Cape Community Care Day Centre
Charity 1122721
Overview
Summary
Cape Community Care Day Centre appears to function as a culturally grounded neighbourhood support hub rather than a conventional day centre alone. Its core role is to help older and vulnerable people, particularly African Caribbean residents, remain socially connected, nourished and independent, while linking them to health and practical support. Its mix of centre-based, home-based and intergenerational activity suggests an organisation attempting to sustain community relationships across stages of life and across people who can and cannot easily attend.
Operational geography
Coverage: Neighbourhood
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct evidence: the charity’s current website identifies a day-centre service location in Smethwick. The supplied evidence does not establish whether this is within a Birmingham ward in the supplied list.
- Direct evidence: the Charity Commission record lists Birmingham City and Sandwell as places where the charity operates. However, it does not identify Birmingham neighbourhoods, wards or service-user locations.
- Reasonable interpretation: the organisation is principally a locally rooted, neighbourhood-scale provider centred on its Smethwick site, with door-to-door transport, home visiting, prescription/grocery collection, befriending and meals-on-wheels extending its reach beyond the centre.
- The available evidence does not establish whether the charity’s home-based services currently reach one or more Birmingham wards, nor whether its reported Birmingham City operation is regular service delivery rather than a broad reporting designation or occasional beneficiary reach.
- No material delivery partnership with a named organisation is evidenced. The website refers to primary-care referral/signposting and health awareness activity, but does not identify partners or show that these arrangements extend the charity’s geographic footprint.
Additional evidence needed
- A current service-delivery map, referral-area definition, or anonymised ward-level breakdown for transport, home visiting, meals-on-wheels and befriending activity.
- Confirmation from the charity of the local authorities, neighbourhoods or Birmingham wards currently covered by each outreach service.
- Current annual-report or monitoring data identifying where the 74 supported members and meals-on-wheels recipients live, at an appropriately aggregated level.
- Named agreements or project information for any health, social-care or community partners that make referrals or host delivery outside the Smethwick centre.
Areas of work
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Disability
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Recreation
- 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
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A bridge between isolation and formal support
The organisation appears to combine trusted social contact with early identification of health and welfare needs, potentially acting as a bridge between isolated residents and primary or professional services.
Why it matters
This suggests its value may lie not only in activities or meals, but in reaching people whose needs could otherwise remain unseen until they become more acute.
Show evidence
“Its main purpose includes reducing social isolation and keeping BME service users connected with a primary care referral to professional services.”
Source:Organisation“Health awareness sessions cover diabetes, dementia, healthy eating, cancer, welfare rights, access and digital introduction.”
Source:Organisation“A service user states that a health session led to recognising diabetes and obtaining a referral.”
Source:Organisation
Support extends beyond the people able to attend
The operating model appears designed to maintain connection with people at different levels of mobility and isolation, rather than making centre attendance the sole route to support.
Why it matters
This distinguishes the organisation from a venue-based service and may make it particularly important for residents at risk of becoming disconnected from community life.
Show evidence
“Accessible transport is available for door-to-door collection and drop off on service days.”
Source:Organisation“It provides Meals-on-Wheels to shut-ins, weekly home visiting, befriending, prescription collection and grocery support.”
Source:Organisation“Service users need to be able to independently eat, walk and use the WC, with mobility aids welcome.”
Source:Organisation
Cultural belonging appears to be part of the care model
The organisation appears to treat cultural familiarity and community identity as practical components of wellbeing, not simply as an eligibility focus.
Why it matters
This may explain how it builds trust with older African Caribbean residents and creates a setting where health, social participation and independence can be supported together.
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“Its objects make particular reference to elderly inhabitants of African Caribbean origin.”
Source:Charity Commission“It provides hot healthy cultural meals for vulnerable service users.”
Source:Organisation“Its main purpose includes bringing different communities together.”
Source:Organisation
An intergenerational community presence
Alongside older people's support, the youth club may indicate an effort to retain relationships, volunteering and community participation across generations.
Why it matters
This raises the possibility that the organisation has a wider community-strengthening role and is not solely a service provider for older adults.
Show evidence
“It hosts a seasonal Creation Youth Club for 6–16-year-olds.”
Source:Organisation“The charity helps children and young people as well as elderly people.”
Source:Charity Commission
- The number, geography and demographic profile of people reached through each service are unknown.
- It is unclear which health, social care, faith or community organisations refer into, collaborate with or receive referrals from the centre.
- There is no evidence on demand, waiting lists, financial resilience or the sustainability of its volunteer-dependent model.
Remaining uncertainties
- Service data showing beneficiary numbers, frequency of contact, referral routes and outcomes across centre, visiting and meals services.
- Information on partner organisations, volunteer roles, funding sources and how beneficiaries influence programme design.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Our Day Care Service for the Vulnerable Elderly within our community, offering healthy &freshly cooked meals, Mental /Physical stimulation, Social interactions & Outings, Digital introduction & health awareness sessions. We offer a variety of services to incl Meals on Wheels to shut-ins, Befriending/Prescription collection, Seasonal projects & a Home Visiting service. A community youth club,
Charity objects
TO PROMOTE ALL OR ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT, AND IN PARTICULAR 4.1.1. WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE BUT NOT LIMITED TO ELDERLY INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO ARE OF AFRICAN CARIBBEAN ORIGIN ("THE BENEFICIARIES") TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF THOSE BENEFICIARIES WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE. 4.1.2 THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONG PEOPLE LIVING OR WORKING IN THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF SANDWELL AND THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM AND THEIR SURROUNDING AREAS. 4.1.3 THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH OF THE BENEFICIARIES.