Yemen Relief (UK) Ltd
Charity 1175659
Overview
Summary
Yemen Relief (UK) Ltd appears to be a UK fundraising and grant-making charity focused exclusively on Yemen’s humanitarian crisis. Its public model combines broad emergency-relief appeals with donor-directed funds, including religious giving, and presents a mix of immediate assistance and longer-term livelihood or education activity. The organisation positions itself as locally connected and geographically wide-reaching within Yemen, but the available evidence says much more about fundraising offers and intended programmes than about delivery systems, partners, scale or independently evidenced outcomes.
Operational geography
Coverage: International
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission currently records Birmingham City among the places where the charity operates, but the available evidence does not identify any Birmingham ward, recognised place, service venue, delivery activity or beneficiary programme.
- It is therefore unclear whether the Birmingham entry reflects local fundraising, volunteers, grant-making, partnership activity or direct service delivery.
- The organisation's website describes humanitarian delivery in Yemen, including work with local organisations and staff on the ground, but provides no evidence of a Birmingham operational site, local project or Birmingham-based delivery partner.
- No Birmingham physical site can be evidenced. The Charity Commission states that the charity does not own or lease land or property, and the registered office is in Cardiff.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual report, impact report or Charity Commission annual return that explains the nature, scale and location of activity recorded in Birmingham City.
- Official evidence of any Birmingham venues, regular events, volunteer hubs, local delivery partners or funded organisations.
- Programme records or official partner confirmation identifying the Birmingham ward or recognised place in which any current activity takes place.
Areas of work
- Disability
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- People With Disabilities
How they help
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Other Finance
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A donor-led humanitarian funding platform
The organisation appears to organise its work around multiple named funds that let donors choose both a cause and, in some cases, a religious form of giving. This may make Yemen’s complex crisis legible and actionable for supporters while creating a portfolio of potentially restricted funding streams.
Why it matters
This helps explain its operating model: Yemen Relief may be as much a mechanism for channelling varied forms of UK-based charitable giving as a single-programme service provider.
Show evidence
“The website offers funds for water, Zakat, food parcels, orphan sponsorship, healthcare, malnutrition, emergency aid, bakery, education and sponsorship.”
Source:Organisation“The website presents Zakah, Sadaqah, Sadaqah Jariyah, Aqiqah and Fidya/Kaffarah giving options.”
Source:Organisation“The charity makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.”
Source:Charity Commission
Emergency relief is paired with modest recovery ambitions
Although conflict-driven hunger and lifesaving assistance dominate its public case for support, the charity also appears to frame some work as helping households regain capability, especially through women’s training, education and sponsorship.
Why it matters
This distinction matters because it suggests the organisation is not presenting Yemen solely as an emergency-response setting; it may seek continuity from immediate aid into longer-term resilience.
Show evidence
“The website describes food, clean water, medical care, shelter and emergency aid projects.”
Source:Organisation“The charity bakery is described as offering training and job opportunities for Yemeni women.”
Source:Organisation“The website promotes education and sponsorship programmes.”
Source:Organisation
Claims of reach exceed the available operational detail
Yemen Relief presents itself as having staff on the ground and reaching vulnerable families across all 20 governorates affected by violence. This may indicate an ambitious delivery footprint, but the evidence does not show whether this work is delivered directly, through local organisations, or through a mixed model.
Why it matters
Understanding this is central to assessing the charity’s relationships, capacity and potential role in Yemen’s wider humanitarian ecosystem.
Show evidence
“The website states that it has staff on the ground in Yemen and reaches vulnerable families in all 20 governorates affected by violence.”
Source:Organisation“The website states that it works closely with local organizations in Yemen.”
Source:Organisation“The charity helps other charities or voluntary bodies.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Whether Yemen Relief directly delivers aid, principally funds local partners, or uses both approaches.
- The scale, geographic distribution and independently evidenced outcomes of its programmes.
- How restricted religious and project-specific donations are governed and allocated.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports and accounts showing income sources, expenditure, grants, reserves and programme costs.
- Named delivery partners, project locations, beneficiary data and independent monitoring or evaluation evidence.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
For the public benefit, the relief and assistance of people in need in Yemen, who are the victims of war and/or victims of natural disasters by supplying them with food, shelter, medicine, clean water, educational materials and other relief items
Charity objects
FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE OF PEOPLE IN NEED IN YEMEN WHO ARE THE VICTIMS OF WAR AND/OR VICTIMS OF NATURAL DISASTERS, BY SUPPLYING THEM WITH FOOD, SHELTER, MEDICINE, CLEAN WATER, EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS AND OTHER RELIEF ITEMS.