Noah'S Star
Charity 1193043
Overview
Summary
Noah’s Star appears to occupy a distinctive family-support role around neonatal and paediatric hospital care in the West Midlands. Its central contribution is not clinical treatment but reducing a practical and emotional barrier to parental presence: caring for siblings while a baby or child is seriously unwell. The organisation also appears to use mental-health training and consultancy as a mission-linked income stream, combining direct family support with a potentially more diversified funding model.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Edgbaston
Confidence: high
Direct financial-report evidence confirms delivery of sibling support and one-to-one peer support at Birmingham Women's Hospital. The hospital's official site places it in Edgbaston.
- Noah's Star CIO Report of the Trustees and Financial Statements, year ended 31 March 2025
The report states that the Birmingham City Council-funded Peer Support Worker Project provides one-to-one peer support at Birmingham Women's Hospital, and that Awards for All funding enabled sibling support there. - Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham Women's Hospital
The Trust identifies Birmingham Women's Hospital as located on the University Campus in Edgbaston.
City Centre
Confidence: high
Direct financial-report evidence confirms delivery of one-to-one peer support at Birmingham Children's Hospital. The hospital's official site describes it as city centre-based.
- Noah's Star CIO Report of the Trustees and Financial Statements, year ended 31 March 2025
The report states that the Birmingham City Council-funded Peer Support Worker Project provides one-to-one peer support to parents of premature and sick babies at Birmingham Children's Hospital. - Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham Children's Hospital
The Trust describes Birmingham Children's Hospital as a city centre-based children's hospital.
Remaining uncertainties
- Noah's Star's current community-based and post-discharge support is evidenced, but the available sources do not identify the Birmingham neighbourhoods or venues in which that support takes place.
- The charity's registered office should not be treated as a service site: the Charity Commission records that the charity does not own or lease land or property, and the evidence does not confirm public-facing delivery there.
- The organisation's website describes support across the West Midlands and the Charity Commission lists Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton as areas of operation. This supports a regional overall footprint, but does not establish the precise current service locations in each area.
- Within Birmingham, the evidence supports a hospital-centred rather than neighbourhood-based operational pattern. It does not establish delivery across all Birmingham wards or a citywide network of local sites.
Additional evidence needed
- A current service-location list or delivery timetable identifying all hospitals, community venues and post-discharge groups used by Noah's Star.
- Confirmation from Noah's Star of whether its community and Dad's/non-birthing partner support groups are delivered in Birmingham, and the relevant wards or venues where disclosure is appropriate.
- Current partner confirmation from Birmingham Women's Hospital and Birmingham Children's Hospital that Noah's Star's peer and sibling-support provision remains active after the 2024/25 reporting period.
Areas of work
- Disability
- Education/training
- Other Charitable Purposes
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Other Defined Groups
How they help
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
Sibling care is the organisation’s strategic entry point
Noah’s Star appears to address an often-overlooked constraint in neonatal care: parents may be unable to spend time with an ill baby or child because siblings also need care and attention. Its sibling support offer may therefore increase families’ ability to remain present during hospital admissions rather than simply providing an additional activity.
Why it matters
This clarifies its role within the care ecosystem. The charity seems to complement clinical services by solving a family-logistics problem that medical provision may not be designed or funded to address.
Show evidence
“Its core service offers sibling support to families, enabling parents to spend quality time with their sick and premature babies and children while caring for siblings.”
Source:Organisation“The charity provides hospital and community-based services ancillary to those provided by medical professionals and not covered by statutory funding.”
Source:Charity Commission
The organisation appears designed around the whole family, not only the neonatal patient
Although its stated population includes sick and preterm babies, Noah’s Star appears to treat parents and siblings as affected participants in the hospital experience. This suggests a family-centred model that recognises emotional strain and disrupted relationships across the household.
Why it matters
This distinguishes the charity from services focused solely on the child’s medical outcome and may make it a relevant partner for family wellbeing, discharge planning and peer-support networks.
Show evidence
“Noah’s Star supports the whole family when a baby is born premature or sick or a child is admitted to hospital.”
Source:Organisation“The objects are to preserve and protect the physical, mental and emotional health of parents and families caring for sick and preterm babies.”
Source:Charity Commission
Mental-health training may subsidise frontline family support
Noah’s Star appears to connect its training and consultancy activity to its family-support mission, using earned income from workshops to fund services. This may reduce reliance on donations alone while extending its influence beyond direct beneficiaries.
Why it matters
This suggests a hybrid operating model: the organisation may be both a direct-service charity and a training provider. Understanding the balance is important for assessing resilience, capacity and potential partnerships.
Show evidence
“All funds generated from delivery of structured training workshops are used to fund services supporting families of premature and sick babies.”
Source:Organisation“The organisation provides mental health training and consultancy.”
Source:Organisation
- Which hospitals and neonatal units receive regular sibling-support provision, and whether coverage is consistent across the West Midlands.
- How families are referred, how long support continues after discharge, and which groups remain least reached.
- The relative scale of volunteer delivery, paid staffing, donations and training income.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent impact data showing sites served, family reach, repeat use and outcomes for parents and siblings.
- Financial accounts and service-delivery information showing income sources, staffing, volunteer roles and geographic coverage.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
To preserve and protect the physical, mental and emotional health of parents and families in the West Midlands caring for sick and preterm babies by offering hospital and community-based services, ancillary to those provided by medical professionals and which are not covered by statutory funding.
Charity objects
TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH OF PARENTS AND FAMILIES IN THE WEST MIDLANDS CARING FOR SICK AND PRETERM BABIES BY OFFERING HOSPITAL AND COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES, ANCILLARY TO THOSE PROVIDED BY MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS AND WHICH ARE NOT COVERED BY STATUTORY FUNDING.