Emmanuel Community Church Kingstanding

Charity 1053974

Overview

Summary

Sources:Civic AtlasAI-assisted

Emmanuel Community Church Kingstanding appears to operate less as a single-service charity than as a faith-rooted community infrastructure provider. Its three buildings seem to create a platform from which multiple churches and organisations can deliver activity, alongside its own Sunday services. This gives it a potentially connective role: combining religious purpose with practical space, people and support for community-facing work across generations.

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Operational geography

Sources:ONSCivic AtlasAI-assisted

Coverage: Neighbourhood

Operational areas:

Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Oscott

Confidence: low

The available location-specific evidence places an Emmanuel Community Church site in the Oscott area. However, the strongest official confirmation of activity at that site is from 2017, while more recent directory listings are not primary evidence. The Charity Commission's current record confirms that the charity still owns three buildings used for community sessions and Sunday services, but does not identify their locations.

  • Charity Commission register, Emmanuel Community Church Kingstanding, reporting year ended 31 March 2025
    The charity states that it owns three buildings used as bases for various organisations and churches providing community-based sessions and Sunday services.
  • Birmingham City Council, Oscott Ward Meeting Notes, 5 July 2017
    The minutes record that a YMCA youth club had opened at Emmanuel Community Church, demonstrating use of a church premises in the Oscott area for community youth activity at that time.
  • Public venue listing for Emmanuel Community Church Centre, accessed in 2026
    The listing identifies Emmanuel Community Church Centre in Birmingham.
Remaining uncertainties
  • The Charity Commission currently records Birmingham City as the area where the charity operates, but its current activity description does not show whether services are delivered across Birmingham or whether this is a broad administrative reporting category.
  • The locations of all three currently owned buildings are not disclosed in the Charity Commission record. It is therefore not possible to confirm whether all remain in or near Oscott, or whether any are elsewhere in Birmingham.
  • There is no current primary-source evidence identifying the organisations and churches using the buildings, their service locations, or the scale of their activity.
  • Historic evidence associates the charity strongly with the wider Kingstanding locality, but the available evidence does not justify recording Kingstanding ward itself as a current operational area.
Additional evidence needed
  • A current official church or venue webpage, programme, timetable, or booking information confirming the active use of each of the three buildings.
  • The charity's latest annual-return narrative or direct confirmation from the trustees distinguishing property-based activity from any Birmingham-wide delivery.
  • Current information from tenant churches or community organisations showing which services operate from the charity's premises and where beneficiaries are reached.

Areas of work

Source:Charity Commission
  • Economic/community Development/employment
  • Education/training
  • Religious Activities

Who they help

Source:Charity Commission
  • Children/young People
  • Elderly/old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • The General Public/mankind

How they help

Source:Charity Commission
  • Provides Advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
  • Provides Human Resources
  • Provides Services

Discoveries involving this organisation

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

Observations

Sources:Civic AtlasAI-assisted

  • A host organisation rather than only a service provider

    The available evidence suggests the charity’s distinctive role may be to enable other organisations and churches as well as deliver activity itself. Ownership of three buildings appears central to this operating model.

    Why it matters

    This frames the organisation as part of the local civic infrastructure. Its impact may extend beyond activities delivered in its own name, through the organisations that can operate from its premises.

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    • “The charity owns three buildings which it uses to provide a base for various organisations and churches.”

      Source:Organisation

    • “The charity helps other charities or voluntary bodies.”

      Source:Charity Commission

    • “The charity provides buildings, facilities or open space.”

      Source:Charity Commission

  • Faith appears to be the organising purpose, but community benefit is broad

    Christian worship appears to anchor the charity’s identity, while its objects and reported work indicate a wider community-facing remit spanning hardship, education, welfare facilities and development.

    Why it matters

    This suggests the church may be a bridge between faith communities and wider local needs, rather than operating solely for a congregation.

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    • “The charity’s objects include the advancement of the Christian faith.”

      Source:Charity Commission

    • “The charity’s objects include relief of persons in need, hardship or distress, advancement of education, social welfare facilities and other purposes beneficial to the community.”

      Source:Charity Commission

    • “The charity reports education or training, religious activities and economic or community development or employment.”

      Source:Charity Commission

  • Its resources may support an unusually broad beneficiary mix

    By combining facilities, services, human resources and advice, the charity may be positioned to support children, older people, the general public and voluntary organisations through different forms of provision.

    Why it matters

    The breadth may create opportunities for cross-generational activity and collaboration, but it also raises questions about which groups receive the most sustained support.

    Show evidence

    • “The charity helps children or young people, elderly or old people, other charities or voluntary bodies and the general public.”

      Source:Charity Commission

    • “The charity provides human resources, services, advocacy, advice or information, and buildings, facilities or open space.”

      Source:Charity Commission

    Remaining uncertainties

  • Which organisations and churches use the three buildings, and whether they collaborate with one another.
  • Whether the charity directly delivers community sessions or primarily provides space and support to others.
  • Which local needs, neighbourhoods and beneficiary groups receive the greatest share of its resources.

    Additional evidence needed

  • A current programme and tenant or partner list for each building, including frequency and type of activity.
  • Information on beneficiary numbers, referral routes, fees, accessibility and outcomes.
  • Recent trustee reports or accounts showing how resources are divided between worship, property and community activity.
Charity Commission profile
Source:Charity Commission

Activities

The charity owns three buildings which it uses to provides a base for various organisations and churches providing a variety of community based sessions and sunday services.

Charity objects

1.THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH. 2.THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OR WHO ARE AGED OR SICK. 3.THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION. 4.THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES. 5.ANY OTHER PURPOSE BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY.