Women With Hope
Charity 1186078
Overview
Summary
Women With Hope appears to operate as a member-led, women-centred support base for people navigating asylum, refugee and migrant experiences. Its role seems to combine practical help and advice with recurring social, educational and leisure activity, suggesting that belonging and mutual participation are treated as part of reducing hardship rather than as secondary extras. Its multilingual website indicates an effort to make initial contact more accessible to several communities, while its charitable objects also position it as a potential bridge between lived experience and public understanding.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Bournbrook and Selly Park
Confidence: medium
Women With Hope’s official website identifies Selly Oak Quaker Meeting House as its 'current home' and records a workshop at the Selly Oak Quaker meeting house in April 2023. However, its joining information now directs members to Zoom, and no recent page confirms that in-person meetings still take place at the Selly Oak venue.
- Women With Hope, About page
The charity says that, after using several venues, it reached its 'current home at Selly Oak Quaker Meeting House'. - Women With Hope, 'Tuesday 25th April 2023 Workshop' post
The organisation announced an asylum-case workshop at the Quaker's house in Selly Oak.
Remaining uncertainties
- The evidence establishes a Selly Oak meeting location, but does not confirm that this physical venue remained in use in 2026; the website's member-joining process currently provides a Zoom link instead.
- The organisation describes itself as a small Birmingham charity and continues to run a membership offer for women seeking asylum, refugees and migrants, but it does not publish beneficiaries' home areas or a defined Birmingham catchment. Citywide coverage is therefore a reasonable interpretation of its operational identity rather than a directly evidenced map of service delivery across every ward.
- The Lichfield address is presented as the registered/contact address and should not be treated as a Birmingham operational site.
- The website lists external advice and support organisations, but the available material does not demonstrate current formal delivery partnerships that extend Women With Hope's own operational footprint into particular Birmingham areas.
Additional evidence needed
- A current timetable or annual report confirming whether weekly meetings are in person, online, or hybrid, and naming the present venue where appropriate.
- A current statement of the geographic catchment of members and any borough-wide referral or outreach arrangements.
- Confirmation from Women With Hope or Selly Oak Quaker Meeting House that the venue is currently used by the charity.
Areas of work
- Disability
- Education/training
- Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- Other Defined Groups
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
Support appears to be built around participation, not only crisis response
The organisation may use weekly group activity and training to reduce isolation alongside meeting practical and advocacy needs. This suggests a model in which social connection, learning and recreation are part of its response to hardship.
Why it matters
This distinguishes Women With Hope from a purely transactional advice service. Its value may lie partly in creating a sustained, trusted setting in which women can build confidence, relationships and access to support.
Show evidence
“The charity is member-led and supports women asylum-seekers, refugees and migrants through support, group activities and training.”
Source:Organisation“Women with Hope meets weekly for social and educational activities for women seeking asylum or who are refugees.”
Source:Charity Commission
The organisation may be designed to lower access barriers across language communities
Providing welcome information in French, Amharic, Arabic and Tigrinya may indicate recognition that language can prevent women from finding support at an early stage.
Why it matters
This points to a potentially important access role: the organisation may reach people who could be excluded by English-only information, while also signalling welcome to particular diaspora and refugee communities.
Show evidence
“The website presents introductory content in French, Amharic, Arabic and Tigrinya.”
Source:Organisation“The website directs visitors to help for asylum seekers.”
Source:Organisation
Its remit extends beyond direct support to public-facing change
The charity may see improving conditions for women seeking asylum as requiring both individual support and greater public understanding of refugee and asylum issues.
Why it matters
This creates a possible connection between the organisation's member experience and wider civic education. It may be positioned to contribute perspectives that are often absent from public discussion, although no current campaigning activity is evidenced.
Show evidence
“One charitable object is to advance public education about issues relating to refugees and those seeking asylum.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity provides or facilitates access to information, advice, advocacy and other appropriate support.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Whether membership includes service users in governance and decision-making, or is primarily a participation model.
- Which local area the organisation serves, how many women participate and whether services include specialist immigration, housing or safeguarding support.
- Whether its public-education object currently results in campaigns, events, partnerships or lived-experience advocacy.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or impact information showing participant numbers, activities, outcomes and referral relationships.
- Information on governance, languages supported in service delivery, partner organisations and current public education activity.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Women with Hope meets on a weekly basis to engage in social and educational activities for women who are seeking asylum or are refugees.
Charity objects
(A) TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF WOMEN IN THE UNITED KINGDOM WHO ARE LIVING AS REFUGEES OR ARE SEEKING ASYLUM WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE. (B) TO RELIEVE HARDSHIP AMONG WOMEN IN THE UNITED KINGDOM WHO ARE LIVING AS REFUGEES OR ARE SEEKING ASYLUM BY PROVIDING THEM WITH BASIC MATERIAL NEEDS AND BY PROVIDING OR FACILITATING ACCESS TO INFORMATION, ADVICE, ADVOCACY AND SUCH OTHER APPROPRIATE SUPPORT AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES THINK FIT. (C) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL ABOUT ISSUES RELATING TO REFUGEES AND THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM