Midlands Ileostomy Association
Charity 1035577
Overview
Summary
Midlands Ileostomy Association appears to be a condition-specific, member-oriented support charity operating across the Midlands. Its role extends beyond information-sharing: it combines peer-relevant communication, practical financial help, and care, counselling and advice for people living with, or preparing for, ostomy-related surgery. The available evidence suggests an organisation designed to reduce the practical and social consequences of a major health intervention, while maintaining an informed community through regular contact.
Operational geography
Coverage: Regional
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission record directly reports that the charity operates in Birmingham City, but it does not identify any Birmingham ward, recognised place, service venue, meeting location or delivery route. No supplied area identifier can therefore be evidenced as a current operational area.
- The charity's reported activity is principally a quarterly bulletin for members across the Midlands, alongside individual grants, care and counselling. The available evidence does not show whether any of these services are delivered in person in Birmingham, delivered remotely to Birmingham residents, or administered from outside the city.
- No material Birmingham-based delivery partners are identified in the available evidence.
- The registered contact address does not evidence a Birmingham physical site.
- The organisation's website could not be used to verify current local meetings, hospital links or venues.
Additional evidence needed
- A current programme, bulletin, event calendar or service directory identifying Birmingham venues, hospital links, support groups or outreach arrangements.
- Confirmation from the organisation of whether Birmingham support is remote, postal, hospital-based, home-based or delivered through specific local partners.
- Evidence of any current Birmingham partnership agreements or referral routes with NHS trusts, stoma-care teams or local voluntary organisations.
Areas of work
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who they help
- People With Disabilities
How they help
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A support network built around a life-changing transition
The charity appears to support people both before and after colon-removal surgery or ostomy formation, suggesting a role across a transition rather than solely ongoing post-operative support.
Why it matters
This indicates that the organisation may be valuable at points of uncertainty and adjustment, when medical treatment alone may not address information, confidence or practical needs.
Show evidence
“To help anyone whose colon has been or is about to be removed by surgical procedure or who has an ostomy or an internal pouch.”
Source:Charity Commission“We provide care and counselling services to people with special needs e.g. people with an ileostomy.”
Source:Organisation
Information is treated as a continuing form of care
Regular bulletins, alongside conferences, seminars and courses in the objects, suggest that maintaining informed connection is a core part of the charity's model, not simply an administrative activity.
Why it matters
This points to a potential role in reducing isolation and helping members navigate changing practical or health-related issues over time.
Show evidence
“We provide a three monthly news bulletin magazine for our members in the Midlands area.”
Source:Organisation“To keep ileostomists and others informed by the periodic dissemination of information, publication of a bulletin, and arranging conferences, seminars and courses.”
Source:Charity Commission
The organisation combines universal community support with targeted material assistance
Alongside services and information for members, the charity makes grants to individuals, which may indicate recognition that ostomy-related needs can include financial pressures or highly individual practical barriers.
Why it matters
This hybrid model distinguishes the charity from a purely peer-support or information organisation and may make it an important referral point for people whose needs extend beyond advice.
Show evidence
“We make grants to individuals.”
Source:Organisation“Makes Grants To Individuals, Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Whether support is delivered directly, through volunteers, clinical partners or member networks.
- Who can access grants, counselling and information beyond members, and across which parts of the Midlands.
- Whether the charity works with hospitals, stoma nurses, other disability charities or national ostomy organisations.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or accounts showing beneficiary numbers, grant expenditure, service delivery and volunteer capacity.
- Information on referral pathways, membership eligibility, geographic coverage and partnerships with health or community organisations.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
We provide a three monthly news bulletin magazine for our members in the Midlands area. We make grants to individuals and provide care and counselling services to people with special needs e.g. people with an ileostomy and we raise funds to cover our activities.
Charity objects
(A) TO HELP ANYONE WHOSE COLON HAS BEEN OR IS ABOUT TO BE REMOVED BY SURGICAL PROCEDURE OR WHO HAS AN OSTOMY OR AN INTERNAL POUCH (B) TO KEEP ILEOSTOMISTS AND OTHERS INFORMED OF ALL MATTERS OF INTEREST TO THE CHARITY BY THE PERIODIC DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATIOM BY WAY OF THE PUBLICATION OF A BULLETIN BY ARRANGING CONFERENCES, SEMINARS AND COURSES ON TOPICS OF INTEREST, AND IN ANY OTHER MANNER THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CONSIDERS APPROPRIATE