Highfield Hall Community Club
Charity 1169586
Overview
Summary
Highfield Hall Community Club appears to be more than a venue provider: it is positioned as a neighbourhood-based civic platform in Hall Green, using shared indoor and outdoor space to bring together residents, voluntary bodies and potentially public authorities. Its charitable purposes suggest an unusually broad inclusion mandate, spanning recreation, education, wellbeing, religious harmony and support for people facing multiple forms of exclusion. The available evidence indicates a place-centred organisation whose value may lie in creating accessible conditions for connection rather than delivering one narrowly defined service.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Hall Green South
Confidence: high
Direct current evidence identifies Highfield Hall Community Centre in Hall Green South as the organisation's operating base. The available evidence indicates that services, activities, advice provision, gardens and room hire are delivered from this single community-centre site.
- Highfield Hall Community Centre official website
The organisation says that Highfield Hall Community Centre is at the heart of Hall Green and provides social, recreational and educational activities, community events, food support, grant access, youth activities and wellbeing sessions. - Charity Commission Register of Charities, Highfield Hall Community Club (charity 1169586)
The charity states that it operates from Highfield Hall Community Centre, providing social, recreational and educational activities, rooms for hire, and use of its green area and garden for wellbeing activities and social gatherings. - Birmingham City Council, Councillor Timothy Huxtable contact page
The council lists Highfield Hall Community Centre as a venue in Hall Green South ward. - Birmingham Connect to Support directory
The directory records a regular GAIN free-advice service at Highfield Hall Community Centre.
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission records Birmingham City as the charity's area of operation, but this is a broad regulatory reporting category and does not, on its own, evidence routine delivery across Birmingham.
- The official website says the centre has partnerships with charities, schools and local organisations, but does not identify the partners, the locations of joint activity, or whether any partnership creates delivery outside Hall Green South.
- Available evidence supports a neighbourhood-based operational identity centred on Highfield Hall Community Centre. It does not establish whether the organisation regularly delivers activities at other sites in Hall Green or elsewhere in Birmingham.
Additional evidence needed
- A current programme, timetable or annual report identifying the locations of all activities and outreach sessions.
- Details of active partnership agreements or jointly delivered projects, including whether they involve delivery at sites beyond Highfield Hall Community Centre.
- Confirmation from the organisation of any additional physical sites, satellite services or regular off-site provision.
Areas of work
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Disability
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- Other Charitable Purposes
- Recreation
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A shared place is the organisation's core operating model
The organisation appears to create social value primarily by maintaining a community centre, hireable rooms and green space that others can use for activities, gatherings and support. It may therefore function as local civic infrastructure rather than as a single-programme provider.
Why it matters
This helps explain why its remit is broad: the organisation may enable many groups, activities and informal relationships that would not fit within one service category.
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“Operates from Highfield Hall Community Centre and provides social, recreational and educational activities with rooms for hire.”
Source:Organisation“Has a vast green area including a peaceful garden for outdoor health and wellbeing activities and social gatherings.”
Source:Organisation“The trustees may establish, maintain, manage or co-operate in the management of a community centre.”
Source:Charity Commission
Inclusion is defined broadly, not as a specialist service
Its objects connect social inclusion to financial hardship, health, age, discrimination, housing, skills, family breakdown and offending. This suggests the club may be designed to reduce isolation and barriers across overlapping life circumstances, rather than focus on a single beneficiary group.
Why it matters
This broad framing could make the organisation a useful connector for specialist charities and public services whose users need welcoming, non-stigmatising local places.
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“Its objects include promoting social inclusion by preventing social exclusion, relieving the needs of excluded people and assisting integration into society.”
Source:Charity Commission“Social exclusion is defined through factors including unemployment, hardship, ill health, discrimination, poor housing, low skills and crime.”
Source:Charity Commission“Provides activities for all ages and groups.”
Source:Organisation
Religious harmony is embedded alongside everyday community activity
The organisation's commitment to religious understanding sits within the same framework as recreation, education and social welfare. It may therefore see ordinary shared activity as a route to stronger relations between people of different faiths, rather than treating dialogue as separate work.
Why it matters
This is a distinctive potential role in a neighbourhood setting: shared space and routine participation may support connection where formal interfaith initiatives do not reach.
Show evidence
“Its objects include educating the public about different religious beliefs and promoting mutual understanding and respect between faiths.”
Source:Charity Commission“Its community-centre objects seek to associate residents, local authorities, voluntary and other organisations in a common effort.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which activities, groups and partner organisations currently use the centre.
- Whether its inclusion and religious-harmony objects are actively delivered or mainly retained as broad constitutional purposes.
- How accessible the facilities are in practice, including cost, disability access and reach into underserved communities.
Remaining uncertainties
- A current programme, room-hire user list and participation profile.
- Information on partnerships with local authorities, voluntary organisations and faith groups.
- Recent annual reports or impact evidence showing outcomes, demand and use of the outdoor space.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Highfield Hall Community Club operates from Highfield Hall Community Centre and provides social ,recreational and educational activities with rooms for hire. We have a vast green area including a peaceful garden for use for the users for outdoor health and well being activities and for social gatherings. We have activities for all ages/ groups and we are an environmentally friendly centre
Charity objects
THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE: COMMUNITY CENTER. TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF HALL GREEN AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER SAID RESIDENTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE RESIDENTS. IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE TRUSTEES SHALL HAVE POWER TO ESTABLISH OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE AND TO MAINTAIN OR MANAGE OR CO-OPERATE WITH ANY STATUTORY AUTHORITY IN THE MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF SUCH A CENTRE FOR ACTIVITIES PROMOTED BY THE CHARITY IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS RELIGIOUS HARMONY: THE PROMOTION OF RELIGIOUS HARMONY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY: (A) EDUCATING THE PUBLIC IN DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS BELIEFS INCLUDING AN AWARENESS OF THEIR DISTINCTIVE FEATURES AND THEIR COMMON GROUND TO PROMOTE GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN PERSONS OF DIFFERENT FAITHS; (B) PROMOTING KNOWLEDGE AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING AND RESPECT OF THE BELIEFS AND PRACTICES OF DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS FAITHS. TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY. SOCIAL INCLUSION: TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).