Moorpool Toddler Group
Charity 1044565
Overview
Summary
Moorpool Toddler Group appears to be a small, community-based early-years organisation whose role extends beyond supervised toddler activity: its charitable purpose frames it as a parent-facing developmental support setting. It may create value through regular, accessible shared space where parents can learn informally from one another while children socialise and develop. However, the available classification of its activity as amateur sport sits uneasily beside its stated mother-and-toddler focus, leaving its practical model and distinct offer only partly understood.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Harborne
Confidence: high
A current NHS community-services directory explicitly lists Moorpool Toddler Group in Harborne, with a weekly Friday session. Birmingham City Council records place the venue within Harborne ward.
- Birmingham Forward Steps / Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Family Hubs and Children's Centres directory
Lists 'Moorpool Toddler Group' in Harborne for children aged 0 to 4, on Fridays from 10.00 to 11.30. - Birmingham City Council, 2024 Polling District and Polling Places Review
Identifies the venue as a polling place within the Harborne ward. - Charity Commission register, charity 1044565
Describes the charity's activity as a 'Community mother and toddler group' and records that it operates in Birmingham City.
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission's 'Birmingham City' operating-area declaration is broad and does not, by itself, demonstrate citywide delivery. The available service-level evidence instead supports activity in Harborne.
- The registered address is treated as a correspondence address, not an operational site, because the charity register does not identify it as a service venue.
- There is no current evidence of additional delivery sites, satellite sessions, or partnerships that materially extend the group's reach beyond Harborne.
- Use of a venue demonstrates a venue relationship, but the available evidence does not establish the terms or formal status of that arrangement.
Additional evidence needed
- Current information from Moorpool Toddler Group confirming whether it operates any sessions or activities outside Harborne.
- A current timetable, annual return narrative, or venue-hire confirmation identifying the group's active delivery locations and the continuity of its Harborne session.
- Evidence of any formal delivery partnerships, referral arrangements, or outreach activity serving other Birmingham neighbourhoods.
Areas of work
- Amateur Sport
Who they help
- Children/young People
How they help
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
Early-years support is delivered through parents as well as children
The group appears to use a community setting to strengthen parents' understanding of young children's needs, rather than treating children as the sole recipients of support.
Why it matters
This suggests its contribution may include peer connection, parental confidence and informal learning—outcomes that can be overlooked if it is understood only as a children's activity.
Show evidence
“To enhance the development and education of children under statutory school age by encouraging parents to understand and provide for the needs of their children through community groups.”
Source:Charity Commission“Community mother and toddler group.”
Source:Organisation
Its operating model appears place-based and low-threshold
Providing facilities or open space alongside a mother-and-toddler-group format may indicate that the organisation's main asset is a regular, shared local setting rather than specialist individual services.
Why it matters
This helps identify the group as potential community infrastructure: a setting that could reduce isolation and create informal routes into other family support, even where no formal referral role is evidenced.
Show evidence
“Community mother and toddler group.”
Source:Organisation“Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space.”
Source:Charity Commission
The recorded activity classification may conceal part of the organisation's role
The designation of amateur sport does not clearly align with the stated early-years and parent-support purpose. It may reflect play or physical activity, an administrative classification, or an unrecorded aspect of delivery.
Why it matters
Resolving this tension could clarify whether the group has a distinctive movement, play or outdoor component, and whether it connects with organisations focused on early-years development rather than sport.
Show evidence
“Amateur Sport.”
Source:Charity Commission“Community mother and toddler group.”
Source:Organisation
- Whether the group provides structured developmental, play or sports activities.
- Which parents, carers and local communities use the group, and whether any groups are underrepresented.
- Whether it works with nurseries, health visitors, family hubs or other local support organisations.
Remaining uncertainties
- Session details, attendance patterns, costs and venue accessibility information.
- Evidence of partnerships, referrals and parent or child outcomes.
- Clarification of why amateur sport is recorded as the charity's activity.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Community mother and toddler group
Charity objects
TO ENHANCE THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN UNDER STATUTORY SCHOOL AGE BY ENCOURAGING PARENTS TO UNDERSTAND AND PROVIDE FOR THE NEEDS OF THEIR CHILDREN THROUGH COMMUNITY GROUPS.