Oasis Community Hub: Hobmoor
Charity 1172925
Overview
Summary
Oasis Community Hub: Hobmoor appears to operate as a place-based community anchor alongside Oasis Academy Hobmoor, using a shared physical setting to connect education, advice, youth activity and community development. Its role seems broader than delivering discrete services: it may create an accessible local platform through which residents of different ages can participate, seek support and build capacity. Its Christian foundation is paired with an explicit commitment to inclusion and non-imposition of belief.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Yardley East
Confidence: medium
Current official sources place the hub and its community-centre services at Hobmoor Community Centre, alongside Oasis Academy Hobmoor. A Birmingham City Council education dashboard groups Oasis Academy Hobmoor within Yardley East. The hub's own current page does not name the ward.
- Birmingham City Council, Oasis Hub Hobmoor warm-space directory entry
Lists Oasis Hub Hobmoor at Hobmoor Community Centre, with weekday provision including food, digital access, laundry, showers, children's activities and outdoor activities. - Oasis Academy Hobmoor, Community Hub page
Identifies Oasis Hobmoor Hub at Hobmoor Community Centre; states that it provides adult learning, family and youth activity, sports-related activity and community-centre spaces. - Birmingham City Council, Educational Outcome Dashboards
Lists Oasis Academy Hobmoor within the Yardley East ward grouping. - Charity Commission register, charity 1172925
For the year ending 31 August 2024, records that the charity runs Hobmoor Community Centre, providing adult education, support and advice, community-empowerment projects, young people's and holiday activities, and a youth football club alongside Oasis Academy Hobmoor.
Remaining uncertainties
- The evidence establishes a current operating base and services at Hobmoor Community Centre, but does not provide a current, complete list of all outreach, off-site delivery or beneficiary catchments.
- A 2019/20 trustees' report described the hub as focused on the then South Yardley area and near the boundaries of several former wards, with constituency-wide emergency work during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is historical evidence and does not establish current routine operations across multiple wards.
- The close partnership with Oasis Academy Hobmoor materially supports local delivery, including use of adjoining facilities and work with pupils and families, but there is no current evidence that it creates a separate operational site elsewhere in Birmingham.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual report, impact report or service timetable showing whether any programmes are routinely delivered away from Hobmoor Community Centre.
- Current programme-level information identifying the geographical scope of the youth football club, holiday activities, advice services and adult-learning provision.
- A current partnership or venue list confirming whether the hub operates from any additional Birmingham locations.
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
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A community anchor linked to a school
The hub appears to use Hobmoor Community Centre, alongside Oasis Academy Hobmoor, as a locally rooted platform connecting formal education with wider community life.
Why it matters
This suggests the organisation may be positioned to bridge children, families and other residents rather than serving only a single client group. The school relationship could be an important route for trust, participation and early support.
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“Runs Hobmoor Community Centre alongside Oasis Academy Hobmoor.”
Source:Organisation“Offers adult education, support and advice, community empowerment projects, activities for young people, holiday activities and a youth football club.”
Source:Organisation
A lifecycle model rather than a narrowly targeted service
The mix of adult learning, youth provision, holiday activities, advice and community empowerment suggests an operating model intended to support community participation across life stages.
Why it matters
This may make the hub a useful connector between needs that are often addressed separately, including education, poverty, health and social participation.
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“Offers adult education, support and advice, community empowerment projects, activities for young people, holiday activities and a youth football club.”
Source:Organisation“Helps children/young people, elderly/old people and the general public.”
Source:Charity Commission
Faith-based identity paired with an explicit civic inclusion stance
The organisation appears to frame its Christian identity as a motivation for community transformation while explicitly seeking to serve people of all faiths and none without imposing belief.
Why it matters
This is significant for understanding who may feel able to participate: the charity presents faith as part of its ethos, not as a condition of access.
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“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
- Which local communities use the centre most, and which groups are not currently reached.
- Whether the academy relationship involves shared delivery, referrals, facilities or governance.
- How advice, education and empowerment activity translate into outcomes for residents.
Remaining uncertainties
- Service participation and demographic data, including unmet demand and excluded groups.
- Evidence of partnerships, referral routes and joint work with Oasis Academy Hobmoor and other local organisations.
- Recent annual reports, participant feedback and outcome measures.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
OASIS COMMUNITY HUB: HOBMOOR RUNS HOBMOOR COMMUNITY CENTRE OFFERING ADULT EDUCATION, SUPPORT AND ADVICE, COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT PROJECTS, ACTIVITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES AND A YOUTH FOOTBALL CLUB ALONGSIDE OASIS ACADEMY HOBMOOR.
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 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.