Age UK Birmingham Limited
Charity 1138240
Overview
Summary
Age UK Birmingham appears to operate as a broad later-life support organisation rather than a single-service charity. Its offer spans advice, practical prevention, social connection, dementia support and later-life planning, suggesting an emphasis on helping older people remain informed, connected and independent. Although its charitable objects focus on Birmingham, its stated service area also includes Sandwell and Dudley, while newer participation and community-champion activity suggests an emerging role in shaping, not only delivering, local ageing support.
Operational geography
Coverage: Regional
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Bordesley and Highgate
Confidence: high
Age UK Birmingham identifies Stratford House as its head office and main office, with all services and departments open there. A current Birmingham voluntary-sector listing identifies Stratford House as being in Highgate.
- Age UK Birmingham — Contact us
Direct evidence: the organisation describes Stratford House, Birmingham, as both its head office and main office, and states that all services and departments are open there. - Birmingham Voluntary Service Council — 70K for 70K Walking Challenge 2026 listing
Direct evidence: the listing gives the event location as Stratford House, Highgate, Birmingham.
Perry Common
Confidence: high
Age UK Birmingham states that its dementia day-care service is currently provided at Perry Tree Centre. Birmingham City Council identifies the centre's locality as Perry Common.
- Age UK Birmingham — Memory Care
Direct evidence: the page states that dementia day-care services are currently provided at Perry Tree Centre, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. - Birmingham City Council — Perry Tree Centre directory record
Direct evidence: the council record gives Perry Tree Centre's locality as Perry Common, Kingstanding.
Bartley Green
Confidence: high
Age UK Birmingham's Edgbaston Neighbourhood Network Scheme explicitly lists Bartley Green as a covered area and describes the scheme as supporting local activities, groups and residents.
- Age UK Birmingham — Edgbaston Neighbourhood Network Scheme
Direct evidence: Bartley Green is listed under 'What areas are covered?' The scheme supports community assets, local groups and activities, grant recipients, and links with local social-work teams.
Edgbaston
Confidence: high
Age UK Birmingham's Edgbaston Neighbourhood Network Scheme explicitly lists Edgbaston as a covered area and has an operational team supporting local community activity.
- Age UK Birmingham — Edgbaston Neighbourhood Network Scheme
Direct evidence: Edgbaston is listed under 'What areas are covered?' The page says the scheme works with community assets and local social-work teams, provides grants, and bases its team in local libraries during the last week of each month.
North Edgbaston
Confidence: high
Age UK Birmingham's Edgbaston Neighbourhood Network Scheme explicitly lists North Edgbaston as a covered area and delivers support through local groups, activities and community assets.
- Age UK Birmingham — Edgbaston Neighbourhood Network Scheme
Direct evidence: North Edgbaston is listed under 'What areas are covered?' The scheme offers support to establish activities, access grants, training and networking.
Harborne
Confidence: high
Age UK Birmingham's Edgbaston Neighbourhood Network Scheme explicitly lists Harborne as a covered area and operates through local community infrastructure.
- Age UK Birmingham — Edgbaston Neighbourhood Network Scheme
Direct evidence: Harborne is listed under 'What areas are covered?' The scheme describes work with community assets to make activities and support available locally.
Quinton
Confidence: high
Age UK Birmingham's Edgbaston Neighbourhood Network Scheme explicitly lists Quinton as a covered area; the page also documents funded activity taking place there.
- Age UK Birmingham — Edgbaston Neighbourhood Network Scheme
Direct evidence: Quinton is listed under 'What areas are covered?' The page also describes dementia-friendly tea dances and outreach workshops in Quinton, and a weekly over-50s group at St Boniface Church in Quinton.
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct evidence supports a citywide Birmingham service offer: the organisation states that it provides services in the City of Birmingham, provides personalised memory-care services across Birmingham, and offers home visits through its falls-prevention service. However, the available evidence does not identify the current neighbourhood locations of most citywide activity, advice delivery, home visits, telephone support or exercise and friendship groups.
- Reasonable interpretation: within Birmingham, the organisation's operational identity is principally citywide rather than neighbourhood-based, because multiple core services are described as Birmingham-wide. The Edgbaston Neighbourhood Network Scheme is a significant, more localised strand operating across five wards.
