Amrit Bani Ravidassia Community Centre
Charity 1209186
Overview
Summary
Amrit Bani Ravidassia Community Centre appears to be a faith-rooted community institution whose role extends beyond worship: it uses a physical community facility to make religious practice visible, accessible and socially anchored in Birmingham. Its stated model combines collective worship, teaching, celebration, literature and broadcasting, suggesting an organisation concerned both with sustaining a distinct religious tradition and sharing it beyond its immediate congregation. The available evidence does not yet show how broadly its facility or services are used in practice.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Soho and Jewellery Quarter
Confidence: low
The charity’s current Charity Commission contact address is in Hockley. The ward includes Hockley, and the organisation’s current register entry states that it provides buildings/facilities and services. A building of the same name in Hockley was also certified for worship. However, a contact address and certification alone do not establish current operational activity in the ward.
- Charity Commission register, AMRIT BANI RAVIDASSIA COMMUNITY CENTRE, charity number 1209186
The current contact address is in Hockley, Birmingham; the charity reports providing buildings/facilities/open space and services. ([register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk](https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/5231897/contact-information?_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_organisationNumber=5231897&utm_source=openai)) - Local Government Boundary Commission for England, Birmingham electoral review final report
The Soho & Jewellery Quarter ward includes the communities of Hockley, All Saints and Winson Green. ([lgbce.org.uk](https://www.lgbce.org.uk/sites/default/files/2023-04/birmingham_final_report.pdf?utm_source=openai)) - The Gazette, certification of a place of worship notice
A building named Amrit Bani Ravidassia Community Centre in Hockley, Birmingham was certified for worship. ([thegazette.co.uk](https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/64106?utm_source=openai))
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission records Birmingham City as the area in which the charity operates, supporting a citywide overall coverage classification, but no current service timetable, event record or annual report identifies delivery locations across Birmingham’s individual wards.
- The available evidence strongly supports a physical faith and community facility in Hockley, but does not establish whether all prayer meetings, festivals, lectures, literature distribution or broadcasts are delivered from that site.
- No evidence was found of current operational partnerships, satellite venues or other physical sites that materially extend the charity’s geographical reach.
- The charity is recently registered and its Charity Commission record states that activity information and accounts/annual returns are not yet available, limiting confidence about the scale and pattern of current activity.
Additional evidence needed
- A current programme, service timetable or event calendar stating where regular worship, community activities and public festivals are delivered.
- The charity’s first annual report and accounts, once filed, including narrative information on activities, beneficiaries, venues and partnerships.
- Confirmation from the charity of whether its Hockley contact address is its active operational facility and whether it operates any additional venues or outreach activity elsewhere in Birmingham.
- A current list of delivery partners, if any, and the locations through which those partnerships provide services.
Areas of work
- Religious Activities
Who they help
- Other Defined Groups
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
Faith is delivered through a community hub
The organisation appears to treat its community facility as a core mechanism for expressing its faith, rather than as a separate or incidental asset. Worship, learning and community presence may therefore be closely connected in one place.
Why it matters
This suggests the centre may be an important local anchor: understanding its building, accessibility and use could reveal civic value not visible from its religious classification alone.
Show evidence
“The charity's objects include managing and operating a community facility as the focus for the outworking of the faith in the community.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity provides buildings, facilities or open space.”
Source:Charity Commission
A tradition-maintenance and public-engagement model
The organisation appears to combine inward-facing religious continuity with outward-facing communication. Prayer and festivals may strengthen community identity, while literature and broadcasting may enable teaching to reach people beyond those physically present.
Why it matters
This distinguishes the centre from an organisation focused only on congregational worship and raises useful questions about its audience, communications reach and role in public understanding of the faith.
Show evidence
“The objects include holding prayer meetings, lectures and public celebrations of religious festivals.”
Source:Charity Commission“The objects include producing or distributing literature and broadcasting teachings of Amrit Bani Shri Guru Ravidass Ji.”
Source:Charity Commission
A specific community identity alongside a public mandate
The centre appears to be rooted in a particular ethnic or racial community and religious tradition, while its objects frame its benefit as public. This may position it as both a culturally specific institution and a potential bridge into wider Birmingham civic life.
Why it matters
The balance between community specificity and public benefit is likely central to understanding whom the organisation reaches, whose voices it represents and where collaboration may be possible.
Show evidence
“The charity helps people of a particular ethnic or racial origin, other defined groups and the general public.”
Source:Charity Commission“The objects are to advance the Amrit Bani Ravidassia religion in Birmingham for the benefit of the public.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Whether the community facility is used for activities beyond religious worship and teaching.
- Which communities use the centre in practice, and whether its public-facing activities reach beyond its core faith community.
- Whether it collaborates with other faith, cultural, welfare or neighbourhood organisations in Birmingham.
Remaining uncertainties
- A programme timetable, annual report or activity report showing services, events, attendance and facility use.
- Evidence of partnerships, volunteer activity, local outreach and the audiences reached through literature or broadcasting.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Charity objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: TO ADVANCE THE AMRIT BANI RAVIDASSIA RELIGION IN BIRMINGHAM FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, MAINLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY: • THE HOLDING OF PRAYER MEETINGS, LECTURES, PUBLIC CELEBRATION OF RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS, • PRODUCING AND/OR DISTRIBUTING LITERATURE ON AMRIT BANI RAVIDASSIA TO ENLIGHTEN OTHERS ABOUT THE TEACHINGS OF AMRIT BANI SHRI GURU RAVIDASS JI; • BROADCASTING THE TEACHINGS OF AMRIT BANI SHRI GURU RAVIDASS JI IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE HOLY BOOK; • MANAGING AND OPERATING A COMMUNITY FACILITY AS THE FOCUS FOR THE OUTWORKING OF THE FAITH IN THE COMMUNITY.