The Awaited Foundation
Charity 1160897
Overview
Summary
The Awaited Foundation appears to be a broad, grant-oriented charitable fund addressing hardship rather than a specialist service provider. Its remit spans poverty, health, disability, education, disaster relief and social care, with stated support for both individuals and care-providing organisations. This breadth may allow it to respond flexibly to varied needs, particularly where vulnerable people fall between conventional categories, but the available evidence does not show how it prioritises causes, geographies or grant recipients.
Operational geography
Coverage: International
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission record states that the organisation operates in Birmingham City, but does not identify any Birmingham ward, venue, service location, beneficiary group or project.
- The latest available trustees' report (year ended 31 March 2024) describes grants to individuals and institutions and activity at domestic and international levels, but does not allocate grants or services geographically.
- A £46,000 grant to Birmingham-based Orison Charitable Trust was material in the 2023/24 accounts. However, the available evidence does not show that The Awaited Foundation delivers services in Birmingham, nor that the grant supported activity in a particular ward rather than Orison's wider international work.
- No Birmingham site controlled, leased or owned by the foundation has been evidenced.
Additional evidence needed
- A current project, grant or impact report identifying the Birmingham services, delivery partners, beneficiaries and locations supported by the foundation.
- Grant agreements or recipient reports showing whether funding to Orison Charitable Trust or other institutions was used for delivery in Birmingham and, if so, the relevant ward or wards.
- Confirmation from The Awaited Foundation of any current Birmingham operating sites, outreach locations or place-based programmes.
Areas of work
- Accommodation/housing
- Disability
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Other Charitable Purposes
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- 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
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Other Charitable Activities
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A flexible funder rather than a single-issue charity
The Foundation appears designed to give trustees wide discretion to support multiple forms of need, chiefly through grants. Its role may be to direct resources where hardship is most acute rather than to deliver one defined programme.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish the organisation from charities built around a specific service or beneficiary group. Its potential value may lie in flexibility and responsiveness, while its practical focus cannot yet be assumed.
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“The objects allow trustees to support exclusively charitable purposes they think fit, particularly through grants.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity makes grants to individuals and organisations.”
Source:Charity Commission
Potentially bridges personal hardship and local care infrastructure
By supporting individuals directly while also funding centres caring for orphanages, widows and older people, the Foundation may operate across both immediate relief and the organisations that sustain vulnerable groups.
Why it matters
This dual position could make the Foundation a useful connector between unmet personal needs and under-resourced care settings, rather than solely a donor to either group.
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“The charity provides financial support to centres caring for orphanages, widows and OAP.”
Source:Organisation“The charity makes grants to individuals and organisations.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its remit combines relief with routes toward self-sufficiency
The Foundation's poverty work appears to include both immediate welfare support and longer-term measures such as education, training, healthcare projects and income generation.
Why it matters
This suggests a potentially more developmental approach than emergency aid alone. It would be valuable to understand whether grants are structured to help people move from crisis support toward greater independence.
Show evidence
“The objects include education, training, healthcare projects and support designed to enable individuals to generate a sustainable income and be self-sufficient.”
Source:Charity Commission“Activities include prevention or relief of poverty, youth education, welfare and medical assistance to disaster victims.”
Source:Organisation
- Which countries, communities or localities receive support is not stated.
- There is no information on grant criteria, funding scale, partners, outcomes or current priorities.
- It is unclear how the Foundation balances emergency relief against longer-term self-sufficiency work.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or grant lists showing recipients, locations, amounts and purposes.
- Information on decision-making criteria, trustee priorities and partnerships with care centres or other charities.
- Outcome evidence showing whether supported people or organisations achieve improved wellbeing or independence.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Prevention, or relief of poverty, enhancement of youth education (including under privileged youths), welfare , medical assistance to disaster victims . Also provide financial support to centres caring for orphanages, widows and OAP.
Charity objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO SUPPORT SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY: 1 THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING, HEALTHCARE PROJECTS AND ALL THE NECESSARY SUPPORT DESIGNED TO ENABLE INDIVIDUALS TO GENERATE A SUSTAINABLE INCOME AND BE SELF-SUFFICIENT; AND/OR 2 THE RELIEF OF NEED IN INDIVIDUALS ARISING FROM THEIR YOUTH, AGE, GENDER, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES; AND/OR 3 THE TREATMENT AND CARE OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL OR PHYSICAL ILLNESS OF ANY DESCRIPTION OR IN NEED OF REHABILITATION AS A RESULT OF SUCH ILLNESS; AND/OR 4 THE RELIEF OF NEED AND SUFFERING AMONG VICTIMS OF NATURAL OR OTHER KINDS OF DISASTER; BY ANY CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION OF GRANTS.