Spring Housing Association Limited
Charity 1163098
Overview
Summary
Spring Housing appears to operate as more than a housing provider: it positions housing as a platform for preventing homelessness and building lasting independence. Its model combines accommodation with tailored support, advice, community-oriented activity and efforts to influence sector practice. The organisation’s stated geographic reach across the West Midlands and surrounding areas, alongside specialist references to young people and refugees, suggests a regionally oriented provider working with people whose housing insecurity may overlap with other barriers to stability.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Handsworth Wood
Confidence: high
Spring’s Hestia House headquarters is in Handsworth Wood. This is more than a registered address: Spring identifies a 23-apartment young people’s accommodation and support service above the office, and operates its Spring 22 Community Hub from the site.
- Spring Housing — Young People Services
Hestia House in Hamstead is Spring’s head office and contains a 23-apartment young people’s move-on accommodation service with floating support. - Spring Housing — Spring 22 Community Hub
The community hub states that equipment and support are available through Hestia House, Spring Housing HQ. - Birmingham City Council planning record 2015/08278/PA
The council records Hestia House in the Handsworth Wood ward.
Edgbaston
Confidence: high
Spring’s current service page identifies City Road Young People Service as a staffed eight-room supported accommodation service in Edgbaston. Its current home-finder page also lists Edgbaston among Birmingham locations with vacancies.
- Spring Housing — Young People Services
City Road Young People Service is described as a terraced house in Edgbaston, providing eight rooms and floating support for 16- and 17-year-old care leavers. - Spring Housing — Find a Home
Edgbaston is listed among Spring’s current Birmingham vacancy locations.
Bartley Green
Confidence: high
Spring’s current home-finder identifies Bartley Green as a Birmingham location with vacancies, which is direct evidence of current housing provision rather than a general referral area.
- Spring Housing — Find a Home
Bartley Green is listed among current Birmingham vacancies; the page states that Spring provides accommodation and linked personalised support.
Bournbrook and Selly Park
Confidence: high
Spring’s current home-finder identifies Selly Park as a Birmingham vacancy location. Selly Park is directly represented by the supplied Bournbrook and Selly Park ward identifier.
- Spring Housing — Find a Home
Selly Park is listed among current Birmingham vacancies; the page describes Spring’s homes as accommodation with or without support.
Erdington
Confidence: high
Spring’s current home-finder identifies Erdington as a Birmingham vacancy location, providing direct evidence of current accommodation provision in the ward.
- Spring Housing — Find a Home
Erdington is listed among current Birmingham vacancies.
Handsworth
Confidence: high
Spring’s current home-finder lists Handsworth as a Birmingham vacancy location. Spring also delivers the Perry Barr Neighbourhood Network Scheme across Handsworth through its partnership role.
- Spring Housing — Find a Home
Handsworth is listed among current Birmingham vacancies. - Perry Barr NNS — Events
The scheme describes Spring Housing as delivery partner and states that its activities serve the Perry Barr constituency area, including Handsworth.
Soho and Jewellery Quarter
Confidence: low
Spring’s current home-finder lists Hockley as a vacancy location, but the evidence does not establish activity at ward level.
- Spring Housing — Find a Home
Hockley is listed among current Birmingham vacancies.
Bordesley and Highgate
Confidence: low
Spring’s current home-finder lists Digbeth as a vacancy location, but the evidence does not establish activity at ward level.
- Spring Housing — Find a Home
Digbeth is listed among current Birmingham vacancies.
Holyhead
Confidence: medium
The current Perry Barr NNS site identifies Spring Housing as delivery partner for a Birmingham City Council-funded neighbourhood network operating in Holyhead. This evidences operational reach through partnership and community-network delivery, rather than a Spring housing site.
- Perry Barr NNS — Events
The scheme is funded by Birmingham City Council, names Spring Housing as delivery partner, and includes Holyhead in its operating area.
Lozells
Confidence: medium
The current Perry Barr NNS site identifies Spring Housing as delivery partner for a Birmingham City Council-funded neighbourhood network operating in Lozells. The evidence concerns community-network delivery rather than accommodation provision.
- Perry Barr NNS — Events
The scheme is funded by Birmingham City Council, names Spring Housing as delivery partner, and includes Lozells in its operating area.
Aston
Confidence: medium
The current Perry Barr NNS site identifies Spring Housing as delivery partner for a Birmingham City Council-funded neighbourhood network whose stated area includes Aston. This is partnership-based operational reach.
- Perry Barr NNS — Events
The scheme is funded by Birmingham City Council, names Spring Housing as delivery partner, and includes Aston in its operating area.
Birchfield
Confidence: medium
The current Perry Barr NNS site identifies Spring Housing as delivery partner for a Birmingham City Council-funded neighbourhood network whose stated area includes Birchfield. This evidences a material partnership extension of Spring’s reach.
- Perry Barr NNS — Events
The scheme is funded by Birmingham City Council, names Spring Housing as delivery partner, and includes Birchfield in its operating area.
