Kaity
Charity 1165563
Overview
Summary
Kaity appears to be a fundraising-led health charity with a focused origin in juvenile idiopathic arthritis but a wider practical funding role across rheumatology and cancer care in the Midlands. Its model seems to translate social fundraising events into flexible support for both individuals and clinical or research-facing organisations. This combination may allow it to respond to needs across patient care pathways, although the evidence does not yet show how funding priorities are chosen or how support is distributed.
Operational geography
Coverage: Regional
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission records Birmingham City among KAITY's declared operating areas, but do not identify a Birmingham ward, recognised place, service venue or recipient organisation. No operational area can therefore be mapped to one of the supplied Birmingham identifiers.
- KAITY's stated activity is primarily fundraising and making financial support available to rheumatology departments and cancer treatment, rather than operating a clearly identified public-facing local service. The available evidence does not show which Birmingham providers, departments or communities currently receive support.
- The charity's address should be treated as a contact or correspondence address rather than evidence of an operational site in Birmingham. The Charity Commission states that the charity does not own or lease land or property.
- The latest filed accounts and trustees' annual report cover the year ending 1 October 2024 and record £0 expenditure. This limits confidence that the stated Midlands support activity reflects grants or services delivered during that reporting year.
Additional evidence needed
- The latest trustees' annual report or grant schedule identifying recipient hospitals, rheumatology departments, cancer services or projects in Birmingham.
- Confirmation from KAITY or named recipient organisations of any current Birmingham-based funding relationships.
- Details of the locations of fundraising events or any public-facing support activities, if these are intended to be counted as operational delivery.
Areas of work
- Disability
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Services
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A focused cause has developed into a broader health-support role
Kaity’s formal purpose centres on people with juvenile idiopathic arthritis, but its stated activities extend support to children’s and adults’ rheumatology departments and to oesophageal, stomach and other cancers. This may indicate that the charity operates as a flexible health funder rather than solely as a condition-specific charity.
Why it matters
This helps explain a potentially wider role in local health systems than its charity object alone suggests, while raising a useful question about how it balances its original mission with broader medical needs.
Show evidence
“To assist in the treatment and care of sufferers from juvenile idiopathic arthritis by the provision of financial assistance and other means of support.”
Source:Charity Commission“Donate profits to Children and Adults Rheumatology departments in The Midlands and funding for the treatment of Oesophageal and Stomach Cancer and other Cancers, as required.”
Source:Organisation
Social events appear to be the engine of its giving
Kaity appears to convert community participation in balls, raffles and auctions into funding for health-related support. Its operating model may therefore depend on relationships with event attendees, donors and local supporters as much as on clinical partnerships.
Why it matters
Understanding this model identifies Kaity as a possible bridge between community fundraising and medical services, and highlights potential sensitivity to the strength and continuity of its local supporter network.
Show evidence
“Collecting contributions.”
Source:Organisation“Arranging charity Balls to sell tickets to attend with raffles and auctions to increase funds.”
Source:Organisation
It may support several points in the care ecosystem
Because Kaity reports grants to individuals and organisations, services, and research sponsorship, it may be positioned to support patients directly while also contributing to institutional capacity or knowledge development.
Why it matters
This suggests opportunities for the charity to connect needs identified by patients with opportunities in clinical departments and research. It also makes its decision-making criteria especially important to understand.
Show evidence
“Makes Grants To Individuals, Makes Grants To Organisations, Provides Services, Sponsors Or Undertakes Research.”
Source:Charity Commission“The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability.”
Source:Charity Commission
- How Kaity decides between juvenile arthritis, rheumatology and cancer-related funding requests.
- Whether it directly provides services or primarily funds other people and organisations.
- Which Midlands departments, communities and patient groups receive support in practice.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or accounts showing grants, beneficiaries, expenditure and fundraising income.
- Details of funded projects, clinical partners, individual-support criteria and research activity.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Collecting contributions. Arranging charity Balls to sell tickets to attend with raffles and auctions to increase funds. Donate profits to Children and Adults Rheumatology departments in The Midlands and funding for the treatment of Oesophageal and Stomach Cancer and other Cancers, as required.
Charity objects
TO ASSIST IN THE TREATMENT AND CARE OF SUFFERERS FROM JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS BY THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND OTHER MEANS OF SUPPORT