James Hayes
Charity 241898
www.glass-sellers.co.uk/charity
Overview
Summary
James Hayes appears to be a narrowly focused welfare charity embedded in the Glass Sellers’ livery-company and glass-industry ecosystem. Its role is distinctive not because it delivers broad public services, but because it directs relief through an occupational and relationship-based community: first to members and dependants of the Glass-Sellers Company, then to people connected with glass manufacturing, wholesale and retail. The available evidence also suggests that its charitable purpose sits alongside a wider institutional network that promotes glass, maintains industry ties and convenes members.
Operational geography
Coverage: National
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- No current direct evidence identifies a service, grant recipient, delivery partner or physical operational site for James Hayes within any Birmingham ward or recognised place.
- The charity's objects permit relief grants to eligible people connected with the Glass Sellers' Company or the glass industry without stating a territorial limit. This supports a cautious national interpretation of potential reach, but does not evidence current activity in Birmingham.
- The supplied financial record reports zero income and zero expenditure for the year ending January 31, 2025. It is therefore unclear whether James Hayes is currently making grants at all.
- The Glass Sellers website contains current activity for the separately registered Glass Sellers Charity Fund (charity number 253973). Its material should not be treated as evidence that James Hayes (charity number 241898) operates in Birmingham.
Additional evidence needed
- The latest trustees' annual report, accounts or grant register for James Hayes, showing grants made and recipient locations.
- Confirmation from the trustees or the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers of whether James Hayes has made any grants, maintained any partnerships or operated any activity in Birmingham since February 1, 2025.
- Any current grant application guidance or beneficiary records identifying the charity's actual geographic area of benefit.
Areas of work
- General Charitable Purposes
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- Other Defined Groups
How they help
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A welfare fund rooted in occupational belonging
The charity appears to use connection to a particular trade and livery community as its main route for identifying need, rather than serving a geographically defined population.
Why it matters
This helps explain both its likely reach and its limits: value may come from trusted knowledge of a specialist community, while access may depend on people being visible within that community.
Show evidence
“Grants may be made for members of the Glass-Sellers Company of the City of London and their widows, children and other dependants.”
Source:Charity Commission“Subject to this, grants may be made for people employed in glass manufacturing, wholesale and retail, and their dependants.”
Source:Charity Commission
A two-tier beneficiary model
The objects indicate a deliberate priority structure: relief for the Glass-Sellers Company community comes before a wider, but still industry-specific, glass workforce community.
Why it matters
This distinction is important for understanding who may benefit first, and raises a useful question about whether the wider glass-industry remit is actively used or mainly a residual provision.
Show evidence
“The objects state that support for people employed in the glass industry is subject to support for members of the Glass-Sellers Company and their dependants.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity makes grants to individuals and organisations.”
Source:Charity Commission
Charitable relief may sit within a broader glass-sector network
The available material suggests the charity is connected to an institution that combines member activity, industry relationships and promotion of glass, potentially giving it access to networks beyond conventional welfare provision.
Why it matters
This may create opportunities for referral, fundraising and collaboration with glass-sector organisations, while also making it important to distinguish charitable grant-making from the wider Company’s social and promotional activity.
Show evidence
“The Glass Sellers state that they assist in the promotion of glass and maintain continuing contacts with the glass industry.”
Source:Organisation“Recent website content includes member events, a visit to Glass Futures and an item about the Glass Sellers’ Alliance with RAF Leeming.”
Source:Organisation
- The evidence does not show the number, value or recipients of grants, or whether support is mainly for individuals or organisations.
- It is unclear how people outside the Glass-Sellers Company learn about, qualify for or access support.
- The relationship between James Hayes and the wider Glass Sellers organisation is not explicitly described.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or accounts showing grant volumes, beneficiary categories and geographic reach.
- Grant eligibility, application and referral information, including evidence of support for the wider glass-industry workforce.
- Information explaining governance and operational links between the charity and the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
General Charitable causes associated with Glass
Charity objects
IN MAKING GRANTS FOR THE RELIEF OF IN CASES OF NEED OF MEMBERS OF THE GLASS-SELLERS COMPANY OF THE CITY OF LONDON AND THEIR WIDOWS, CHILDREN AND OTHER DEPENDANTS AND SUBJECT THERETO IN MAKING GRANTS FOR THE RELIEF IN CASES OF NEED OF PERSONS WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN EMPLOYED IN ANY OF THE GLASS INDUSTRY, NAMELY, THE MANUFACTURING, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL BRANCHES, AND THEIR WIDOWS OR WIDOWERS, CHILDREN AND OTHER DEPENDENTS.