rather than limiting activity to religious provision: the stated work combines direct care, family-based services, community support and advocacy. The organisation may therefore function as a long-standing regional civic institution able to connect needs that are often addressed through separate specialist systems.
Operational geography
Coverage: Regional
Operational areas:
- City Centre
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
City Centre
Confidence: medium
Direct, current service evidence identifies Tabor Living as an accommodation and support service in Birmingham. Father Hudson’s Caritas is named as a delivery partner, and its own current site confirms that Tabor provides homelessness services in Birmingham. Its partnership with St Chad’s Sanctuary also supports refugee and asylum-seeker support in Birmingham. More precise service-location details are not included because safeguarding may be relevant.
- Tabor Living, "St Catherine of Siena Church Birmingham"
Tabor Living states that it relocated its emergency accommodation within Birmingham; the site says this service is delivered in partnership with Father Hudson’s Caritas and the parish. - Father Hudson’s Caritas, "Tabor Living"
The organisation states that Tabor Living provides first-step and move-on accommodation with tailored support for people experiencing homelessness in Birmingham, accepting referrals from Birmingham City Council and voluntary organisations. - Father Hudson’s Caritas, "Our Partner Charities" and "St Chad’s Sanctuary"
Father Hudson’s Caritas identifies St Chad’s Sanctuary as a Birmingham partner service, and states that the sanctuary works in partnership with Father Hudson’s Caritas to provide practical support to asylum seekers and refugees.
Remaining uncertainties
- The evidence confirms further direct Birmingham activity through Fatima House and Sophia House, and through family-support workers in Birmingham schools, but does not publish sufficiently precise current locations to assign these services to a supplied ward or place. The accommodation locations should not be inferred or disclosed where safeguarding may be relevant.
- The current evidence supports a Birmingham operational cluster, but does not establish that Father Hudson’s Caritas directly delivers services across every Birmingham district or ward.
- The Coleshill headquarters and several residential, disability and older-people services are outside Birmingham City Council’s supplied geography; the registered address should not be treated as evidence of a Birmingham operational site.
Additional evidence needed
- A current service-location list, with any safeguarding-sensitive addresses appropriately aggregated, to identify which Birmingham wards contain direct delivery.
- A current list of Birmingham schools served by the Family Support Service, with confirmation of whether delivery remains active at each school.
- A current annual or impact report separating direct Birmingham delivery, partnership activity and beneficiaries drawn from Birmingham.
Areas of work
- Accommodation/housing
- Disability
- General Charitable Purposes
- Religious Activities
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- Other Defined Groups
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Other Charitable Activities
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A life-course organisation rather than a single-service charity
The available evidence suggests the organisation is structured around vulnerability across different stages of life, from children needing homes to older people with dementia, rather than around one client group or intervention.
Why it matters
This helps explain its potential to recognise linked family needs and transitions between services that more narrowly focused organisations may miss.
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“Its website lists work on homelessness, disability, refugees and migrants, older people, and children, families and schools.”
Source:Organisation“Activities include residential and daycare for older people and adults with disabilities, adoption and fostering services, and family support projects.”
Source:Charity Commission
Faith appears to be an institutional foundation, not the whole service model
Its Catholic purpose appears to coexist with wide social-welfare objectives, including poverty relief, health, care, education and leisure facilities. This may indicate a values-led organisation operating across mainstream social-care needs.
Why it matters
It distinguishes the organisation from a primarily congregational charity and suggests it may hold relationships across both faith and statutory or community-care ecosystems.
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“The charity's objects include furthering the Roman Catholic religion.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity's objects also include relief of financial hardship, sickness, disability-related need, care for children and older people, and social-welfare facilities.”
Source:Charity Commission
The organisation may combine direct delivery with civic infrastructure
Alongside providing services and facilities, it reports making grants, supplying human resources and offering advice and advocacy. This suggests it may support other organisations and communities as well as serving individuals directly.
Why it matters
If confirmed, this would make Father Hudson's Caritas a potential connector and capacity-builder, not only a provider of care.
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“The charity helps through grants to organisations, human resources, buildings or facilities, services, and advocacy, advice or information.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps other charities or voluntary bodies.”
Source:Charity Commission
- The evidence does not show the geographic reach, scale or current priority of each service area.
- It is unclear which partnerships are active and whether grant-making or organisational support is substantial.
- The relationship between the newly visible homelessness and refugee work and the registered activity description is not explained.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports and accounts showing service volumes, funding mix and changes in activity.
- Information on delivery partners, referral routes and the communities reached by each programme.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Social Care Agency of the Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham providing : *residential and daycare for the elderly, those with dementia, and adults with disabilities *adoption support and fostering services *origins services to adults who have previously been supported by the Society *community and school based family support projects
Charity objects
3.1 THE FURTHERANCE OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TENETS OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH ("THE CHURCH") 3.2 THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND SUFFERING BY THE PROVISION OF SUCH GRANTS, GOODS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES AS THE CHARITY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE 3.3 THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH 3.4 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION THROUGH THE POWERS SET OUT IN SUB-CLAUSES 4.7 TO 4.13 (INCLUSIVE) BELOW AND ONLY INSOFAR AS IT FURTHERS THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TENETS OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH 3.5 THE ADVANCEMENT AND PROMOTION OF THE SUPPORT, RELIEF AND CARE OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITHOUT FAMILIES TO CARE FOR THEM, CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN TROUBLE OR AT RISK, ELDERLY PEOPLE AND THEIR CARERS, PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, COMMUNITIES AND GROUPS WHO ARE IN NEED. 3.6 TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATIONAL OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.