Staffordshire Pathway Project
Charity 1005976
Overview
Summary
Staffordshire Pathway Project appears to be a specialist domestic and sexual abuse organisation whose role extends beyond crisis accommodation into a connected pathway of safety, recovery and longer-term support. Its combination of refuges, outreach, children’s work, counselling, group programmes and training suggests an operating model designed to respond to abuse as a family and community issue, rather than solely an emergency housing need. Its public positioning is locally rooted while its confidential refuges may serve a wider Midlands geography.
Operational geography
Coverage: Regional
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct evidence indicates that Pathway Project is based in Lichfield and Tamworth and that its specialist domestic-abuse referrals are for people in the Lichfield or Tamworth area. No supplied or officially published evidence identifies a current service, office, outreach base, contract or delivery location within Birmingham.
- The organisation states that it has two refuges in confidential locations across two areas of the Midlands. This supports a wider-than-local operational footprint, but the locations are deliberately withheld for safeguarding; it would be inappropriate to infer that either refuge is in Birmingham.
- Pathway Project delivers the Staffordshire Sexual Abuse and Assault Service/Survive service with Staffordshire Women's Aid across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent. This partnership materially extends part of its service reach beyond Lichfield and Tamworth, but does not provide evidence of delivery within Birmingham.
- The regional coverage classification is a reasonable interpretation of its Staffordshire-wide partnership service and Midlands refuge provision. Its principal operational identity nevertheless appears centred on Lichfield and Tamworth rather than Birmingham.
Additional evidence needed
- A current Pathway Project service specification, annual report or commissioned-service list explicitly naming Birmingham as a service area or publicly named service venue.
- Confirmation from Pathway Project or a commissioning partner that it currently delivers outreach, counselling, groups, advocacy or accommodation-based support within Birmingham.
- Safeguarding-appropriate confirmation of whether Pathway Project provides refuge accommodation in Birmingham, without identifying any location.
Areas of work
- Accommodation/housing
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Other Defined Groups
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A pathway rather than a single intervention
The available evidence suggests the organisation is structured to support people at multiple stages: immediate safety, practical stabilisation, emotional recovery and longer-term rebuilding.
Why it matters
This helps explain its likely value as connective infrastructure in the domestic-abuse system: people may remain supported as their needs change, rather than being referred between narrowly defined services.
Show evidence
“Services include a 24-hour helpline, refuge, outreach, children’s services, groups, counselling and educational workshops.”
Source:Organisation“Activities include refuge accommodation, drop-in, floating support, children’s services, counselling, parenting, group work and training.”
Source:Charity Commission
Children are embedded in its response, not treated as peripheral
The organisation appears to understand domestic abuse as affecting both adults and children, with dedicated children’s and parenting support alongside services for adults.
Why it matters
This distinguishes a family-aware model from one focused only on the adult survivor. It may make the organisation an important partner for schools, family services and safeguarding networks.
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“The charity helps children/young people and other defined groups.”
Source:Charity Commission“Activities include children’s services and parenting services.”
Source:Charity Commission
A locally visible service with intentionally hidden safety infrastructure
Its public identity is rooted in Lichfield, Tamworth and Staffordshire, while refuge provision depends on confidential locations. This indicates a dual role: accessible local contact point and protected crisis accommodation provider.
Why it matters
This tension is central to understanding its relationships: effective partnership working may require high local visibility, while survivor safety limits what can be publicly known about part of its operational footprint.
Show evidence
“The organisation is based in Lichfield & Tamworth, Staffordshire.”
Source:Organisation“It runs two refuges in confidential locations in the Midlands.”
Source:Organisation
- Which communities, demographics and localities are most represented among service users.
- How referrals, safeguarding partnerships and move-on housing arrangements operate.
- Whether sexual-abuse support is delivered directly across all services or primarily through referral partnerships.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or impact data showing service demand, outcomes, referral sources and unmet need.
- Information on formal partnerships with local authorities, housing providers, health services, schools and specialist survivor-led organisations.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Domestic violence service provision including women's refuge accommodation, drop in centre, floating support services, children's services, counselling service, parenting service, group work and training provision.
Charity objects
3. The Object The Object (the Object) of the Charity shall be: 3.1 To relieve the physical, mental, emotional, social, financial and sexual distress among adults of all ages and/or their children, who have been maltreated or controlled by their partners, family members or persons with whom they were living or having a relationship with, or had made acquaintance of, specialising in gender-based abuse against women and girls.