260th Birmingham Scout Group
Charity 506465
Overview
Summary
260th Birmingham Scout Group appears to be a youth-development organisation using the Scout model to build personal capability and civic responsibility. Its role is broader than recreational activity: the evidence frames progressive training, adult leadership and values-based participation as a route to physical, intellectual, social and spiritual development. The group may also have an inclusion role, as people with disabilities are identified among those it helps, although the nature and extent of this support is not yet clear.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Tyseley and Hay Mills
Confidence: medium
The Scouts' official group directory identifies an active 260th Birmingham group delivering Squirrels, Beavers, Cubs and Scouts from a site in Tyseley. Birmingham Scouts also lists the group’s Tyseley site as a venue for a scheduled Scout training course in October 2026, supporting that it is a current usable group site. The evidence identifies activity in Tyseley but does not independently establish ward coverage.
- The Scouts official group directory — 260th Birmingham
Lists Squirrels, Beavers, Cubs and Scouts as sections run by the group, each at a site in Tyseley. - Birmingham Scouts — Leader Training
Lists 260th Birmingham in Tyseley as the venue for a Birmingham Scouts First Response course on 18 October 2026. - Friends of the Shakespeare Line — Volunteers Briefing, Easter 2024
States that Spring Road station is looked after by Sue Weake and the 260th Birmingham Scouts.
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission address differs from the active Scout-group site in Tyseley. Available evidence does not establish that the Charity Commission address is a service-delivery or meeting site, so it has not been treated as an operational area.
- The evidence confirms a principal meeting site and local station-volunteering activity, but does not identify the geographic catchment from which members are drawn or demonstrate regular delivery in other Birmingham wards.
- The available partnership evidence supports involvement at Spring Road station, but does not establish the frequency, scale or current status of this activity beyond the documented station-adoption relationship.
Additional evidence needed
- A current group programme, annual report or session timetable confirming regular meeting days and any additional venues used.
- Confirmation from the group or Birmingham Scouts of whether the Charity Commission address is solely a correspondence address or has an operational role.
- Current information from the group or Friends of the Shakespeare Line on the continuing scope of the Spring Road station partnership.
Areas of work
- Education/training
Who they help
- Children/young People
- People With Disabilities
How they help
- Provides Human Resources
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
Values-led development is central to its operating model
The organisation appears to use structured Scout activities not simply to occupy young people, but to develop citizenship, discipline, loyalty and wider personal potential through progressive training and adult leadership.
Why it matters
This suggests the group’s contribution may lie in long-term character, confidence and civic development, rather than in a single specialist service or short-term intervention.
Show evidence
“THE INSTRUCTIONOF BOYS OF ALL CLASSES IN THE PRINCIPLES OF DISCIPLIN, LOYALTY AND GOOD CITIZENSHIP.”
Source:Charity Commission“Provide an enjoyable and attractive scheme of progressive training based on the Scout Promise and Law and guided by Adult Leadership.”
Source:Organisation
Adult capacity may be a crucial, less visible resource
Because the group identifies human resources as its means of helping, its impact may depend substantially on adult leaders and volunteers translating the Scout method into consistent relationships and activities.
Why it matters
Understanding the organisation as relationship- and volunteer-dependent highlights a potential strength in local adult leadership, while also pointing to a likely sensitivity to recruitment, retention and safeguarding capacity.
Show evidence
“Guided by Adult Leadership.”
Source:Organisation“Provides Human Resources.”
Source:Charity Commission
There is an indicated inclusion commitment, but its practical form is unclear
The group appears to recognise young people with disabilities within its beneficiary group, which may indicate an intention to make mainstream Scout participation accessible rather than offering a separate disability-specific service.
Why it matters
This could make the group a potentially important inclusive community setting, but further evidence is needed before assessing whether accessibility is embedded in practice or only reflected in beneficiary classification.
Show evidence
“Children/young People, People With Disabilities.”
Source:Charity Commission“Promote the development of young people in achieving their full physical, intellectual,social and spiritual potentials.”
Source:Organisation
- Whether the group serves all genders, despite charity objects using historic language referring to boys.
- Which neighbourhoods, age ranges and communities the group reaches.
- How disability inclusion is delivered in practice.
- Whether adult leadership is volunteer-led and how resilient that capacity is.
Remaining uncertainties
- Current programme, membership and waiting-list information by age group and locality.
- Evidence of accessibility measures, disability inclusion practice and participant experience.
- Information on volunteers, leadership structure, facilities and local partnerships.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Promote the development of young people in achieving their full physical, intellectual,social and spiritual potentials, as individuals, and as responsible citizens. The method is to provide an enjoyable and attractive scheme of progressive training based on the Scout Promise and Law and guided by Adult Leadership
Charity objects
THE INSTRUCTIONOF BOYS OF ALL CLASSES IN THE PRINCIPLES OF DISCIPLIN, LOYALTY AND GOOD CITIZENSHIP.