Tishie Yong Foundation For The Disabled
Charity 1104927
Overview
Summary
The available evidence suggests that Tishie Yong Foundation for the Disabled (DTD Charity) is a small, place-linked grantmaker that fills practical gaps left by statutory disability provision. Its distinctive role is not broad disability advocacy or direct service delivery, but flexible co-funding of specialised equipment and adaptations that can materially change independence, safety and participation. It appears to combine an unusually personal, case-based grant model with funding rooted in a local leisure business and its employees.
Operational geography
Coverage: Regional
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission currently records Birmingham City among the places where the charity operates, which supports Birmingham being within its grant-making footprint. However, neither the register entry nor the charity website identifies Birmingham wards, neighbourhoods, delivery venues or current Birmingham-based grant recipients.
- The charity's website gives differing descriptions of its eligible geography: its main purposes page names Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire, while earlier news posts describe wider East Midlands and West Midlands coverage. This leaves uncertainty over the precise current application boundary for Birmingham.
- A website case study records a grant to a Birmingham resident in 2018, but this is historical evidence and does not establish a continuing operational presence in a particular Birmingham ward.
- There is no evidence of a physical site, staff base, regular service venue or delivery partner in Birmingham. The Charity Commission states that the charity does not own or lease land or property.
- Dusk Till Dawn materially funds and administers the charity from Nottingham, but the available evidence does not show that this relationship creates a Birmingham operational site or delivery network.
Additional evidence needed
- The charity's current FAQ or written funding-policy confirmation showing whether Birmingham remains eligible.
- A current grants or impact report identifying Birmingham awards by year and, where appropriate, by ward or recognised area.
- Evidence of any current Birmingham delivery partners, referral partners, venues or funded organisations.
- Confirmation from the charity of whether Birmingham activity consists solely of responsive grants to individuals and organisations, rather than place-based delivery.
Areas of work
- Disability
Who they help
- People With Disabilities
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 gap-funder for equipment that public systems do not fully provide
The charity appears to focus on the margin between assessed need and statutory provision: equipment that is unavailable, unsuitable, incomplete or requires top-up funding. It often combines its grants with wheelchair services, other charities or family fundraising rather than acting as the sole funder.
Why it matters
This clarifies its civic role as a flexible complement to public provision. Its value may lie less in the number of grants than in enabling people to obtain equipment that is appropriately fitted to everyday life.
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“Statutory provision does not always cover items which are very specialised.”
Source:Organisation“Grants have contributed towards wheelchairs alongside funding from wheelchair services and other charities.”
Source:Organisation
An employment-linked philanthropy model shapes its local character
DTD Charity appears to be embedded in Dusk Till Dawn rather than operating as an independent fundraising institution: employees contribute salary, management matches contributions and covers administration. This may create a strong local social contract, while also making capacity sensitive to the business's circumstances.
Why it matters
Understanding this relationship helps explain both the charity's low-overhead grantmaking model and the temporary disruption during COVID-related furloughing.
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“Staff contribute 1% of their salary and the management matches it.”
Source:Organisation“Administration costs are covered by the management.”
Source:Organisation“COVID-19 furloughing limited the staff able to deal with charity work.”
Source:Organisation
Its practical remit is broader than its cerebral-palsy origins
Although the formal objects centre cerebral palsy, the charity's current practice appears to support people with many physical, sensory, neurological, learning and mental disabilities, as well as specialist colleges and groups. This may indicate an evolution from a condition-specific foundation into a wider disability equipment fund.
Why it matters
This distinction matters for referral networks and potential applicants: formal charitable language may understate the breadth of the organisation's apparent operating role.
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“The objects include the relief of patients suffering from cerebral palsy and research into its causes and treatment.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity financially assists severely disabled people of all ages, individually or in groups.”
Source:Organisation“Published awards include support for people with spinal injuries, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, autism, deafness and amputations.”
Source:Organisation
- The current geographical eligibility is unclear because different website statements describe different coverage areas.
- There is no evidence on grant budgets, refusal rates, decision criteria, average award size or unmet demand.
- It is unclear how grants are distributed between individuals and organisations.
Remaining uncertainties
- Current funding criteria, postcode eligibility and application guidance.
- Recent annual accounts or grant data showing awards, applicants, locations, amounts and outcomes.
- Evidence of how trustees assess need, equity and the gaps left by statutory provision.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
The objective of the charity is to raise funds to assist those with physical or mental disabilities.
Charity objects
1. THE RELIEF OF PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM CEREBRAL PALSY; 2. THE PROVISION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES FOR SUCH PATIENTS; 3. THE RELIEF IN CASES OF FINANCIAL DISTRESS OF CARERS AND DEPENDANTS OF SUCH PATIENTS OR OF DECEASED PATIENTS; 4. THE PROMOTION OR RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES AND TREATMENT OF CEREBRAL PALSY ON THE TERMS THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH ARE PUBLISHED; AND 5. SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.