United Kingdom Asian Womens Centre
Charity 1099013
Overview
Summary
The available evidence suggests that United Kingdom Asian Womens Centre is a place-based support organisation focused on improving the lives of British Asian women in Birmingham, while also extending part of its role to older people and the wider public. Its apparent model combines practical advice, education and training with access to facilities and social or recreational activity. This points to an organisation working across wellbeing, inclusion and participation rather than treating health, learning and community connection as separate issues.
Operational geography
Coverage: Citywide
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission record directly reports that the charity operates in Birmingham City, but provides no current service locations, delivery venues, beneficiary catchments or programme-level evidence from which to identify particular Birmingham wards.
- The recorded contact address is not confirmed evidence of a current delivery site. The Charity Commission also records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.
- No current evidence was found of delivery partnerships, satellite venues or partner organisations that materially extend the charity's operational reach within Birmingham.
- The organisation's website could not be accessed from the supplied evidence, and its latest required Charity Commission reporting for the year ending 31 March 2025 is overdue; therefore the available public operational information may not fully reflect activity as of August 2026.
Additional evidence needed
- A current service timetable, annual report, impact report or programme description identifying where advice, training, health or wellbeing activities are delivered.
- Confirmation from the organisation of whether its recorded contact address is an active service or meeting venue, a correspondence address only, or no longer used.
- Current information on delivery partners, hosted venues and the wards from which regular sessions operate.
Areas of work
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Other Charitable Purposes
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who they help
- Elderly/old People
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Other Charitable Activities
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A combined wellbeing and participation model
The organisation appears to address social and health wellbeing through a combination of education, advice, training, facilities and leisure activity. This may indicate a preventative, community-based approach in which confidence, information, social connection and health are mutually reinforcing.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish the organisation from a single-issue advice or health service. Its role may lie in creating the conditions that enable women and older people to participate more fully in community life.
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“Social and Health Well-Being of Older People”
Source:Organisation“The objects include advice, information, training and facilities for recreational and leisure time occupation.”
Source:Charity Commission
Cultural specificity alongside a broader public remit
British Asian women are the organisation's explicit priority population, yet its listed beneficiaries also include older people and the general public. This may indicate that culturally specific support is its core contribution, while some activities are designed to be more inclusive or intergenerational.
Why it matters
This is important for understanding both its distinctive local value and its potential relationships with organisations serving ageing, health, education or wider community cohesion.
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“The objects are for the benefit of women, particularly British Asian women, within Birmingham.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps elderly or old people, people of a particular ethnic or racial origin, and the general public.”
Source:Charity Commission
Potential community infrastructure role
Because the organisation provides both human resources and buildings, facilities or open space, it may operate as more than a referral or advocacy service. It may provide a physical setting through which support, learning and social connection are organised.
Why it matters
If confirmed, this would make the organisation a potentially important local convenor and a practical partner for groups needing trusted space, outreach capacity or culturally informed engagement.
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“The charity provides human resources.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity provides buildings, facilities or open space.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Whether older people's wellbeing work is specifically aimed at Asian women or reaches a broader population.
- Whether the organisation directly delivers services, hosts partners, or mainly provides referrals and advocacy.
- The scale, frequency and outcomes of its education, health and community activities.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent service descriptions, programme schedules and beneficiary data.
- Information about premises, delivery partners, referral routes and community participation.
- Evidence of outcomes, including changes in wellbeing, learning, employment or social connection.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Social and Health Well-Being of Older People Education and Health of Asian Women
Charity objects
FOR THE BENEFIT OF WOMEN PARTICULARLY BRITISH ASIAN WOMEN WITHIN BIRMINGHAM (THE AREA OF BENEFIT) BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, INFORMATION AND TRAINING AND THE PROVISION OR ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR SUCH PERSONS..