Feeding The World
Charity 1163031
Overview
Summary
Feeding The World appears to be a direct-relief charity centred on food provision, with a wider practical-support mandate for people experiencing disadvantage. Its stated work combines a highly immediate intervention—feeding homeless people—with unusually broad charitable objects that permit advice and other support. The reference to work “at home and abroad” suggests a geographically expansive identity, though the available evidence does not show how services are divided between local and international activity or whether food provision is linked to longer-term routes out of hardship.
Operational geography
Coverage: International
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission records describe Feeding The World's activity as feeding homeless people 'at home and abroad', and its 2024 trustees' report refers to helping people in a local area and in more distant areas through projects. This supports an international stated scope, but does not identify any current delivery locations.
- No supplied evidence confirms that the registered address is a service-delivery site. It has therefore not been treated as evidence of operational activity in Birmingham.
- The 2024 trustees' report refers to feeding homeless people from factory premises and operating food outlets, but gives no premises, outlet, project, partner or locality names. The Charity Commission governance record also states that the charity does not own or lease land or property.
- The 2024 accounts record £0 income and £1,800 expenditure, entirely shown as management and administrative costs, with £0 recorded for food and refreshments. This does not demonstrate active local service delivery during that reporting year.
- There is no evidence identifying material partnerships that extend the organisation's operational reach within Birmingham.
Additional evidence needed
- A current service timetable, project update or annual report naming the locations where food or practical support is delivered.
- Confirmation from the charity of whether its registered address is solely a correspondence address or is used for storage, food preparation, distribution or another operational purpose.
- Names and locations of any current food outlets, factory premises, delivery venues or partner organisations.
- Evidence distinguishing activities directly delivered by Feeding The World from grants, donations or projects undertaken by other organisations in the UK or abroad.
Areas of work
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- 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
Immediate relief is the organisation's clearest operating anchor
The available evidence suggests that soup-kitchen-style food provision is the charity's most concrete and defining intervention, directed at people facing acute hardship, including homelessness.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish the organisation from charities focused principally on advocacy, grant-making or preventative poverty work: its apparent role is to meet urgent needs directly.
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“THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE, BY THE PROVISION OF A SOUP KITCHEN, ADVICE AND ANY OTHER PRACTICAL SUPPORT.”
Source:Charity Commission“Feeding the homeless at home and abroad”
Source:Organisation
The charity has scope to be more than a food provider
Although feeding people is the visible activity, its objects allow advice and other practical support for a broad range of disadvantage. This may indicate capacity, or at least an intended remit, to respond to needs surrounding food insecurity rather than treating hunger in isolation.
Why it matters
The distinction matters because it points to possible complementarities with housing, welfare-advice, health and disability-support organisations, even though no actual partnerships or wider services are evidenced.
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“THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE, BY THE PROVISION OF A SOUP KITCHEN, ADVICE AND ANY OTHER PRACTICAL SUPPORT.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its geographic identity may complicate its civic role
The phrase “at home and abroad” suggests that the organisation may operate across both domestic and international contexts. This is distinctive for a charity described through soup-kitchen provision, but the evidence does not identify locations, delivery partners or the balance of activity.
Why it matters
Understanding this balance would clarify whether the organisation is primarily rooted in one local civic ecosystem, connects multiple places, or operates through a dispersed model requiring different relationships and resources.
Show evidence
“Feeding the homeless at home and abroad”
Source:Organisation
- Which places and communities receive support, and whether domestic and international work are both active.
- Whether the charity provides advice or practical support beyond food provision.
- How people are reached, referred or supported after immediate food relief.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent service records showing locations, numbers supported, types of support and delivery frequency.
- Information on partners, referral routes, volunteers, funding and any outcomes beyond meals provided.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Feeding the homeless at home and abroad
Charity objects
THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE, BY THE PROVISION OF A SOUP KITCHEN, ADVICE AND ANY OTHER PRACTICAL SUPPORT.