Birmingham Association For Mental Health
Charity 1003906
Overview
Summary
Birmingham Mind appears to function as a broad local mental-health support infrastructure rather than a single-service charity. Its role spans accommodation-based support, support in people’s homes, community services, advice channels and training. The available evidence suggests an organisation combining intensive, longer-term support with high-volume, lower-threshold access routes. Its formal connection to Mind gives it a national movement affiliation, while its stated focus and service footprint position it as locally embedded in Birmingham.
Operational geography
Coverage: Citywide
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
City Centre
Confidence: high
Birmingham Mind currently operates its Central Birmingham Wellbeing Hub, with open drop-in provision.
- Birmingham Mind, Central Birmingham Wellbeing Hub (official website)
The service page states that the Birmingham Mind Wellbeing Hub is in central Birmingham and offers drop-in sessions. - Birmingham Mind, Impact Report 2024/2025 (official website)
The report records 2,028 people using the Bullring Wellbeing Hub during the year and describes it as part of Birmingham Mind's wellbeing offer.
Erdington
Confidence: high
Erdington contains a named Birmingham Mind hub and Talking Space venue, as well as current residential and supported-housing provision.
- Birmingham Mind, Hub Locations (official website)
The North Locality Erdington Hub is listed at Beechcroft in Erdington. - Birmingham Mind, Erdington Talking Space (official website)
Talking Space is delivered at Beechcroft in Erdington every evening. - Birmingham Mind, Supported Accommodation (official website)
The current portfolio includes supported-accommodation properties in Erdington.
Handsworth
Confidence: high
The organisation has a named recovery hub in Handsworth and publicly lists supported-accommodation properties there.
- Birmingham Mind, Hub Locations (official website)
The West Locality Handsworth Hub is listed in Handsworth. - Birmingham Mind, Supported Accommodation (official website)
The current supported-housing portfolio includes properties in Handsworth.
Northfield
Confidence: high
Northfield is a current location for both the Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub network and Talking Space crisis support.
- Birmingham Mind, Hub Locations (official website)
The South Locality Northfield Hub is listed in Northfield. - Birmingham Mind, Talking Space Venues (official website)
Talking Space is delivered through Creative Support in Northfield.
Bournbrook and Selly Park
Confidence: high
Birmingham Mind currently delivers Talking Space from a named Selly Oak venue.
- Birmingham Mind, Talking Space Venues (official website)
Talking Space is delivered at grounded. in Selly Oak. - Birmingham Mind, Talking Space leaflet 2025 (official website)
The current leaflet lists the Selly Oak Talking Space venue at grounded.
Soho and Jewellery Quarter
Confidence: high
Birmingham Mind has a current Talking Space site at St Paul's Square.
- Birmingham Mind, Talking Space (official website)
The service page lists St Pauls Talking Space as one of four current locations across the city. - Birmingham Mind, Talking Space leaflet 2025 (official website)
The leaflet gives the St Pauls venue as grounded. at St Pauls Square. - Birmingham Mind, Impact Report 2023/2024 (official website)
The report states that Birmingham Mind's head office is based in the Jewellery Quarter.
Small Heath
Confidence: high
A current Birmingham Mind-managed supported-housing property is explicitly identified in Small Heath.
- Birmingham Mind, Supported Accommodation (official website)
The current portfolio describes a Birmingham Mind supported-housing property in Small Heath.
Edgbaston
Confidence: high
The current supported-housing portfolio includes two Birmingham Mind-owned properties identified as being in Edgbaston.
- Birmingham Mind, Supported Accommodation (official website)
The current portfolio lists two properties in Edgbaston, both owned by Birmingham Mind.
Moseley
Confidence: high
Birmingham Mind currently manages a supported-housing property explicitly identified as being in Moseley.
- Birmingham Mind, Supported Accommodation (official website)
The current portfolio lists a supported-housing property in Moseley.
Handsworth Wood
Confidence: high
Birmingham Mind's current portfolio includes a supported-housing property in Handsworth Wood that it owns.
- Birmingham Mind, Supported Accommodation (official website)
The current portfolio lists a supported-housing property in Handsworth Wood, owned by Birmingham Mind.
Yardley West and Stechford
Confidence: high
Birmingham Mind currently manages a supported-housing property explicitly identified as being in Stechford; its wider hub network also includes an east-locality hub in Yardley.
- Birmingham Mind, Supported Accommodation (official website)
The current portfolio lists a supported-housing property in Stechford. - Birmingham Mind, Hub Locations (official website)
The East Locality Yardley Hub is listed in Yardley.
Remaining uncertainties
- The organisation states that it has 21 Birmingham locations comprising offices, accommodation sites and community spaces, but its publicly accessible current material does not provide a complete text list of all 21 sites. The operational-area list is therefore evidential rather than exhaustive.
- Birmingham Mind's Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub network also operates at three venues in Solihull, and its helpline and Talking Space eligibility extends to Birmingham and Solihull residents. This is a secondary geography outside the Civic Atlas's Birmingham-area scope.
- The 2024/2025 impact report describes temporary Adult Support Hub drop-ins in Small Heath, Kitts Green, Tyseley and central Birmingham during a SIFA Fireside partnership, but says that contract ended in November 2024. These time-limited sites have not been treated as evidence of current provision.
- The publicly listed supported-housing portfolio confirms neighbourhood locations but does not establish whether every property remains continuously occupied or accepting referrals at a particular time.
Additional evidence needed
- A current downloadable site register or accessible version of Birmingham Mind's interactive map, identifying all active offices, community venues, accommodation sites and service delivery locations.
- Current service-level confirmation of the geographical remit and active venues for partnership-delivered provision with Creative Support, grounded., Living Well Consortium and Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.
- Confirmation of the current operational geography of the Yardley Hub.
Areas of work
- Accommodation/housing
- Disability
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who they help
- Elderly/old People
- Other Defined Groups
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A continuum-of-support operating model
The organisation appears to work across different levels of need: residential care and supported housing for people needing substantial practical support, alongside home-based, day and specialist community services. This may indicate an ability to support people through changing circumstances rather than only at one point of crisis.
Why it matters
This helps explain Birmingham Mind as a potential bridge between mental-health care, housing and community participation, rather than solely an advice or counselling provider.
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“Services include Residential Care, Supported Housing, Support in the individual's own home, Day Service provision and other specialist community services.”
Source:Organisation“The charity's purposes include relieving and rehabilitating persons suffering from mental disorders or emotional or mental distress.”
Source:Charity Commission
Low-threshold access sits alongside intensive provision
Helpline and web-chat use appears substantial alongside accommodation and support services. This may indicate a two-part model: accessible routes for immediate information or emotional support, combined with more sustained services for some people.
Why it matters
The distinction is important for understanding where Birmingham Mind may encounter unmet need early and where it may hold insight into pressures that later require more intensive support.
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“17,024 Helpline calls were received in the last 12 months.”
Source:Organisation“4,756 people accessed support via online web chat.”
Source:Organisation“Services include Residential Care and Supported Housing.”
Source:Organisation
Local delivery within a national affiliation
Birmingham Mind appears to combine a Birmingham-specific mission with formal alignment to Mind's national aims. This may provide shared identity and standards while allowing services to respond to local conditions.
Why it matters
This suggests the organisation may be a useful connector between Birmingham's local voluntary sector and wider mental-health knowledge, campaigns or practice associated with Mind.
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“The charity operates in the City of Birmingham and its environs in association with Mind and in accordance with Mind's aims and objects.”
Source:Charity Commission“Birmingham Mind has been dedicated to supporting individuals with mental health needs since 1962.”
Source:Organisation
- Which communities, neighbourhoods and mental-health needs are most represented across each service.
- Whether helpline, web-chat, housing and community services are connected through referrals or operate largely separately.
- Which local organisations, public bodies or housing providers are key delivery partners.
Remaining uncertainties
- A service-level breakdown of users, referral routes, waiting times, outcomes and geographic coverage.
- Information on partnerships, funding sources and relationships with NHS, local authority, housing and community organisations.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Birmingham Mind provides high quality, user led services for people who experience mental health distress. Our services include Residential Care, Supported Housing, Support in the individual's own home, Day Service provision and other specialist community services.
Charity objects
TO PROMOTE THE PRESERVATION OF MENTAL HEALTH AND TO ASSIST IN RELIEVING AND REHABILITATING PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL DISORDERS OR CONDITIONS OF EMOTIONAL OR MENTAL DISTRESS REQUIRING ADVICE OR TREATMENT IN THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM AND ITS ENVIRONS IN ASSOCIATION WITH MIND(THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH) HEREINAFTER CALLED MIND) AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AIMS AND OBJECTS OF MIND