Spring Board Housing Trust
Charity 1198171
Overview
Summary
Spring Board Housing Trust appears to be a faith-motivated housing charity whose role extends beyond accommodation into tenant wellbeing, practical support and social inclusion. Its objects suggest it sees housing not simply as a physical asset, but as a platform from which people facing hardship can gain stability, advice and support to adapt within a community. The available evidence indicates a potentially integrated model, although it does not show the scale, location or current delivery of that model.
Operational geography
Coverage: Citywide
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct evidence: the Charity Commission currently records Spring Board Housing Trust as operating in Birmingham City and Sandwell. This supports a declared Birmingham-wide operating geography, but does not identify services, beneficiaries, projects or sites within any Birmingham ward.
- Reasonable interpretation: Birmingham should be treated as the organisation's stated overall area of operation rather than evidence of active delivery across every neighbourhood. The charity reported £0 income and £0 expenditure for each of the financial years ending 31 March 2023, 31 March 2024 and 31 March 2025, and its Charity Commission entry provides no activity description.
- The registered office is a confirmed administrative address, but available evidence does not establish that it is a delivery site or that services operate there. It has therefore not been recorded as an operational area.
- A predecessor organisation, Big House Trust, previously managed Court Oak House in Harborne with lease-management support from GreenSquare Accord. Its 2022/23 report stated that Court Oak House would close and residents would move to other accommodation. Although that report referred to a planned amalgamation involving Spring Board Housing Trust, there is no current evidence that Spring Board operates Court Oak House or another replacement service.
- No current material delivery partnership has been evidenced. Pan-Asia Community Housing shares the registered office address and has a trustee connection, but available evidence does not demonstrate that it delivers services on Spring Board Housing Trust's behalf or extends Spring Board's operational reach.
Additional evidence needed
- The latest trustees' annual report or an activity/impact report describing services delivered during or after the year ending 31 March 2025, including locations of housing and advice provision.
- Confirmation from Spring Board Housing Trust of whether it currently owns, leases, manages or supports any housing sites, and the wards in which those sites are located.
- Confirmation of the outcome of the proposed amalgamation with Big House Trust and Pan-Asia Community Housing, including whether any former Court Oak House activity or assets transferred to Spring Board.
- Evidence from current partners or local authority commissioning records identifying any active service agreements and their geographic scope.
Areas of work
- Disability
- General Charitable Purposes
- Other Charitable Purposes
Who they help
- Other Defined Groups
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
Housing is treated as a route to wider stability
The organisation appears to combine the provision or management of affordable housing with support intended to help residents manage hardship and progress in life. This may indicate a housing-plus model rather than a narrowly property-focused landlord role.
Why it matters
This distinction helps identify Spring Board Housing Trust as a potential connector between housing, advice and community inclusion, rather than only a provider of homes.
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“The charity may provide, improve, repair, manage or maintain affordable housing accommodation and associated amenities, services or assistance.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity may advance education and relieve financial hardship through legal and other advice to help people advance in life and adapt within a new community.”
Source:Charity Commission
Residents' wellbeing is central to its intended role
The organisation appears to define responsibility for housing residents broadly, including mental, moral, spiritual and physical welfare. Its faith basis may shape this whole-person understanding of tenancy support.
Why it matters
This suggests that relationships with wellbeing, community and pastoral-support organisations may be as relevant to its role as relationships with housing providers or property services.
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“The charity's objects include promoting the mental, moral, spiritual and physical welfare of inhabitants of housing it owns or manages.”
Source:Charity Commission“The objects are pursued as a demonstration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in accordance with the statement of faith.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its beneficiary focus may extend beyond tenants
Although residents are explicitly identified in its housing-welfare object, the charity's stated beneficiaries also include other defined groups and the general public. This may indicate scope for activity beyond a closed resident population.
Why it matters
Clarifying this boundary would reveal whether the trust is principally a resident-facing landlord or a wider community resource with housing at its core.
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“The charity helps other defined groups and the general public.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity provides buildings, facilities or open space, and advocacy, advice or information.”
Source:Charity Commission
- There is no evidence of where the trust operates, how many homes it owns or manages, or whether it currently provides housing directly.
- The available evidence does not show which advice, education or wellbeing support is delivered in-house, commissioned or provided through partners.
- It is unclear how the organisation's Christian basis affects eligibility, service design or relationships with the wider community.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, accounts and service descriptions showing current activities, scale, locations and beneficiary groups.
- Information on housing stock, referral routes, tenant support and partnerships with advice, health, faith and community organisations.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Charity objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, AND AS A DEMONSTRATION OF THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF FAITH: 4.1. TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY ASSISTING WITH THE PROVISION OF OR BY PROVIDING, IMPROVING, REPAIRING, MANAGING OR MAINTAINING AFFORDABLE HOUSING ACCOMMODATION AND ANY ASSOCIATED AMENITIES, SERVICES OR ASSISTANCE; 4.2. TO PROMOTE THE MENTAL, MORAL, SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL WELFARE OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE HOUSING ACCOMMODATION OWNED OR MANAGED BY THE CIO; 4.3. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND RELIEVE THOSE IN FINANCIAL HARDSHIP PARTICULARLY BY THE PROVISION OF LEGAL AND OTHER ADVICE SO AS TO ADVANCE THEM IN LIFE AND ASSIST THEM TO ADAPT WITHIN A NEW COMMUNITY; 4.4. TO PROMOTE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.