Northfield Community Partnership - A Community Development Trust Limited
Charity 1157711
Overview
Summary
Northfield Community Partnership appears to operate as a broad community anchor institution: a high-street hub combining practical support, health-related services and routes into employment or volunteering. Its unusually wide charitable objects suggest it is designed not around a single issue, but around neighbourhood regeneration and residents’ capacity to shape local life. The available evidence indicates substantial reach, though it does not yet show which services are central, how they connect, or who is least well served.
Operational geography
No operational geography is currently available for this organisation.
Areas of work
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- Recreation
- 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
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A multi-purpose neighbourhood gateway
The organisation appears to use a single accessible community hub to connect residents with support across employment, health and digital inclusion. This may make it a gateway organisation rather than a specialist provider.
Why it matters
Its role may depend as much on trusted access and referral between needs as on any individual service. This makes its location, partnerships and ability to sustain broad front-door support important to understand.
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“Delivers services from a community hub in a high street location.”
Source:Organisation“Current service delivery includes job support, volunteering opportunities, drug and alcohol services, sexual health services, UK online centre and quit smoking.”
Source:Organisation
Regeneration is framed through resident capacity
The organisation’s formal purpose suggests a model of regeneration that combines relief of hardship with helping disadvantaged residents build skills, identify needs and participate more fully in society.
Why it matters
This distinguishes it from a provider focused solely on crisis response: it may be positioned to support longer-term community agency as well as immediate needs.
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“Its objects include the promotion of urban or rural regeneration in areas of social and economic deprivation.”
Source:Charity Commission“Its objects include developing the capacity and skills of members of the socially and economically disadvantaged community to identify and help meet their needs.”
Source:Charity Commission
Broad remit may enable coordination, but risks diffusion
Its objects span employment, housing, amenities, environment, health, safety and recreation, while current services concentrate on employment, wellbeing and inclusion. This may indicate deliberate flexibility to respond to changing local priorities.
Why it matters
The breadth could make the partnership a valuable convenor across sectors, but understanding its actual priorities is necessary to judge whether this flexibility produces coordination or stretches capacity.
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“Its objects include training and employment, housing, public amenities, environmental conservation, public health facilities, childcare, public safety and recreational facilities.”
Source:Charity Commission“Works with over 10,000 people per year.”
Source:Organisation
- Which residents and neighbourhoods use each service, and whether any groups are underrepresented.
- Whether health, employment and digital services are delivered directly or through partner organisations.
- How the reported annual reach is measured and whether it represents unique people.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, service outcomes and beneficiary demographics.
- Information on delivery partners, referral pathways, staffing and funding.
- Evidence of resident participation in setting priorities or governing the organisation.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
delivers a vital range of services from a community hub in a high street location, working with over 10,000 people per year. These services contribute to the overall well being of the local community current service delivery includes , job support , volunteering opportunities , drug and alcohol services, sexual health services , uk online centre, job and employment support, quit smoking
Charity objects
1) THE PROMOTION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF URBAN OR RURAL REGENERATION IN AREAS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION (AND IN PARTICULAR IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT) BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS: (A) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; (B) THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT; (C) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, TRAINING OR RETRAINING, PARTICULARLY AMONG UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE, AND PROVIDING UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE WITH WORK EXPERIENCE; (D) THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE OR BUSINESS ADVICE OR CONSULTANCY IN ORDER TO PROVIDE TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE IN CASES OF FINANCIAL OR OTHER CHARITABLE NEED THROUGH HELP: (I) IN SETTING UP THEIR OWN BUSINESS, OR (II) TO EXISTING BUSINESSES; (E) THE CREATION OF TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES BY THE PROVISION OF WORKSPACE, BUILDINGS, AND/OR LAND FOR USE ON FAVOURABLE TERMS; (F) THE PROVISION OF HOUSING FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF HOUSING IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR OR IN CHARITABLE OWNERSHIP PROVIDED THAT SUCH POWER SHALL NOT EXTEND TO RELIEVING ANY LOCAL AUTHORITIES OR OTHER BODIES OF A STATUTORY DUTY TO PROVIDE OR IMPROVE HOUSING; (G) THE MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT OR PROVISION OF PUBLIC AMENITIES; (H) THE PRESERVATION OF BUILDINGS OR SITES OF HISTORIC OR ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE; (I) THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE OR THOSE WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES; (J) THE PROTECTION OR CONSERVATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT; (K) THE PROVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH FACILITIES AND CHILDCARE; (L) THE PROMOTION OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND PREVENTION OF CRIME; (M) SUCH OTHER MEANS AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED SUBJECT TO THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS FOR ENGLAND AND WALES. 2) TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY.