Richard Kilcuppe (Otherwise Field) Charity
Charity 217310
Overview
Summary
Richard Kilcuppe (Otherwise Field) Charity appears to be a locally focused grant-maker rather than a frontline service provider. Its broad relief remit allows it to support people facing hardship across life stages and circumstances, principally by resourcing other charitable bodies in Birmingham. This suggests a potentially quiet but connective role in the city’s support system: directing flexible charitable funding towards organisations already close to people experiencing poverty, illness, disability, care needs or distress.
Operational geography
Coverage: District
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission register records the charity as operating in Birmingham City, but its governing document defines its area of benefit more narrowly as the 'City of Birmingham Inner City Core Area'. The current boundaries of that core area are not specified in the available evidence, so it cannot be mapped confidently to any supplied ward or recognised place.
- The charity operates principally through grants to organisations. No current grant list, beneficiary list, grant criteria with location detail, or annual report was available to show where recipient organisations deliver services.
- No physical operational site in Birmingham is evidenced. The registered correspondence address should not be treated as a Birmingham service location.
- No material delivery partnerships were identified from the available authoritative records.
Additional evidence needed
- A current grants register or annual report identifying grant recipients, grant dates and the locations or catchments of funded activity.
- The full 22 June 1987 scheme, or a current trustee statement, defining the geographical boundary of the 'City of Birmingham Inner City Core Area'.
- Confirmation from the charity of whether it has any service, meeting or administrative sites in Birmingham, and whether any organisations are recurring strategic grant partners.
Areas of work
- General Charitable Purposes
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Makes Grants To Organisations
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A behind-the-scenes role in Birmingham’s support network
The charity appears to operate chiefly through other organisations, rather than delivering relief directly to individuals. It may therefore strengthen local support indirectly by funding charities and voluntary bodies with established relationships to people in need.
Why it matters
This positions the charity as a potential enabler of Birmingham’s wider voluntary sector. Understanding which organisations receive its grants would reveal where its influence is concentrated and whether it reaches gaps in local provision.
Show evidence
“Makes grants to organisations.”
Source:Charity Commission“Other charities or voluntary bodies are among the people the charity helps.”
Source:Charity Commission“Relief of suffering for Birmingham people.”
Source:Organisation
A deliberately broad mandate may support flexible responses to hardship
Its objects combine poverty relief with support for people who are elderly, young and in need of care, sick, disabled, convalescent or distressed. This may allow grants to address overlapping needs rather than restricting support to a single population or issue.
Why it matters
Broad eligibility can make a fund useful where hardship does not fit neat service categories. It may also make the charity a possible partner for organisations working across health, disability, ageing, youth care and poverty.
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“The charity supports children or young people, elderly or old people, people with disabilities, other charities or voluntary bodies, and the general public.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity works for general charitable purposes and the prevention or relief of poverty.”
Source:Charity Commission“The objects provide for relief of people who are elderly, sick, convalescent, disabled, handicapped, infirm, in need, hardship or distress, or young and in need of care.”
Source:Organisation
The organisation’s local focus is clearer than its strategic focus
The evidence identifies Birmingham as the area of concern, but does not indicate particular neighbourhoods, communities, grant themes, partner organisations or intended outcomes. Its role may be geographically grounded while remaining strategically broad.
Why it matters
This is an important uncertainty: a locally bounded fund could either provide valuable flexible support across the city or concentrate on particular needs that are not yet visible. Grant history would clarify its practical place in Birmingham’s civic landscape.
Show evidence
“Relief of suffering for Birmingham people.”
Source:Organisation“The objects refer to persons resident in the area of benefit.”
Source:Organisation
- Which organisations receive grants, and what needs or communities they serve.
- Whether grants are restricted to particular parts of Birmingham, types of expenditure or beneficiary groups.
- The charity’s scale, frequency of grant-making and current priorities.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent grant awards, including recipient organisations, amounts, purposes and locations served.
- Annual reports, accounts or trustee reports explaining grant criteria, priorities and outcomes.
- The governing scheme referenced in the charity objects.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Relief of suffering for Birmingham people
Charity objects
FOR THE RELIEF OF PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO ARE ELDERLY OR WHO ARE SICK, CONVALESCENT, DISABLED, HANDICAPPED OR INFIRM OR WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OR WHO ARE YOUNG AND IN NEED OF CARE EITHER IN GIFTS IN KIND OR GRANTS OF MONEY WHICH MAY INCLUDE GRANTS TO ANY ALMSHOUSE OR OTHER CHARITABLE INSTITUTION WHICH IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE RELIEF OF PERSONS QUALIFED IN ONE OR MORE OF THE SAID WAYS (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE SCHEME)