The Saleem Foundation
Charity 1183167
Overview
Summary
The Saleem Foundation appears to operate as a locally focused grant-maker rather than a direct service provider. Its role is potentially twofold: strengthening charitable and voluntary organisations across Birmingham and the Black Country, while also providing financial support directly to disadvantaged individuals and families. Its broad charitable objects give it flexibility to respond across several forms of disadvantage, but the available evidence does not yet reveal how it prioritises needs, selects recipients or connects its organisational and individual grant-making.
Operational geography
Coverage: Regional
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct evidence from the Charity Commission describes an intended/supporting footprint across Birmingham and the Black Country, but does not identify current grants, beneficiaries, events or delivery locations within Birmingham.
- No Birmingham ward or recognised place can be evidenced as a current operational area. The available evidence therefore does not justify assigning the organisation to any supplied Birmingham area identifier.
- The charity's registered address is in Halesowen, outside Birmingham, and should not be treated as a Birmingham operational site. The Charity Commission record also states that the charity does not own or lease land or property.
- The regional coverageType is a reasonable interpretation of the charity's stated Birmingham-and-Black-Country grant-making remit, rather than confirmation that it is actively delivering in all parts of that geography.
Additional evidence needed
- The most recent trustees' report or grant schedule naming grant recipients, beneficiaries or funded projects and their locations.
- Current information from the charity identifying active programmes, events, partner organisations or grant recipients in Birmingham.
- Confirmation of whether the charity uses any regular delivery, meeting or event venues in Birmingham despite not owning or leasing property.
Areas of work
- Disability
- General Charitable Purposes
Who they help
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A bridge between community organisations and households
The Foundation appears to use grants at two levels: supporting voluntary-sector organisations and directly assisting individuals and families. This may allow it to address both immediate hardship and the local organisations that help people navigate it.
Why it matters
This dual role could make the Foundation a useful connector in the local support system, with insight into needs that are visible both through community organisations and through individual applications.
Show evidence
“Will support charities and voluntary organisations across Birmingham & Black Country.”
Source:Organisation“Will also support individuals and their families who are disadvantaged.”
Source:Organisation“Makes Grants To Individuals, Makes Grants To Organisations.”
Source:Charity Commission
A geographically bounded but thematically flexible funder
Its activity is focused on Birmingham and the Black Country, while its charitable objects allow support for a wide range of lawful charitable purposes, particularly disadvantage linked to health, disability and financial hardship.
Why it matters
This combination suggests the Foundation may be able to respond flexibly to changing local needs rather than being restricted to a single issue area or beneficiary group.
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“Will support charities and voluntary organisations across Birmingham & Black Country.”
Source:Organisation“To advance such charitable purposes as the trustees see fit from time to time.”
Source:Charity Commission“In particular but not limited to the relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage.”
Source:Charity Commission
Potentially positioned around unmet need
The emphasis on grant aid for disadvantage may indicate a role in filling gaps where mainstream services, household resources or existing charitable provision are insufficient. This is plausible, but the evidence does not show which gaps it identifies or how.
Why it matters
Understanding whether the Foundation funds emergencies, specialist needs, overlooked groups or organisational capacity would clarify its distinct contribution within the local funding landscape.
Show evidence
“Support individuals and their families who are disadvantaged by their youth, age, ill-health, disability or financial hardship.”
Source:Organisation“What the charity does: General Charitable Purposes, Disability.”
Source:Charity Commission
- How the Foundation divides resources between individual and organisational grants.
- Which needs, communities and types of organisation it prioritises within Birmingham and the Black Country.
- Whether it funds short-term relief, longer-term capacity, or both.
Remaining uncertainties
- Grant criteria, application processes and recent grant awards.
- Annual reports or trustee reports showing funding amounts, recipient types and stated priorities.
- Evidence of partnerships, referral routes and relationships with local voluntary organisations.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
The Saleem Foundation will support charities and voluntary organisations across Birmingham & Black Country who undertake charitable work in the fields of health, disability, financial hardship or other, and will also support individuals and their families who are disadvantaged by their youth, age, ill-health, disability or financial hardship and will take the form of grant aid.
Charity objects
TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE.