Centre For The Child Trust Fund

Charity 1039237

Overview

Summary

Sources:Civic AtlasAI-assisted

The Centre For The Child Trust Fund appears to be a legacy-focused charitable vehicle connected to child and family learning activity once delivered through the Centre for the Child in Birmingham Central Library. Its role seems less like that of an independent, broad-based service provider and more like a fund preserving or supporting an educational purpose rooted in a particular civic and cultural setting. The evidence suggests a focus on children alongside the adults who shape their development.

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Operational geography

Sources:ONSCivic AtlasAI-assisted

Coverage: Neighbourhood

Operational areas:

  • City Centre
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
City Centre

Confidence: medium

The charity’s current Charity Commission record states that its services and activities are delivered through the Centre for the Child in Birmingham Central Library. Birmingham City Council identifies the current Children’s Library as being within the Library of Birmingham.

  • Charity Commission Register of Charities, Centre for the Child Trust Fund (charity 1039237)
    For the financial year ending 31 March 2025, the charity reports that it advances children’s education and supports parents and carers through services and activities in the Centre for the Child in Birmingham Central Library.
  • Birmingham City Council, Group visits to the Children's Library
    The current Children’s Library is based at the Library of Birmingham and accepts school-group visits.
Remaining uncertainties
  • The available evidence identifies a single City Centre delivery setting but does not describe the charity’s current programme in enough detail to establish how frequently activities take place, whether they are separately branded as the Centre for the Child, or whether they extend beyond the library site.
  • Birmingham City Council is the charity’s sole recorded trustee and the Library of Birmingham is the apparent host setting, but the evidence does not demonstrate a partnership that materially extends delivery into other Birmingham areas.
  • There is no direct evidence that the charity undertakes outreach, mobile, online, school-based or other delivery elsewhere in Birmingham. Its coverage is therefore treated as narrowly site-based rather than citywide.
Additional evidence needed
  • The charity’s latest annual report, trustee report or accounts describing activities supported during and after the year ending 31 March 2025.
  • Current Library of Birmingham or Birmingham City Council information explicitly identifying services, events or resources funded or delivered by the Centre for the Child Trust Fund.
  • Evidence of any delivery agreements, outreach programmes or partner organisations operating on the charity’s behalf outside the Library of Birmingham.

Areas of work

Source:Charity Commission
  • Arts/culture/heritage/science
  • Education/training

Who they help

Source:Charity Commission
  • Children/young People
  • Other Defined Groups

How they help

Source:Charity Commission
  • Provides Services

Discoveries involving this organisation

The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.

Observations

Sources:Civic AtlasAI-assisted

  • A legacy fund tied to a former place-based model

    The organisation appears to preserve the purpose of services and activities formerly associated with the Centre for the Child in Birmingham Central Library, rather than presenting a clearly evidenced current delivery model of its own.

    Why it matters

    This distinguishes it from an ordinary children’s charity: understanding its history, assets and any continuing relationship with library or cultural partners may be more important than counting services alone.

    Show evidence

    • “The Centre for the Child Trust Fund is a legacy fund.”

      Source:Organisation

    • “Services and activities were in the Centre for the Child in Birmingham Central Library.”

      Source:Organisation

  • Child development is approached through adults as well as children

    Its charitable purpose treats parents and carers as part of the educational environment around children, suggesting an indirect as well as direct route to improving children’s outcomes.

    Why it matters

    This may make the organisation a potential bridge between child-focused education, parenting support and family learning, rather than a narrowly youth-only resource.

    Show evidence

    • “The advancement of the education of children.”

      Source:Charity Commission

    • “The advancement of the education of parents and carers in the care, education and bringing up of children.”

      Source:Charity Commission

  • Education is framed within a cultural civic setting

    The combination of education and arts, culture, heritage or science suggests that learning may have been intended to extend beyond formal instruction, using cultural resources and public space as part of children’s development.

    Why it matters

    This points toward possible complementarity with libraries, museums, arts organisations and family-learning providers that may not otherwise identify the trust as relevant.

    Show evidence

    • “Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science.”

      Source:Charity Commission

    • “Services and activities were in the Centre for the Child in Birmingham Central Library.”

      Source:Organisation

    Remaining uncertainties

  • Whether the trust currently funds activity, delivers services, holds assets, or is dormant.
  • Which children or other defined groups it reaches, and whether Birmingham remains its active geographic focus.
  • Whether any formal relationship with Birmingham libraries or successor organisations continues.

    Additional evidence needed

  • Recent annual reports, accounts and grant records showing current use of funds and partners.
  • Information on the closure, transition or successor arrangements for the Centre for the Child in Birmingham Central Library.
  • Current beneficiary data and descriptions of any active services or funded projects.
Charity Commission profile
Source:Charity Commission

Activities

The Centre for the Child Trust Fund is a legacy fund, and was set up for a) the advancement of the education of children; and b) the advancement of the education of parents and carers in the care, education and bringing up of children through services and activities in the Centre for the Child in Birmingham Central Library

Charity objects

(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND (B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF PARENTS AND CARERS IN THE CARE, EDUCATION AND BRINGING UP OF CHILDREN