Moxley Peoples Centre Charity
Charity 1086614
Overview
Summary
Moxley Peoples Centre Charity appears to be a place-based regeneration organisation whose core asset is a community venue. Rather than focusing on a single client group or service, it combines accessible space, training infrastructure, social events and work-related opportunities to support a broad local population. Its charitable objects suggest an ambition to address deprivation across several connected dimensions, while its stated activities indicate that rooms and facilities may be the practical platform through which community relationships and opportunities are created.
Operational geography
Coverage: Regional
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission record reports that the charity operates in Birmingham City, alongside Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton, but it does not identify any Birmingham service, venue, partner, ward or recognised place.
- The available current programme evidence is concentrated at the Moxley Peoples Centre in Moxley, Wednesbury, outside Birmingham. This indicates a fundamentally neighbourhood-based delivery base, despite the charity's broader self-reported regional operating footprint.
- No direct evidence was found that identifies a physical site, recurring outreach activity or material delivery partnership within any of the supplied Birmingham wards or City Centre.
- It is unclear whether the Charity Commission's Birmingham City entry reflects direct delivery, grants or support to organisations, occasional activities, or the geographic origin of beneficiaries.
Additional evidence needed
- A current service timetable, annual report narrative or monitoring data specifying Birmingham delivery locations and frequencies.
- Details of any current Birmingham-based partner organisations, funded groups or venues through which the charity delivers activity.
- Evidence distinguishing direct Birmingham service delivery from grants, room hire, advice provision or beneficiaries travelling to the Moxley site.
Areas of work
- Amateur Sport
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- General Charitable Purposes
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Human Resources
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A venue-led model for local regeneration
The charity appears to use buildings and shared facilities as its main operating platform for wider social and economic regeneration, rather than delivering one narrowly defined service.
Why it matters
This helps explain how apparently varied activities—events, training, computer access, leisure and work opportunities—may form one connected model: maintaining a local civic base that enables multiple forms of support.
Show evidence
“Provides room hire facilities for social events, training rooms and a computer suite.”
Source:Organisation“Provides buildings, facilities or open space.”
Source:Charity Commission“Its objects include the provision, maintenance and improvement of public amenities and recreational facilities.”
Source:Charity Commission
Regeneration is understood as interconnected
The organisation appears to treat poverty, ill-health, unemployment, education and recreation as linked aspects of local deprivation rather than separate issues.
Why it matters
This suggests the charity may be especially relevant as a connector between services and community needs, including needs that do not fit neatly within a single policy area.
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“Its objects include relief of poverty, sickness and ill-health, unemployment, and advancement of education and training.”
Source:Charity Commission“Works with different groups in the community and provides work opportunities and leisure facilities.”
Source:Organisation
The centre may be both community infrastructure and an intermediary
Its support for other charities or voluntary bodies, grants, human resources and advice suggests it may enable other local organisations as well as serving residents directly.
Why it matters
If confirmed, this would make the charity significant beyond its own programmes: it could be part of the local infrastructure through which smaller groups access space, capacity and connections.
Show evidence
“Helps other charities or voluntary bodies.”
Source:Charity Commission“Makes grants to organisations and provides human resources, advocacy, advice and information.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which groups use the centre most, and whether some local communities are underrepresented.
- Whether room hire generates income that subsidises charitable activity.
- How the charity works with other organisations and whether partnerships are active or occasional.
Remaining uncertainties
- Annual reports or service data showing facility use, programmes, beneficiaries and outcomes.
- Information on income sources, room-hire policy, grants and named community partners.
- Local feedback on unmet needs and barriers to accessing the centre.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
work with different groups in the community.provide room hire facilities for social events.Weddings Birthday parties.Training rooms,Computer suite.We work with our community to provide work opportunities and leisure facilities.
Charity objects
TO ADVANCE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES WHICH WILL PROMOTE THE REGENERATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF THE AREA OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION KNOWN AS MOXLEY DESCRIBED IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF AGE, GENDER, RACE, POLITICAL OR RELIGIOUS OPINIONS OR SEXUAL PREFERENCES OR ORIENTATION, AND IN PARTICULAR; A) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT B) THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND ILL-HEALTH C) THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT D) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING E) THE PROVISION, MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF PUBLIC AMENITIES F) THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE.