Shiloh Pentecostal Fellowship (Birmingham)
Charity 1133580
Overview
Summary
Shiloh Pentecostal Fellowship appears to be a faith-led organisation with a deliberately broad charitable mandate: Christian ministry is its stated core, while hardship relief, health support, counselling and education create scope for wider community-facing work. Its current public classification, however, gives little indication of how extensively these wider purposes are delivered in practice. The organisation may therefore function as a religious community with potential to connect spiritual support to practical welfare and learning needs, but its operational role remains only partly visible.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Aston
Confidence: high
Multiple recent and official records identify the fellowship/church in Aston. A recent Birmingham faith-community directory identifies Aston Shiloh Pentecostal Fellowship in Aston, supporting its use as an active worship site rather than solely a correspondence address.
- Charity Commission, contact information for charity 1133580
Lists the charity's address in Aston, Birmingham. - Birmingham Faith Community Map
Lists 'ASTON SHILOH PENTECOSTAL FELLOWSHIP' in Aston among Birmingham faith communities. - BT Birmingham North A-Z Directory
Lists 'Shiloh Pentecostal Church' in Aston with the charity's recorded telephone number, 0121 326 7497. - Birmingham City Council ward mapping and postcode geography
Provides ward mapping for Aston.
Remaining uncertainties
- The available evidence establishes an active church/fellowship site in Aston, but does not identify the geographic catchment of worship, counselling, hardship-relief or educational activity.
- The Charity Commission and recent church and directory listings differ in their recorded address details, preventing complete certainty about the precise registered-address format.
- The charity's objects permit activity elsewhere in the United Kingdom and internationally, but these are enabling objects rather than evidence of current delivery outside Aston.
- A Shiloh Pentecostal Fellowship network exists in other UK locations, but there is insufficient evidence that this separately registered Birmingham charity operates, funds or delivers services through those churches.
- No current evidence was found of material delivery partnerships extending the charity's own operational geography. A historical listing of the premises as a holiday-club venue does not demonstrate that the charity itself delivered that provision or that it remains current.
- The Charity Commission record indicates overdue reporting, limiting the availability of recent annual-report evidence about current services and locations.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual report, trustees' report or service report specifying where worship, pastoral support, hardship relief, counselling or education are delivered.
- Current official church communications, such as a website, service timetable or verified social-media page, confirming the Aston site and any outreach locations.
- Evidence of formal delivery partnerships, venue-hire arrangements or projects that show whether activity extends beyond Aston.
- Confirmation from the charity of the correct address details and whether its Aston site is its principal operational site as well as its registered address.
Areas of work
- Religious Activities
Who they help
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A broad mandate extends beyond worship
The available evidence suggests that Christian faith is the organisation's central identity, but its governing purposes also permit it to address financial hardship, sickness, health, counselling and education.
Why it matters
This distinguishes it from an organisation whose role is limited to religious observance. It may be a potential bridge between faith-based networks and practical support systems, if those powers are actively used.
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“To advance the Christian faith.”
Source:Charity Commission“To relieve sickness and financial hardship and to promote and preserve good health, including through counselling and support.”
Source:Charity Commission“To advance education.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its charitable scope is geographically open-ended
Although identified as being in Birmingham, the organisation's objects allow activity anywhere in the United Kingdom or world. This may indicate that its intended community is defined partly through faith relationships rather than solely by neighbourhood.
Why it matters
This raises a useful question about where its practical relationships and resources are concentrated: locally in Birmingham, across wider Pentecostal networks, or internationally.
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“The trustees may advance the Christian faith in such parts of the United Kingdom or the world as they think fit.”
Source:Charity Commission“The trustees may relieve sickness and financial hardship and promote health in such parts of the United Kingdom or the world as they think fit.”
Source:Charity Commission
The public-facing operating model is unclear
The charity reports providing services and helping the general public, yet its stated activity category is religious activities. This may mean wider support is delivered through a faith-centred setting, or it may simply reflect broad objects rather than substantial current provision.
Why it matters
Understanding this distinction is important for identifying whether the organisation is an active source of welfare, counselling or educational support, and for recognising possible collaboration opportunities.
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“Who the charity helps: The General Public/mankind.”
Source:Charity Commission“How the charity helps: Provides Services.”
Source:Charity Commission“What the charity does: Religious Activities.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Whether hardship, health, counselling and education activities are currently delivered, and at what scale.
- Which communities, locations and needs the organisation actually prioritises.
- Whether it works with other faith, health, education or advice organisations.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, accounts or activity reports describing services, expenditure and outcomes.
- Information on programmes, service locations, referral routes, partnerships and the people using support.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Advance the Christian faith in such ways and in such parts as the Trustees from time to time may think fit. To relieve sickness and financial hardship and to promote and preserve good health by the provision of funds, goods or services of any kind, including the provision of counseling and support. To advance education in such ways as the Trustees from time to time may think fit.
Charity objects
3.1.1 TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT; 3.1.2 TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE GOOD HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS, GOODS OR SERVICES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING THROUGH THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT; 3.1.3 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FORM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT.