We Are All Making A Difference Charitable Trust
Charity 1086708
www.weareallmakingadifference.co.uk
Overview
Summary
We Are All Making A Difference appears to be a long-established, Birmingham-based discretionary grant-maker that uses volunteer-led fundraising to direct relatively small, tailored awards to people and voluntary organisations across the West Midlands. Its role is distinctive less for a single cause than for acting as a flexible funding bridge: supporting needs that may be too specific, immediate or difficult for beneficiaries to fundraise for themselves. Its model combines broad eligibility with case-by-case investigation, while its enduring events and sponsor relationships appear central to sustaining this responsiveness.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Edgbaston
Confidence: medium
The charity’s official website and Charity Commission record list a contact/principal address in Edgbaston. This is evidence of a contact or administrative address, but does not establish operational activity in the ward, a public-facing service site, or the location where grants are delivered.
- Charity Commission Register of Charities, contact information
Lists the charity address in Edgbaston, Birmingham. - We Are All Making A Difference Charitable Trust website
Displays the charity contact address in Edgbaston, Birmingham.
Remaining uncertainties
- The evidence does not identify Birmingham wards in which current grants or beneficiary support are concentrated, so no additional ward-level operational areas can be evidenced reliably.
- The Edgbaston address is evidenced as the charity’s principal/contact address, but it may be an administrative or correspondence base rather than a dedicated service-delivery premises.
- The website lists organisations that the charity says it continues to support, including Birmingham, Coventry, Sandwell and Solihull-based organisations, but it does not state the dates, value or precise locations of current grants.
- The charity’s activity is grant-making rather than direct service delivery. Its operational reach is therefore primarily expressed through grants to individuals and organisations, rather than through a network of charity-run sites.
Additional evidence needed
- The latest trustees’ annual report or grant schedule showing grant recipients, grant dates and beneficiary locations.
- A current list of funded organisations and individuals, with locality information sufficient to identify Birmingham wards where grants are presently being made.
- Confirmation from the charity of whether its Edgbaston address is an operational office, a shared professional-services address, or solely a correspondence address.
Areas of work
- General Charitable Purposes
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- People With Disabilities
How they help
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A flexible funder for needs that fall between systems
The organisation appears to specialise in discretionary support for individual needs and smaller voluntary bodies that may not fit conventional funding routes or lack fundraising capacity.
Why it matters
This suggests its civic role is to provide adaptable, human-scale funding rather than deliver a defined service. It may therefore complement specialist charities and public services by addressing practical gaps they cannot easily cover.
Show evidence
“Funds are distributed to individuals and organisations, including organisations that do not have the ability to raise funds themselves.”
Source:Organisation“Examples of awards include specialised equipment, therapy, group holidays and support for care-home and day-centre activities.”
Source:Organisation“The charity makes grants to individuals and grants to organisations.”
Source:Charity Commission
Volunteer capacity is integral to the operating model
The claim of zero administrative overheads appears to depend on trustees, an appeals committee and supporters contributing substantial unpaid time, including assessment visits where appropriate.
Why it matters
This helps explain both the charity's ability to pass donations directly to beneficiaries and a possible operational constraint: its reach and speed may be closely tied to volunteer availability.
Show evidence
“All money raised goes directly to beneficiaries without deduction for administrative or other overheads.”
Source:Organisation“Applications are carefully considered and, when appropriate, intended beneficiaries are visited by a member of the Appeals’ Committee.”
Source:Organisation“The organisation lists trustees, an honorary administrator and an appeals co-ordinator.”
Source:Organisation
Fundraising relationships may be as important as grant relationships
The organisation appears to sustain its grant-making through repeatable community fundraising rituals and long-term sponsor relationships, rather than relying solely on appeals for donations.
Why it matters
This indicates a networked role in local civic life: endurance may come from maintaining participation, sponsorship and shared events as much as from identifying beneficiaries.
Show evidence
“The charity has had a team running in the London Marathon for over 25 years.”
Source:Organisation“An annual golf day is sponsored by Studex UK.”
Source:Organisation“Several named supporters have continuously supported the charity for over 20 years.”
Source:Organisation
- How awards are distributed across individuals, organisations, causes and West Midlands localities is not stated.
- There is no information about annual income, grant volumes, award sizes, decision times or the outcomes of funded support.
- It is unclear how beneficiaries are referred, how unmet need is identified, or whether applications are open to all eligible people and organisations.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual accounts and grant lists showing income sources, award amounts, recipient types and geographic distribution.
- Information on referral routes, assessment criteria, decision-making timescales and declined applications.
- Follow-up evidence from beneficiaries on the lasting effects of grants and the needs not currently being reached.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
To provide funds to local charitable caises, promarily based in the West Midlands.
Charity objects
TO OR FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTIONS, PRIMARILY BASED IN THE WEST MIDLANDS, AT SUCH TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.