Kefw Community
Charity 1153004
http://www.kefw.bham.sch.uk/ke/our_school/kefw_community
Overview
Summary
Kefw Community appears to be a school-rooted civic organisation with a remit that extends beyond educational enrichment. Its objects position King Edward VI Five Ways School as a potential hub within a wider learning village and Birmingham community, linking young people’s attainment and aspirations with recreation, inclusion and support for people facing social exclusion. The available evidence suggests an organisation designed to connect educational resources, facilities and practical opportunities to broader community wellbeing.
Operational geography
Coverage: Neighbourhood
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- There is no current, service-level evidence identifying any Birmingham location where KEFW Community is actively delivering services.
- The Charity Commission record still lists KEFW Community as registered and gives King Edward VI Five Ways School as its contact address, but this is not sufficient to establish that the charity currently operates from the school.
- Companies House records show that KEFW Community Ltd, the charitable company linked to charity number 1153004, was dissolved on 16 December 2025. This creates substantial uncertainty over whether the registered charity has any continuing operational activity.
- The Charity Commission's stated geography of Birmingham and the West Midlands is based on overdue reporting and should not be treated as evidence of current regional delivery.
- The available evidence identifies no current partnerships, projects, venues or delivery programmes that extend the organisation's reach beyond its historic association with King Edward VI Five Ways School.
Additional evidence needed
- A current statement from the Charity Commission or the trustees clarifying the charity's status and whether it remains operational following the dissolution of KEFW Community Ltd.
- Recent annual reports, accounts, activity reports or trustee updates describing services delivered since the financial year ending 31 May 2020.
- Current information from King Edward VI Five Ways School confirming whether KEFW Community uses school facilities or delivers any ongoing programmes there.
- Evidence naming current delivery locations, beneficiary groups and material delivery partners.
Areas of work
- Amateur Sport
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A school-centred organisation with a wider civic remit
Kefw Community may use its connection to King Edward VI Five Ways School as a base for work that reaches beyond pupils, into the surrounding learning village and community.
Why it matters
This suggests the organisation’s role may be to bridge an educational institution and local civic needs, rather than operate solely as a conventional school support charity.
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“The objects include advancing education for pupils at King Edward VI Five Ways School and the wider learning village and community in Birmingham.”
Source:Charity Commission“Activities involve furthering the educational, practical and aspirational achievements of young people facing barriers and challenges.”
Source:Organisation
Educational opportunity is framed as a response to exclusion
The organisation appears to treat barriers to achievement not only as educational issues, but as connected to financial hardship, health, discrimination, housing, family breakdown and other forms of exclusion.
Why it matters
This broad framing may enable Kefw Community to identify partners and interventions outside education, including youth, welfare, equality and community organisations.
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“The objects include promoting social inclusion and relieving needs associated with unemployment, financial hardship, ill health, discrimination, poor educational attainment, family breakdown and poor housing.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity’s purposes include education and training, economic and community development, and equality or diversity.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its operating model may combine space, people and programmes
Kefw Community appears authorised to contribute through facilities, human resources and services, suggesting a potentially flexible role: convening activity, providing infrastructure and delivering support rather than relying on one intervention type.
Why it matters
This flexibility could make the organisation a useful connector for initiatives needing access to venues, staff capacity or youth-focused provision.
Show evidence
“The charity helps by providing human resources, buildings, facilities or open space, and services.”
Source:Charity Commission“The objects include providing or assisting in the provision of services, resources, opportunities and facilities.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which services, facilities or programmes are currently delivered, and who directly benefits from each.
- How far activity extends beyond the school community and which local organisations are involved.
- Whether the broad social-inclusion objects are active priorities or mainly enabling provisions.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, programme descriptions and beneficiary numbers.
- Information on partnerships, use of facilities and geographic reach across Birmingham and the West Midlands.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
The charity operates in Birmingham and the West Midlands. It's activities involve furthering the educational, practical and aspirational achievements of young people who traditionally face barriers and challenges in achieving their full potential.
Charity objects
THE COMPANY’S OBJECTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:- 4.1 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUPILS AT KING EDWARD VI FIVE WAYS SCHOOL, AND THE WIDER LEARNING VILLAGE AND COMMUNITY IN BIRMINGHAM, WITH WHICH THE SCHOOL INTERACT, BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF SERVICES, RESOURCES, OPPORTUNITIES AND FACILITIES NOT REQUIRED TO BE PROVIDED BY THE LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITY FOR EDUCATION AT THOSE SCHOOLS AND IN THE WIDER LEARNING VILLAGE AND COMMUNITY IN WHICH KING EDWARD VI FIVE WAYS SCHOOL OPERATES; 4.2 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; 4.3 TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND RELIEVE NEEDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH:(A)THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES PROVIDED IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE, DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE;(B)PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS. 4.4 TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT 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).