King'S Community Church Project
Charity 1086226
Overview
Summary
King's Community Church Project appears to function less as a single-service charity than as a neighbourhood civic hub centred on the Oak Tree Centre in Brandhall. Its role combines accessible premises, practical help and community activity, with a particular emphasis on reducing hardship while creating routine opportunities for local connection. The organisation’s church origins appear to provide the institutional base, but its stated offer is directed broadly at the local community rather than only a faith constituency.
Operational geography
Coverage: Neighbourhood
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct evidence places the organisation's principal service delivery and physical site at The Oak Tree Centre, serving the Brandhall community in Oldbury, Sandwell. This location is outside the supplied Birmingham ward and place list.
- The organisation's website lists Kings Oak Uniform Bank, Oldbury Food Bank, Christians Against Poverty and a Food Pantry as local partnerships, but the available evidence does not establish that King's Community Church Project directly delivers services at Birmingham locations through any of them.
- The available evidence supports an interpretation that the organisation is fundamentally neighbourhood-based, centred on Brandhall rather than Birmingham-wide. It does not evidence current direct operations in any supplied Birmingham ward or in Birmingham City Centre.
- It remains uncertain whether people living in nearby Birmingham neighbourhoods use the Oak Tree Centre or partner services; beneficiary catchment alone would not demonstrate that the organisation operates in those Birmingham areas.
Additional evidence needed
- A current timetable, annual report or service-delivery record identifying any sessions, outreach, commissioned work or regular activities delivered at locations within Birmingham.
- Current written confirmation from the organisation or named partner organisations of whether partnership activity is operated by King's Community Church Project and whether it includes Birmingham service locations.
- Service-use data with appropriate privacy safeguards, if the organisation wishes to evidence a wider cross-boundary operational catchment.
Areas of work
- Disability
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A place-based platform for multiple forms of support
The organisation appears to use a community centre as the shared platform through which social, wellbeing, advice and learning activity can coexist. This may allow residents to encounter support through ordinary community participation, rather than only when approaching a specialist service.
Why it matters
This helps explain its likely value beyond any individual activity: the centre may be local infrastructure that connects needs, relationships and services in one familiar place.
Show evidence
“The Oak Tree Centre opened in October 2005 to provide a community facility on the Brandhall estate.”
Source:Organisation“The charity operates community, recreational and leisure-time facilities and provides buildings, facilities and services.”
Source:Charity Commission“Activities include a community cafe, debt advice, counselling, fitness and exercise classes, dance classes and groups for older people.”
Source:Organisation
Hardship relief is embedded in everyday community life
The organisation appears to address poverty through a mix of practical support and low-threshold social spaces, rather than presenting poverty relief as a separate emergency-only function.
Why it matters
This suggests a potentially less stigmatising operating model: people may engage through food, activities or the cafe before, alongside or instead of seeking formal advice.
Show evidence
“The centre is run by the community for the community to relieve poverty for local people.”
Source:Organisation“Buttons café was added to the centre in 2014.”
Source:Organisation“The website lists Kings Oak Uniform Bank, Oldbury Food Bank, Christians Against Poverty, Food Pantry and debt advice.”
Source:Organisation
The organisation may act as a local connector rather than delivering everything itself
The named local partnerships suggest that the project’s role may include making external or specialist provision visible and reachable from a trusted neighbourhood setting.
Why it matters
If confirmed, this would make relationship-building a central capability: its contribution may lie partly in reducing fragmentation between residents and support organisations.
Show evidence
“The website has a Local Partnerships section listing Kings Oak Uniform Bank, Oldbury Food Bank, Christians Against Poverty and Food Pantry.”
Source:Organisation“The charity provides advocacy, advice and information.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which activities are delivered directly by the project and which are delivered by partner organisations.
- Whether the centre reaches groups beyond those already engaged in church or centre activities.
- The scale, frequency and outcomes of poverty, advice, counselling and wellbeing support.
Remaining uncertainties
- A current timetable and service-level information showing providers, attendance and referral routes.
- Partnership agreements or partner accounts describing how collaboration operates.
- Recent beneficiary feedback and demographic data on who uses the centre and who is not being reached.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Community activities, Children's activities, Youth activities, Group and meals for older people, Community cafe, Debt advice, Counselling services, Fitness/ exercise classes, Dance classes.
Charity objects
3.1.1. TO OPERATE THE COMMUNITY, RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE-TIME FACILITIES SITUATED AT THE CHURCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND IN PARTICULAR BU WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE FOREGOING FOR THE BENEFITS OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE BENEFIT AREA WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS AND QUALITY OF LIFE; 3.1.2. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND ENHANCE EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES; 3.1.3. TO PROMOTE GOOD HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS; 3.1.4. TO RELIEVE POVERTY ; AND 3.1.5. TO PROMOTE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE