Oasis Community Hub: Reading
Charity 1186690
Overview
Summary
Oasis Community Hub: Reading appears to be a locally oriented hub within the wider Oasis charitable network, using a broad mix of family, health and engagement activity to address exclusion before it becomes acute crisis. Its stated remit combines education, public health and poverty relief, suggesting an operating model built around accessible community support rather than a single specialist service. The available evidence indicates an organisation still developing its local offer, while benefiting from the identity and resources of a much larger national movement.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Perry Common
Confidence: medium
The charity is recorded as formerly named Oasis Community Hub: Short Heath, and the current Oasis Academy Short Heath website identifies an active Oasis Hub: Short Heath delivering community services at the academy. Birmingham City Council records the academy as being in Perry Common ward. Confidence is moderated because the charity's current registered name is Oasis Community Hub: Reading and its latest reported income was £0.
- Charity Commission register, Oasis Community Hub: Reading (charity 1186690)
The charity reports operating in Birmingham City; its previous name is Oasis Community Hub: Short Heath; and it reports that it does not own or lease land or property. - Oasis Academy Short Heath, Community Hub page
The academy states that it is part of Oasis Hub: Short Heath and currently lists a hub team, Stay and Play, Friends of Oasis PTA and a hub garden. It describes the hub team as delivering services involving public, voluntary and business sectors. - Birmingham City Council, Oasis Academy Short Heath directory record
Oasis Academy Short Heath is in Erdington, Birmingham, and is assigned to Perry Common ward.
Remaining uncertainties
- The current legal name, Oasis Community Hub: Reading, conflicts with the Birmingham-based previous name, Oasis Community Hub: Short Heath. The available public evidence does not explain the reason or date for this renaming.
- The Charity Commission's latest financial return, for the year ended 31 August 2024, reports £0 income and £445 expenditure. This makes the present scale and continuity of activity by this specific legal entity uncertain, despite the academy website continuing to describe Hub activity.
- The available evidence supports services hosted at Oasis Academy Short Heath rather than a site owned or leased by the charity.
- There is no sufficiently current, entity-specific evidence that this charity directly operates in other Birmingham wards. References to other Oasis academies or hubs should not be treated as this charity's operational footprint.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual return, trustees' report or confirmation from Oasis identifying whether company/charity number 12242308 remains the legal entity responsible for Oasis Hub Short Heath.
- A current service timetable or hub impact report showing the services delivered, dates, delivery partners and catchment of the Short Heath hub.
- An agreement or current statement from Oasis Academy Short Heath confirming the hub's use of academy premises and the respective roles of the academy, Oasis Community Learning and the charity.
Areas of work
- 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 Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A preventative, multi-issue community model
The hub appears to address connected causes of disadvantage through family activity, community health and engagement, rather than treating education, health and poverty as separate issues.
Why it matters
This suggests its value may lie in connecting residents to support early and across multiple needs. It may therefore be a useful partner for organisations whose specialist services need trusted local routes into communities.
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“The charity's objects include advancing education, advancing and protecting public health, and preventing or relieving poverty.”
Source:Charity Commission“The hub is growing family activities, a community health programme and community engagement programmes.”
Source:Charity Commission
A developing local platform rather than a fixed service offer
The wording that the hub is 'growing' activities may indicate that its role, capacity and local relationships are still emerging rather than fully established.
Why it matters
An evolving hub may be especially open to shaping programmes with residents and partners. It also means that descriptions of its current offer may quickly become outdated.
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“The hub is growing a range of activities.”
Source:Charity Commission“The hub provides services and advocacy, advice or information.”
Source:Charity Commission
Local delivery connected to a national Oasis identity
The Reading hub appears likely to operate within a wider Oasis ecosystem that combines schools, churches and community hubs, potentially giving it access to shared learning and cross-sector relationships.
Why it matters
Its local role may be strengthened by links beyond Reading, while its priorities may also be influenced by a wider organisational strategy. This could create opportunities for local partners to connect with broader Oasis expertise.
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“Together we've built schools, churches, and community hubs.”
Source:Organisation“Oasis Charitable Trust is a registered charity.”
Source:Organisation
- Which neighbourhoods in Reading the hub serves and which communities participate most.
- Whether it works through an Oasis school, church or other local partners.
- The scale, frequency and outcomes of its family, health and engagement activities.
- How its advice and advocacy role is delivered.
Remaining uncertainties
- A current local programme timetable, service descriptions and participant data.
- Information on local partners, referral routes, governance and funding.
- Outcome evidence and resident feedback showing who benefits and how.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
THE HUB IS GROWING A RANGE OF ACTIVITIES INCLUDING FAMILY ACTIVITIES, A COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAMME AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMMES.
Charity objects
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