Midlands Ogaden Community Association
Charity 1150594
Overview
Summary
Midlands Ogaden Community Association appears to be a community-rooted bridge organisation: it combines practical support for people facing day-to-day barriers with a broader ambition to build shared social infrastructure for Birmingham and the Midlands. Its stated focus on the Ogaden community sits alongside an explicitly inclusive remit, suggesting it may translate trusted cultural relationships into wider civic participation, advice access and community connection. The evidence indicates a potentially broad role, but provides little insight into its current scale, partnerships or outcomes.
Operational geography
Coverage: Neighbourhood
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- There is no reliable current evidence that the organisation is delivering services from, or elsewhere within, Birmingham.
- The supplied charity record describes activities including advice, translation, housing support and after-school provision, but its latest financial information is for the year ending 31 March 2015 and does not identify service locations.
- The registered office address is not evidence on its own of a current operational site.
- Companies House identifies Midlands Ogaden Community Association (company 06390673) as dissolved on 19 December 2017. This materially conflicts with the supplied record's 'Registered' status and makes any conclusion about current delivery particularly uncertain.
- The charity's objects refer to Birmingham and the Midlands, but these are stated purposes rather than evidence of present operational coverage; they do not justify a citywide or regional operational conclusion.
- No current official website, annual report, project page, venue listing or partner evidence was found to demonstrate active delivery locations or partnerships.
Additional evidence needed
- A current Charity Commission entry or confirmation of whether charity number 1150594 remains active, has been removed, or transferred its activities to another legal entity.
- Recent annual reports, trustees' reports or accounts identifying current activities, beneficiaries and delivery locations.
- A current organisation-controlled contact channel, website or social-media presence confirming whether services continue and where they are delivered.
- Evidence from any current statutory, voluntary-sector or venue partners confirming active referral, delivery or premises arrangements.
Areas of work
- Accommodation/housing
- Amateur Sport
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- Recreation
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
How they help
- Other Charitable Activities
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A culturally rooted gateway to wider support
The association appears to use a particular connection with the Ogaden community as a basis for serving a wider local population without distinction. Translation, interpretation and advice work may make it especially relevant to people who face language, navigation or trust barriers when engaging with services.
Why it matters
This suggests its distinctive value may lie not only in delivering activities, but in making wider systems more accessible through culturally trusted relationships.
Show evidence
“The objects identify the Ogaden community while stating that benefit should be provided without distinction of sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, nationality, race, or political, religious or other opinions.”
Source:Charity Commission“Activities include Advice and Information and Translation Interpretation.”
Source:Organisation
Practical help is paired with community-building ambitions
Its activity list suggests immediate support around housing, information and donated clothing, while its objects envision education, recreation and a community centre. This may indicate an operating model that links crisis-responsive help with longer-term belonging and participation.
Why it matters
Understanding this dual role helps distinguish the association from a narrowly specialist advice provider or a purely social community group.
Show evidence
“Activities include Housing Issues, Collect second hand clothes and After School.”
Source:Organisation“The objects include advancing education, providing facilities for recreation and leisure-time occupation, and establishing or securing a community centre.”
Source:Charity Commission
The organisation may span generations rather than serve one life stage
The combination of after-school activity and stated support for elderly people suggests the association may function as a cross-generational community anchor, rather than being organised around a single age group.
Why it matters
Cross-generational organisations can create opportunities for shared networks, informal support and community continuity that are easily missed in service categories.
Show evidence
“Activities include After School.”
Source:Organisation“The charity helps Children/young People and Elderly/old People.”
Source:Organisation
- Whether the community-centre ambition has been realised and what physical spaces the association currently uses.
- Which organisations or public services it works with, and whether advice support includes formal referrals or advocacy.
- The scale, geography and outcomes of its current work.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, service descriptions and beneficiary data showing current delivery and outcomes.
- Information on premises, partner organisations, funding sources and referral relationships.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Advice and Information, After School, Collect second hand clothes, Translation Interpretation, Housing Issues,
Charity objects
TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF BIRMINGHAM AND THE MIDLANDS,IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT RESTRICTED TO THE OGADEN COMMUNITY,WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX,SEXUAL ORIENTATION,AGE,DISABILITY,NATIONALITY,RACE OR OF POLITICAL,RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS,BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES,VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS;2)TO ESTABLISH,OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF,A COMMUNITY CENTRE AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE SAME(WHETHER ALONE OR IN CO-OPERATION WITH ANY STATUTORY AUTHORITY OR OTHER PERSON OR BODY)IN FURTHERANCE OF THE OBJECTS;3)TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED.