Human Help
Charity 1190251
Overview
Summary
Human Help appears to combine youth development, faith-informed education and practical welfare within a broad charitable remit. Its stated activities suggest an approach that uses Islamic education, sport and character development as interconnected ways of building young people’s confidence and participation, while also retaining a wider commitment to poverty relief and support for people with varied needs. The available evidence indicates a potentially community-rooted organisation, but does not yet show its geographic reach, delivery model or active partnerships.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Sparkbrook and Balsall Heath East
Confidence: low
Human Help's current Charity Commission record and 2024 trustees' report identify a principal address in Balsall Heath, Birmingham. However, a principal or registered address is not evidence of operational activity in this ward, and the supplied evidence does not establish that services are delivered in Sparkbrook and Balsall Heath East.
- Charity Commission Register of Charities, Human Help (1190251)
Lists the charity's address in Balsall Heath, Birmingham. - Human Help trustees' annual report for year ended 31 December 2024
Identifies an address in Balsall Heath, Birmingham as the charity's principal address.
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission's current 'Where the charity operates' declaration is Birmingham City, supporting a citywide coverage classification, but the available reports do not identify individual Birmingham neighbourhoods, venues, sessions or beneficiary catchments.
- The 2024 trustees' report describes sports and recreational activity for children in 'our community', but does not name that community or any delivery location. It therefore supports active service delivery but not a neighbourhood-level service footprint.
- The Charity Commission states that the charity owns and/or leases land or property, but neither the register nor the available annual report identifies the property. It cannot be assumed to be the principal address.
- No official website, project pages, partner evidence or current impact reporting were available to evidence delivery through partners or at additional Birmingham sites.
- The charity's objects include poverty relief anywhere in the world. This is an authorised purpose rather than evidence of current international delivery.
Additional evidence needed
- A current programme timetable, service prospectus or annual report naming the venues and wards where Islamic education, sports and recreational activities are delivered.
- Confirmation from Human Help of whether its principal address is an active delivery venue, an administrative/correspondence address, or both.
- Details of any leased or owned property, including its operational use and the broad area served.
- Current evidence of formal delivery partners, referral partners or host venues and the areas in which those arrangements operate.
- Beneficiary or attendance data showing whether activity reported as operating across Birmingham is delivered citywide or is concentrated in particular neighbourhoods.
Areas of work
- Disability
- General Charitable Purposes
- Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- Recreation
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
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
Youth development is framed as both social and moral participation
The organisation appears to treat recreation, education and moral character as mutually reinforcing parts of helping young people become capable participants in society, rather than as separate services.
Why it matters
This suggests its role may extend beyond activity provision into longer-term personal and social development. It may therefore overlap productively with youth, education, sports and family-support organisations.
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“The charity's objects include recreational and leisure-time activities designed to improve young people's conditions of life.”
Source:Charity Commission“Providing Islamic education, organising sports activities and developing moral character.”
Source:Organisation
Faith-informed activity may be a bridge rather than a narrow service area
Islamic education appears alongside sport, welfare and character development, suggesting faith may provide a shared setting and values framework for wider social support rather than being the organisation's only purpose.
Why it matters
This may help explain how the organisation builds trust and engagement, particularly where mainstream services have limited reach. It also raises useful questions about which communities it connects and whether it acts as a referral or support gateway.
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“Providing Islamic education.”
Source:Organisation“The charity works in human rights, religious or racial harmony, equality or diversity.”
Source:Charity Commission“Helping those in need.”
Source:Organisation
The stated beneficiary scope is broader than the visible activity list
While the most specific activities focus on young people, the charity reports helping older people, disabled people and the general public, and has objects extending to global poverty relief. This may indicate a broad mandate with only part of its current work visible.
Why it matters
Understanding whether this breadth reflects active programmes, occasional assistance or aspirational capacity is important for identifying its real role and potential partners.
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“The charity helps children or young people, elderly or old people, people with disabilities and the general public.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity's objects include relieving poverty anywhere in the world through education, training, healthcare projects and support for sustainable income.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which activities are currently delivered, and to which communities and age groups.
- Whether poverty relief and international work are active programmes or broad charitable powers.
- How services, advice and advocacy are delivered, including any partner organisations.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, activity updates or accounts showing programmes, participant numbers and expenditure.
- Information on service locations, referral pathways, volunteer roles and partnerships.
- Participant or community feedback showing the organisation's practical role and reach.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Providing Islamic education Organising sports activities Developing moral character Helping those in need
Charity objects
A) TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND RELIEVE NEEDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH: ·THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES PROVIDED IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE, DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE; · PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS. B) The prevention or relief of poverty anywhere in the world by providing or assisting in the provision of education, training, healthcare projects and all the necessary support designed to enable individuals to generate a sustainable income and be self-sufficient.