Birmingham Community Venture
Charity 1115105
Overview
Summary
Birmingham Community Venture appears to position informal and alternative education as a route back into wider civic and economic participation. Its core stated role is re-engaging young people, especially through activity-based learning and provision for excluded pupils, while its registered scope extends across a notably broad set of social issues and beneficiary groups. This suggests an organisation that may work as a flexible community platform rather than a narrowly specialised education provider, although the available evidence does not show how these wider purposes are delivered in practice.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Soho and Jewellery Quarter
Confidence: high
Direct current regulatory evidence identifies Birmingham Community Venture as proprietor of the open Future First Independent School in Soho & Jewellery Quarter ward.
- Department for Education, Get Information about Schools: Future First Independent School (URN 135422), last confirmed 1 July 2026
Lists Birmingham Community Venture as proprietor; the school is open and its ward is recorded as Soho & Jewellery Quarter. - Ofsted: Future First Independent School, inspection record published 25 March 2026
Records the independent school in Hockley, Birmingham, with nine pupils and a capacity of 40.
Ladywood
Confidence: high
Direct Ofsted registration evidence shows that Birmingham Community Venture is the registered provider of a nursery in Ladywood.
- Ofsted: Perrotts Folly Nursery (URN 2807225)
Records Perrotts Folly Nursery as full-day childcare in Ladywood and states that it is registered by Birmingham Community Venture. - Ofsted: Birmingham Community Venture registered-person record
Lists Perrotts Folly Nursery in Ladywood as the one provision for which Birmingham Community Venture is responsible.
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission's current geographic return says the charity operates in Birmingham City as well as Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull and Worcestershire. This supports a regional overall footprint, but it is self-reported and does not specify the services, sites, frequency or scale of activity in each area.
- Within Birmingham, the available direct evidence confirms operational sites in Soho & Jewellery Quarter and Ladywood, but does not establish whether these are the organisation's only active delivery locations.
- Future First Independent School states that it works with families and referring agencies, but no current named referral, school or local-authority partnerships were evidenced sufficiently to map a partnership-based operational reach.
- Future First Independent School is evidenced as an operational education site; its registered-office status is not treated solely as a correspondence address.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual report, service directory or delivery/impact report identifying all active programmes and their Birmingham locations.
- Current commissioning or referral agreements with Birmingham City Council, schools or other local authorities, including the areas from which placements are commissioned.
- Confirmation from Birmingham Community Venture of whether Perrotts Folly Nursery and Future First Independent School are its complete current Birmingham estate and delivery portfolio.
Areas of work
- Accommodation/housing
- Amateur Sport
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Disability
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- General Charitable Purposes
- Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Other Charitable Activities
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
Education appears to be its main route to inclusion
The available evidence suggests that Birmingham Community Venture sees informal, supplementary and alternative education as a mechanism for helping young people regain confidence, realise potential and contribute socially and economically.
Why it matters
This frames the organisation as more than a training provider: its educational work may be intended to reconnect people to community life, responsibility and future opportunity.
Show evidence
“Committed to re-engaging young people through informal educational opportunities and activities.”
Source:Organisation“Charity objects include alternative provision for excluded pupils, supplementary education and activity based learning.”
Source:Charity Commission
It may operate at the boundary between education and wider community support
Its formal purposes span education, health, poverty, housing, culture, sport, environment, employment and equality, indicating a potentially broad community-development orientation around its educational core.
Why it matters
This breadth may make the organisation a useful connector between services that are often treated separately, but it also raises a question about which areas are active priorities rather than permissive charitable scope.
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“What the charity does includes education/training, health, poverty relief, accommodation/housing, arts, sport, environment, economic/community development/employment and equality or diversity.”
Source:Charity Commission“How the charity helps includes providing facilities, services, advocacy/advice/information and other charitable activities.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its intended beneficiaries are broader than its stated youth focus
While young people appear central to the organisation's expressed mission, its beneficiary categories also include older people, disabled people and the general public. This may indicate intergenerational or community-wide ambitions, or simply a broad legal remit.
Why it matters
Clarifying this distinction would reveal whether the organisation is a youth-focused specialist with inclusive access, or a wider community organisation using youth re-engagement as one principal entry point.
Show evidence
“Committed to re-engaging young people.”
Source:Organisation“The charity helps children/young people, elderly/old people, people with disabilities and the general public.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which services, programmes and beneficiary groups are currently active.
- Whether the broad registered purposes reflect delivery, partnerships or future capacity.
- How the organisation identifies and re-engages excluded or disengaged young people.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, programme descriptions and outcome data.
- Information on referral routes, partner organisations, facilities and local areas served.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Birmingham Community Venture is committed to re-engaging young people by providing informal educational opportunities and activities. Thereby enabling them to realise there own potential and develop into confident and responsible citizens who will make a positive contribution to the social and economic wellbeing of society.
Charity objects
A) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC, INCLUDING THROUGH: ALTERNATIVE PROVISION FOR EXCLUDED PUPILS AND SUPPLEMENTARY EDUCATION ACTIVITY BASED LEARNING THE PROVISION OF TRAINING AND EDUCATION SERVICES AND COURSES