Burlington Street Development Centre
Charity 1137198
Overview
Summary
Burlington Street Development Centre appears to be a broad, community-facing support organisation whose role is to combine immediate help with longer-term participation and independence. Its stated focus on the African Caribbean community sits alongside an unusually wide remit covering children, young people, older people, disabled people and the wider public in Birmingham. The available evidence suggests it may operate as a bridge between advice-led crisis support and practical development opportunities, rather than as a narrowly specialised service.
Operational geography
Coverage: Citywide
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission currently records Birmingham City as the area where the charity operates, but this does not identify any active delivery locations, wards or physical sites within Birmingham.
- The charity reported £0 income and £0 expenditure for each of the five financial years ending between 28 February 2021 and 28 February 2025. This creates substantial uncertainty about whether it is currently delivering services in practice.
- The charity's registered correspondence address is in Ilford, not Birmingham, and should not be treated as a Birmingham operational site.
- Companies House records show the associated company, Burlington Street Development Centre (company number 07157612), was dissolved on 28 November 2017. It is unclear whether the registered charity has continued activity separately as an unincorporated organisation.
- No current website, annual report, project information, venue information or partner evidence was available to establish neighbourhood-level activity or material partnerships.
Additional evidence needed
- Current service or programme information identifying where activities, advice, counselling or training are delivered in Birmingham.
- Confirmation from the trustees or charity of whether services are presently active, paused or ceased.
- Current venue or outreach information, or delivery timetables, identifying Birmingham areas where services are delivered.
- Evidence of active delivery partnerships, referral arrangements or commissioned work that materially extends the charity's reach.
Areas of work
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A bridge between immediate need and longer-term independence
The organisation appears to connect responses to poverty, sickness and distress with education, skills development, employment support and social participation. This may indicate an approach that treats hardship as linked to exclusion and reduced opportunity, rather than as a standalone crisis.
Why it matters
This helps explain its likely role in the local support system: it may offer a pathway from advice and relief toward greater independence, making it potentially complementary to both crisis services and training providers.
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“The objects include relieving poverty, sickness and distress, advancing education and relieving unemployment.”
Source:Charity Commission“The objects include helping clients develop skills, capacities and capabilities to participate in society as independent, mature and responsible individuals.”
Source:Charity Commission
A culturally grounded remit with a wider civic reach
Its particular emphasis on the African Caribbean community may provide cultural relevance and trusted access, while its stated beneficiary groups indicate that it is not confined to one identity group. This suggests a potentially important role as both a community-rooted and place-wide organisation.
Why it matters
Understanding this dual position is useful when considering partnerships: the centre may hold relationships or insight that broader services lack, while also addressing needs shared across Birmingham communities.
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“The objects refer in particular, but not exclusively, to the African Caribbean community of Birmingham.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps children and young people, elderly people, people with disabilities, people of a particular ethnic or racial origin and the general public.”
Source:Charity Commission
Advice may be the organisation's central connecting function
Information, counselling, advice and advocacy appear to be the clearest common mechanism across its broad purposes. These functions may enable the organisation to identify needs, direct people toward support and connect otherwise separate areas such as health, poverty, education and employment.
Why it matters
This suggests the organisation may be especially valuable as a trusted navigation point, but the evidence does not show whether it delivers specialist support directly or primarily refers people elsewhere.
Show evidence
“The activities include provision of information, counselling and advice.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps by providing services and providing advocacy, advice and information.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which services are currently delivered directly, and which are delivered through referral or partnership.
- Whether the African Caribbean community remains the main beneficiary group in practice.
- The organisation's geographic reach, scale, funding model and current activity level.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, service descriptions and beneficiary data.
- Information on partner organisations, referral routes, venues and programme outcomes.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
To relieve poverty, sickness and distress and to advance education, in particular but to exclusively within the african caribbean community of Birmingham through provision of information, counselling, advice, and such other charitable services as the trustees may from time to time determine.
Charity objects
2.1 TO RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AND TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY WITHIN THE AFRICAN CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY OF BIRMINGHAM THROUGH THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, COUNSELLING, ADVICE, AND SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE SERVICES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE; 2.2 TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR ADULTS, CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING IN BIRMINGHAM BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF PHYSICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF: = ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING OUR CLIENTS DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS; = ADVANCING EDUCATION; = RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT; = PROVIDING RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITY IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS.