Hands On Carers Charity
Charity 1184704
Overview
Summary
Hands On Carers Charity appears to operate as a practical support and advocacy organisation for carers, while recognising that carers’ wellbeing is closely connected to the needs of the people they support. Its activity mix suggests a role that extends beyond advice into crisis relief, rights-based advocacy, peer connection and opportunities for respite. The organisation may be addressing the cumulative pressures of caring, particularly where financial insecurity, disability, appeals processes and limited breaks interact.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Soho and Jewellery Quarter
Confidence: low
A current Birmingham Warm Welcome listing identifies Hands on Carers as providing regular opening hours and ongoing support, including carer support, luncheon club, forum meetings, food-bank provision and welfare-rights advice. However, the available evidence does not support assigning this activity to a specific ward.
- Birmingham Warm Welcome directory data, reproduced by Open Innovations
Lists Hands on Carers in Birmingham with regular Monday, Wednesday and Friday opening hours and ongoing services for carers and cared-for people, including a luncheon club, forum meetings, food-bank service, and welfare-rights and guidance support.
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission records Birmingham City as the area in which the charity operates, supporting a citywide overall footprint, but do not identify which Birmingham neighbourhoods beneficiaries are drawn from or where outreach, advocacy and respite support are delivered.
- The evidence establishes an active service location rather than merely a correspondence address, but it does not establish whether the charity uses further venues or delivers services in carers' homes or other community settings.
- No current evidence was found of formal delivery partnerships that materially extend the charity's operational geography. Funders and directory inclusion should not be treated as delivery partnerships.
- The charity's working name, Handsworth Carers Group, suggests an historical association with Handsworth, but the available current evidence does not justify recording Handsworth as a current operational area.
Additional evidence needed
- A current service timetable, referral criteria or annual/impact report showing the locations served by advice, advocacy, food-bank, respite and youth activities.
- Confirmation from the charity of any additional delivery venues, outreach locations, or home-based service coverage within Birmingham.
- Current information from named delivery partners, if any, showing whether they host or co-deliver services elsewhere in Birmingham.
Areas of work
- Disability
- General Charitable Purposes
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- Other Defined Groups
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- People With Disabilities
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A whole-household view of caring
The charity appears to treat carers and cared-for people as interconnected rather than as separate service users. Its purpose may therefore be to stabilise caring relationships as well as support individual carers.
Why it matters
This helps explain why its remit is broad: support for a carer can affect the wellbeing, continuity of care and independence of the person receiving care.
Show evidence
“The charity's objects are to relieve the need of carers, and those who are cared for.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps children and young people, elderly people, people with disabilities and other defined groups.”
Source:Charity Commission
Support combines immediate relief with rights navigation
The organisation appears to combine practical assistance with help navigating welfare and legal-administrative systems. This may indicate that it sees carers' hardship as shaped not only by care demands, but also by difficulties securing entitlements and being heard.
Why it matters
This distinguishes the charity from a purely social or respite provider: it may help people address both immediate pressures and the systems contributing to them.
Show evidence
“Activities include welfare rights advice and guidance, support with appeals and tribunals, and advocacy services.”
Source:Charity Commission“Activities include assisting carers to have respite breaks and providing food bank services.”
Source:Charity Commission
Caring pressure may be linked to social and financial isolation
Forum meetings, seasonal activities for young people and food bank services suggest the charity may be responding to isolation and financial strain alongside formal caring needs. The inclusion of people of particular ethnic or racial origin may indicate an intention to reach communities facing additional barriers, although no tailored approach is described.
Why it matters
This raises the possibility that the organisation is a local point of connection for carers whose needs extend beyond a single issue or service pathway.
Show evidence
“Activities include forum meetings, seasonal activities for young people and food bank services.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps people of a particular ethnic or racial origin.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which carers, geographic communities and age groups are the organisation's primary focus.
- Whether food bank, respite and advocacy services are delivered directly or through referral partners.
- How people from particular ethnic or racial groups are reached or supported.
Remaining uncertainties
- Service data showing beneficiary groups, volumes, outcomes and referral routes.
- Information on delivery partners, geographic coverage and the organisation's approach to outreach and inclusion.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Provide welfare rights advice and guidance. Assist Carers to have respite breaks Support Carers with appeals and tribunals Advocacy Services Seasonal activities for young people Forum meetings. Food bank Services
Charity objects
TO RELIEVE THE NEED OF CARERS, AND THOSE WHO ARE CARED FOR, THROUGH, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT, ADVICE AND OTHER ACTIVITIES DIRECTED AT RELIEVING THEIR CHARITABLE NEED AS THE TRUSTEES WILL DETERMINE.