Noel And Jaqueline Martin Caring Foundation
Charity 1124887
Overview
Summary
The Noel And Jaqueline Martin Caring Foundation appears to be a small, internationally oriented education charity that uses flexible charitable funding to reduce barriers to learning for disadvantaged children and young people. Its stated remit spans direct educational support, institutional grants and learning infrastructure, while the available activity evidence shows a practical intervention in a Jamaican primary school. The organisation’s role appears to combine educational access with poverty relief, though its current scale, geography and ongoing partnerships remain unclear.
Operational geography
Coverage: International
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct evidence from the Charity Commission currently lists Birmingham City and Throughout London as places where the charity operates, but it does not identify any Birmingham ward, City Centre location, service venue or delivery site.
- The charity's registered address is in Birmingham. This is direct evidence of a contact address, not sufficient evidence that it is an operational site or that services are delivered in its surrounding ward.
- The Charity Commission records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property, but provides no location or use for that property; it cannot therefore be treated as a Birmingham operational site.
- The governing document states that the charity's area of benefit is, in practice, overseas, and the only specific delivery activity publicly described is equipment provided to Bethesda Primary School in Jamaica in March 2019. This supports an international operational purpose, but does not establish current activity in Jamaica or elsewhere overseas.
- No current project information, annual report, partner information or official website content was available to establish whether the charity presently delivers grants or services in Birmingham, London or overseas.
- No material partnerships extending the charity's current operational reach were identified in the available authoritative records.
Additional evidence needed
- A current trustees' annual report, grant register or project list identifying grants made and locations served during or after the year ended 31 March 2025.
- Confirmation from the charity of whether its registered address in Birmingham is solely a correspondence address or a site used for administration, grant-making or delivery.
- Details and locations of the land or property reported to the Charity Commission, including whether any property is used for charitable activity.
- Current information on delivery partners and beneficiary organisations, including the locations in which funded education or poverty-relief activity takes place.
- A functioning official website or other current official publication describing active programmes and geographic reach.
Areas of work
- Education/training
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
How they help
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A flexible education-access fund rather than a single-service provider
The charity appears designed to address educational disadvantage through several routes: individual support, organisational grants, training and learning facilities. This may allow it to respond to different local barriers rather than relying on one fixed programme.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish the foundation from a charity focused solely on scholarships, school construction or classroom delivery. Its potential contribution lies in connecting financial, material and institutional support around access to education.
Show evidence
“The objects include education and training, grants and financial support, construction and maintenance of places of learning, and relief of poverty.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity makes grants to individuals and organisations and provides buildings, facilities or open space.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its documented practice prioritises school capability
The recorded support for Bethesda Primary School suggests that, at least in the available example, the foundation strengthens a school’s capacity through equipment rather than only assisting individual pupils.
Why it matters
School-based support can benefit multiple cohorts and may create a longer-lived local asset. It also suggests schools may be an important route through which the foundation reaches children.
Show evidence
“In March 2019, Bethesda Primary School, Jamaica received five laptops, five desktop computers, a printer and other ancillaries.”
Source:Organisation“The charity provides buildings, facilities or open space.”
Source:Charity Commission
Poverty is treated as part of the education challenge
The inclusion of poverty relief alongside education suggests the foundation recognises that learning access may be constrained by material disadvantage, not only by the availability of schooling.
Why it matters
This creates potential complementarity with organisations addressing household hardship, digital exclusion or school resourcing, even where their primary purpose is not education.
Show evidence
“The objects include the relief of poverty.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps children and young people and other charities or voluntary bodies.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Whether the 2019 Jamaican school donation reflects an ongoing geographic focus or a one-off intervention.
- The charity’s current activity level, grant volume, beneficiaries and partner network are not evidenced.
- It is unclear whether the charity provides direct support to individuals in practice.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or grant records showing recipients, locations, amounts and repeat partnerships.
- Information from beneficiary schools or partner organisations on how support was selected and used.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
We have in March 2019 provided Bethesda Primary School, Jamaica with 5 No Lap Top's & 5 No Desk Top computers plus a printer & other ancillaries.
Charity objects
TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE OVERSEAS IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE. IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FORGOING, BY; 1) PROVIDING, SUPPORTING AND PROMOTING THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE INCLUDING VOCATIONAL TRAINING. 2) PROVIDING GRANTS AND OTHER FINANCIAL SUPPORT TOWARDS THE COST OF EDUCATION OR IN SUCH OTHER WAYS AS SHALL FACILITATE THE ACCESSING OF OR DELIVERY OF EDUCATION; 3) FINANCING THE CONSTRUCTION OF SCHOOLS AND OTHER PLACES OF LEARNING AND THEIR MAINTENANCE THEREAFTER INCLUDING FINANCING THE PROVISION OF TEACHERS, TEACHING MATERIALS, EQUIPMENT AND ANCILLARY SUPPORT; 4) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY.