Mina Foundation
Charity 1208880
Overview
Summary
Mina Foundation appears to be an early-stage, carer-led charity operating at the intersection of chronic illness, ethnic inequality and financial hardship. Its role is not solely health information provision: it seeks to translate lived experience of caring into culturally sensitive peer support, navigation and advocacy. The organisation’s emerging model combines direct help for carers and families with awareness-raising and local partnership activity, potentially positioning it as a bridge between communities facing barriers and complex health, welfare and care systems.
Operational geography
Coverage: Regional
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct evidence: the Charity Commission currently records Mina Foundation as operating in both Birmingham City and Wolverhampton. However, it does not identify any Birmingham ward, venue, project location or delivery partner.
- Direct evidence from the charity's 2025 annual report and current project pages locates the described activities, venues, beneficiary examples and named partnerships in Wolverhampton, not Birmingham.
- Reasonable interpretation: Mina Foundation has a regional operational remit across Birmingham and Wolverhampton, but the available evidence does not support assigning current activity to any of the supplied Birmingham wards or to City Centre.
- No Birmingham physical site is evidenced. The registered address is in Wolverhampton, and the Charity Commission states that the charity does not own or lease land or property.
- The nature, frequency, scale and delivery mechanism of any current Birmingham activity remain unclear; it may consist of direct support, outreach, referrals, events, grants or beneficiaries reached through wider networks.
Additional evidence needed
- A current service timetable, event listings or project delivery record naming Birmingham venues, wards or neighbourhoods.
- Confirmation from Mina Foundation of the Birmingham locations where it currently delivers support, advice, groups, events, grants or outreach.
- Evidence from any Birmingham-based delivery or referral partners confirming a material and current operational relationship.
- A current annual report or impact report that separates Birmingham activity from Wolverhampton activity, including service locations and numbers reached.
Areas of work
- Disability
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
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
Carer experience appears to be the organisation’s organising asset
The available evidence suggests Mina Foundation is built around the lived experience of unpaid carers rather than around a single clinical condition. Heart and renal failure provide an initial focus, but caring, system navigation and family resilience appear to be its central lens.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish Mina from a condition-specific health charity. Its potential value may lie in understanding the combined practical, emotional and financial effects of long-term illness on whole families.
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“It is a volunteer carer led community organisation bringing together people with lived experience of caring for family members with congestive heart and renal failure.”
Source:Organisation“It provides informal emotional and peer support, advice and information for people caring for a family member or friend with long-term illness.”
Source:Organisation
It links health inequality to economic stability
Mina Foundation appears to treat chronic illness as a social and financial issue as well as a health issue, combining wellbeing activity with advice, advocacy and small hardship grants.
Why it matters
This integrated framing may make the charity relevant to welfare, poverty and carers’ organisations, not only health providers. It also suggests that financial pressure may be a significant route through which illness affects the communities it serves.
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“Its objects include providing information, advice, signposting and small grants for people experiencing financial hardship.”
Source:Charity Commission“Its work aims to build resilience, enhance quality of life and achieve economic stability.”
Source:Organisation
Cultural sensitivity is a stated strategy, but its local reach is not yet visible
The charity appears to target barriers experienced by Asian and African communities and other disproportionately affected groups through culturally sensitive support. However, the evidence does not yet show which communities, places or partner relationships are most active in practice.
Why it matters
Its distinctive contribution may depend on trusted community relationships that larger generic services cannot easily reproduce. Understanding its actual reach would clarify whether it is filling a locally significant access gap.
Show evidence
“The charity primarily aims to relieve needs among individuals of Asian and African ethnicity with chronic long-term hereditary health conditions.”
Source:Charity Commission“Its approach is culturally sensitive and supports carers and families disproportionately impacted by a health condition.”
Source:Organisation
- The scale, location and frequency of its direct support, grants and community activities are unclear.
- There is no evidence of beneficiary outcomes, referral routes, funding base or active local partners.
- It is unclear how broadly Mina works beyond heart and renal conditions.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent activity or annual reports showing participant numbers, communities reached, grants made and outcomes.
- Details of named partners, referral relationships and the geographic area served.
- Evidence from carers and families about whether culturally sensitive support changes access to health, welfare or care services.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Mina Foundation promotes and raises awareness of long term chronic conditions that impacts communities and carers, while providing direct support, advice, information, advocacy, healthy behaviour education and guidance on carers rights. We organise community events and wider activities with local partners to improve the physical and metal well-being for carers and their families facing inequality.
Charity objects
TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF INDIVIDUALS, PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY OF ASIAN AND AFRICAN ETHNICITY, AND THEIR FAMILIES OR CARERS, WHO SUFFER FROM CHRONIC LONG TERM HEREDITARY HEALTH CONDITIONS BY: RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT CONDITIONS SUCH AS CONGESTIVE HEART AND RENAL FAILURE PROVIDING INFORMATION AND ADVICE OR SIGNPOSTING TO OTHER PROVIDERS PROVIDING SMALL GRANTS FOR THOSE EXPERIENCING FINANCIAL HARDSHIP.