- Reasonable interpretation: the overall footprint is regional rather than solely citywide because the organisation's current website says it provides services in Birmingham and the metropolitan boroughs of Sandwell and Dudley. The evidence reviewed does not establish the relative scale of activity in each borough.
- The organisation currently lists one charity shop in Hamstead, described as being on the Birmingham-Sandwell border. The reviewed evidence was insufficient to assign that site confidently to one of the supplied Birmingham ward identifiers, so it is not included as an operational area.
- The evidence shows material partnership-based reach through the Edgbaston Neighbourhood Network Scheme, including local community assets, local social-work teams and grant-funded groups. It does not provide a complete current list of all delivery partners or every venue used by those partners.
Additional evidence needed
- A current service-location register or timetable identifying the venues, wards and frequency of all Birmingham activities, friendship groups, exercise sessions and advice outreach.
- A current breakdown of the geographic reach of home-based falls-prevention, dementia transport and information-and-advice services within Birmingham.
- Confirmation of the ward location and operational status of the Hamstead charity shop.
- Current monitoring or annual-report data showing service volumes by Birmingham ward or locality, and the extent of activity in Birmingham compared with Sandwell and Dudley.
Areas of work
- Accommodation/housing
- Disability
- General Charitable Purposes
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
How they help
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A whole-system approach to independence
The available evidence suggests the organisation addresses several connected risks in later life: financial hardship, isolation, falls, dementia, legal uncertainty and access to advice. This may indicate a preventative model centred on sustaining independence, rather than responding only after crisis.
Why it matters
This helps explain why apparently varied services sit within one organisation: they may form a practical pathway around the conditions that can reduce older people's ability to live well at home.
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“Services include information and advice, dementia day care, falls prevention, telephone befriending, nail care, lunch clubs, exercise sessions and later-life planning.”
Source:Organisation“The charity's objects include relieving poverty, sickness, suffering, social exclusion and disadvantage among older people.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its operational geography may exceed its formal civic identity
While the charity is framed around Birmingham in its objects and name, it states that it provides services in Birmingham, Sandwell and Dudley. This may indicate a service footprint shaped by regional need, commissioning arrangements or cross-boundary relationships.
Why it matters
Understanding this distinction is important when assessing its partnerships, reach and accountability: its practical role may be wider than a Birmingham-only reading suggests.
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“The charitable purposes are for the benefit of older people across Birmingham.”
Source:Charity Commission“The organisation provides services in Birmingham, Sandwell and Dudley.”
Source:Organisation
There are signs of a shift from service delivery toward shared agenda-setting
The AgeWise Panel and recruitment of community champions suggest the organisation may be developing mechanisms through which people aged 50+ and local residents influence services and wider health priorities.
Why it matters
This could position the organisation as a bridge between older residents, voluntary action and public-sector strategy, rather than solely as a provider of support.
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“The AgeWise Panel invites people aged 50+ to voice priorities and needs to help develop services.”
Source:Organisation“Community champions are described as assisting with the council's Health and Wellbeing Strategy.”
Source:Organisation
- Which services are delivered directly, commissioned, or provided with partners.
- Whether the organisation's services reach older people most affected by poverty, disability, isolation or dementia.
- How activity and funding are distributed across Birmingham, Sandwell and Dudley.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, accounts and service-outcome data.
- Information on commissioners, delivery partners, referral routes and neighbourhood coverage.
- Evidence of how AgeWise Panel and community-champion input has changed decisions or services.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Information and Advice, Dementia Day Care, Active Well Being Centre with lunch clubs, exercise sessions and interest groups, Falls Prevention Service, Charity shop, Nail Care, Telephone Befriending, Pandemic Relief.
Charity objects
TO PROMOTE THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND/OR OLDER PEOPLE ACROSS BIRMINGHAM 1. PREVENTING OR RELIEVING THE POVERTY OF OLDER PEOPLE. 2. ADVANCING EDUCATION. 3. PREVENTING OR RELIEVING SICKNESS, DISEASE OR SUFFERING IN OLDER PEOPLE (WHETHER EMOTIONAL, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL). 4. PROMOTING EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY. 5. ASSISTING OLDER PEOPLE IN NEED BY REASON OF ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, SOCIAL EXCLUSION OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE. 6. SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF OLDER PEOPLE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE AND THE OUTCOME OF THIS BEING THE PROMOTION OF WELL-BEING OF OLDER PEOPLE.