Mentis Midlands CIO
Charity 1212090
Overview
Summary
Mentis Midlands CIO appears to be a disability-focused, West Midlands charity designed to support independent living through a broad combination of housing, emotional support and practical development. Its stated remit spans both immediate hardship and longer-term autonomy, suggesting an organisation that may work across several stages of need rather than treating accommodation, wellbeing and skills as separate issues. The available evidence describes a wide charitable mandate, but does not yet reveal its actual delivery model, scale or partnerships.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Castle Vale
Confidence: medium
Mentis publicly gives a contact address, and the predecessor CIC recorded the same address as its registered office from 9 February 2025. This establishes an organisational contact/administrative presence, but does not confirm that housing or support is delivered in the ward.
- Mentis Midlands official website, Home and About Us pages
The organisation describes itself as providing housing and support for vulnerable adults with mental-health needs, and publishes a contact address. - Companies House, Mentis Midlands CIC filing history
The predecessor CIC changed its registered office to the same contact address on 9 February 2025 before conversion to the CIO.
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct evidence shows public contact and administrative addresses, but it does not establish that either is a staffed service base or supported-housing property.
- Direct evidence from Mentis describes housing and support delivery, while an organisation-posted recruitment listing states that supported accommodation is provided across the West Midlands and that referral links are being developed across Birmingham and surrounding areas. This supports a regional operational footprint, but the specific Birmingham neighbourhoods containing its accommodation portfolio are not publicly evidenced.
- The Charity Commission objects cover the West Midlands, but charitable objects describe permitted scope rather than proof of current delivery in every part of that area.
- Mentis lists Birmingham Central Foodbank, Birmingham City Council and SIFA Fireside under 'Our Partnerships'. The available material does not explain the nature, current status, or geographic effect of these relationships, so their locations have not been treated as Mentis operational areas.
- No current annual report, impact report, property portfolio, commissioned-service record, or partner referral protocol was located that identifies active service locations within Birmingham.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual or impact report stating the local-authority areas and neighbourhoods in which Mentis manages supported accommodation.
- An official, suitably privacy-protected list or map of active accommodation/service locations, sufficient to identify wards without disclosing residents or sensitive addresses.
- Current Birmingham City Council commissioning, housing-benefit, referral, or partnership documentation confirming Mentis's active operational role and relevant locations.
- Confirmation from Mentis or its named partners of which partnerships are active and whether they provide referral pathways, co-delivered services, or other material operational reach.
Areas of work
- Disability
- Education/training
Who they help
- People With Disabilities
How they help
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A whole-pathway approach to independence
The charity’s objects suggest it may see secure accommodation, mental and physical wellbeing, personal development, and training as interdependent conditions for independent living.
Why it matters
This positions Mentis Midlands as potentially more than a single-service provider: it may be designed to address the linked barriers that can prevent disabled people experiencing hardship from sustaining independence.
Show evidence
“Its objects include housing and accommodation, counselling and emotional support, personal development courses, and education, training and work experience to assist people to live independently.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps people with disabilities.”
Source:Charity Commission
A mandate spanning crisis response and capability-building
Mentis Midlands may combine support for immediate need, including poverty, ill-health and disability, with activity intended to build longer-term skills, confidence and work-related experience.
Why it matters
This could make the organisation a useful bridge between crisis support and pathways into greater stability, rather than an organisation focused only on short-term relief.
Show evidence
“The charity is established to relieve people in the West Midlands in need because of poverty or financial hardship, ill-health, or disability.”
Source:Charity Commission“It provides education, training and work experience to assist people to live independently.”
Source:Charity Commission
Potentially operates through multiple support routes
The reported ability to make grants, provide facilities and offer advocacy or information suggests Mentis Midlands may be structured to support people directly while also enabling other organisations or local provision.
Why it matters
If confirmed, this would indicate a potentially flexible role in the local support system: provider, adviser and funder rather than solely a frontline service.
Show evidence
“The charity makes grants to individuals and organisations.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity provides buildings, facilities or open space and provides advocacy, advice or information.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which services, grants or facilities are currently active, and who uses them.
- Whether the charity works directly with individuals, mainly through partner organisations, or both.
- Its geographic reach within the West Midlands, organisational scale and key relationships.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, activity reports or service descriptions showing delivery in practice.
- Information on funded organisations, referral routes, housing provision and local partnerships.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Charity objects
FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO RELIEVE PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE WEST MIDLANDS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED BY REASON OF POVERTY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, ILL-HEALTH (PHYSICAL AND/OR MENTAL), OR DISABILITY BY: A. THE PROVISION AND MANAGEMENT OF HOUSING, ACCOMMODATION AND ASSOCIATED FACILITIES, AMENITIES AND SERVICES. B. THE PROVISION OR ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF ACCESSIBLE COUNSELLING, EMOTIONAL SUPPORT, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSES AND OTHER ANCILLARY SUPPORT. C. THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING AND WORK EXPERIENCE TO ASSIST PEOPLE TO LIVE INDEPENDENTLY. D. SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME.