We Care Foundation
Charity 1178859
Overview
Summary
We Care Foundation appears to occupy a bridging role between immediate hardship relief and longer-term inclusion. Its objects combine humanitarian assistance, refugee resettlement support in Bristol and surrounding areas, and poverty relief for local individuals. This suggests an organisation designed to respond to material crisis while also helping people establish stability, navigate services and participate in a new community. Its broad charitable remit may enable responsiveness, although the available evidence does not show how resources are prioritised in practice.
Operational geography
Coverage: International
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct evidence: the Charity Commission’s current register entry lists Birmingham City among the places where the charity operates. However, it provides no Birmingham service address, project name, delivery description, partner, beneficiary group or ward-level location.
- Direct evidence: the latest available accounts and trustees’ report are for the year ended 1 April 2023. They describe international humanitarian activity and a Bristol City Council House2Home project, but do not identify activity in Birmingham.
- Reasonable interpretation: Birmingham may represent a declared area of operation rather than an evidenced current delivery base. The available evidence is insufficient to determine whether activity there is neighbourhood-based, district-wide or citywide.
- The charity has overdue accounts and annual returns for the years ended 1 April 2024 and 1 April 2025, limiting confidence that its reported operational geography remains current.
- No physical operational site in Birmingham is evidenced. The listed London correspondence address and earlier Bristol registered office should not be treated as Birmingham delivery locations.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual report, annual return or project report identifying Birmingham services, contracts, grants or beneficiaries.
- Official confirmation from the charity of any Birmingham delivery locations, service catchments and partner organisations.
- Evidence from an official Birmingham-based commissioner or delivery partner showing the nature, dates and locations of any current work.
Areas of work
- Disability
- General Charitable Purposes
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- Other Defined Groups
- People With Disabilities
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A pathway from emergency relief to local belonging
The organisation appears to link immediate essentials with practical support for adapting to life in Bristol. Its role may therefore extend beyond distribution of goods into helping displaced people become more secure and connected within a new place.
Why it matters
This distinguishes the foundation from a purely emergency-relief provider and suggests that relationships with housing, advice, interpreting and community organisations may be central to its effectiveness.
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“Its objects include relieving the needs of refugees being resettled in Bristol and the surrounding area.”
Source:Charity Commission“Its objects include essential goods, household items, interpreting, translating, housing advice, support and practical advice to assist refugees to adapt within a new community.”
Source:Charity Commission
Self-sufficiency is embedded alongside relief
The foundation appears to treat financial hardship not only as a need for immediate aid, but as a condition that may be reduced through routes to sustainable income and independence.
Why it matters
This may shape its potential contribution within Bristol's anti-poverty ecosystem: it could complement organisations focused solely on crisis provision by connecting relief with longer-term capability-building.
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“Its objects include training projects designed to enable individuals to generate a sustainable income and be self-sufficient.”
Source:Charity Commission“Its objects include the prevention or relief of poverty in Bristol through grants, items and services to individuals in need.”
Source:Charity Commission
A broad remit may create both flexibility and ambiguity
The foundation appears able to work across disaster relief, refugee support, disability, poverty and general charitable purposes. This may allow it to respond to overlapping needs, but makes its current strategic focus unclear.
Why it matters
Understanding which groups, geographies and interventions receive most attention would clarify whether the organisation is a specialist refugee-support organisation, a broader hardship fund, or both.
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“Its activities include general charitable purposes, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty.”
Source:Charity Commission“Its objects permit such other exclusively charitable purposes as the trustees may determine.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which services, grants or training projects are currently active and at what scale.
- Whether the organisation delivers support directly or mainly works through partner charities and voluntary bodies.
- How its support is distributed between refugees, disabled people, children, older people and other groups.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or activity reports showing programmes, beneficiary numbers, expenditure and geographic reach.
- Information on delivery partners, referral routes and examples of support provided to resettled refugees and people facing poverty.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
General charitable purposes Disability The prevention or relief of poverty
Charity objects
1) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL NEED AND SUFFERING AMONG VICTIMS OF WAR OR NATURAL DISASTER, TROUBLE, OR CATASTROPHE IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING FOOD, SHELTER, CLOTHING, TRAINING PROJECTS DESIGNED TO ENABLE INDIVIDUALS TO GENERATE A SUSTAINABLE INCOME AND BE SELF-SUFFICIENT AND BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE. 2) TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF REFUGEES BEING RESETTLED IN BRISTOL AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF ESSENTIAL GOODS AND HOUSEHOLD ITEMS WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD THROUGH LACK OF MEANS, FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, INTERPRETING/TRANSLATING/HOUSING ADVICE AND SUPPORT AND PRACTICAL ADVICE TO ASSIST THEM TO ADAPT WITHIN A NEW COMMUNITY. 3) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN BRISTOL BY PROVIDING GRANTS, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED. 4) SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.