Manningford Hall Community Association
Charity 1189867
Overview
Summary
Manningford Hall Community Association appears to be a place-based community infrastructure organisation: its central role is likely to be maintaining or securing a shared hall through which a wide range of welfare, learning and leisure activity can occur. Its remit combines universal community access with particular concern for residents facing age, disability, financial or social disadvantage. The available evidence suggests that the hall itself may be its principal means of creating local value, rather than a narrowly defined programme of support.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Druids Heath and Monyhull
Confidence: high
Direct, current evidence places Manningford Hall Association's services at Manningford Hall in Druids Heath. The Charity Commission record identifies the charity's purpose as benefiting residents of Druids Heath and Monyhull.
- Birmingham City Council, Warm Welcome Spaces directory, Manningford Hall Association
Lists Manningford Hall Association in Druids Heath, Birmingham, with current opening hours and services including food, food-bank provision, activities, laundry facilities and accessible facilities. This is direct evidence of service delivery from a physical site in Druids Heath. - Charity Commission register, Manningford Hall Community Association, charity number 1189867
Records the charity at Manningford Hall; states that it owns and/or leases land or property; and describes its activities as providing facilities for residents of the ward of Druids Heath and Monyhull and the surrounding area. - Birmingham City Council, mobile household waste centres schedule, 2026
Identifies Manningford Hall car park under the Druids Heath location, corroborating that the hall is a physical community venue in Druids Heath. - Fruit & Nut Village, Partners page
Describes Manningford Hall Association as a group at Manningford Hall Community Centre in the centre of Druids Heath and states that the hall hosts one of the partner organisation's orchard sites, where work is undertaken together for the community.
Remaining uncertainties
- The evidence strongly supports a single operational base and neighbourhood focus in Druids Heath and Monyhull, but does not identify regular delivery sites outside that ward.
- The Charity Commission's reference to the 'surrounding area' is a charitable remit rather than direct evidence of current services in named neighbouring wards.
- The Fruit & Nut Village relationship evidences a local partnership at Manningford Hall, but does not demonstrate that the association itself delivers services elsewhere in Birmingham.
- The organisation has no accessible website in the supplied record, so the full current programme, user catchment and any hired or outreach venues cannot be confirmed.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual report, activity report or programme timetable identifying all regular services and venues.
- Confirmation from the organisation of whether it operates outreach, commissioned services or satellite activities beyond Manningford Hall.
- Details of active partner agreements or jointly delivered projects, including whether any take place outside Druids Heath and Monyhull.
Areas of work
- Disability
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Recreation
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A shared venue is likely the organisation's core operating platform
The association appears to use community-hall provision and management as the mechanism through which it enables education, recreation, advice and other local activity, rather than being defined by one specialist service.
Why it matters
This suggests its influence may extend beyond activities it delivers directly: the hall could provide space, access and legitimacy for other groups, services or informal community networks.
Show evidence
“The trustees have power to establish or secure the establishment of a community hall and to maintain, manage or co-operate in the maintenance and management of such a centre.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity provides buildings, facilities or open space, services, and advocacy, advice or information.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its remit bridges universal community life and targeted support
The association appears designed to serve the public at large while also prioritising people whose access to facilities may be constrained by youth, age, disability, financial hardship or wider social and economic circumstances.
Why it matters
This dual role may make the organisation a useful bridge between general community participation and inclusion-focused support, reducing the risk that targeted provision becomes isolated from wider local life.
Show evidence
“The objects refer to individuals needing facilities because of youth, age, infirmity or disablement, financial hardship, or social and economic circumstances, or to the public at large.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps children and young people, elderly or old people, and the general public.”
Source:Charity Commission
The organisation has a broad mandate but an unclear practical focus
Its purposes span poverty relief, disability, education, recreation and community development, which may indicate an adaptable response to local needs; however, the evidence does not show which needs currently shape its work most strongly.
Why it matters
This is important when assessing potential partnerships: the association may be a flexible local connector, but its present capacity, priorities and active programmes cannot yet be assumed.
Show evidence
“The charity's areas of activity include general charitable purposes, education or training, disability, prevention or relief of poverty, economic or community development or employment, and recreation.”
Source:Charity Commission“Its activities concern facilities for education, recreation or other leisure-time occupation in Druids Heath, Monyhull and the surrounding area.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which activities, groups or partner organisations currently use or deliver services through the hall.
- Whether the association directly delivers support, mainly hires space to others, or combines both models.
- Which local populations or unmet needs are least well served by its present offer.
Remaining uncertainties
- A current programme, timetable and room-use information showing activities, users and delivery partners.
- Recent annual reports, trustee reports or financial information showing income sources, staffing, volunteer capacity and priorities.
- Feedback or participation data from local residents, especially people facing disability, poverty, isolation or barriers to access.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
To promote for the benefit the residents of the ward of Druids Heath and Monyhull and the surrounding area, the provision of facilities for education, recreation or other leisure time occupation of individuals who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, financial hardship or social and economic circumstances or for the public at large in the interests
Charity objects
TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF THE WARD OF DRUIDS HEATH AND MONYHULL AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR EDUCATION, RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS. IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE TRUSTEES SHALL HAVE POWER TO ESTABLISH OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY HALL AND TO MAINTAIN OR MANAGE OR CO-OPERATE WITH ANY STATUTORY AUTHORITY IN THE MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF SUCH A CENTRE FOR ACTIVITIES PROMOTED BY THE CHARITY IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS.