Highgate Academy Birmingham
Charity 1166487
Overview
Summary
Highgate Academy Birmingham appears to be a place-based educational organisation whose role combines operating a secondary school with holding the facilities needed to sustain that provision. Its stated remit includes both young people aged 11–16 and adult education, suggesting a potentially broader community-learning function than its beneficiary classification alone conveys. The available evidence establishes a clear educational and property-based operating model, but offers little insight into actual learners reached, local partnerships, or how adult education is delivered.
Operational geography
Coverage: Citywide
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission record currently declares that the charity operates in Birmingham City, but it does not identify current delivery locations, a catchment, or services operating across particular wards.
- The charity's stated purpose is to provide and maintain a school and adult education in Birmingham, but this describes its objects and reported scope rather than confirming present-day delivery.
- The charity's correspondence address does not establish that Highgate Academy Birmingham currently delivers services from that location. The address is also associated with other education providers.
- Highgate Academy Birmingham was recorded by the Department for Education as proprietor of Iqra Girls High School, but that school closed on 16 July 2021. This is historical evidence and cannot support a conclusion about a current operational site.
- No material current partnerships, subsidiary operations, or additional sites were identified in the authoritative sources consulted.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual report, trustees' report, or activity statement specifying services delivered during the most recent financial year and their locations.
- Confirmation from the charity of whether it currently operates a school, adult-education provision, or leased educational premises, including the relevant Birmingham ward or wards.
- Current official education-registration or inspection records demonstrating any school or tuition provision operated by the charity.
- Evidence of active delivery partnerships that provide services on the charity's behalf or materially extend its operational reach.
Areas of work
- Education/training
Who they help
- Children/young People
How they help
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
Education is tied to long-term control of place
The organisation appears to treat buildings and property as core educational infrastructure rather than a peripheral asset. Its ability to own and lease property may support a durable local presence and flexibility in how education is accommodated.
Why it matters
This suggests that understanding the organisation requires looking beyond teaching activity: its facilities may be an important source of capacity, stability and possible community value.
Show evidence
“To own and lease property for educational purposes.”
Source:Charity Commission“Provides buildings/facilities/open space.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its remit may extend beyond a conventional secondary school
Although the organisation is framed around a school for children aged 11–16, the inclusion of adult education indicates an intended role that may reach beyond its core school-age population.
Why it matters
This creates a useful question for local partners: whether the organisation has, or could develop, a bridging role between youth education, family learning and wider adult skills provision.
Show evidence
“Providing, equipping and maintaining a school for children aged 11-16 following the national curriculum and the provision of adult education.”
Source:Charity Commission“Who the charity helps: Children/young People.”
Source:Charity Commission
There is a tension between broad stated purpose and narrow beneficiary visibility
The charity's formal objects describe adult education alongside provision for young people, while the recorded beneficiary group names only children and young people. This may indicate that adult education is secondary, inactive, or simply under-recorded.
Why it matters
This is worth clarifying before assuming the organisation's community reach. It may reveal either an unrealised capability or a mismatch between formal purpose and current practice.
Show evidence
“The provision of adult education.”
Source:Charity Commission“Who the charity helps: Children/young People.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Whether adult education is currently delivered, and to whom.
- How the organisation's facilities are used beyond the school day.
- Whether it works with local community, youth or adult-learning partners.
Remaining uncertainties
- Current programme information, enrolment data and age groups served.
- Details of property use, shared facilities and community access.
- Annual reports or strategic plans describing partnerships and local priorities.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN BIRMINGHAM BY PROVIDING EQUIPPING AND MAINTAINING A SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN AGED 11-16 FOLLOWING THE NATIONAL CURRICULUM AND THE PROVISION OF ADULT EDUCATION. TO OWN AND LEASE PROPERTY FOR EDUCATIONAL PROPUSES.
Charity objects
TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION IN BIRMINGHAM, BY PROVIDING EQUIPPING AND MAINTAINING A SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN AGED 11-16 FOLLOWING THE NATIONAL CURRICULUM AND THE PROVISION OF ADULT EDUCATION.