Mere Green 0-5 Nursery
Charity 1203465
Overview
Summary
Mere Green 0-5 Nursery appears to be an early-years organisation whose role extends beyond childcare provision: it combines preschool education with a baby-and-toddler offer and an explicit commitment to parental involvement, family support and child wellbeing. Its charitable objects suggest a broad, preventative model centred on children’s development, safety and health, while its stated activities indicate that this model is delivered through accessible group-based early-years services. The evidence does not yet show its scale, local reach or partnership role.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Sutton Mere Green
Confidence: high
Direct, current evidence identifies an open Ofsted-registered nursery operated by Mere Green 0-5 Nursery CIO at Mere Green Community Centre. Birmingham City Council identifies Mere Green Community Centre as being in Sutton Mere Green Ward.
- Ofsted, Mere Green 0-5 Nursery provider record (URN 2868902)
Lists Mere Green 0-5 Nursery as open, registered to Mere Green 0-5 Nursery CIO from 10 November 2025, at Mere Green Community Centre, Sutton Coldfield. - Mere Green 0-5 official website, Contact page
Gives the organisation's contact location as Mere Green Library & Community Centre, Sutton Coldfield. - Birmingham City Council, Sutton Mere Green Ward polling-station notice
Identifies Mere Green Community Centre as a polling location in Sutton Mere Green Ward. - Charity Commission register, Mere Green 0-5 Nursery (charity 1203465)
States that the charity runs a baby and toddlers group and a pre-school for children aged two and above, and reports Birmingham City as its area of operation.
Remaining uncertainties
- The available evidence supports one current delivery site in Sutton Mere Green, but does not establish whether the baby-and-toddler/Stay & Play activity currently operates separately from the registered nursery session or at any additional venue.
- The Charity Commission records Birmingham City as the charity's area of operation, but this is broader than the direct site evidence and does not demonstrate routine delivery elsewhere in Birmingham.
- Mere Green Community Centre is clearly the delivery venue, but the evidence reviewed does not establish a formal operational partnership with the community centre, library, or another organisation.
- No evidence was found of current service delivery, physical sites, or material delivery partnerships in other Birmingham wards.
Additional evidence needed
- A current timetable or programme information confirming the location and frequency of the nursery, baby-and-toddler group, and any Stay & Play sessions.
- The charity's latest annual report or trustees' report describing all delivery locations and any formal venue or delivery partnerships.
- Confirmation from the organisation of whether it provides outreach, off-site sessions, or services beyond Mere Green Community Centre.
Areas of work
- Education/training
Who they help
- Children/young People
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
An early-intervention model spanning infancy to preschool
The available evidence suggests the organisation is structured to engage families before formal preschool age through a baby-and-toddler group, then continue support through preschool provision for children aged two and above.
Why it matters
This may make the organisation a continuity point for families during a formative period, rather than a service used only at the point a child enters preschool.
Show evidence
“The charity runs a baby and toddlers group and a pre-school for children aged 2 years and above.”
Source:Organisation“The aim of Mere Green 0-5 is to enhance the development and education of pre-school age children.”
Source:Organisation
Parents may be part of the intended intervention, not only service users’ carers
Parental involvement is named alongside education, safety and wellbeing in the charity’s objects, suggesting that supporting children may be understood partly through strengthening the family environment around them.
Why it matters
This distinguishes the organisation from a narrowly child-focused childcare provider and raises the possibility that its value includes building parental confidence, information and connection.
Show evidence
“The CIO works for the public benefit by promoting children and young people’s education and promoting parental involvement.”
Source:Charity Commission“The CIO provides services to support children and young people and their families and carers.”
Source:Charity Commission
A broader wellbeing remit sits behind a primarily educational public description
Although the recorded activity category is education and training, the charitable objects also include care, safety, health, wellbeing and family support. This may indicate a holistic early-years approach in which education is the visible service platform rather than the organisation’s only intended outcome.
Why it matters
Understanding this wider remit may help identify complementary partners in health, family support or safeguarding, not only other education providers.
Show evidence
“The CIO works for the public benefit by promoting children and young people’s care and safety, health and wellbeing.”
Source:Charity Commission“What the charity does: Education/training.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Whether family support, advocacy or wellbeing activity is delivered directly or is only part of the organisation’s charitable remit.
- The organisation’s geographic catchment, scale, accessibility and relationships with other early-years, health or family services.
- Whether its affiliation with the Pre-school Learning Alliance shapes its practice, governance or partnerships.
Remaining uncertainties
- Current programme details, attendance figures and eligibility or fee information for the toddler group and preschool.
- Evidence of referral routes, local partnerships, parent-support activity and outcomes for children and families.
- Recent annual reports or trustee reports showing changes in services, demand and strategic priorities.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
The aim of Mere Green 0-5 is to enhance the development and education of pre-school age children, by providing a safe environment in which to learn and play. To this end the charity runs a baby and toddlers group and a pre-school for children aged 2 years and above.
Charity objects
THE CIO WORKS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT HAVING AS ITS OBJECTS THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR BY: (1) PROMOTING THEIR CARE AND SAFETY; (2) PROMOTING THEIR EDUCATION AND PROMOTING PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT; (3) PROMOTING THEIR HEALTH AND WELLBEING; (4) PROVIDING SERVICES TO SUPPORT THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS; (5) PROVIDING SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS HOLDING MEMBERSHIP OF THE CIO; AND (6) FURTHERING THE AIMS OF THE PRE-SCHOOL LEARNING ALLIANCE.