Bournville Hub CIO
Charity 1187528
Overview
Summary
Bournville Hub CIO appears to operate less as a single-purpose service provider than as local social infrastructure: a shared, low-barrier venue through which residents, voluntary groups, advisers and small community initiatives can meet, learn and access support. Its programme combines recreation with practical help, civic access and health-related connection. The organisation’s distinctive role may be convening existing local capacity while maintaining an inclusive community base, although its reliance on donations suggests that sustaining the venue itself is a central strategic challenge.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Bournville and Cotteridge
Confidence: high
The charity runs its community hub and regular programme in Bournville. The organisation's stated purpose and current activities are focused on Bournville and its neighbourhood.
- Hub on the Green website, homepage and About page
The organisation describes the Hub as a community space in the heart of Bournville. Its current programme includes regular advice, digital support, exercise, parent-and-toddler, music, craft and community activities at the Hub. - Charity Commission register, Bournville Hub CIO (charity 1187528)
The charity's activities and objects are to benefit residents of Bournville and the neighbourhood, including through community facilities, education, recreation and leisure. - Birmingham City Council, Bournville and Cotteridge ward information
The Council lists the Hub on the Green as a councillor advice-surgery venue for Bournville and Cotteridge ward. - Bournville Village Trust, Bournville Live and community-event information
The Hub works with Bournville Village Trust, St Francis Church, Selly Manor Museum and other local stakeholders on Bournville Green cultural activity, including the Bournville Live initiative and local events such as Pride Picnic on the Green.
Remaining uncertainties
- The available evidence strongly establishes a single Bournville base and neighbourhood-focused activity, but does not establish regular direct service delivery in other Birmingham wards.
- Some Hub activities, particularly cycle rides and events open to the public, may involve participants or routes beyond Bournville; no current route maps, attendance geography or recurring external venues were evidenced.
- Bournville Village Trust uses the Hub as a drop-in venue for some of its neighbourhood-coordinator work, including support connected with Bournville and Northfield. This evidences the Hub's role as a locally shared venue, but does not show that Bournville Hub CIO itself delivers services in Northfield or elsewhere.
- The Bournville Live partnership materially broadens the range of activity taking place around Bournville Green, but the evidence indicates this remains a Bournville-local initiative rather than a multi-ward operational footprint.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual report or impact report identifying all venues used by the charity, the locations of outreach activity and the geographical origin of beneficiaries.
- Current event listings or route information for activities delivered away from the Hub or Bournville Green.
- Written clarification from the charity distinguishing activities it directly delivers from sessions delivered by partner organisations using its premises.
Areas of work
- Recreation
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A platform for local participation
The Hub appears to create value by hosting and connecting many separate groups and services, rather than delivering one tightly defined intervention itself.
Why it matters
This suggests its influence may lie in enabling relationships and repeated local participation, including connections that are not easily captured by counting individual services.
Show evidence
“The charity may establish, maintain, manage or co-operate in managing a community centre.”
Source:Charity Commission“The Hub hosts activities including Rainbows, a model railway club, music sessions, cycling, poetry, Welsh conversation and a local artisan market.”
Source:Organisation
Recreation is being used as an entry point to wider support
Social and creative activities appear to sit alongside advice, digital help and health-related support, potentially making practical assistance more approachable through ordinary community participation.
Why it matters
This broadens understanding of the Hub from a leisure venue to a place where informal connection may reduce barriers to advice, confidence and wellbeing support.
Show evidence
“Regular provision includes digital support, a legal clinic, Bournville Village Trust advice, Age UK appointments, a diabetes support group and seated exercise.”
Source:Organisation“The Hub describes itself as hosting events, offering support, providing lifelong learning and empowering creativity.”
Source:Organisation
The venue itself may be the organisation's core asset and vulnerability
The Hub appears to depend on keeping an accessible physical space open for a varied programme; fundraising for everyday running costs may indicate that venue sustainability is central to its operating model.
Why it matters
Understanding this dependence is important because disruption to the space could affect many groups, advice routes and informal social connections simultaneously.
Show evidence
“The organisation is raising funds to cover the day-to-day running costs of the Hub on the Green.”
Source:Organisation“The Hub on the Green is located at 27 Sycamore Road, Bournville.”
Source:Organisation
- Which activities are delivered directly by the CIO and which are independently led users of the space.
- Whether the programme reaches residents who are isolated, low-income or otherwise underrepresented.
- How financially secure the venue and its programme are.
Remaining uncertainties
- Annual accounts, income sources and information on venue costs.
- Attendance, participant profile and repeat-use data across activities and advice sessions.
- Evidence of partnerships, referrals and outcomes for people using the Hub.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Bournville Hub CIO exists to benefit the residents of Bournville and the neighbourhood, without distinction of sex, sexual orientation, race or of political, religious or other opinions by associating together the said residents and the local authorities, voluntary and other organisations in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare.
Charity objects
TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF BOURNVILLE AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID RESIDENTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE RESIDENTS. IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE TRUSTEES SHALL HAVE POWER: TO ESTABLISH OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE AND TO MAINTAIN OR MANAGE OR CO-OPERATE WITH ANY STATUTORY AUTHORITY IN THE MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF SUCH A CENTRE FOR ACTIVITIES PROMOTED BY THE CHARITY IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS.