Sands Cox Relief In Sickness Charity
Charity 217468
Overview
Summary
Sands Cox Relief In Sickness Charity appears to function as a flexible local relief fund for Birmingham residents experiencing illness, disability, infirmity or recovery alongside financial need. Its role is distinctive less for delivering a single service than for directing modest forms of support across several routes: individuals, groups and other voluntary organisations. This suggests a potential bridging position between personal hardship and Birmingham’s wider health-and-care support ecosystem, although the available evidence does not show how it identifies needs or chooses partners.
Operational geography
Coverage: Citywide
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The available evidence establishes Birmingham City as the charity's operating area but does not identify any current delivery, grant-recipient or partner locations at ward or recognised-place level.
- The charity's public register entry says it makes payments to individuals, groups and other charities or organisations, but it does not name those recipients or show whether activity is distributed across Birmingham or concentrated in particular neighbourhoods.
- No Birmingham physical site is evidenced. The listed Lichfield address appears to be contact/correspondence information, and the Charity Commission records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.
Additional evidence needed
- A current grants or beneficiary record showing the Birmingham wards or places in which individual and organisational awards have been made.
- Details of current recipient organisations or referral partners, including their service locations and the nature of the charity's support.
- Confirmation from the charity of whether it has any regular Birmingham meeting, administration or delivery venue despite not owning or leasing property.
Areas of work
- Disability
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- People With Disabilities
How they help
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A flexible fund rather than a direct-service provider
The charity appears to address hardship through grants and practical comforts, rather than through a defined clinical, residential or advice service. Its operating model may allow it to respond to needs that fall between statutory provision and specialist charities.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish the charity as a potentially adaptable source of support within Birmingham’s care landscape. Its value may lie in filling immediate or overlooked gaps, but this depends on how decisions are made in practice.
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“Makes Grants To Individuals, Makes Grants To Organisations.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity provides donations and comforts to benefit the City of Birmingham's sick or infirm needy people.”
Source:Organisation
It connects individual need with organisational capacity
By funding both people and organisations, the charity may operate at two levels: relieving immediate personal need while strengthening other bodies working with similar populations. This suggests it could be a connector within, rather than separate from, Birmingham’s voluntary sector.
Why it matters
Understanding both routes is important because organisational grants may extend the charity’s reach beyond people it can identify directly and may reveal partnership opportunities or duplication.
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“Payments are made to individuals, groups of people and to support other charities and organisations working in this field.”
Source:Organisation“Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its beneficiary boundary is broad, but place-rooted
The charity appears designed for a wide range of age groups and health-related vulnerabilities, anchored primarily in Birmingham residence. Its inclusion of former Birmingham residents in specified residential accommodation may indicate an intention to preserve connection to place when people move into care.
Why it matters
This broad remit may make the charity unusually relevant where illness, disability, ageing and poverty overlap. The residential-accommodation provision also raises a useful question about whether care transitions are a particular area of need.
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“TO RELIEVE IN CASES OF NEED PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM OR WHO PREVIOUSLY RESIDED THEREIN AND ARE RESIDING IN RESIDENTIAL ACCOMODATION PROVIDED FOR THEM PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 21 OF THE NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT 1948, AS AMENDED, WHO ARE SICK, CONVALESCENT, DISABLED, HANDICAPPED OR INFIRM.”
Source:Charity Commission“Children/young People, Elderly/old People, People With Disabilities.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which needs, items or services the charity funds most often, and whether grants are emergency, recurring or preventative.
- Which organisations receive support and whether these relationships address gaps or overlap with other local provision.
- How beneficiaries are referred, assessed and reached, particularly people not already connected to services.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent grant lists showing recipients, amounts, purposes and geographic distribution within Birmingham.
- Trustee reports or application guidance explaining eligibility, referral routes, decision criteria and intended outcomes.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
The charity provides donations and comforts to benefit the City of Birmingham's sick or infirm needy people. Payments are made to individuals, groups of people and to support other charities and organisations working in this field.
Charity objects
TO RELIEVE IN CASES OF NEED PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM OR WHO PREVIOUSLY RESIDED THEREIN AND ARE RESIDING IN RESIDENTIAL ACCOMODATION PROVIDED FOR THEM PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 21 OF THE NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT 1948, AS AMENDED, WHO ARE SICK, CONVALESCENT, DISABLED, HANDICAPPED OR INFIRM. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 22 OF SCHEME)