Trinity Fellowship
Charity 1018143
Overview
Summary
Trinity Fellowship appears to operate as a faith-rooted charitable platform linking neighbourhood support in Handsworth with long-standing international church-connected work. Its role is broader than direct service delivery: it combines facilities, advice, grants and umbrella support, suggesting an enabling model around Living Waters Community Church and other beneficiaries. The available evidence indicates a recent local focus on groups facing compounded exclusion, alongside overseas education and care activity, though the balance of resources and decision-making remains unclear.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Birchfield
Confidence: low
The available evidence identifies an address in Handsworth but does not establish operational activity in Birchfield. The ward assignment cannot be determined from the supplied evidence.
- Charity Commission Register of Charities, Trinity Fellowship (charity 1018143)
States that Trinity Fellowship Trust is based in Handsworth, Birmingham; and reports recent community-based activity including a twice-weekly programme for Black and minority ethnic older people and work targeting high-risk vulnerable women.
Remaining uncertainties
- The available evidence does not identify the venue or venues used for the twice-weekly older people's programme or the work with vulnerable women, so it cannot confirm whether these services are delivered in Handsworth, elsewhere in Birmingham, or across a wider area.
- The Charity Commission record declares operation across Birmingham City and several neighbouring West Midlands authorities, but provides no current programme-level locations or evidence of regular delivery in particular Birmingham wards.
- Living Waters Community Church materially extends the charity's stated reach to India and Uganda, but the evidence describes Trinity Fellowship as supporting that partner's outreach rather than directly operating the orphanage and schools.
- The evidence is insufficient to determine whether the organisation's community services are locally focused or citywide, or to determine the catchment area of those services.
Additional evidence needed
- Current programme information or a current annual report identifying the delivery venues, days and catchment areas for the older people's and vulnerable-women's services.
- Confirmation from Trinity Fellowship or Living Waters Community Church of the current nature, location and continuity of their partnership activity.
- Evidence distinguishing the charity's correspondence address from any premises it owns, leases or actively uses for service delivery.
Areas of work
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- Religious Activities
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A bridge between local inclusion and overseas mission
The charity appears to connect Birmingham-based community benefit with overseas religiously linked social support, rather than treating these as separate strands of work.
Why it matters
This helps explain its distinctive role: local relationships and faith identity may be supporting both neighbourhood inclusion and international education or care initiatives.
Show evidence
“The objects are to advance the Christian religion and promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Birmingham.”
Source:Charity Commission“The Trust supports Living Waters Community Church in outreach charity work in India and Uganda.”
Source:Organisation“Community-based activities include programmes for black and minority ethnic elderly people and high-risk vulnerable women.”
Source:Organisation
An enabling organisation, not only a frontline provider
Trinity Fellowship may function partly as infrastructure for charitable activity, providing resources and organisational support as well as services directly.
Why it matters
This suggests its influence could extend beyond the people it serves itself, particularly through its relationship with Living Waters Community Church and its stated umbrella role.
Show evidence
“The charity provides human resources, buildings or facilities, services, advocacy or advice, and acts as an umbrella or resource body.”
Source:Charity Commission“The Trust continues to support Living Waters Community Church.”
Source:Organisation
A possible shift toward targeted local vulnerability
The reference to more recent work with high-risk vulnerable women may indicate that the organisation is adapting its local activity toward more targeted risk and support needs.
Why it matters
If sustained, this could mark an important development from broadly defined community benefit toward specialised support, potentially requiring different partnerships and safeguarding capacity.
Show evidence
“Recent community-based activities include a twice-weekly programme supporting black and minority ethnic elderly people.”
Source:Organisation“More recent work targets high-risk vulnerable women.”
Source:Organisation
- How funding, staff time and facilities are divided between Birmingham activities and overseas work.
- Whether support for vulnerable women is delivered directly, through referral partnerships or through grants.
- Which local organisations, communities or institutions Trinity Fellowship works with beyond Living Waters Community Church.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or accounts showing expenditure, grants, partners and the scale of each activity.
- Service descriptions and outcome evidence for the elderly and vulnerable-women programmes.
- Information on governance, safeguarding and the practical relationship with Living Waters Community Church.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Trinity Fellowship Trust is based in Handsworth, Birmingham. The Trust continues to support Living Waters Community Church (LWCC) in their outreach charity work in India (orphanage) & Uganda (primary schools). Recent Community based activities include a twice-weekly programme aimed at supporting black and minority ethnic elderly people and more recent work targeting high-risk vulnerable women.
Charity objects
1.TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.2.TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF BIRMINGHAM