Highgate Community Support Limited
Charity 1185938
Overview
Summary
Highgate Community Support Limited appears to be a locally rooted, open-access organisation using free practical support and community activity to address exclusion before it becomes more acute. Its role is broader than food or recreation alone: it combines nourishment, health promotion, support for children and older people, and advice or advocacy within a single neighbourhood focus. The available evidence suggests an intentionally universal offer aimed especially at people facing loneliness, disability, limited self-care capacity or financial hardship.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Bordesley and Highgate
Confidence: medium
The organisation’s current official website consistently describes its work, events, partnership activity and intended community as being in Highgate. The evidence indicates a locally focused operational footprint rather than delivery across Birmingham, but does not fully establish its extent within the ward.
- Highgate Community Support Limited official website — Home page
States that events are held at various locations in Highgate, Birmingham, and describes provision including food delivery, food pantry, lunches, youth services, holiday programmes, local events and festivals. - Highgate Community Support Limited official website — Home in Highgate page
States that, through its local Home in Highgate partnership, the organisation delivers food and cooks meals at venues across Highgate and provides youth activities during holidays and after school. - Charity Commission Register, charity 1185938
Records that the charity promotes health, nourishment and recreational services for people in Highgate, Birmingham, with services directed to people facing hunger, loneliness or difficulties looking after themselves. - Birmingham City Council — New ward maps 2024
Identifies Bordesley and Highgate as a current Birmingham ward.
Remaining uncertainties
- The organisation’s website says that activity takes place at various locations in Highgate, but does not provide a complete current venue list or service timetable.
- Companies House gives Stanhope Hall Community Centre as the registered office, and historical accounts describe work as centred there; however, a registered office is not by itself conclusive evidence of a current operational site. The Charity Commission also records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.
- The Charity Commission’s self-reported 'where the charity operates' field says Birmingham City, whereas the organisation’s current service descriptions are consistently neighbourhood-focused on Highgate. There is insufficient current evidence of regular delivery elsewhere in Birmingham.
- Home in Highgate materially broadens the range of local provision through partner venues and organisations, but the available evidence does not establish that those partnerships create routine Highgate Community Support Limited delivery outside Highgate.
Additional evidence needed
- A current programme, event calendar or annual report listing delivery venues.
- Confirmation from the organisation of which Highgate venues it currently uses directly, including whether Stanhope Hall Community Centre remains a regular delivery base.
- A current breakdown of services delivered directly by Highgate Community Support Limited versus those delivered by Home in Highgate partners.
- Evidence of any recurring services, outreach or beneficiary-facing delivery outside the Bordesley and Highgate ward.
Areas of work
- Disability
- General Charitable Purposes
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A universal front door for multiple forms of exclusion
The organisation appears to use services open to everyone, rather than tightly defined eligibility groups, as a way to reach people affected by varied and sometimes overlapping forms of exclusion.
Why it matters
This may reduce stigma and make support easier to access for people whose needs do not fit a single service category. It suggests the organisation could function as an early, community-based point of connection.
Show evidence
“All events and services are open to anyone and are free of charge.”
Source:Organisation“The charity promotes social inclusion by preventing social exclusion, relieving the needs of socially excluded people and assisting them to integrate into society.”
Source:Charity Commission
Nourishment may be a route into wider wellbeing support
Food-related support appears to sit alongside exercise, recreation, advice and advocacy, suggesting nourishment may be used not only to relieve immediate need but also to build connection and engagement with wider support.
Why it matters
This distinguishes the organisation from a narrowly transactional food provider. It may occupy a bridging role between immediate hardship relief and longer-term health or social participation.
Show evidence
“The charity promotes health, good nourishment, and healthy recreational services.”
Source:Organisation“How the charity helps: Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information.”
Source:Organisation
A deliberately intergenerational local mandate
The organisation appears designed to support several life stages within Highgate, with particular attention to children and young people, older people, disabled people and people experiencing loneliness or reduced independence.
Why it matters
This breadth may enable it to notice household and community needs that single-age-group services miss. It also raises the question of whether its activities create connections across generations or operate as separate offers.
Show evidence
“The charity helps children/young people, elderly/old people, people with disabilities and the general public.”
Source:Organisation“The charity supports children and young people and those in the community who are lonely or not able to fully look after themselves.”
Source:Organisation
- Which specific services are delivered, how often, and whether they combine food, recreation and advice in practice.
- Whether the organisation works with local health, housing, disability, youth or food-support organisations.
- Which groups experience the greatest demand and whether any Highgate communities remain under-reached.
Remaining uncertainties
- A recent activity report showing services, attendance, referral routes and beneficiary feedback.
- Information on local partnerships, volunteer roles, funding sources and changes in activity over time.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Highgate Community Support Limited promotes health, good nourishment, and healthy recreational services to people in Highgate, Birmingham who (i) are hungry and/or in need of nourishment and exercise (ii) children and young people (iii) those in the community who are lonely or not able to fully look after themselves. All events and services are open to anyone and are free of charge.
Charity objects
FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN HIGHGATE, BIRMINGHAM: A)THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH BY PROVIDING SUCH SERVICES AND FACILITIES AS THE TRUSTEES DECIDE AND WHICH ARE DIRECTED TO PROMOTING HEALTH, GOOD NOURISHMENT AND HEALTHY RECREATION FOR PEOPLE WHO COULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD THEM; B)THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION 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).