Ta Dora Auton
Charity 1039858
Overview
Summary
Ta Dora Auton appears to operate primarily as a flexible faith-based grant-maker and enabling trust rather than a direct service provider. Its role is to channel relatively adaptable financial and practical support through Christian networks, especially local fellowships, local Christian work, individual workers, and charitable training or resources. Its unusually broad objects allow it to connect religious advancement with poverty relief, wellbeing, education and wider charitable purposes, creating scope to respond across both local and international contexts.
Operational geography
Coverage: International
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- A public charity-data profile reports that Ta Dora Auton works in Birmingham City, but no available evidence identifies a Birmingham ward, recognised place, service venue, grant recipient, church fellowship or delivery partner.
- The available evidence indicates that the trust primarily makes grants and provides financial support rather than delivering place-based services directly; it is therefore unclear whether any Birmingham activity is current, recurrent or limited to past grants.
- The Bournemouth address is a registered correspondence address and is not evidence of a Birmingham operational site.
- No evidence was found of a physical site operated by the trust in Birmingham or of partnerships that can be geographically located within the supplied Birmingham areas.
Additional evidence needed
- The charity's most recent annual report, trustees' report or grant schedule naming current Birmingham recipients, projects or church fellowships.
- Confirmation from the trustees of whether Birmingham City remains a current area of operation and, if so, the locations and nature of funded activity.
- Official partner or recipient organisation records that identify Birmingham venues, wards or neighbourhoods supported by Ta Dora Auton.
Areas of work
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Other Charitable Purposes
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- Religious Activities
- 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
- Other Defined Groups
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Other Finance
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A connector within Christian support networks
The available evidence suggests that Ta Dora Auton’s main operating model is to resource other people and organisations rather than deliver programmes itself. It appears positioned as an intermediary that can strengthen smaller or locally rooted Christian activity.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish the trust from a church or frontline charity: its potential influence may lie in enabling work that is less visible in its own name but carried out through multiple recipients.
Show evidence
“Donations are generally given to a local church fellowship, other local Christian work, Christian workers within the UK and for charitable training and resources.”
Source:Organisation“Makes Grants To Individuals, Makes Grants To Organisations, Provides Other Finance, Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body.”
Source:Charity Commission
Broad discretion may be a strategic asset
The trust appears to have wide discretion to support Christian ministry, people in need and other charitable purposes. This may allow it to respond to emerging needs or opportunities without being confined to a narrow beneficiary group or programme area.
Why it matters
Its flexibility could make the trust a useful potential partner where needs cross conventional boundaries, although it also makes its practical priorities harder to infer from objects alone.
Show evidence
“To relieve those in need both in the United Kingdom and elsewhere by all possible means.”
Source:Charity Commission“To support any other charitable objects as the trustees shall from time to time determine.”
Source:Charity Commission
Religious purpose is linked to wider social support
Although Christian advancement is the principal purpose, the trust’s stated remit connects faith activity with training, counselling, material resources and relief of need. It may therefore support social outcomes through faith-based relationships rather than treat religious and welfare activity as separate spheres.
Why it matters
This suggests that understanding its local contribution requires looking beyond religious organisations alone and examining the social support delivered through its funded networks.
Show evidence
“To promote the study and teaching of the Bible, Christian service, training courses and Christian counselling services.”
Source:Charity Commission“The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Religious Activities.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which places, communities and recipient organisations receive most support is not known.
- The scale, frequency and intended outcomes of grants are not available.
- It is unclear whether support is mainly local, UK-wide or international in practice.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, accounts and grant recipient lists.
- Examples of funded work, grant criteria and geographic distribution of support.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
The principal objects of the trust are to help advance the Christian faith worldwide, to relieve those in need in the United Kingdom and elsewhere and to support other charitable objects as the trustees shall determine. Donations are generally given to a local church fellowship, other local Christian work, Christian workers within the UK and for charitable training and resources.
Charity objects
TO HELP ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH WORLDWIDE BY ALL POSSIBLE MEANS INCLUDING (A) TO HELP AT THE DISCRETION OF THE TRUST ANY PERSON, CHURCH, FELLOWSHIP, SOCIETY, ORGANISATION OR INSTITUTION ENGAGED IN THE MINISTRY OF THE GOSPEL AND TO SERVE AS A CHANNEL OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR SUCH MINISTRY. (B) TO HELP PROVIDE LITERATURE, EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS FOR USE IN CHRISTIAN WORK. (C) TO PROMOTE THE STUDY AND TEACHING OF THE BIBLE, CHRISTIAN SERVICE, TRAINING COURSES AND CHRISTIAN COUNSELLING SERVICES. (D) TO RELIEVE THOSE IN NEED BOTH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE BY ALL POSSIBLE MEANS. (E) TO SUPPORT ANY OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.