The James Frederick And Ethel Anne Measures Charity
Charity 266054
Overview
Summary
The James Frederick And Ethel Anne Measures Charity appears to operate as a flexible, West Midlands-focused grant-maker rather than a specialist service provider. Its unusually broad charitable remit allows it to support both people and organisations across several fields, from health and disability to education, animals and heritage. This flexibility may make it a useful source of responsive local funding, but the available evidence does not reveal how it chooses between competing needs or where its grants have the greatest effect.
Operational geography
Coverage: Regional
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct evidence from the Charity Commission shows that the charity operates through grant making across Birmingham City, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton. This supports a regional operational footprint rather than a neighbourhood-, district- or Birmingham-citywide service model.
- There is no current evidence identifying grant recipients, funded projects, delivery venues or material delivery partnerships within particular Birmingham wards or the City Centre. Birmingham City is therefore evidenced as part of the charity's declared operating area, but cannot be mapped reliably to any of the supplied Birmingham area identifiers.
- The contact address is a Charity Commission contact address, not confirmed evidence of an operational site. The register also states that the charity does not own or lease land or property, so it should not be treated as a service venue or physical operational base.
- No official website was available or successfully consulted, and the available public record does not identify current partnerships that materially extend the charity's reach within Birmingham.
Additional evidence needed
- The latest trustees' annual report or grant schedule naming grant recipients, amounts and the locations of funded activity.
- Official confirmation from the charity of whether its contact address is an administrative correspondence address only or an active operational base.
- Current information from the charity on regular funding partners, recipient organisations and the Birmingham neighbourhoods in which their funded work takes place.
Areas of work
- Animals
- Disability
- Education/training
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- General Charitable Purposes
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- People With Disabilities
How they help
- Makes Grants To Organisations
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A broad-purpose fund with local reach
The charity appears designed to retain wide discretion while concentrating its support geographically in the West Midlands. Its trustees may therefore be able to respond to locally identified needs that fall between more narrowly defined funding programmes.
Why it matters
This suggests the charity's potential value may lie in adaptability: it could support diverse causes without needing to redefine its formal purpose each time local priorities change.
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“TO OR FOR SUCH CHARITABLE OBJECTS AS THE SETTLOR AND AFTER HER DEATH THE TRUSTEES SHALL DIRECT.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps charitable organisations and individuals based in the West Midlands.”
Source:Organisation
Its role is likely to be enabling rather than direct delivery
Because the charity makes grants to organisations, it appears to contribute through other local actors rather than by running services itself. Its influence may therefore be dispersed across the region's voluntary infrastructure.
Why it matters
Understanding it as an enabling funder directs attention toward its grant relationships: the organisations it supports may reveal more about its practical civic role than its broad stated purposes alone.
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“Makes Grants To Organisations.”
Source:Organisation“Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies.”
Source:Organisation
The charity spans causes that are rarely funded through one lens
Its stated areas combine human wellbeing and education with disability, animals, and environment, conservation or heritage. This may indicate a conception of local charitable benefit that extends beyond conventional social-care categories.
Why it matters
The breadth creates possible opportunities for connections between organisations that are usually separated by funding sectors, while also raising questions about how the charity balances very different forms of need.
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“General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage.”
Source:Organisation“Children/young People, Elderly/old People, People With Disabilities, Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies.”
Source:Organisation
- Which West Midlands localities, organisations or communities have received grants.
- How trustees prioritise between social, environmental, animal and heritage causes.
- Whether individuals receive support directly despite grants to organisations being the stated method.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent grant lists showing recipients, amounts, locations and purposes.
- Trustee reports or funding criteria explaining priorities, exclusions and decision-making.
- Evidence of outcomes or repeat relationships with funded organisations.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
The charity helps charitable organisations and individuals based in the West Midlands.
Charity objects
TO OR FOR SUCH CHARITABLE OBJECTS AS THE SETTLOR AND AFTER HER DEATH THE TRUSTEES SHALL DIRECT.