New Heights Warren Farm Community Project
Charity 1120869
Overview
Summary
New Heights Warren Farm Community Project appears to operate as a neighbourhood-based community anchor in Kingstanding: combining a physical base, accessible group activity, advice and developmental support across generations. Its role is broader than a single service area, linking older people, young people, parents, carers and people affected by disability or ill health. The available evidence suggests an organisation whose strategy relies on trusted space and partnership working to respond flexibly to overlapping social, educational and wellbeing needs.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Kingstanding
Confidence: high
New Heights directly identifies Kingstanding as the location of its community centre, café and counselling services, including its two named operating venues.
- New Heights, About Us
The organisation states that its community centre, café and counselling services, including outreach, are based in Kingstanding; it also describes St John's Community Centre and the Community Café as locations from which services are delivered. - New Heights, New Heights Community Café
The organisation identifies the Community Café in Kingstanding as a venue for welfare advice, advocacy, specialist counselling services and community activities.
Remaining uncertainties
- The organisation says that it supports the Erdington Constituency and provides counselling 'including outreach', which supports a district-scale operational footprint. However, it does not identify the locations, frequency or volume of outreach activity elsewhere in the constituency.
- The available evidence confirms two closely located Kingstanding venues: St John's Community Centre and the Community Café. It does not evidence operational sites in other wards.
- New Heights lists statutory, voluntary and community partners, but the available material does not show that those partners host New Heights delivery outside Kingstanding. They should not therefore be treated as evidence of additional operational areas.
- The supplied organisation record gives charity number 1120869, whereas the current website and Charity Commission record identify the operating charitable company as charity number 1196648. The evidence is sufficient to assess the current New Heights operation, but the relationship to the earlier charity number is not established here.
Additional evidence needed
- A current service-delivery or impact report showing the wards or venues of outreach and counselling activity across the Erdington Constituency.
- A current programme timetable or referral data distinguishing services delivered at the Kingstanding venues from services delivered at partner or outreach venues.
- Confirmation from New Heights of whether its stated Erdington Constituency support represents regular direct delivery across the constituency or primarily a Kingstanding-based service accessible to constituency residents.
Areas of work
- Disability
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- Other Charitable Purposes
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A multi-generational community anchor
New Heights appears to organise its work around household and community life rather than a narrowly defined client group. Its remit connects young people’s aspirations, older people’s isolation, vulnerable parents’ wellbeing, and support for disabled people and carers.
Why it matters
This suggests it may see challenges as interconnected across generations. It could therefore be unusually well placed to notice issues that specialist services encounter only in isolation.
Show evidence
“The charity's objects include elderly people, young people and parents, particularly vulnerable parents.”
Source:Charity Commission“Its activities include support for older people, younger people, families, parents, people who are ill or disabled, and carers.”
Source:Charity Commission
Place and premises are part of the operating model
The St Johns Centre and room-hire offer suggest that New Heights' physical space is not merely an administrative location but an active community asset, potentially enabling both direct support and local groups' activity.
Why it matters
Understanding the organisation as a place-based host helps explain how it may create informal connections, lower barriers to support and extend its reach beyond programmes it delivers itself.
Show evidence
“The organisation offers spaces for hire to individuals and groups.”
Source:Organisation“It operates from St Johns Centre at 124 Warren Farm Road, Kingstanding.”
Source:Organisation“The charity provides buildings, facilities or open space.”
Source:Charity Commission
Partnership is presented as a core delivery mechanism
New Heights appears to position collaboration with statutory, voluntary and community agencies as essential to pursuing its aims, rather than as an occasional supplement to its own services.
Why it matters
This may make the organisation an important local connector: one that can translate between residents' needs and the wider support system, while identifying opportunities for complementary provision.
Show evidence
“The organisation works with community, statutory and voluntary agencies to support the Kingstanding community.”
Source:Organisation“It states that working in partnership is key to pursuing its aims and objectives.”
Source:Organisation
- Which groups and services are most active, and whether support reaches people facing the greatest barriers in Kingstanding.
- How room hire, the community cafe and group activities relate to the charity's charitable outcomes and financial sustainability.
- Which partnerships are active in practice and whether they create coordinated support rather than parallel provision.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, impact data and beneficiary feedback, broken down by service and participant group.
- A current list of programmes, partner organisations, referral arrangements and use of the St Johns Centre.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Reduce the isolation of older people, promote their independence, health & well-being. Work with younger people, supporting their development needs & helping them to raise their aspirations, address social health, educational, unemployment & leisure issues. Work alongside families & parents, helping them to face the challenges of family life. Support those who are ill or disabled & their carers.
Charity objects
1) TO RELIEVE ELDERLY PEOPLE RESIDENT IN THE KINGSTANDING COMMUNITY WHO ARE IN NEED IN ANY MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE. 2) TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING IN THE KINGSTANDING COMMUNITY BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF PHYSICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF: A) ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS; B) ADVANCING EDUCATION; C) RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT; D) PROVIDING RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITY IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS. 3) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF AND PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF PARENTS, PARTICULARLY VULNERABLE PARENTS. 4) TO OR FOR SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.