Hawkesley Church Infant And Junior Schools Charity
Charity 509481
Overview
Summary
Hawkesley Church Infant And Junior Schools Charity appears to be a school-linked support charity rather than an independent education provider. Its role is to strengthen the resources and experience of named schools by helping meet maintenance obligations and funding benefits beyond standard local-authority provision. The combination of grants, buildings and advocacy suggests it may operate as a steward of practical assets and supplementary educational opportunity, with children benefiting through the schools’ management rather than necessarily through direct individual support.
Operational geography
Coverage: Neighbourhood
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct evidence: the Charity Commission records the charity's area of benefit as the ecclesiastical parish of St Nicholas, King's Norton, and records Birmingham City as the place where it operates. Its objects are specifically tied to supporting the named Hawkesley Church infant and junior schools and their pupils.
- Direct evidence: the charity reported £0 income and £0 expenditure for the year ending 31 December 2024, reported no land or property, and has no published annual report for that year. This provides no evidence of current grants, facilities provision, or other active delivery at a particular Birmingham site.
- Reasonable interpretation: the charity's intended operational identity is neighbourhood-based, centred on the named school community, rather than citywide. However, this is an interpretation of its governing area and objects, not confirmation of current delivery.
- Hawkesley Church Primary Academy is an open school. However, available sources do not explicitly confirm that it is the legal successor to the schools named in the charity's objects, or that the charity currently supports, funds, owns, or operates from the academy.
- Church of England Birmingham is the charity's registered correspondence address. It should not be treated as an operational site because the Charity Commission records that the charity has no land or property and no service activity is evidenced there.
- No material partnership extending the charity's operational reach has been evidenced. The academy's membership of Birmingham Diocesan Multi-Academy Trust is a relationship of the school, not evidence that this separate charity operates across the trust's network.
Additional evidence needed
- A current trustee statement or governing-body resolution identifying whether the charity is active and naming its current beneficiaries, grants, and service locations.
- The charity's 2025 or 2026 annual return, transaction records, or grant register showing any post-2024 expenditure and recipient organisations.
- The governing scheme, academy conversion records, or confirmation from Birmingham Diocesan Multi-Academy Trust establishing whether Hawkesley Church Primary Academy is the successor beneficiary to the schools named in the charity's objects.
- Confirmation from the charity or school of any current use of premises, facilities, or funds connected with the charity.
Areas of work
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Religious Activities
Who they help
- Children/young People
How they help
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A supplementary-resource role alongside public education
The charity appears designed to add capacity where statutory education funding or provision may not extend, rather than to replace the schools’ core responsibilities.
Why it matters
This frames the organisation as a potential source of discretionary improvement: its value may lie in enabling facilities, activities or support that schools could not routinely secure through standard public provision.
Show evidence
“Providing or assisting in the provision of such special benefits of a kind not normally provided by the local education authority.”
Source:Charity Commission“Makes grants to organisations, provides buildings and advocacy.”
Source:Charity Commission
An intermediary relationship with schools
The charity may primarily influence children through its relationship with school managers and trustees, rather than through direct delivery to children and families.
Why it matters
Understanding this intermediary role is important for identifying where decisions, accountability and opportunities for collaboration may sit: with the charity, the school managers, or both.
Show evidence
“As may be agreed between the managing trustees and the managers of the said schools.”
Source:Charity Commission“Makes grants to organisations.”
Source:Charity Commission
A blended mission of estate stewardship and child development
The organisation appears to combine practical responsibility for school maintenance with a broader ambition to support children’s educational, social and physical development.
Why it matters
This combination may create unusual flexibility: buildings and maintenance could be treated not only as costs, but as infrastructure that enables wider developmental opportunities for pupils.
Show evidence
“Assisting to defray the cost of meeting their obligations under the Education Acts 1944 to 1976 with respect to the maintenance of the said schools.”
Source:Charity Commission“Promoting the education (including social and physical training) of children attending the said schools.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which schools are covered, and whether they remain the charity’s active beneficiaries.
- How funds, facilities and advocacy are currently used in practice.
- Whether the religious activity classification shapes governance, partnerships or provision.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, accounts and grant records showing expenditure, assets and recipient organisations.
- Information from the schools or trustees on decision-making, current priorities and outcomes for children.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Makes grants to organisations, provides buildings and advocacy
Charity objects
ASSISTING TO DEFREY THE COST OF MEETING THEIR OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE EDUCATION ACTS 1944 TO 1976 WITH RESPECT TO THE MAINTENANCE OF THE SAID SCHOOLS. PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF SUCH SPECIAL BENEFITS OF A KIND NOT NORMALLY PROVIDED BY THE LOCAL EDUCATIN AUTHORITY AS MAY BE AGREED BETWEEN THE MANAGING TRUSTEES AND THE MANAGERS OF THE SAID SCHOOLS. PROMOTING THE EDUCATION (INCLUDING SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL TRAINING) OF CHILDREN ATTENDING THE SAID SCHOOLS.