Yamurai - Change A Life
Charity 1132930
Overview
Summary
Yamurai - Change A Life appears to be a broad, relationship-oriented charity working across the UK and Africa at the intersection of health vulnerability, poverty and community connection. Its formal objects centre on people affected by life-limiting illness, particularly HIV and AIDS, while its stated activities suggest a flexible model combining financial or practical support with events that bring ethnic communities together. The available evidence points to an organisation whose role may extend beyond direct relief into reducing isolation and strengthening informal support networks.
Operational geography
Coverage: International
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- No current evidence identifies any service, event venue, project location or delivery partnership within Birmingham.
- The registered address is in Tividale, Oldbury, outside Birmingham, and may be a correspondence address rather than an operational site.
- The Charity Commission record indicates work in Zimbabwe, while the charity's objects refer to the UK and Africa; the available evidence does not show where any UK-facing activities are delivered.
- No evidence was found of physical sites, formal operational partnerships or neighbourhood-, district- or citywide delivery within Birmingham.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual report or trustees' report describing activities undertaken, beneficiaries reached and delivery locations.
- Current information from the organisation identifying UK event venues, service locations, referral partners or community projects.
- Evidence from any named delivery partners confirming where joint activity is currently undertaken.
Areas of work
- General Charitable Purposes
- Other Charitable Purposes
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- Religious Activities
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Other Finance
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
Health relief is linked to wider household vulnerability
The organisation appears to treat life-limiting illness not only as a medical issue, but as a source of financial and social pressure affecting families, older people, pregnant women and disabled people.
Why it matters
This suggests its potential role is cross-cutting: it may connect health-related need with practical poverty relief and family support rather than operating as a narrowly clinical charity.
Show evidence
“Its objects include relief of sickness and protection of health among people and families affected by life-limiting illnesses, particularly HIV and AIDS.”
Source:Charity Commission“Its objects include relief of financial hardship and assistance for older people, pregnant women and people with disabilities.”
Source:Charity Commission
Community events may be part of its support model
Functions and events bringing different ethnic communities together appear to be more than incidental outreach; they may be a way of reducing isolation, building trust and making practical support accessible.
Why it matters
This distinguishes the organisation from a purely grant-making or aid-distribution charity and indicates possible value as a bridge between communities.
Show evidence
“It brings different ethnic communities together through functions and events.”
Source:Organisation“It helps individuals or groups in community with finance and physical assistance.”
Source:Organisation
The organisation has a deliberately broad remit
Its stated concerns span poverty, disease, obesity, violence, HIV and AIDS, alongside overseas aid, religious activities and general charitable purposes. This may indicate responsiveness to varied community needs, but also makes its core operating focus difficult to determine.
Why it matters
Understanding whether this breadth is strategic or opportunistic would clarify which organisations, communities and funders it is most likely to complement.
Show evidence
“People helped could be affected by poverty, disease, obesity, violence and HIV and AIDS related problems.”
Source:Organisation“Its registered activities include general charitable purposes, poverty relief, overseas aid, religious activities and other charitable purposes.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Whether support is delivered directly, through grants, or through partner organisations.
- Which UK and African communities are reached, and whether work is sustained in particular places.
- How central HIV and AIDS support remains within current activity.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or activity updates showing services, locations, beneficiary numbers and partnerships.
- Information on event purpose, referral routes, funding distribution and outcomes for participants.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Helping individuals or groups in community with finance, physical assistance and bringing different ethnic communities together through functions and events that we hold. They could be affected by poverty, disease, obesity, violence and HIV and AIDS related problems.
Charity objects
1) THE RELIEF OF.SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH AMONG PEOPLE LIVING IN THE UK AND AFRICA AFFECTED BY LIFE LIMITING ILLNESSES IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY HIV AND AIDS 2)THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH OF FAMILIES OF THOSE AFFECTED BY LIFE! LIMITING ILLNESSES IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY HIV AND AIDS LIVING IN THE UK AND AFRICA. 3) THE RELIEF OF OLDER PEOPLE, PREGNANT WOMEN AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN NEED BY THE PROVISION OF SUCH ASSISTANCE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE 4) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONG PEOPLE LIVING OR WORKING IN THE UK AND AFRICA BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH GOODS OR SERVICES WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD THROUGH LACK OF MEANS .