Highcroft Community Centre CIO
Charity 1153987
www.highcroftcommunitycentre.co.uk
Overview
Summary
Highcroft Community Centre CIO appears to be a place-based civic infrastructure organisation: its centre is intended not only as a venue, but as a platform for improving local services, social welfare and community cohesion in Stockland Green and nearby areas. Its unusually broad charitable scope suggests it may operate as an enabling hub, able to host, connect or support diverse forms of activity rather than concentrating on a single issue or beneficiary group.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Stockland Green
Confidence: high
The charity's current 2024/25 annual report reports that the centre provides space and resources for groups serving residents of Stockland Green. Its official website also locates the centre in Stockland Green.
- Highcroft Community Centre CIO, Trustees' Annual Report and accounts for year ending 31 March 2025
The report describes the charity's purpose as providing space and resources for activities benefiting inhabitants of Stockland Green and the surrounding area, and states that the centre provides opportunities for many residents in Stockland Green. - Highcroft Community Centre CIO, Trustees' Annual Report and accounts for year ending 31 March 2025
The annual report gives the charity's principal address in Stockland Green. - Highcroft Community Centre official website
The website states that Highcroft Community Centre is in Stockland Green, and presents centre-based activities and facilities including cricket, bowls, martial arts, exercise, meetings and function rooms.
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission records Birmingham City as the charity's reported area of operation, but the current annual report and website evidence indicate that operational delivery is centred on one community-centre site serving Stockland Green and its immediate surrounding area. This is better interpreted as neighbourhood-based activity than evidence of citywide delivery.
- The available evidence does not identify the precise extent of the 'surrounding area', so no neighbouring wards are included.
- Groups, training providers, local employers and other organisations use the centre, but the evidence does not identify named partners or show that these arrangements create delivery sites or sustained operations outside Stockland Green.
- The evidence supports one active physical centre; it does not establish whether the charity operates any additional sites.
Additional evidence needed
- A current programme, room-hire timetable or service map showing where users are drawn from and whether any activities are delivered away from the centre.
- Named partner agreements or project information showing whether partner organisations deliver Highcroft-led services beyond the centre.
- Confirmation from the organisation of any additional operational premises, satellite venues or outreach activity.
Areas of work
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Disability
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Other Charitable Purposes
- Recreation
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
The centre is positioned as local civic infrastructure
The available evidence suggests the organisation sees the community centre as a means of bringing residents, public bodies and voluntary organisations into shared local action, rather than simply providing room hire or activities.
Why it matters
This indicates that its potential value may lie in convening relationships and improving coordination between organisations as well as delivering services directly.
Show evidence
“The objects include associating inhabitants, local authorities, voluntary and other organisations in a common effort to improve facilities and service provision.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity is to establish, maintain and manage a community centre in furtherance of its objects.”
Source:Charity Commission
A broad remit may enable responsive local support
Its stated purposes span health, poverty, disability, education, culture and recreation, suggesting a flexible remit that could allow it to respond to interconnected local needs.
Why it matters
This breadth may make the organisation a useful partner for groups whose work crosses conventional service boundaries, but it also leaves its practical priorities unclear.
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“The charity's work includes education and training, health, disability, poverty relief, arts and culture, and recreation.”
Source:Charity Commission“Its activities aim to improve facilities and service provision, social welfare, community cohesion, conditions and life chances for local residents.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its geographic focus is sharper than its beneficiary category
Although it records helping the general public, its objects identify Stockland Green and the surrounding area, indicating that place is likely the main organising principle for its work.
Why it matters
Understanding it as neighbourhood-focused helps distinguish it from charities serving a defined client group and raises questions about which nearby communities are actively reached.
Show evidence
“The objects promote the benefit of inhabitants of Stockland Green and the surrounding area.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps the general public.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which services are delivered directly, and which are provided by partner organisations using the centre.
- Which residents and communities use the centre, including whether any groups are underrepresented.
- Whether the organisation currently works with local authorities, voluntary groups or other local institutions.
Remaining uncertainties
- A current programme, timetable or annual report showing activities, users and delivery partners.
- Information on room users, referrals, collaborations and unmet local needs.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
To provide a community centre to improve facilities and service provision in the interests of social welfare, community cohesion and improving conditions and life chances for local residents.
Charity objects
A. PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF STOCKLAND GREEN AND THE SURROUNDING AREA WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR POLITICS, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO IMPROVE FACILITIES AND SERVICE PROVISION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, COMMUNITY COHESION AND IMPROVING CONDITIONS AND LIFE CHANCES FOR LOCAL RESIDENTS. B. ESTABLISH, OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE (HEREIN CALLED THE CENTRE) AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE SAME (WHETHER ALONE OR IN CO-OPERATION WITH ANY LOCAL AUTHORITY OR OTHER PERSON OR BODY) IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS. C. PROMOTE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED.