Jasmine Road Community Gardens
Charity 1162495
https://www.facebook.com/Jasmine-Road-Community-Gardens-635177236548668/
Overview
Summary
Jasmine Road Community Gardens appears to use a practical shared space—growing vegetables together—as a bridge between horticultural learning, wellbeing, environmental stewardship and social inclusion. Its role seems broader than food growing alone: it may offer an accessible setting through which people facing disability, hardship or social exclusion can build skills, confidence and connection. The organisation’s charitable objects suggest that the garden is intended as a community-development asset rooted in a deprived local area, rather than simply a recreational amenity.
Operational geography
Coverage: Neighbourhood
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct evidence places the charity's active garden, community hub and events in Kates Hill, Dudley, outside Birmingham. No supplied Birmingham ward or recognised place is evidenced as a current operating area.
- The charity's objects refer to the former St Thomas's ward in Dudley and its surrounding area, but this is an intended beneficiary geography rather than sufficient evidence of delivery locations beyond the Dudley site.
- Dudley CVS records collaboration on the Plot to Plate project with Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, YMCA and Black Country Food Bank. This evidences partnership working around the Dudley site, but does not establish operational delivery in Birmingham.
- The Charity Commission record remains registered but the latest financial year shown in the supplied record is 2020, so it provides limited assurance about the full present-day range of activities.
Additional evidence needed
- Current programme, venue or event information showing delivery at a Birmingham location or to a Birmingham-based service area.
- A current annual report, impact report or statement from the charity identifying any delivery locations beyond its site in Dudley.
- Confirmation from the charity or relevant partners of whether any partnership-funded activity is delivered in Birmingham rather than solely serving the Dudley area.
Areas of work
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- General Charitable Purposes
- Recreation
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
Growing is the organisation’s delivery mechanism, not its sole purpose
The available evidence suggests that vegetable-growing projects are a practical means of delivering several outcomes at once: education, health and wellbeing, environmental learning, recreation and social inclusion.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish the organisation from a conventional allotment or gardening group. Its value may lie in combining activities that are often delivered separately, potentially making participation more approachable and less stigmatising.
Show evidence
“We are a community garden where people can come and get involved in projects and learn how to grow their own vegetables.”
Source:Organisation“The charity advances education in horticulture and related subjects of health and wellbeing.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity advances education in the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment.”
Source:Charity Commission
The garden may function as low-threshold social infrastructure
The organisation appears designed to reduce exclusion by providing an open, participatory place rather than a narrowly defined support service. Shared practical activity may create opportunities for contact, belonging and informal learning.
Why it matters
This suggests its contribution may include strengthening local relationships and participation, outcomes that can be overlooked if the organisation is understood only through horticulture or food growing.
Show evidence
“The charity promotes social inclusion for members of the public residing in the deprived ward of St Thomas's, Dudley (DY2) and the surrounding area.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity provides or assists in providing facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation or leisure time occupation.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps people with disabilities and the general public.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its remit spans universal participation and targeted disadvantage
The organisation appears to hold a deliberate tension between being open to the general public and prioritising people affected by disability, hardship or exclusion in a deprived area.
Why it matters
Understanding how it balances universal access with targeted support would clarify who the garden reaches, whether those most at risk of exclusion participate, and what partnerships may be needed to make access meaningful.
Show evidence
“The charity helps people with disabilities and the general public.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity promotes social inclusion for people who are socially excluded as a result of being a member of a socially and economically deprived community.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity provides buildings, facilities or open space and provides services.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Who participates regularly, and whether people experiencing exclusion or disability are reached in practice.
- Whether the organisation works with local schools, health services, disability organisations or food-support providers.
- The scale, frequency and outcomes of its projects.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent activity reports or participant data showing attendance, referral routes and beneficiary experiences.
- Information about accessibility, volunteer roles, partner organisations and the garden's physical capacity.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
We are a community garden where people can come and get involved in projects and learn how to grow their own vegetables.
Charity objects
1. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF HORTICULTURE AND FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE LEARNING FOR PLEASURE BY PEOPLE THROUGH THE CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR INDIVIDUAL COMPETENCIES, SKILLS AND UNDERSTANDING IN SUBJECTS OF HORTICULTURE AND RELATED SUBJECTS OF HEALTH AND WELLBEING. 2. TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC RESIDING IN THE DEPRIVED WARD OF ST THOMAS?S, DUDLEY (DY2) AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AS A RESULT OF BEING A MEMBER OF A SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED COMMUNITY AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY. THIS WILL BE DONE THROUGH PURPOSES 1 AND 4. 3. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT. 4. TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.