The Jericho Foundation
Charity 1037084
Overview
Summary
The Jericho Foundation appears to operate less as a conventional employment charity than as a transitional employment ecosystem: it combines work placements inside its own social enterprises with training, practical support and inclusion-focused activities. Its role seems to be to create credible routes into employment for people for whom ordinary recruitment is least accessible, while using trading activity, premises and environmental stewardship as parts of the support model. The available evidence suggests a Birmingham-centred organisation with a broad charitable remit and a more targeted current delivery focus.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Balsall Heath West
Confidence: low
JERICHO identifies Balsall Heath as the location of both its head office and its Jericho Workspace co-working, training and room-hire operation. The available evidence does not independently establish ward-level operational geography.
- JERICHO official website — Social Enterprises
Lists the head office in Balsall Heath, Birmingham and identifies Jericho Workspace as a Birmingham co-working and training venue. - Jericho Workspace official website
States that Jericho Workspace operates from Balsall Heath, Birmingham, providing office space, room hire and training.
Sutton Reddicap
Confidence: low
Two current JERICHO social enterprises, The ReUsers and The Wood Shack, publicly identify Sutton Coldfield as their operating location. The available evidence does not independently establish ward-level operational geography.
- The ReUsers official website
Describes a charity department store creating supported employment opportunities in Sutton Coldfield; it also states that it is co-located with The Wood Shack. - The Wood Shack official website
States that it is a JERICHO-operated social enterprise in Sutton Coldfield, including a timber yard and community shed.
Remaining uncertainties
- The available evidence establishes two principal fixed Birmingham operating sites, but does not publish a complete list of delivery venues for Jericho Works, Equiano Plus, Workwise, apprenticeships or Jericho Fulfilment.
- JERICHO states that Jericho Works supports people across the whole of Birmingham and that Workwise accepts referrals from schools and alternative providers across Birmingham. This supports a citywide delivery identity, but does not evidence a permanent operational presence in every ward.
- Jericho Cleaning serves customers across the West Midlands and Jericho Construction works across Birmingham. The current evidence does not identify the locations or volume of individual contracts, so these mobile commercial activities should not be converted into additional ward-level operational areas.
- JERICHO's partnerships with Next Level Training, Birmingham City Council, the Department for Work and Pensions, ChangeKitchen CIC and external placement employers materially support routes into work, but the evidence does not show that each partner site is operated by JERICHO.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual or impact report showing participant, referral, school and placement geography by Birmingham ward.
- A current list of service-delivery venues, including the operating base for Jericho Fulfilment and any non-public project locations that can safely be disclosed.
- Contract or service-area information for Jericho Cleaning and Jericho Construction to distinguish Birmingham-wide work from wider West Midlands activity.
- Current partnership agreements or project documentation identifying where partner-supported delivery takes place.
Areas of work
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- People With Disabilities
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
Employment is delivered through a protected bridge, not only advice
The organisation appears to use its social enterprises as stepping-stone workplaces where clients can gain experience alongside training and wrap-around support, rather than relying solely on employability advice or external job matching.
Why it matters
This suggests JERICHO may fill a distinctive gap between crisis support and mainstream employment: providing a setting in which barriers can be addressed while people build recent work experience.
Show evidence
“We provide a stepping-stone work opportunity in one of our seven social enterprises.”
Source:Organisation“To provide real work experience for our clients.”
Source:Organisation“To help clients gain sustainable employment.”
Source:Organisation
Trading activity appears integral to the charitable model
The seven social enterprises appear to be both commercial operations and delivery infrastructure for the charity's mission. Workspace rental may also indicate an effort to generate income or make physical assets serve multiple purposes.
Why it matters
Understanding this dual role is important when assessing JERICHO's resilience, partnerships and impact: its capacity may depend partly on viable enterprises, not only grants or donations.
Show evidence
“JERICHO is an award winning Birmingham charity and family of seven social enterprises.”
Source:Organisation“To develop and run successful social enterprise businesses.”
Source:Organisation“Offices available to rent starting from £250pcm.”
Source:Organisation
Its formal remit is wider than its stated present focus
The charity's objects allow work across poverty, homelessness, health, disability, exclusion, recreation and unemployment, while the website foregrounds marginalised young people and survivors of modern slavery. This may reflect strategic concentration within a broad constitutional mandate.
Why it matters
This distinction helps avoid assuming that all groups named in the objects receive equivalent current provision, and raises useful questions about who is prioritised in practice.
Show evidence
“The objects include relief of need arising from poverty, illness, disability or homelessness, social inclusion and relief of unemployment.”
Source:Charity Commission“We primarily support marginalised young people and survivors of modern slavery.”
Source:Organisation
- Which social enterprises provide client placements, and whether all seven do so.
- How many people progress into sustained employment and which barriers most affect outcomes.
- How JERICHO works with employers, referral agencies and modern-slavery support services.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent impact data showing participant numbers, demographics, placement duration and employment outcomes.
- Information on referral routes, external partnerships and the financial relationship between trading and charitable delivery.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
To seek out and engage those who experience the greatest barriers To help our clients gain relevant vocational skills To help clients to overcome their personal barriers and become fulfilled individuals To provide real work experience for our clients To help clients gain sustainable employment To develop and run successful social enterprise businesses To be good stewards of the environment
Charity objects
THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (‘OBJECTS’) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM AND ELSEWHERE: I. TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED, HARDSHIP, DISTRESS OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE DUE TO YOUTH, AGE, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, POVERTY, ILLNESS, DISABILITY OR HOMELESSNESS. II. TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY). III. THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT, INCLUDING ASSISTANCE TO FIND EMPLOYMENT. IV. TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE INHABITANTS OF THE SAID CITY. V. TO PURSUE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE WHICH THE CHARITY THINKS FIT FOR PURSUIT IN CONJUNCTION WITH ANY OF THE CHARITABLE PURPOSES AFORESAID WHICH ARE PURSUED OUT UNDER A CHRISTIAN ETHOS