Connectar Training & Biodiversity Trust
Charity 1155950
Overview
Summary
Connectar Training & Biodiversity Trust appears to combine social inclusion with environmental stewardship, using education and capacity-building as the link between them. Its stated purpose suggests an organisation interested not only in supporting socially disadvantaged people, including ex-offenders, but also in enabling participation in practical public-benefit activity around pollinators and biodiversity. The available evidence points to a potentially distinctive dual mission, although it does not yet show how these two strands are connected in delivery.
Operational geography
Coverage: Regional
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission records Birmingham City among the places where the charity operates, but do not identify any Birmingham ward, recognised place, delivery venue or project location. No supplied area can therefore be evidenced as a current operational area.
- The organisation's latest published financial data are for the year ended 31 March 2016, and its Charity Commission reporting is substantially overdue. The recorded geographic footprint may not reflect activity as of August 2026.
- The registered address is in Halesowen and should not be treated as a Birmingham operational site; the Charity Commission also states that the charity does not own or lease land or property.
- No supplied evidence identifies delivery partnerships, managed sites, or venue-based activity that would clarify how the charity's work reaches Birmingham.
- The regional coverage classification is a cautious interpretation of the Charity Commission's recorded operation across Birmingham City, Dudley, Solihull, Wolverhampton, Telford & Wrekin, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire; it is not confirmation of a current active footprint.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual return, trustees' report or impact report identifying active services and delivery locations.
- Current official website or social-media evidence confirming live projects, venues and contact arrangements.
- Confirmation from the charity of whether it currently delivers services in Birmingham, and if so the wards or venues involved.
- Official partner or funder records naming current Connectar projects and their Birmingham locations.
Areas of work
- Education/training
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- Other Charitable Purposes
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Other Defined Groups
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Other Charitable Activities
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A dual mission joined by capacity-building
The organisation appears to use skills development as a common mechanism for both social inclusion and environmental benefit. Its work may create routes for disadvantaged people to participate more fully in society while contributing to biodiversity-related outcomes.
Why it matters
This suggests the trust may occupy a bridge between employability or rehabilitation-focused support and environmental action, rather than operating as two wholly separate programmes.
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“The objects include developing the capacity and skills of socially disadvantaged people, including ex-offenders.”
Source:Charity Commission“The objects include conservation and protection of honey bees and other insect pollinators through promoting biological diversity.”
Source:Charity Commission
Environmental work is framed as public benefit, not specialist conservation alone
The biodiversity mission appears to be framed around public benefit and improvement of the physical and natural environment, potentially positioning pollinator conservation as a community-facing activity rather than a narrowly ecological one.
Why it matters
This may make the organisation a possible connector between environmental groups, local communities and organisations working with people facing exclusion.
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“The objects promote conservation and protection of honey bees and other insect pollinators for the benefit of the public.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps the general public.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its delivery model may be flexible rather than programme-specific
The combination of services, grants to individuals and other charitable activities suggests the trust may use more than one route to support beneficiaries, rather than relying solely on training provision.
Why it matters
Understanding this flexibility could reveal whether the organisation fills practical gaps for individuals that other education or environmental organisations cannot address.
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“The charity makes grants to individuals.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity provides services.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Whether social inclusion and biodiversity activities are delivered together or as separate strands.
- Which communities, places and partner organisations the trust works with.
- What training, grants or environmental activity it actually provides and at what scale.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or activity descriptions showing programmes, participant journeys and outcomes.
- Information on grants, service users, delivery locations and partnerships.
- Examples of biodiversity projects and evidence of how beneficiaries are involved.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY DEVELOPING THE SKILLS OF SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE OF THE UK, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO EX-OFFENDERS, SO THEY CAN IDENTIFY AND HELP MEET THEIR NEEDS TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY and TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION/ PROTECTION OF HONEY BEES AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT BY PROMOTING BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY.
Charity objects
1.THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY BY DEVELOPING THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF MEMBERS OF THE SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO EX-OFFENDERS, IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY AND HELP MEET THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY.2.TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HONEY BEES AND OTHER INSECT POLLINATORS AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT BY PROMOTING OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY.