Furqan Help The Children Trust

Charity 1140799

Overview

Summary

Sources:Civic AtlasAI-assisted

Furqan Help The Children Trust appears to be a locally rooted, faith-informed organisation using children’s activities as a practical route into wider social welfare aims. Its stated focus on Small Heath and Sparkhill, alongside national and international purposes, suggests a broad formal mandate but a potentially neighbourhood-centred operating base. The available evidence points to a model combining developmental activities, advice and support for children and young people, including disabled people, with ambitions that extend to poverty relief and housing.

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Operational geography

Sources:ONSCivic AtlasAI-assisted

Coverage: Multi Neighbourhood

Operational areas:

Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Small Heath

Confidence: low

The charity's governing objects directly identify the community in Small Heath as an area of benefit. This reasonably indicates a neighbourhood-focused intended operational geography, but the available evidence does not confirm a currently active service, programme venue or physical site there.

  • Supplied organisation record / Charity Commission charity information
    The charity objects state that its charitable purposes are for the benefit of the community in 'Small Heath and Spark Hill in the City of Birmingham'.
  • Supplied organisation record / Charity Commission charity information
    Reported activities are an after-school club, sports and exercise activities, and cultural and social development activities.
Sparkhill

Confidence: low

The charity's governing objects directly identify the community in Spark Hill as an area of benefit. This supports an interpretation that Spark Hill is part of its intended neighbourhood footprint, but there is no current evidence identifying delivery, a venue, staff presence or a partner operation there.

  • Supplied organisation record / Charity Commission charity information
    The charity objects state that its charitable purposes are for the benefit of the community in 'Small Heath and Spark Hill in the City of Birmingham'.
  • Supplied organisation record / Charity Commission charity information
    Reported activities are an after-school club, sports and exercise activities, and cultural and social development activities.
Remaining uncertainties
  • The evidence identifies Small Heath and Spark Hill as areas of benefit in the charity's objects, rather than confirming that services are currently delivered in either area.
  • No current programme timetable, venue information, project report, annual report or official website content was available to establish where the after-school, sports, cultural or social activities take place.
  • The registered address has not been evidenced as a service venue and is therefore not treated as an operational site.
  • No material partnerships extending the charity's operational reach were identified.
  • The latest supplied financial record is for the year ended 31 December 2024 and records £0 income and £0 expenditure; this increases uncertainty about the charity's current level of activity.
Additional evidence needed
  • A current annual return, trustees' report or activity report confirming whether services are presently delivered and naming their locations.
  • Current programme publicity or a timetable for the after-school club, sports activities and cultural or social activities, including venue information.
  • Confirmation from the charity of whether its registered address is an operational base, a correspondence address or neither.
  • Details of any current delivery partners, host venues or referral arrangements in Birmingham.

Areas of work

Source:Charity Commission
  • Accommodation/housing
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

Who they help

Source:Charity Commission
  • Children/young People
  • People With Disabilities

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

  • Youth activity may be the organisation’s main point of connection

    The combination of after-school provision, sport and exercise, and cultural and social development suggests that regular group activities may be its primary way of reaching children and young people, rather than advice being a standalone service.

    Why it matters

    This indicates a relationship-based model: activities may build trust, belonging and routes to support that are harder to create through information provision alone.

    Show evidence

    • “After School Club.”

      Source:Organisation

    • “Sports and Exercise Activities.”

      Source:Organisation

    • “Cultural and Social Development Activities.”

      Source:Organisation

  • Its charitable purpose spans immediate support and longer-term development

    The organisation’s remit appears to connect poverty and sickness relief with education, recreation and social welfare. This may indicate an understanding that children’s needs cannot be separated neatly into material, educational and social categories.

    Why it matters

    This helps distinguish the organisation from a narrowly activity-based club: its programmes may be intended as part of a wider response to disadvantage and wellbeing.

    Show evidence

    • “The objects include the relief of poverty and sickness, the promotion of education and the provision of recreational facilities in the interests of social welfare.”

      Source:Charity Commission

    • “Provides Advocacy/advice/information.”

      Source:Organisation

  • The organisation may bridge faith, neighbourhood life and wider humanitarian ambition

    Its objects place advancement of Islam alongside charitable work in Small Heath and Sparkhill, while also allowing national and international benefit. This may position it as a faith-rooted civic connector with legitimacy in a local community and scope beyond it.

    Why it matters

    This raises useful questions about whether local relationships, religious networks or international ties shape its partnerships, fundraising or service reach.

    Show evidence

    • “The area of benefit includes Small Heath and Sparkhill in Birmingham, national and international.”

      Source:Charity Commission

    • “The objects include the advancement of the Islamic religion.”

      Source:Charity Commission

    Remaining uncertainties

  • Whether housing and poverty-relief work is currently delivered directly, referred elsewhere or only permitted by the objects.
  • How disabled children and young people are included in activities and advice provision.
  • Whether national and international work is active or only part of the organisation’s formal remit.

    Additional evidence needed

  • Recent annual reports, accounts or service descriptions showing current programmes, locations and beneficiary numbers.
  • Information on referral pathways, partner organisations and the practical form of advocacy, housing or poverty support.
  • Participant feedback or accessibility information showing how services respond to disability and local need.
Charity Commission profile
Source:Charity Commission

Activities

1. After School Club. 2. Sports and Exercise Activities. 3. Cultural and Social Development Activities.

Charity objects

FOR ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN SMALL HEATH AND SPARK HILL IN THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL (THE AREA OF BENEFIT) AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ISLAMIC RELIGION, AND ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHICH THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE ARE SUITABLE TO BE PURSUED IN CONNECTION WITH SUCH ADVANCEMENT INCLUDING THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS, THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION AND THE PROVISION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES