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Registered charity · Birmingham

Birmingham Irish Association

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £728k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Birmingham City
Website
www.birish.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Birmingham Irish Association
Registered
1998

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£728k£689k
  • 2024£540k£701k
  • 2023£652k£774k
Earlier years
  • 2022£683k£717k
  • 2021£1.0m£692k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 48%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF BIRMINGHAM AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS (HEREINAFTER CALLED "THE AREA OF BENEFIT") WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THOSE WHO ARE IRISH OR WHO ARE OF IRISH DESCENT. IN PARTICULAR, TO ADVANCE RELIGION, EDUCATION AND TRAINING, RELIEVE SICKNESS AND OLD AGE, PRESERVE AND PROTECT GOOD HEALTH AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS

Grants received

24 grants · £1,349,010 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £986,840 (11 grants)
  • Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales · £106,000 (4 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £97,700 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £61,324 (3 grants)
  • Department of Health and Social Care · £45,366

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £20,0002025-08-21
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £466,6392023-12-19
  • Department of Health and Social Care £45,3662023-11-01
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002023-02-24
  • Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales £2,2502022-12-14
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

5 trustees on the board

5.2y median 4y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

4
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Accommodation/housing 5General Charitable Purposes 5The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 5

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 5Professional services 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£728k latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

3.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 6.3 in 2021

15 from 18 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1072258
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 08/09/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/09/1998AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 30/09/2011AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 23/06/2014
Companies House
Company number 03628076 · Active
Contact on the register
01216046111 · info@birish.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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