Headley Heath New Life Church Trust
Charity 1059123
Overview
Summary
Headley Heath New Life Church Trust appears to be a locally rooted faith community whose civic role extends beyond worship through intergenerational pastoral presence, small-scale financial support and participation in wider humanitarian concerns. Its model seems relationship-led rather than programme-led: church activities connect children, young people, older residents, a local school, care homes and overseas relief efforts. The available evidence suggests that the church may act as a bridge between neighbourhood-based care and a broader Pentecostal/Elim network, although the scale and regularity of this support are unclear.
Operational geography
Coverage: Neighbourhood
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The charity’s principal physical site, New Life Church Centre in Headley Heath, is evidenced as a community facility in Wythall Parish. Headley Heath is not an identifier in the supplied Birmingham ward or place lists, so it cannot be recorded as a Birmingham operational area.
- The Charity Commission records Birmingham City as an area in which the charity operates, but its current public information does not identify a Birmingham ward, school, nursing home, or other service venue.
- The charity reports financial support for overseas missionary work and emergency appeals, but does not identify recipient countries, delivery partners, or the scale of this activity. This does not establish additional Birmingham operational areas.
- The available evidence supports a neighbourhood-focused church model centred on Headley Heath rather than a citywide Birmingham delivery network; however, the exact catchment of its congregation and local activities is not published.
Additional evidence needed
- A current programme, timetable, annual report, or service-location list identifying the local school, nursing homes, youth activities, and any venues within Birmingham.
- Confirmation from the charity of whether New Life Church Centre serves Birmingham neighbourhoods and, if so, which wards are regular delivery locations.
- Details of current overseas grant recipients or mission partners, if international operational reach needs to be classified separately.
Areas of work
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- Religious Activities
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Other Finance
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A neighbourhood church with a dispersed care role
The organisation appears to use its religious life as a base for reaching several local settings, including a school and nursing homes, rather than limiting its activity to people who attend services.
Why it matters
This suggests its local value may lie in trusted, repeated contact across everyday community institutions, particularly for younger and older people who may not otherwise meet through the same networks.
Show evidence
“Activities include Sunday school, youth and children activities, morning assemblies in the local school, and services to the elderly in nursing homes.”
Source:Charity Commission“New Life Elim Church is located on Middle Lane, Headley Heath near Wythall, Birmingham.”
Source:Organisation
Faith is the organising mechanism for practical support
Relief activity appears integrated with the church's religious mission, rather than operating as a separate social-service programme. Financial support may be a key mechanism through which it responds to hardship locally and internationally.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish the organisation from a generalist welfare provider: access, priorities and relationships may be shaped by congregational networks, pastoral judgement and religious partnerships.
Show evidence
“The charity's objects include advancement of the Christian faith and relief of persons in need, hardship, distress, old age or sickness.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.”
Source:Charity Commission“Activities include financial support to overseas missionary work in developing nations and famine and earthquake appeals.”
Source:Charity Commission
Potential connector between local care and wider Elim structures
The church appears locally identified while also publicly presenting itself within the Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance. This may give a small local congregation access to denominational relationships, governance and wider mission channels.
Why it matters
Its influence may not be measured only by its own visible activities. Denominational affiliation could shape where funding, volunteer knowledge, safeguarding support and overseas links flow.
Show evidence
“The website identifies the church as New Life Elim Church.”
Source:Organisation“The website lists Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance as a registered charity.”
Source:Organisation“Activities include support for overseas missionary work in developing nations.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Whether grants or financial support are available to people beyond the congregation and how recipients are identified.
- The scale, frequency and continuity of work with the school, nursing homes, children and young people.
- Whether Headley Heath New Life Church Trust operates independently of, or under delegated arrangements from, the Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or accounts showing expenditure by local care, grants, overseas aid and religious activity.
- Information on partners, referral routes, volunteer roles and the regularity of school and nursing-home engagement.
- Governance and affiliation details explaining the relationship between the trust, the local church and Elim.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Being a church our first objective is the preaching of the gospel of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ within our local community. Whether it be by services or Sunday school youth groups, youth & children activities, taking morning assemblies in the local school. Services to the elderly in nursing homes, financial support to overseas missionary work in developing nations, famine/earthquake appeals
Charity objects
1) Advancement of the Christian faith in the United Kingdom 2) The relief of persons who are in conditions of need hardship or distress or who are aged or sick