Human Appeal
Charity 1154288
Overview
Summary
Human Appeal appears to be a UK-rooted, faith-informed international humanitarian organisation that combines emergency response with longer-term recovery and household-level support. Its public model is unusually donor-facing: it links religious giving, highly specific donation products and visible impact claims across more than 30 countries. The available evidence suggests an organisation seeking to convert episodic charitable giving into sustained relationships with supporters, while operating through a mix of its own offices, projects and partner-delivered work.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Sparkhill
Confidence: high
Human Appeal's current contact page identifies The Third Space as its Birmingham Community Hub. Its official launch announcement identifies the hub as being in Sparkhill and describes locally delivered community activity.
- Human Appeal, Contact us
Lists The Third Space as Human Appeal's Birmingham Community Hub, one of its local community hubs used to host community events and fundraising. - Human Appeal, 'Human Appeal Launches Birmingham’s First Third Space Community Hub in Sparkhill', 1 October 2025
States that The Third Space opened in Sparkhill and would provide educational classes, social gatherings, volunteering, spiritual connection and essential community services for local residents.
Remaining uncertainties
- The available evidence confirms a physical community hub and intended local activity in Sparkhill, but does not specify the current frequency, scale or catchment of services delivered there.
- Human Appeal has held, and has scheduled, fundraising events at Birmingham city-centre venues. These temporary events demonstrate fundraising reach but do not by themselves establish a continuing operational site or citywide service delivery.
- The Wrap Up campaign lists several Birmingham collection points and partners, but the available page contains mixed 2025 and current campaign information. It is therefore unclear which Birmingham partner locations are active in 2026 and whether they function as ongoing operational delivery locations.
- Human Appeal's principal identity is international humanitarian aid: Birmingham appears to be a local fundraising and community-engagement base rather than a location for its main overseas aid delivery.
Additional evidence needed
- A current programme timetable or service description for The Third Space, including activities, attendance and intended beneficiary catchment.
- Official confirmation of active Birmingham delivery partners and collection/distribution locations for the 2026 Wrap Up campaign or other local programmes.
- A current Birmingham operational or impact report distinguishing local community services, fundraising activity and overseas-programme support.
Areas of work
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
Emergency response is paired with recovery-oriented programmes
Human Appeal appears to position crises not as isolated relief events but as entry points to longer-term support, combining food, water, health and shelter with livelihoods, agriculture, education and orphan sponsorship.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish the organisation from a purely emergency-focused fundraiser. Its potential role is to connect immediate survival needs with forms of household recovery that may continue after public attention moves elsewhere.
Show evidence
“Its activities include emergency and relief programmes, sustainable development, orphan programmes and social programmes.”
Source:Charity Commission“The website promotes livelihoods, food security, water and sanitation, health, education, emergency relief and child welfare projects.”
Source:Organisation
Faith-based giving appears central to its operating model
The organisation appears to use Islamic charitable practices, including Zakat, Sadaqah Jariyah, Qurbani and orphan sponsorship, as both a source of support and a framework for explaining impact.
Why it matters
This suggests Human Appeal may hold relationships, trust and fundraising reach within Muslim communities that could be valuable to other civic or humanitarian actors, while also shaping which forms of need and intervention are most visible in its public work.
Show evidence
“The website features Zakat, Sadaqah Jariyah, Qurbani and orphan sponsorship appeals.”
Source:Organisation“The website cites Qur'anic passages alongside donation appeals.”
Source:Organisation
The organisation makes unusually concrete promises to donors
Human Appeal appears to rely on detailed, product-like propositions—such as a defined number of meals, water recipients or trees—alongside a 100% donation policy and cost-allocation figures. This may be intended to make distant humanitarian work feel tangible and accountable.
Why it matters
This is important because it shapes the organisation's relationship with supporters: trust is being built through specificity, matching offers and visible attribution of each donation, rather than only broad appeals for unrestricted funding.
Show evidence
“The website states that 83% of every £1 spent goes to fighting poverty, 5% to support costs and 12% to raising future income.”
Source:Organisation“The website presents donations as funding specified items, including food parcels, hygiene kits, olive trees, water wells and healthcare.”
Source:Organisation
- The evidence does not show how decisions are made between directly delivered projects and partner-delivered projects.
- There is little information about local governance, beneficiary participation or the durability of outcomes after emergency support.
- The geographic distribution of spending and the relative scale of each programme area are unclear.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent audited accounts and annual reports showing income sources, expenditure by country and programme, and restricted versus unrestricted funding.
- Project evaluations or beneficiary feedback showing outcomes, local partnerships and the transition from relief to sustainable recovery.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Human Appeal changed its legal structure from a Trust to a Charitable Company (No:1154288). The historical information is available on Charity Commission under (previous Charity Number: 1005733) We aim to provide a holistic approach to humanitarian relief and development: 1. Emergency & relief programmes 2. Sustainable development 3. Orphans programmes 4. Social programmes.
Charity objects
(A) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD BY PROVIDING GRANTS, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY; (B) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING, HEALTHCARE OBJECTS AND ALL THE NECESSARY SUPPORT DESIGNED TO ENABLE INDIVIDUALS TO GENERATE A SUSTAINABLE INCOME AND BE SELF-SUFFICIENT; (C) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL NEED AND SUFFERING AMONGST VICTIMS OF NATURAL OR OTHER KIND OF DISASTERS IN THE FORM OF MONEY OR OTHER MEANS DEEMED SUITABLE FOR PERSONS, BODIES, ORGANISATIONS AND/OR COUNTRIES AFFECTED, INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL AID.