Khadimabad Welfare Trust (UK) Ltd
Charity 1122479
Overview
Summary
Khadimabad Welfare Trust (UK) Ltd appears to be a diaspora-linked, place-focused grantmaking charity connecting donors with needs in Khadimabad and surrounding villages in Azad Kashmir. Its role is unusually broad: it spans school support, healthcare, poverty relief and disaster response, while working through a mix of direct financial support, facilities, services and transfers to like-minded charities. The available evidence suggests a flexible local safety-net function rather than a single-programme service provider.
Operational geography
Coverage: International
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct evidence: the Charity Commission currently records the charity as operating in Birmingham City and Pakistan. However, it provides no Birmingham ward, venue, project location or service-delivery address.
- Reasonable interpretation: Birmingham appears to be an administrative and fundraising base alongside an overseas charitable focus in Khadimabad, surrounding villages and Azad Kashmir, rather than evidence of a neighbourhood, district or citywide frontline service network within Birmingham.
- The registered address should not be treated as an operational site: it may be a correspondence or trustee address, and the Charity Commission states that the charity does not own or lease land or property.
- The charity reports forwarding some donations to other like-minded charities, but does not identify those organisations or their locations; no partnership can therefore be treated as materially extending its Birmingham operational reach.
- No accessible official website, annual report or project documentation was available to establish whether the charity currently delivers any services, makes grants, or undertakes fundraising activity in a particular Birmingham ward.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual report, trustees' report or detailed annual return identifying where Birmingham-based fundraising, grants or services take place.
- Official confirmation of whether the registered address is used for charity operations, rather than solely as a registered correspondence address.
- A current official website or project documentation naming any Birmingham delivery venues, community partners, grant recipients or regular events.
- Details of the recipient charities to which donations are forwarded, including whether any are Birmingham-based.
Areas of work
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- 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
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Other Finance
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A geographically anchored charity with a broad safety-net role
The trust appears to concentrate multiple forms of support on one defined community and its surrounding villages. Its objects suggest it can respond to both persistent needs, such as education and poor health, and sudden shocks, such as bereavement, accidents and disasters.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish the trust from charities organised around one issue. It may be an important local connector because it can see hardship as interconnected rather than separating education, health and poverty into different systems.
Show evidence
“Its objects cover education, healthcare, financial hardship, disaster relief and hardship caused by sudden changes in circumstances in Khadimabad and surrounding villages.”
Source:Charity Commission“It helps children and young people, elderly people, people with disabilities and the general public.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its operating model appears designed for flexibility rather than direct delivery alone
The trust appears to use donations as a pooled resource that can be deployed through grants, finance, facilities and services, including through other charities. This may allow it to respond where local capacity or circumstances make one delivery method unsuitable.
Why it matters
Understanding this flexibility is important when considering potential partnerships: the trust may be a funder, convenor or enabling organisation, not only a frontline provider.
Show evidence
“It collects donations to meet its objectives and forwards some donations to other like-minded charities.”
Source:Organisation“It makes grants to individuals and organisations, provides other finance, buildings or facilities, and services.”
Source:Charity Commission
Education is framed as filling public-system gaps
The education object is not simply to support schooling generally; it specifically focuses on facilities not required from the local education authority for pupils at Govt High School Khadimabad. This may indicate a complementary role alongside, rather than in place of, statutory provision.
Why it matters
This suggests a potentially distinctive contribution: identifying practical constraints around a named school that public funding may not cover. It raises useful questions about whether this approach could inform support for other local institutions.
Show evidence
“It aims to provide or assist facilities for education at Govt High School Khadimabad that are not required to be provided by the local education authority.”
Source:Charity Commission“Education and training is listed among its charitable activities.”
Source:Charity Commission
- There is no evidence of the trust's current projects, scale, geographic reach beyond the stated area, or the proportion of funds delivered directly versus through other charities.
- It is unclear which needs are most urgent locally and whether education, health, hardship or disaster response receives the greatest practical emphasis.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or accounts showing expenditure by programme, grant recipients and delivery partners.
- Information from beneficiaries, local institutions and partner charities about unmet needs, outcomes and the trust's role in local relationships.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
COLLECTING DONATIONS AND USING THESE TO MEET CHARITY'S OBJECTIVES AND ALSO FORWARDING SOME DONATIONS TO OTHER LIKE MINDED CHARITIES
Charity objects
A) EDUCATION: TO PROVIDE OR FACILITATE THE EDUCATION OF SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN, AT PRIMARY AND SECONDARY LEVEL. TO PROVIDE OR FACILITATE THE EDUCATION OF PUPILS AT GOVT HIGH SCHOOL KHADIMABAD (AK) BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES NOT REQUIRED TO BE PROVIDED BY THE LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITY FOR EDUCATION AT SCHOOL. B) HEALTHCARE: TO RELIEVE SICKNESS, POOR HEALTH AND OLD AGE AMONGST PEOPLE LIVING IN THE REGION OF KHADIMABAD BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES, SUPPORT SERVICES AND EQUIPMENT NOT NORMALLY PROVIDED BY THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES. C) RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP: THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONG PEOPLE LIVING OR WORKING IN KHADIMABAD AND SURROUNDING VILLAGES, BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH GOODS/SERVICES OR BY MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY TO PROVIDE OR PAY FOR ITEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD THROUGH LACK OF MEANS. THE RELIEF OF THE SICK-POOR LIVING IN KHADAMABAD AND THE SURROUNDING VILLAGES EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF GRANTS, GOODS OR SERVICES. D) DISASTERS: THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL NEED AND SUFFERING AMONG VICTIMS OF NATURAL OR OTHER KINDS OF DISASTERS IN THE FORM OF MONEY (OR OTHER MEANS DEEMED SUITABLE) FOR PERSONS, BODIES, ORGANISATIONS AFFECTED, INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL AID. THE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE OF PEOPLE IN THE STATE OF AZAD KASHMIR WHO ARE VICTIMS OF NATURAL DISASTERS, TROUBLE OR CATASTROPHE, IN PARTICULAR BY THE SUPPLY OF MEDICAL AID TO SUCH PERSONS. E) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP DUE TO A SUDDEN CHANGE IN CIRCUMSTANCES (I.E. AN ACCIDENT OR A DEATH IN THE FAMILY) AMONG PEOPLE LIVING OR WORKING IN KHADIMABAD AND SURROUNDING VILLAGES, BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH ITEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES,. OR BY MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY TO PROVIDE OR PAY FOR ITEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES, WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD THROUGH LACK OF MEANS.