Ccs (Birmingham) Limited
Charity 500132
Overview
Summary
Ccs (Birmingham) Limited appears to be a place-based youth organisation whose central asset is the E R Mason Youth Centre. Its role seems to combine access to a physical community space with positive social-time activities for young people, linking recreation to broader charitable aims around education, poverty, distress and sickness. The available evidence suggests an organisation with a long-standing, geographically focused remit, but does not yet show how it prioritises needs, partners with others or measures outcomes.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Ladywood
Confidence: high
The charity’s current activity statement identifies operation of the E R Mason Youth Centre as its core work, and Birmingham City Council identifies that centre as within Ladywood ward.
- Charity Commission register, CCS (Birmingham) Limited, charity no. 500132. ([register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk](https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/500132/full-print?utm_source=openai))
The charity describes its activity as organising and operating the E R Mason Youth Centre in Birmingham, providing positive activities and projects for young people; its contact address is E R Mason Youth Centre. - Birmingham City Council, E R Mason Youth Centre directory entry. ([birmingham.gov.uk](https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/directory_record/3700/e_r_mason_youth_centre?utm_source=openai))
The council lists E R Mason Youth Centre in Birmingham and identifies its ward as Ladywood. - Companies House, CCS (Birmingham) Limited company overview. ([find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00973358))
The active company’s registered office remains E.R. Mason Youth Centre, with accounts most recently made up to 31 March 2025.
Remaining uncertainties
- The available evidence supports a single, centre-based operational location in Ladywood, but does not establish the catchment area from which young people attend.
- There is no current evidence of additional delivery venues, outreach activity, or material partnerships extending CCS (Birmingham) Limited’s operational footprint beyond the E R Mason Youth Centre.
- The council directory confirms that the centre is listed within Birmingham’s youth-centre provision, but the available evidence does not define the respective operational roles of the council and CCS (Birmingham) Limited at the site.
Additional evidence needed
- A current programme, timetable, annual report narrative, or official organisation webpage confirming whether services are delivered at any venues other than the E R Mason Youth Centre.
- Current partnership or funding documentation clarifying whether Birmingham City Council or other organisations materially deliver services with, through, or on behalf of CCS (Birmingham) Limited.
- Evidence on the centre’s intended service catchment, if a more precise assessment of neighbourhood versus wider-city reach is required.
Areas of work
- General Charitable Purposes
- Recreation
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
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 youth-centre model sits at the core of its role
The organisation appears to operate primarily through a dedicated youth-centre venue, rather than only through outreach or time-limited projects. The building may be an important part of how it creates access, belonging and regular contact with young people.
Why it matters
This suggests its local value may depend as much on maintaining an accessible civic space as on the individual activities delivered within it. It also raises questions about who uses the centre and whether it reaches young people with few alternative places to go.
Show evidence
“The organisation and operation of the Youth Centre known as "E R Mason Youth Centre" in Birmingham.”
Source:Organisation“Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space.”
Source:Charity Commission
Recreation may be used as a preventative form of support
Positive activities in young people's social time appear to be the organisation's practical route into wider aims of education and relief of poverty, distress and sickness. Recreation may therefore function as early support, not simply as leisure provision.
Why it matters
This reframes the organisation as potentially contributing to prevention and wellbeing. It would be useful to understand whether its activities intentionally address isolation, hardship, health or educational disadvantage.
Show evidence
“Providing activities for young people to fill their social time with positive activities and projects.”
Source:Organisation“TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO RELEIVE POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS IN THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM AND ITS SURROUNDINGS.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its remit is broad, but its evidenced beneficiary group is narrow
Although the objects describe several social purposes across Birmingham and surrounding areas, the available activity evidence focuses specifically on children and young people. This may indicate a specialist youth-facing delivery role within a broader charitable constitution.
Why it matters
Understanding whether the broad objects are active priorities or historical flexibility would clarify the organisation's current position in Birmingham's youth and community-support landscape.
Show evidence
“Children/young People.”
Source:Charity Commission“General Charitable Purposes, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Recreation.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which neighbourhoods and groups of young people use the E R Mason Youth Centre.
- Whether activities address education, poverty, distress or sickness directly, and how outcomes are assessed.
- What local partnerships, referral routes or funding relationships support the centre.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent programme information, attendance patterns and participant feedback.
- Information on partnerships, staffing, volunteers, funding and safeguarding arrangements.
- Evidence of outcomes for young people and any unmet local needs the centre is designed to address.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
The organisation and operation of the Youth Centre known as "E R Mason Youth Centre" in Birmingham. Providing activities for young people to fill their social time with positive activities and projects.
Charity objects
TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO RELEIVE POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS IN THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. (FOR DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 26 FEBRUARY 1970).