Hope Food North Birmingham
Charity 1195019
Overview
Summary
Hope Food North Birmingham appears to combine direct food-relief provision with a wider local support function. Its role is not limited to supplying individuals with food parcels and meals: it also takes food provision into communities through pop-up events and redistributes surplus to other foodbanks. This suggests an organisation positioned both at the point of immediate need and within the infrastructure that helps North Birmingham’s food-aid network respond to deprivation.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Stockland Green
Confidence: high
The charity's 2025 trustees' report identifies Stockland Green as its Erdington foodbank location, and Stockland Green Methodist Church confirms that it currently supports Hope Food Bank's Tuesday-morning food-parcel service.
- Hope Food North Birmingham trustees' report for the year ended 30 April 2025, filed with the Charity Commission
The report states that food is distributed through one foodbank in Erdington, identified as Stockland Green, for 49 weeks of the year. - Stockland Green Methodist Church — Regular Activities
The church states that it supports Hope Food Bank Charity in providing food parcels every Tuesday morning at 10am, at its Erdington premises.
Sutton Trinity
Confidence: low
Current service evidence establishes a weekly Falcon Lodge foodbank at Falcon Lodge Methodist Church. The principal charity report describes the location by neighbourhood rather than ward, and the available evidence does not explicitly identify the ward.
- Hope Food North Birmingham trustees' report for the year ended 30 April 2025, filed with the Charity Commission
The report states that the charity distributes food through two foodbanks in Sutton Coldfield, specifically Falcon Lodge and Mere Green, for 49 weeks of the year. - Birmingham City Council Connect to Support directory — Hope Food North Birmingham (Falcon Lodge)
The current directory entry lists a Hope Food North Birmingham foodbank at Falcon Lodge Methodist Church Hall, Sutton Coldfield, and states that the charity also operates its other weekly sessions in Stockland Green and Mere Green.
Sutton Mere Green
Confidence: low
The charity's current annual report and Birmingham's support directory both identify Mere Green as a regular foodbank location. The available evidence names the locality rather than explicitly naming the ward.
- Hope Food North Birmingham trustees' report for the year ended 30 April 2025, filed with the Charity Commission
The report identifies Mere Green as one of the charity's two Sutton Coldfield foodbank locations, operating for 49 weeks of the year. - Birmingham City Council Connect to Support directory — Hope Food North Birmingham (Falcon Lodge)
The directory states that Hope Food North Birmingham runs a Friday foodbank at Ark Church in Mere Green.
Remaining uncertainties
- The charity's permanent food-sorting and preparation base is reported as the old scout hut at Streetly Methodist Church. This should not be treated as a Birmingham operational area.
- The registered address is reported as the charity's principal or registered address, but the available evidence does not establish it as a current public-facing service site.
- The 2025 trustees' report says that volunteers make regular late-evening deliveries to a Birmingham hostel and to a women's refuge in North Birmingham, but does not identify their locations. No additional wards can therefore be assigned safely.
- The charity redistributes surplus food and works with the Food Justice Network at Birmingham Wholesale Markets, as well as outreach partners including Social Services, Citizens Advice and Trident Domestic Abuse Service. These relationships extend service access and supply routes, but the evidence does not identify enough current, ward-level delivery locations to map them.
- The evidence supports a district-scale operational identity centred on north Birmingham, particularly Sutton Coldfield and Erdington, rather than a citywide footprint. Although the Charity Commission records Birmingham City as its area of operation and the charity undertakes some citywide logistics, the evidence identifies only three regular public foodbank locations.
Additional evidence needed
- A current published timetable or service-location list from Hope Food North Birmingham confirming all foodbank venues, opening days and any additional pop-up sites.
- Broad, non-sensitive geographic summaries for the hostel deliveries, refuge support and surplus-food redistribution, if the charity considers disclosure appropriate.
- Confirmation of whether the Streetly Methodist Church base remains the charity's active storage and preparation hub after the 2025 reporting period.
- Current information from partner organisations on which Hope Food sessions they attend and at which foodbank venues.
Areas of work
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Services
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Observations
A dual role: frontline provider and food-aid connector
The organisation appears to operate both as a direct provider of emergency food support and as a contributor to the capacity of other foodbanks through surplus redistribution.
Why it matters
This distinguishes it from an organisation focused solely on its own service users. Its effectiveness may partly depend on relationships with other foodbanks and on its ability to move food through a wider local network.
Show evidence
“Providing food parcels and a hot meal.”
Source:Charity Commission“Redistributing any surplus food to foodbanks.”
Source:Charity Commission
Access may be designed around where need is experienced
The use of pop-up foodbank events may indicate a flexible, community-based delivery model intended to reach people who may not use, or be able to reach, a fixed service.
Why it matters
This suggests that physical access and local presence may be important to the organisation’s role, rather than food supply alone. It raises useful questions about which neighbourhoods and barriers the pop-ups are intended to address.
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“Providing pop up foodbanks events in the community.”
Source:Charity Commission“Areas of deprivation primarily in North Birmingham.”
Source:Organisation
The organisation recognises food poverty as affecting a broad local population
Although its purpose is focused on food poverty, the stated beneficiary groups span children, older people, disabled people, the general public and voluntary bodies. This may indicate that it sees food hardship as cross-cutting rather than confined to one demographic group.
Why it matters
This broad framing may shape partnerships, referral routes and service design. It also suggests the organisation could hold insight into how food insecurity is experienced differently across groups.
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“Children/young People, Elderly/old People, People With Disabilities, Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies, The General Public/mankind.”
Source:Charity Commission“The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Whether support is emergency-only or linked to longer-term help with financial hardship.
- Which communities in North Birmingham are reached, and whether any areas or groups remain underserved.
- How surplus food is sourced and which foodbanks receive it.
Remaining uncertainties
- Service locations, opening times, pop-up frequency and numbers of people reached.
- Information on referral partners, food suppliers and recipient foodbanks.
- Evidence of unmet need, user experience and support offered beyond food provision.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
To relieve poverty and financial hardship amongst those in need by reason of food poverty in areas of deprivation primarily in North Birmingham through providing food parcels, providing pop up foodbanks events in the community and redistributing any surplus food to foodbanks.
Charity objects
TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONGST THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF FOOD POVERTY IN AREAS OF DEPRIVATION PRIMARILY IN NORTH BIRMINGHAM THROUGH • PROVIDING FOOD PARCELS AND A HOT MEAL; • PROVIDING POP UP FOODBANKS EVENTS IN THE COMMUNITY; • REDISTRIBUTING ANY SURPLUS FOOD TO FOODBANKS.