House Of Champions Bible Ministry (Hocbm)
Charity 1197096
Overview
Summary
House Of Champions Bible Ministry appears to use a faith-based setting as a platform for practical youth development. Its stated charitable purpose is religious advancement, but its described activity extends into prevention-oriented support through free music tuition and football coaching. This suggests an organisation whose civic role may lie in combining spiritual community, structured leisure and mentoring-like opportunities, particularly for young people perceived to be at risk of isolation or trouble.
Operational geography
Coverage: Citywide
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission record directly states that the charity operates in Birmingham City, but does not identify any Birmingham ward, neighbourhood, venue or service location.
- The charity's current registered contact address is in London, and its 2024 annual report gives the same London address. This should not be treated as a Birmingham operational site.
- The 2024 annual report evidences youth activities, counselling/coaching, empowerment events and homeless food provision, including expenditure on a venue, but does not state where those activities took place.
- The charity reports working with a football coach, but no partner organisation, coach identity, venue or Birmingham catchment is identified; this cannot be treated as evidence of an operational partnership extending reach within Birmingham.
- The reported Birmingham City coverage supports a city-level operational claim, but does not establish that delivery is distributed across the city or that the organisation has a fundamentally citywide service model.
Additional evidence needed
- A current programme timetable, event listing or venue booking record identifying Birmingham delivery areas.
- A current annual report or impact report that separates activity, beneficiaries and expenditure by Birmingham, London and Gloucestershire.
- Confirmation from the charity of the Birmingham areas in which it provides worship, youth tuition, football coaching, counselling, empowerment events and homeless food provision.
- Details of any formal Birmingham-based delivery partners, including the football coach or host venues, and the areas in which joint activity takes place.
Areas of work
- Religious Activities
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
Faith activity appears to be the organisation's base, not its only civic function
The ministry may use its Christian identity and community infrastructure to deliver practical youth-focused support alongside religious activity.
Why it matters
This distinguishes it from an organisation focused solely on worship: it may be a local route into both faith community and constructive development opportunities for young people.
Show evidence
“The charity's objects are to advance the Christian religion through prayer meetings, lectures and literature.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity has an active youth programme offering free tuition in piano, guitar and drums.”
Source:Organisation
The youth offer is structured around skills and belonging
Music tuition and football training may be intended not merely as activities, but as recurring, skill-building alternatives to unstructured time.
Why it matters
This suggests a preventative operating model: the organisation may contribute to youth wellbeing by creating routine, achievement and social connection rather than responding only after problems arise.
Show evidence
“The youth programme aims to keep young people off the street.”
Source:Organisation“The focus is to ensure that the youth are kept out of trouble and have a sense of direction.”
Source:Organisation
Football coaching may be a key relationship beyond the ministry
Working closely with a football coach indicates that the ministry may extend its capacity through an external individual or partnership rather than delivering every activity internally.
Why it matters
This raises a useful question about the organisation's local network: its value may partly depend on relationships that connect a religious organisation with specialist youth-development expertise.
Show evidence
“The charity works closely with a football coach to provide training and develop young people's potential.”
Source:Organisation
- It is unclear whether elderly people or the general public receive services beyond the charity's religious activities.
- There is no evidence about the programme's scale, location, accessibility, safeguarding arrangements or outcomes.
- It is unknown whether the football coach represents a formal partnership with another organisation.
Remaining uncertainties
- Information on participant numbers, age ranges, programme frequency and evidence of outcomes for young people.
- Details of delivery partners, referral routes and links with schools, sports organisations or youth services.
- Evidence of activities and benefits specifically directed toward elderly people and the wider public.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
As a charity, we have an active youth programme aim at keeping the Youth off the street. We give them free tuition on playing different instruments, like the piano, guitar and drums, We also work closely with a football coach to give them training and develop their potentials in that area. The focus is to ensure that the Youth are kept out of trouble and have a sense of direction.
Charity objects
TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN UK FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE HOLDING OF PRAYER MEETINGS, LECTURES PRODUCING AND/OR DISTRIBUTING LITERATURE ON CHRISTIAN RELIGION TO ENLIGHTEN OTHERS ABOUT THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.