Fortel Aid
Charity 1141746
Overview
Summary
Fortel Aid appears to operate primarily as a grant-making intermediary rather than a direct-service charity. Its role is to channel resources toward organisations responding to disaster, poverty and poor health, especially in India and other developing countries, while retaining scope to support UK charities and local communities. This creates a potentially flexible model: the charity can work through local groups and adapt funding to different needs, but the available evidence does not yet show which places, partners or types of intervention receive priority.
Operational geography
Coverage: International
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission currently records Birmingham City, India and Nepal as places where Fortel Aid operates, but provides no information identifying services, projects, grant recipients or delivery locations within Birmingham.
- No supplied Birmingham ward or recognised place can be evidenced as a current operational area. The Charity Commission’s Birmingham City entry cannot safely be converted into a specific ward or the City Centre.
- The charity reported £0 income and £0 expenditure for each of the financial years ending 31 December 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. This makes the extent of any current active delivery in Birmingham uncertain.
- The recorded address in Walsall is outside Birmingham and should be treated as a registered or correspondence address rather than evidence of a Birmingham operational site.
- There is no current evidence of Birmingham-based partners materially extending Fortel Aid’s reach, nor of physical sites owned or leased by the charity.
Additional evidence needed
- A current activity, impact or grant report identifying active Birmingham projects, recipients, venues or partnerships.
- Confirmation from Fortel Aid of whether it currently delivers, funds or supports any activity in Birmingham, and the relevant locations.
- Publicly verifiable information from any current Birmingham partner or funded organisation naming Fortel Aid and describing the work or location involved.
Areas of work
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
How they help
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
An intermediary model built around local organisational partners
The evidence suggests Fortel Aid's main contribution is resourcing other charities and voluntary bodies, rather than delivering support directly to individuals. Its stated intention to work with local groups may indicate an effort to reach communities through organisations already embedded in place.
Why it matters
This clarifies that Fortel Aid's influence is likely shaped by partner selection and grant relationships. Understanding those relationships would reveal more about its practical reach than a list of charitable purposes would.
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“Who the charity helps: Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies.”
Source:Charity Commission“How the charity helps: Makes Grants To Organisations.”
Source:Charity Commission“Provide resources by working with local groups in India and other developing countries to overcome poverty.”
Source:Organisation
A broad remit may enable responsiveness but obscures strategic focus
Fortel Aid combines disaster relief, poverty reduction, support for sick-poor people, education, community development and UK charitable support. This may indicate a deliberately flexible funding approach, capable of responding across urgent relief and longer-term development needs.
Why it matters
The breadth is distinctive because it may allow the charity to bridge immediate crises and underlying deprivation. It also raises a useful question about how it decides between competing needs and geographies.
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“The relief of financial need and suffering among victims of natural or other kinds of disaster in India and other developing countries.”
Source:Charity Commission“The prevention or relief of poverty in India by providing grants, items and services to charities, or other organisations.”
Source:Charity Commission“What the charity does: Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Economic/community Development/employment.”
Source:Charity Commission
India appears to be the organisation's strongest geographic anchor
Although Fortel Aid can support developing countries more widely and UK communities, India is named repeatedly in its objects and activities. This suggests India may be its principal area of identity, expertise or partnership development.
Why it matters
A geographic anchor can shape networks, local knowledge and the kinds of opportunities the organisation is able to recognise. Confirming this would help distinguish a globally responsive funder from one rooted in a particular transnational civic connection.
Show evidence
“The prevention or relief of poverty in India.”
Source:Charity Commission“The relief of the sick-poor living in India.”
Source:Charity Commission“Help relieve suffering among victims of natural or other kind of disasters, in India and other developing countries.”
Source:Organisation
- Which organisations receive grants, and whether they are locally led.
- How funding is divided between India, other developing countries and UK communities.
- Whether buildings, facilities or open space are a material part of its work.
- How the charity identifies need and evaluates the effects of grants.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, accounts and grant lists showing recipients, locations, amounts and purposes.
- Information on partner-selection criteria, local relationships and decision-making.
- Examples of completed projects and evidence of outcomes for communities.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
1. Help relieve suffering among victims of natural or other kind of disasters, in India and other developing countries; 2. Provide resources by working with local groups in India and other developing countries to overcome poverty; 3. Fulfilling of such other purposes as may from time to time be recognised by English Law as being charitable, ie. to support UK charities and local communities
Charity objects
THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL NEED AND SUFFERING AMONG VICTIMS OF NATURAL OR OTHER KINDS OF DISASTER IN THE FORM OF MONEY (OR OTHER MEANS DEEMED SUITABLE) FOR PERSONS AFFECTED IN INDIA AND OTHER DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AS MAY SEEM APPROPRIATE FROM TIME TO TIME. THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN INDIA BY PROVIDING: GRANTS, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY. THE RELIEF OF THE SICK-POOR LIVING IN INDIA EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF GRANTS TO ORGANISATIONS OR CHARITIES. THE FULFILLING OF SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE RECOGNISED BY ENGLISH LAW AS BEING CHARITABLE AND WHICH THE CHARITY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.