UK Curriculum And Accreditation Body (Ukcab)
Charity 1153197
Overview
Summary
UKCAB currently appears to be a broad community-development charity operating less as a single-purpose provider than as a platform linking education, health, food relief and social inclusion initiatives. Its public identity is organised around several named projects, with activity spanning UK cities and substantial links to Pakistan. The available evidence suggests an ambition to combine immediate welfare support with longer-term capability building, although the legal, financial and operational relationship between UKCAB and its projects remains unclear.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Bordesley and Highgate
Confidence: low
UKCAB’s Feedo Needo project explicitly lists a Birmingham service base in Digbeth, with weekday food-bank, warm-space, outreach, wellbeing, laundry, haircut, clothing and related support. Birmingham City Council also lists Feedo Needo as a weekly Community Network Support Team venue. The supplied evidence supports activity in Digbeth but does not directly establish the ward assignment.
- UKCAB, Feedo Needo project page
Lists a Birmingham distribution location in Digbeth, operating Monday to Friday and providing a warm space, weekly food parcels, outreach, wellbeing sessions, free laundry, haircuts, a mini-library, refreshments and clothing. - Birmingham City Council, Community Network Support Team
Lists Feedo Needo as a weekly Friday venue for the council's Community Network Support Team. - Charity Commission, UKCAB trustees' annual report and accounts for year ended 31 December 2024
States that UKCAB has established and operates Feedo Needo as one of its charitable projects.
North Edgbaston
Confidence: low
UKCAB explicitly presents a Birmingham location as the campus of its Scholars School System, rather than merely a correspondence address. However, the supplied evidence does not directly establish the ward assignment.
- UKCAB, Scholars School System project page
Lists a Birmingham study location. - Charity Commission, UKCAB trustees' annual report and accounts for year ended 31 December 2024
States that UKCAB has established and operates the Scholars School System, a provider of higher-education programmes.
Remaining uncertainties
- The evidence establishes two active Birmingham service and delivery locations, but does not show that UKCAB directly delivers regular services from additional Birmingham neighbourhoods or wards.
- UKCAB self-reports operating in Birmingham City and its website describes Birmingham-wide activity in areas such as kidney-health awareness and food support. However, it does not provide current Birmingham service routes, beneficiary catchments, event locations or ward-level delivery data sufficient to evidence further operational areas.
- The extent to which the Digbeth food-bank and outreach service reaches people across Birmingham, rather than principally people able to access it, is not published.
- UKCAB identifies partnerships with organisations including FareShare, Greggs, Tesco, job centres and Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce. These demonstrate resource, referral or learner-engagement links, but the available evidence does not identify additional Birmingham locations operated through those partnerships.
- The organisation's overall footprint is assessed as international because current official material identifies active projects and service activity in the UK, Pakistan and Nigeria. This does not mean that its Birmingham activity is citywide: the directly evidenced local footprint is concentrated at two locations.
Additional evidence needed
- A current UKCAB service-delivery or impact report identifying Birmingham outreach locations, food-distribution routes, referral areas and beneficiary catchments.
- A current site list or lease/occupancy confirmation showing which UKCAB projects operate from its Birmingham locations, and on what days.
- Current partnership agreements or partner statements specifying whether Birmingham partners host, refer into, fund or co-deliver services at further locations.
- Evidence directly confirming the ward assignment for the Birmingham study location.
Areas of work
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A multi-project platform rather than a narrowly defined charity
UKCAB appears to use a portfolio model: distinct initiatives address schooling, food poverty, renal health, hospital care and transgender education under a common community-development identity.
Why it matters
This helps explain its unusually wide remit. Understanding UKCAB may require mapping relationships between its projects, rather than treating each listed activity as a separate service line.
Show evidence
“The projects timeline lists Scholars School System, Feedo Needo, Global Kidney Foundation, MH Hospital and Tahaffuz Darsgah.”
Source:Organisation“The charity reports education/training, health or saving lives, overseas aid/famine relief and general charitable purposes.”
Source:Charity Commission
Immediate relief is paired with routes toward independence
The organisation appears to combine food, healthcare and shelter responses with education, vocational training and entrepreneurship, suggesting that relief is intended to connect to longer-term social participation.
Why it matters
This distinguishes UKCAB from a purely emergency-relief organisation and may reveal opportunities for partners who can strengthen transitions from support to skills, work or sustained care.
Show evidence
“UKCAB describes services including feeding the hungry, childcare, renal care, education and training, and drinking water.”
Source:Organisation“UKCAB Multan introduced business-training workshops for transgender people.”
Source:Organisation“The charity reports vocational education for girls and feeding needy and homeless people.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its strongest distinctive focus may be inclusion through Pakistan-linked institutions
Transgender education and shelter, a free hospital, and school activity in Pakistan suggest UKCAB may be using UK-based fundraising and networks to support institution-building for underserved groups overseas.
Why it matters
This may be the organisation's most distinctive role: not only funding causes, but helping create visible, place-based institutions where provision is limited.
Show evidence
“MH Memorial Hospital is described as UKCAB's first free healthcare hospital in Pakistan.”
Source:Organisation“Tahaffuz Darsgah is described as a shelter and education centre for transgender children near Lahore.”
Source:Organisation“UKCAB lists locations in London, Leicester, Birmingham, Manchester and Bradford.”
Source:Organisation
- Whether the named projects are legally controlled subsidiaries, delivery partners or brands sharing leadership.
- How funds, staff and decision-making are divided between UK locations and overseas work.
- Whether reported beneficiary and output figures are independently verified and attributable to UKCAB itself.
Remaining uncertainties
- Annual reports and accounts showing project-level income, expenditure, governance and related-party relationships.
- Service data showing where beneficiaries are reached, what support they receive and outcomes over time.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
1) Educate people about renal problems and renal failure, Initial stage problems and remedies, Dialysis and its types, Motivation during this life saving treatment, Motivate people to register as Organ Donation. 2) Educate people for clean drinking water, 3) Education for All without borders, race and religion. 4) Feed the needy & homeless. 5) Vocational Education for Girls.
Charity objects
FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION (INCLUDING SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL TRAINING) OF PUBLIC IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES THINK FIT.