Handsworth Day Care Centre
Charity 500831
Overview
Summary
Handsworth Day Care Centre appears to be a place-based early-years organisation whose role extends beyond childcare supervision. Its stated focus on learning, play, wellbeing and children’s contribution suggests an educational and developmental model, while its funded entitlement offer may make it an important access point for families needing affordable early education. The charity’s broad Birmingham-focused objects sit alongside a tightly defined service for children aged two to four, indicating a specialised contribution within the local family-support ecosystem.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Birchfield
Confidence: high
Direct evidence identifies an open nursery, Tiny Steps Community Nursery, at Holy Trinity CE Primary Academy. Ofsted records Handsworth Day Care Centre Committee as the registered provider, and Birmingham City Council places the host school in Birchfield ward.
- Ofsted, Tiny Steps Community Nursery (URN 2652381)
Lists Tiny Steps Community Nursery as open, providing sessional day care at Holy Trinity CE Primary Academy, and states that it is registered by Handsworth Day Care Centre Committee. - Ofsted, Handsworth Day Care Centre Committee registered-person record (URN RP523077)
Lists two settings for which the committee is responsible: Tiny Steps Community Nursery and Handsworth Day Care Centre, which is marked closed. - Birmingham City Council, Holy Trinity CE Primary Academy (Handsworth) directory record
Identifies Holy Trinity CE Primary Academy as being in Birchfield ward. - Charity Commission register, Handsworth Day Care Centre (charity 500831)
Gives the charity's address as Tiny Steps Community Nursery at Holy Trinity C of E Primary School.
Remaining uncertainties
- The evidence establishes one current delivery site, but does not show the precise catchment or home locations of children using the nursery. It is therefore not possible to determine whether beneficiaries routinely come from neighbouring wards.
- The charity's 2024/25 trustees' report describes a positive working relationship with Holy Trinity School and transitions into its reception class. This materially supports the site's local operational connection, but does not evidence delivery at a separate school site or in other wards.
- A former Handsworth Day Care Centre site remains visible in historic records, but Ofsted marks it closed; it is not treated as a current operational area.
Additional evidence needed
- Current information from the organisation confirming whether it operates any services, outreach, holiday provision or satellite sessions beyond Tiny Steps Community Nursery.
- A current service prospectus, annual report or local-authority contract information describing the nursery's intended geographical catchment and any active delivery partnerships beyond Holy Trinity CE Primary Academy.
Areas of work
- Education/training
Who they help
- Children/young People
How they help
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
Childcare may function as local economic infrastructure
The organisation appears to support children directly while also enabling parents or carers, particularly those in work or needing practical help, to access reliable daytime care.
Why it matters
This positions the centre as more than an education provider: it may help sustain family stability and participation in employment, even though adults are not named as direct beneficiaries.
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“The charity's objects include providing daily care for children whose mothers go out to work or otherwise require help.”
Source:Charity Commission“Main activities are childcare provision for two year olds and three to four year olds.”
Source:Organisation
The centre combines care with developmental early education
Its language suggests that childcare is delivered as a developmental setting structured around learning, play, wellbeing and participation, rather than solely around supervision.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish its likely role from a purely custodial childcare service and suggests potential overlap with early-years education, health and family-support partners.
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“Activities include stimulating learning and play and promoting healthy wellbeing.”
Source:Organisation“The charity helps children to enjoy and achieve and to contribute to the provision and wider community.”
Source:Organisation
Funded places may make access a defining feature
Offering funded Early Education Entitlement hours suggests the centre may be designed to reduce cost barriers for eligible families with children aged two to four.
Why it matters
This may make the organisation especially relevant to local efforts to widen early-years participation, although the evidence does not show who uses the places or whether demand exceeds supply.
Show evidence
“The centre offers 15 funded Early Education Entitlement hours for two year olds.”
Source:Organisation“The centre offers 15 and 30 funded Early Education Entitlement hours for three to four year olds.”
Source:Organisation
- There is no evidence of the centre's capacity, catchment area, waiting list or the communities it reaches.
- There is no evidence about referrals, partnerships, staffing, specialist support or outcomes for children and families.
Remaining uncertainties
- Current service capacity, enrolment profile, fees, funded-place uptake and unmet demand.
- Information on local partnerships, referral routes, family support activity and evidence of children's outcomes.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Helping children to enjoy and achieve. Helping children to contribute to the provision and the wider community. Stimulate learning and play. Promote healthy well being. Main Activities: Childcare provision for two year olds and three to four year olds. Also offers weekly funded Early Education Entitlement (EEE): 15 hours to two year olds 15 hours and 30 hours to three to four year old
Charity objects
TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE COUNTY BOROUGH OF BIRMINGHAM AND SURROUNDING AREAS, AND IN PARTICULAR THE PROVISION OF DAILY CARE FOR CHILDREN WHOSE MOTHERS GO OUT TO WORK OR WHO FOR SOME OTHER REASON REQUIRE SUCH HELP.