Oasis Community Hub: Foundry & Boulton
Charity 1172915
Overview
Summary
Oasis Community Hub: Foundry & Boulton appears to operate as a place-based, multi-purpose community anchor for students, families and nearby residents in and around Winson Green and Handsworth. Its role is broader than any single service: it combines practical support, learning, youth and family activity, and access to facilities within an explicitly inclusive Christian-charity framework. The available evidence suggests an organisation oriented toward strengthening everyday community capacity while also responding to hardship.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Soho and Jewellery Quarter
Confidence: medium
The organisation has two current, publicly listed community-hub service locations at Oasis Academy Foundry and Oasis Academy Boulton. Official Oasis material describes the Hub team as delivering activities across both academies and in the surrounding community, but the available evidence does not establish the precise extent of activity across the ward.
- Birmingham City Council directory — Oasis Community Hub Foundry
Lists Oasis Community Hub Foundry, with a food pantry, workshops and other activities. - Birmingham City Council directory — Oasis Community Hub Boulton
Lists Oasis Community Hub Boulton at Oasis Academy Boulton, with a food pantry and community facilities. - Oasis Academy Boulton — Community Hub page
States that the Boulton and Foundry Community Hub is involved in activities across both academies and in the community, including drop-ins, children's clubs, coffee mornings, street events, the FaB Café and pantry. - Birmingham City Council polling-station notice, 2026
Places both Oasis Academy Boulton and Oasis Academy Foundry in SHQ polling districts.
Remaining uncertainties
- The evidence establishes two physical operating sites but does not provide a current, precise boundary for the wider neighbourhood catchment of each service.
- The Charity Commission describes work in and around both Winson Green and Handsworth. These are recognised neighbourhood descriptions, but neither is available as a permitted place identifier; the available evidence does not establish the extent of activity across the supplied Soho and Jewellery Quarter ward identifier.
- The available current evidence does not demonstrate routine delivery at additional Birmingham venues or across the city, so a citywide footprint should not be inferred.
- Oasis Academy Foundry and Oasis Academy Boulton materially extend the Hub's reach by hosting activity and connecting it with pupils and families, but the available evidence does not establish whether every academy-based activity is delivered by the charity itself rather than by the academies or wider Oasis group.
Additional evidence needed
- A current Hub timetable or annual/impact report identifying every delivery venue, programme location and service catchment.
- Confirmation from the organisation of which activities are delivered directly by Oasis Community Hub: Foundry & Boulton and which are delivered by partner academies or other Oasis entities.
- Current evidence on whether outreach, holiday provision, advocacy or youth work is delivered away from the Foundry and Boulton hubs.
Areas of work
- Disability
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
How they help
- 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 community anchor rather than a single-issue service
The organisation appears to use a broad mix of activities and facilities to support interconnected needs across local households, rather than specialising in one issue or age group.
Why it matters
This suggests its value may lie partly in connecting needs that are often addressed separately, such as education, advice, family support and youth provision.
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“Activities include advice and support services, family support, adult education, youth work, and holiday programmes.”
Source:Organisation“The charity provides buildings, facilities or open space; services; and advocacy, advice or information.”
Source:Charity Commission
Education may be used as a route into wider resilience
Adult education and support for students sit alongside poverty relief, health and family support, suggesting learning may be treated as part of a wider pathway toward stability and participation.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish the organisation from a purely educational provider: its educational work may be most meaningful when understood alongside practical and social support.
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“The charity serves students, their families and wider communities in and around Winson Green and Handsworth.”
Source:Organisation“The charitable objects include advancement of education, advancement of health, and prevention and relief of poverty.”
Source:Charity Commission
Faith-informed, but designed for broad civic participation
Its Christian identity appears to provide a values framework for community transformation while explicitly rejecting faith as a condition of inclusion or participation.
Why it matters
This may make the organisation a potential bridge between faith-rooted civic capacity and a religiously diverse local population.
Show evidence
“The company is a Christian charity committed to the transformation of communities and the inclusion of every person in that process.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity shall never impose its Christian faith or belief on others.”
Source:Charity Commission
- It is unclear whether students are the primary route into the hub or one group among several equally served communities.
- There is no evidence about partner organisations, referral relationships, scale of delivery, or outcomes.
- The relationship between the Foundry and Boulton name and the organisation's service model is not explained.
Remaining uncertainties
- Service-use and outcome data, including age groups, neighbourhood reach and repeat engagement.
- Information on local partners, referral routes, funding sources and use of the organisation's facilities.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
We run a range of community activities to serve students; their families and the wider communities in and around Winson Green and Handsworth. These include advice and support services, family support, adult education, youth work, and holiday programmes.
Charity objects
CHARITABLE OBJECTS: (1) INTRODUCTION TO OBJECTS THE COMPANY IS A CHRISTIAN CHARITY, WHICH MEANS THAT IT IS COMMITTED TO THE TRANSFORMATION OF COMMUNITIES AND TO THE INCLUSION OF EVERY PERSON IN THAT PROCESS. IN ALL THAT IT DOES, THE CHARITY SHALL: A) SERVE AND RESPECT ALL PEOPLE REGARDLESS OF THEIR AGE, DISABILITY, GENDER, 'RACE', ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION OR BELIEFS, PREGNANCY OR MATERNITY STATUS, MARITAL OR CIVIL PARTNERSHIP STATUS, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, PHYSICAL AND MENTAL CAPACITY B) ACKNOWLEDGE THE FREEDOM OF PEOPLE OF ALL FAITHS AND NONE TO BOTH HOLD AND TO EXPRESS THEIR BELIEFS AND CONVICTIONS RESPECTFULLY AND FREELY, WITHIN THE LIMITS OF THE UK LAW C) NEVER IMPOSE ITS CHRISTIAN FAITH OR BELIEF ON OTHERS. (2) THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ('OBJECTS') ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING: A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF PUBLIC HEALTH GENERALLY C) THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS AND THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY NOTHING IN THE ARTICLES SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CHARITY FOR PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND/OR SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.