South Aston Community Association
Charity 1106139
Overview
Summary
South Aston Community Association appears to be a place-based civic anchor: its core role is to maintain a community centre and use facilities, activities and advice to connect residents with wider support. Its formal charitable purpose is broad but rooted in collective local action. The available evidence suggests a potentially expansive current offer, though the clearest operational evidence remains centred on community space, sport, youth engagement and social issues. Public-facing claims require further corroboration before they can be treated as evidence of established delivery.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Aston
Confidence: high
Direct evidence consistently identifies Aston as the organisation's service focus and names the Phoenix Quality Of Life Centre in Aston as its contact location. The available evidence supports a neighbourhood-based Aston operation rather than delivery across Birmingham.
- SACA Community official website — About and contact information
SACA states that its aims are to improve wellbeing and quality of life for residents of the Aston area, and gives the Phoenix Quality Of Life Centre in Aston as its contact location. - SACA Community official website — What's On
The organisation advertises activities including a coffee morning for mums and a community advice clinic, while consistently identifying the Phoenix Quality Of Life Centre in Aston as its contact location. - Charity Commission Register, charity 1106139
The charity's stated area of benefit is South Aston, Aston, Birmingham; its charitable objects include establishing, maintaining and managing a community centre; and its registered contact address is the Phoenix Quality Of Life Centre. - Birmingham City Council ward map
The ward map identifies Aston ward.
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission records Birmingham City as the charity's reported place of operation, but the more specific evidence of current delivery and stated area of benefit is confined to Aston. This broad regulatory classification is not sufficient to conclude citywide delivery.
- The organisation's website expresses an intention to work with community groups, businesses and public-sector bodies, but it does not identify current named delivery partners or show that partnerships extend services into other wards.
- The Phoenix Quality Of Life Centre is presented as the charity's contact address and is consistent with its object of managing a community centre, but the available evidence does not independently document every service as taking place there or identify any additional operational sites.
- No current evidence establishes regular delivery in surrounding neighbourhoods beyond Aston.
Additional evidence needed
- A current programme timetable or annual report that states the venues and wards in which each service is delivered.
- Confirmation from SACA of whether the Phoenix Quality Of Life Centre is its actively managed delivery site rather than solely a correspondence address.
- Details from SACA or named partners of any active partnership-delivered projects, including their locations and beneficiary catchments.
Areas of work
- Amateur Sport
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- General 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
- 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 community facility is the organisation's likely platform, not just one service
The association appears to operate through a physical community hub, using space and activities as a means of convening residents, voluntary bodies and public institutions around local wellbeing.
Why it matters
This suggests its value may lie partly in enabling relationships and locally delivered activity by others, rather than only in services it directly provides.
Show evidence
“The charity's objects include establishing, maintaining and managing a community centre.”
Source:Charity Commission“The contact address is Phoenix Quality Of Life Centre, 2 Tower Road, Aston, Birmingham B6 5BZ.”
Source:Organisation
Youth participation links recreation with wider social concerns
Its evidenced activities suggest that sport, leisure and youth media are being treated as routes into engagement with young people, alongside concern about crime-related social issues.
Why it matters
This may distinguish the association from a conventional venue provider: activities may be intended as preventative community development rather than ends in themselves.
Show evidence
“Activities include music, sport and leisure on a multi use games area funded by Sport England.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity assists young people projects attempting to get into radio broadcasting and addresses social issues associated with crime in the area.”
Source:Charity Commission
The stated ambition is broader than the corroborated operational picture
The website presents SACA as delivering or developing a wide range of health, welfare, cultural, employment and advocacy activity, but the more specific charity information evidences a narrower set of centre, sport and youth-focused work. This may indicate an organisation in expansion, an aspirational communications strategy, or public information that has not been kept current.
Why it matters
Understanding this gap is important for potential partners: it affects whether SACA should be approached as an established multi-service provider, a community hub with emerging ambitions, or both.
Show evidence
“The website states objectives including health and wellbeing support, advocacy on housing, employment, welfare, health and social care, and cultural and recreational activities.”
Source:Organisation“Activities describe music, sport and leisure, youth radio projects and social issues associated with crime.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which website-described services are currently operating, and at what scale.
- Whether the association primarily delivers services itself, hosts other organisations, or combines both models.
- Which local communities and neighbourhoods are most actively reached.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, accounts and trustee reports describing delivery, income and partnerships.
- A current programme timetable, participant numbers and evidence of outcomes from residents or delivery partners.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
The centre exist to secure the needs of its local community by the promise of activities including music sport and leisure on the multi use games area installed with funding from Sport England. We also assist with young people projects attempting to get into radio broadcasting. social issues associated with crime in the areas.
Charity objects
(A) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFITS OF THE INHABITANTS OF SOUTH ASTON AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS WITHOUT THE DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS; (B) TO ESTABLISH, OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE CENTRE) AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE SAME (WHETHER ALONE OR IN CO-OPERATION WITH ANY LOCAL AUTHORITY OR OTHER PERSON OR BODY IN FURTHERANCE OF OBJECTS; (C) TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED.