The Yardley Great Trust Group
Charity 1091937
Overview
Summary
The Yardley Great Trust Group appears to be a place-based charitable provider and asset steward rather than a single-purpose care charity. Its role combines direct support for older and disabled people with the management of homes, almshouses, land and facilities, alongside grants to individuals and organisations. This mix may allow it to respond to need through care, housing, financial relief and community assets, although the available evidence does not show how these elements are coordinated or who benefits most.
Operational geography
No operational geography is currently available for this organisation.
Areas of work
- Accommodation/housing
- Other Charitable Purposes
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Elderly/old People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- People With Disabilities
How they help
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A multi-route model of support
The Trust appears to address hardship through several routes: care and outreach, accommodation, direct grants, organisational grants, and access to land or facilities. This may indicate an ability to respond to different forms of vulnerability rather than treating care needs in isolation.
Why it matters
This suggests the organisation may be an important local connector between health, housing and financial resilience, with potential relationships across care providers, voluntary bodies and residents.
Show evidence
“The charity provides care services including day care and outreach services and maintains and manages nursing homes.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity provides and manages almshouses, makes grants, and lets allotment land belonging to the Trust.”
Source:Charity Commission
Long-term assets appear central to its role
Nursing homes, almshouses and allotment land suggest that the Trust's contribution may rest partly on stewardship of enduring local assets, not only on delivering services or distributing funds.
Why it matters
Asset stewardship can create long-term civic value and potentially gives the Trust opportunities to support wellbeing, housing security and community connection across generations.
Show evidence
“The charity maintains and manages nursing homes in the West Midlands area.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity provides and manages almshouses for residents in need and lets allotment land belonging to the Trust.”
Source:Charity Commission
Potential bridge between individual need and the voluntary sector
By making grants to both individuals and other charities or voluntary bodies, the Trust may operate at two levels: relieving immediate hardship directly while also enabling other organisations to support communities.
Why it matters
This could make the Trust a significant but easily overlooked funder or partner within the local voluntary ecosystem. It would be useful to understand whether its grants complement its care and housing activity.
Show evidence
“The charity relieves those in need hardship or distress generally or individually by making grants.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps other charities or voluntary bodies and makes grants to organisations.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Whether care, housing, grants and land are coordinated through a shared strategy.
- Which West Midlands communities benefit, and whether support reaches groups beyond older and disabled people.
- The scale, accessibility and current use of its homes, almshouses, grants and allotments.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or accounts showing service volumes, property portfolio, grant recipients and expenditure.
- Information on referral routes, partnerships, geographic coverage and beneficiary experiences.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
The charity's aims are to: provide relief and care, including day care and outreach services and care homes, for elderly and/or disabled persons; provide and manage almshouses for residents in need; relieve those in need hardship or distress generally or individually by making grants; let allotment land belonging to the Trust.
Charity objects
THE RELIEF AND CARE OF THE ELDERLY AND/OR DISABLED PERSONS INCLUDING BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF CARE SERVICES INCLUDING DAY CARE AND OUTREACH SERVICES AND THE MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF NURSING HOMES IN THE WEST MIDLANDS AREA