Hc Development Centre
Charity 1127786
Overview
Summary
Hc Development Centre appears to operate as a community-facing support organisation for Horn of Africa refugees and asylum seekers in and around Birmingham. Its role seems to combine practical navigation of public systems with wider community development: addressing immediate welfare needs while supporting education, health, employment, youth development and social participation. The evidence suggests an organisation positioned as a culturally specific bridge between a marginalised community and the institutions, services and opportunities needed to build stability.
Operational geography
Coverage: Citywide
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission activity description states that Eurosoma supports Horn of Africa refugees and asylum seekers “in and around Birmingham”, which reasonably indicates a Birmingham-wide rather than neighbourhood-based service catchment. However, the description is associated with the charity's historical record and does not identify current delivery locations.
- No supplied evidence confirms an active service site; it has therefore not been recorded as an operational area.
- The Charity Commission register shows the charity remains registered, but its reporting is substantially overdue and its latest recorded financial year is 31 March 2015. This prevents a confident conclusion that the described Birmingham activity remains current in 2026.
- No current evidence was found of delivery partnerships, project venues, outreach locations, or services in particular Birmingham wards.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual return, trustees' report, or accounts confirming services delivered since 31 March 2015 and the locations or catchment of those services.
- A functioning official website, current contact response, or current public service listing identifying active advice, support, youth or leisure provision.
- Evidence confirming whether the charity has a current service-delivery site, administration only, or neither.
- Current information from named delivery partners or venues, if any, showing where joint activity takes place.
Areas of work
- Amateur Sport
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- General Charitable Purposes
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Services
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A culturally specific bridge to mainstream systems
The organisation appears to translate a broad range of systems—housing, welfare, immigration, healthcare, education and employment—into accessible support for people from the Horn of Africa. This may indicate that its distinctive value lies in trusted, community-specific navigation rather than a single specialist service.
Why it matters
This helps explain why its activity spans many issues: refugee and asylum-seeking needs often cross institutional boundaries, and difficulty in one area can destabilise progress in others.
Show evidence
“Supports refugee and asylum seekers from the Horn of Africa in and around Birmingham.”
Source:Organisation“Provides advice on welfare, housing, immigration, education, health care, employment and training.”
Source:Organisation
Immediate support is paired with longer-term participation
The organisation appears to connect crisis-oriented support, such as welfare and housing advice, with longer-term routes to wellbeing and belonging through training, youth development and leisure activity.
Why it matters
This suggests an operating model concerned not only with resolving urgent problems but also with reducing isolation and creating conditions for sustained participation in community life.
Show evidence
“Provides advice on welfare, housing, immigration matters, education, health care, employment and training.”
Source:Organisation“Provides youth development and leisure activities for young refugees.”
Source:Organisation“Provides facilities in the interest of social welfare for recreation or other leisure time occupation.”
Source:Charity Commission
Potentially intergenerational community infrastructure
Its remit appears broader than support for newly arrived adults: the charity identifies children and young people, older people, and people of a particular ethnic or racial origin as beneficiaries. It may therefore serve as community infrastructure across generations.
Why it matters
An intergenerational role could make the organisation an important point of connection between youth services, elder support, cultural community networks and refugee assistance, but this needs further examination.
Show evidence
“Helps children/young people, elderly/old people and people of a particular ethnic or racial origin.”
Source:Charity Commission“Provides youth development and leisure activities for young refugees.”
Source:Organisation
- Whether the organisation directly delivers specialist support or mainly refers people to partner services.
- Which Horn of Africa communities it reaches, and whether support is available in relevant languages.
- Whether older people receive distinct services or are included only within the charity's formal beneficiary categories.
- The scale, funding base, partnerships and outcomes of its work.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent service information showing programmes, delivery locations, languages, staffing and referral pathways.
- Annual reports or impact data showing numbers supported, outcomes and unmet needs.
- Information on partnerships with housing, immigration, health, education and employment providers.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Eurosoma supports on a regular basis the welfare of refugee and asylum seekers from the Horn of Africa in and around Birmingham particularly by the provision of advice on various issues such as welfare, housing, immigration matters, education, health care, employment and training, youth development and leisure activities for young refugees.
Charity objects
1. TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN WEST MIDLANDS FOR THE HORN OF AFRICA COMMUNITY, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS. 2. TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECTS OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.