Perry Barr
Confidence: medium
The current Perry Barr NNS site identifies Spring Housing as delivery partner for a Birmingham City Council-funded neighbourhood network operating in Perry Barr. This is direct evidence of partnership-based activity, although not of a Spring-managed housing site in the ward.
- Perry Barr NNS — Events
The scheme is funded by Birmingham City Council, names Spring Housing as delivery partner, and includes Perry Barr in its operating area.
Stockland Green
Confidence: low
The Perry Barr NNS describes its coverage as including part of Stockland Green, with Spring Housing as delivery partner. The evidence does not identify the extent of activity within the ward or a Spring-operated site there.
- Perry Barr NNS — Events
The scheme is funded by Birmingham City Council, names Spring Housing as delivery partner, and states that its area includes part of Stockland Green.
Remaining uncertainties
- Spring’s current vacancy list establishes housing activity in named localities but does not publish the full distribution of its Birmingham stock.
- Hall Green is listed as a current vacancy location, but the supplied geography divides it between Hall Green North and Hall Green South; the available evidence does not support assigning activity to either ward.
- The evidence for Hockley and Digbeth does not establish the relevant ward.
- The Perry Barr NNS materially broadens Spring’s operational reach through community development, training, information and grants activity, but it should not be interpreted as evidence that Spring directly provides housing accommodation in every NNS ward.
- The organisation’s Birmingham footprint is multi-neighbourhood and includes both direct accommodation services and partnership delivery; however, its overall operational identity is regional because its official website states that it operates across the West Midlands and surrounding areas, from Herefordshire to Staffordshire, and its home-finder also identifies accommodation in Coventry.
Additional evidence needed
- A current Birmingham property or service-location schedule, with safeguarding-sensitive detail appropriately withheld, to confirm all wards where Spring directly manages housing or delivers floating support.
- A current annual report, impact report, or housing-stock breakdown showing the number and type of homes or support services by Birmingham locality.
- Confirmation from Spring or the Perry Barr NNS of the current contractual scope, staffing and ward coverage of Spring’s delivery-partner role.
- Ward-level confirmation for current vacancies in Hockley, Digbeth and Hall Green to assign them reliably to supplied wards.
Areas of work
- Accommodation/housing
- General Charitable Purposes
Who they help
- The General Public/mankind
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
Housing is treated as a route to independence
The available evidence suggests Spring Housing sees accommodation not as an endpoint, but as the foundation for longer-term recovery from housing need, poverty and social isolation.
Why it matters
This distinguishes the organisation from a landlord focused primarily on tenancy provision. Understanding this broader purpose helps explain why support, opportunity and confidence-building feature alongside housing.
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“To assist people on a journey away from housing need towards a future of stability, happiness and independence.”
Source:Organisation“To achieve lasting independence for individuals through tailored support, inclusive communities and innovative housing solutions.”
Source:Organisation
Its role spans both direct provision and system influence
Spring Housing may combine frontline housing and support with a wider ambition to remove barriers and influence homelessness practice within the sector.
Why it matters
This suggests its potential contribution is not limited to the people it houses; it may also seek to shape how other organisations understand or respond to homelessness.
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“To prevent homelessness by creating safe places to live, supporting strong futures, removing barriers and influencing change within the sector.”
Source:Organisation“Provides Advocacy/advice/information.”
Source:Organisation
Specialism may lie in intersecting forms of vulnerability
Although its formal beneficiary category is broad, Spring Housing appears to concentrate on groups for whom homelessness risk may be compounded by age, displacement or disability-related housing requirements.
Why it matters
This points to possible complementarity with organisations offering specialist migration, youth, disability, employment or wellbeing support, rather than housing alone.
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“We offer a range of services to support vulnerable people: The Homeless or at Risk of Homelessness, Young People Services, Refugees Services.”
Source:Organisation“Providing for persons in need thereof housing and any associated amenities especially designed or adapted to meet the disabilities and requirements of such persons.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which services are delivered directly, and which depend on partner organisations.
- How many people and properties are involved, and which localities receive the greatest focus.
- Whether its sector-influence ambition has produced identifiable collaborations or policy change.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or impact data showing housing outcomes, tenancy sustainment and beneficiary groups.
- Information on referral pathways, delivery partners, funding sources and the role of the Fred Winter Centre.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
We work to the following aims: To provide high quality accommodation for people in housing need. To prevent and reduce homelessness To assist people on a journey away from housing need towards a future of stability, happiness and independence. To create long term prosperity by investing to prevent homelessness, poverty and social isolation and to inspire and unlock peoples potential.
Charity objects
THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (‘OBJECTS’) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING: (A) TO CARRY ON FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY THE BUSINESS OF PROVIDING AND MANAGING HOUSING, INCLUDING SOCIAL HOUSING, AND ANY ASSOCIATED FACILITIES, AMENITIES AND SERVICES FOR PERSONS IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES UPON TERMS APPROPRIATE TO THEIR MEANS; AND (B) PROVIDING FOR PERSONS IN NEED THEREOF HOUSING AND ANY ASSOCIATED AMENITIES ESPECIALLY DESIGNED OR ADAPTED TO MEET THE DISABILITIES AND REQUIREMENTS OF SUCH PERSONS.