St Bedes Community Project
Charity 1025348
Overview
Summary
St Bedes Community Project appears to function primarily as shared civic infrastructure rather than as a narrowly defined service provider. Its role combines maintaining a community venue with enabling multiple local agencies to meet, exchange information and engage with public bodies. Although it identifies children and young people, older people and disabled people as beneficiaries, the available evidence suggests its potential impact may extend through the organisations and networks it hosts and represents.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Brandwood and Kings Heath
Confidence: low
Available evidence does not directly confirm that the charity delivers services in this ward. Its stated activity is to provide community facilities and establish a community centre for an unspecified local 'area of benefit'. Its latest recorded financial year reports zero income and expenditure.
- Supplied organisation / Charity Commission record
St Bedes Community Project is registered in Birmingham. Its recorded activities are to provide facilities and equipment for community use, facilitate networking and information sharing for similar local agencies, and establish a community centre for an 'area of benefit'. - Birmingham City Council, Notice of Poll and List of Polling Stations
The current council election notice lists St Bede's Church Hall as a polling-station venue, corroborating that a St Bede's community-capable venue exists locally. - Charity Commission register search result
The charity remains registered and its latest recorded reporting shows £0 income, with the return received on time.
Remaining uncertainties
- There is no accessible current organisational website, annual report, programme listing or venue timetable confirming that St Bedes Community Project is actively delivering services at a specific site or at St Bede's Church Hall.
- The registered address may be a correspondence or trustee address rather than a site operated by the charity. The evidence establishes proximity to St Bede's Church Hall but does not prove that the charity manages, owns or uses that hall.
- The reported zero income and expenditure for the financial year ending 31 March 2025 leaves current operational activity uncertain.
- No evidence was found of current delivery in other Birmingham wards, of service locations beyond the local area, or of partnerships that materially extend the charity's reach.
- The evidence supports a neighbourhood-oriented charitable identity rather than district-wide or citywide delivery, but does not establish the precise boundary of the intended 'area of benefit'.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual report, trustees' report or Charity Commission filing describing live activities, beneficiaries and service locations.
- A current venue-hire, programme or events listing explicitly linking St Bedes Community Project to St Bede's Church Hall or another operational site.
- Confirmation from the charity or the venue operator of whether its registered address is an active delivery site, a managed community facility, or correspondence-only.
- Current information on funded projects, delivery partners and the geographical areas in which those activities take place.
Areas of work
- General Charitable Purposes
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
How they help
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A community hub with a convening role
The project appears to use its facilities not only for direct community access, but also to bring agencies together through conferences, networking and shared information. This may make it an intermediary within the local voluntary sector.
Why it matters
Understanding it as a convenor helps distinguish the project from a venue that simply hires out space. Its value may lie partly in strengthening coordination among other organisations.
Show evidence
“To establish a community centre.”
Source:Charity Commission“To falcilitate confrences networking and be information resource for all similar agencies in the area.”
Source:Organisation
Access appears to be the organising principle
The project appears designed around accessible shared provision for groups who can face exclusion from ordinary community spaces, particularly younger, older and disabled people.
Why it matters
This suggests the building may be more than a general-purpose asset: its facilities and equipment could be an enabling layer that allows other activities and agencies to include people otherwise overlooked.
Show evidence
“To provide facilities and equipment for community use.”
Source:Organisation“To provide facilities for young disabled and elderly.”
Source:Organisation
The project may bridge voluntary and public-sector decision-making
Its stated intention to represent agencies on local authority and voluntary-sector bodies suggests a possible advocacy or coordination function beyond operating a community centre.
Why it matters
If active, this role could give local agencies a collective voice and connect practical community needs with institutional decision-making.
Show evidence
“To represent these agancies on Local Authority bodies and other volentary agencies.”
Source:Organisation“To promote the benefit of the inhabitants of the area of benefit by associating together the inhabitants and the local authorities, voluntary and other organisations.”
Source:Charity Commission
- It is unclear whether the project directly delivers activities or mainly enables other organisations through space, equipment and coordination.
- There is no evidence about its geographic area of benefit, current partners, scale of use or whether all named beneficiary groups are actively reached.
- It is unknown whether its representation role remains active and whose interests it represents.
Remaining uncertainties
- A current programme, timetable or annual report showing users, activities, partner organisations and facility use.
- Evidence of accessibility provision and feedback from children, older people and disabled people.
- Details of local authority or voluntary-sector bodies on which the project or associated agencies are represented.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
To provide facilities and equipment for community use. To provide facilities for young disabled and elderly.To falcilitate confrences networking and be information resource for all similar agencies in the area.To represent these agancies on Local Authority bodies and other volentary agencies.
Charity objects
(1) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE INHABITANTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATIONS (2) TO ESTABLISH A COMMUNITY CENTRE