Stockfield Community Association
Charity 1003108
Overview
Summary
Stockfield Community Association appears to be a place-based housing-and-community institution rather than a conventional community association. Its role combines stewardship of 121 homes, estate-level advocacy and resident-facing community activity, with an explicit ambition for a self-supporting, safe and pleasant neighbourhood. The available evidence suggests that housing is not merely one service among many: it is the organisation’s practical anchor for building relationships, addressing living conditions and convening residents around the Stockfield estate.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Acocks Green
Confidence: high
The association's core housing, resident engagement and community-event activity is explicitly centred on the Stockfield Estate, which its own material and Birmingham City Council planning records locate in Acocks Green. It also uses Arthur Moore Hall, Acocks Green, for community events.
- Stockfield Community Association website, About
The association says it owns and manages 121 properties on the Stockfield Estate in Birmingham and works with estate residents and the wider community. - Charity Commission register, charity 1003108
For the year ending 31 December 2024, the charity reported providing affordable social housing, community projects, events and links with service providers for the Stockfield Estate community. - Birmingham City Council planning record, 1994/05193/PA
The council's planning record identifies the site as Stockfield Estate, Acocks Green, with ward recorded as Acocks Green. - Stockfield Community Association website, 2024 and 2025 event notices
The association advertised community events at Arthur Moore Hall; Birmingham City Council identifies this venue as being in Acocks Green.
Tyseley and Hay Mills
Confidence: medium
A Stockfield newsletter states that the whole Stockfield Estate falls within the combined area of Acocks Green and Tyseley & Hay Mills wards. This reasonably indicates that its estate-based activity crosses the present ward boundary, but the available evidence does not identify which of the 121 properties or activities lie in Tyseley and Hay Mills.
- Stockfield Community Association, Stockfield Village News newsletter, December 2024
The newsletter states that Acocks Greener covers Acocks Green and Tyseley & Hay Mills wards and that these wards include all of the Stockfield Estate. - Stockfield Community Association website, About
The association identifies ownership and management of 121 properties on the Stockfield Estate as its central operational activity.
Remaining uncertainties
- The evidence does not provide a current property-by-property map or estate boundary, so the exact extent of Stockfield Community Association's housing and community activity within Tyseley and Hay Mills cannot be confirmed.
- Arthur Moore Hall is a venue used for association events, rather than evidence that it is owned or permanently operated by Stockfield Community Association.
- The association works with Bromford for day-to-day housing management, West Midland Housing for repairs and maintenance, and community delivery partners including FITCAP and Birmingham PlayCare Network. Available evidence indicates these partnerships support activity on or around the Stockfield Estate, rather than creating a separate district-wide or citywide service footprint.
- The Charity Commission records Birmingham City as the charity's operating area, but its current activities and website evidence support a neighbourhood-based operational identity rather than routine citywide delivery.
Additional evidence needed
- A current map or schedule of the association's 121 owned properties and estate boundary, matched to current Birmingham ward boundaries.
- The latest trustees' annual report or operational/impact report describing the locations and scale of community programmes delivered after 31 December 2024.
- Current partnership agreements or delivery reports showing whether Bromford, West Midland Housing, FITCAP, Birmingham PlayCare Network or the multi-agency group deliver Stockfield-funded activity beyond the Stockfield Estate.
Areas of work
- Accommodation/housing
- Disability
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- General Charitable Purposes
- Recreation
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- Other Defined Groups
- People With Disabilities
How they help
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
Housing appears to be the platform for wider community change
The association appears to use its position as a landlord to support broader social and community aims, rather than treating tenancy management and community development as separate functions.
Why it matters
This helps explain its distinctive leverage: regular contact with residents and responsibility for homes may enable it to identify needs, build trust and connect practical housing issues with wider improvements in wellbeing and participation.
Show evidence
“We own and manage 121 properties on the Stockfield estate in Birmingham, England.”
Source:Organisation“Our mission is to work with the residents of the Stockfield estate to achieve a self-supporting community living in high-quality houses in a pleasant and safe environment.”
Source:Organisation“Providing well managed and maintained affordable social housing for rent and working with the Birmingham City Council to ensure the Stockfield Estate is well maintained.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its operating model is unusually estate-specific
The association appears to be organised around the social fabric and physical condition of one named estate, while retaining charitable objects broad enough to work across Birmingham.
Why it matters
This suggests a potentially deep local role: its effectiveness may depend less on delivering generic programmes and more on sustained knowledge of a bounded community, its homes and its relationships.
Show evidence
“We engage with all the residents of the Stockfield estate and with the wider community.”
Source:Organisation“Working to the benefit of the Stockfield Estate Community by engaging in community projects, organising events and building links with service providers.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity's objects include promoting the benefit of inhabitants of Stockfield and its neighbourhood in Birmingham.”
Source:Charity Commission
The association may be a connector as well as a provider
Its emphasis on events, service-provider links and inclusive resident engagement suggests that it may create value by connecting people and organisations, not only by directly providing housing and facilities.
Why it matters
If this role is active in practice, the association could be an important local bridge between residents, public services and voluntary-sector partners—especially for people whose needs span housing, poverty, disability, education and social participation.
Show evidence
“Organising events and building links with service providers.”
Source:Charity Commission“Dessert and Dance 2026 is a free evening of desserts, dance styles, darts and social activity.”
Source:Organisation“The charity helps children and young people, elderly people, people with disabilities and other defined groups.”
Source:Charity Commission
- It is unclear how residents influence governance, priorities or decisions affecting the estate.
- The evidence does not show which service providers are linked, how frequently partnerships operate or what outcomes they achieve.
- It is unclear how responsibilities are divided between the association, Birmingham City Council and Bromford in housing management.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, impact data and resident feedback showing outcomes beyond tenancy management.
- Governance information, partner lists and agreements clarifying resident representation and cross-sector relationships.
- A current description of the housing-management arrangement involving Bromford and the association.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Providing well managed and maintained affordable social housing for rent and working with the Birmingham City Council to ensure the Stockfield Estate is well maintained. Working to the benefit of the Stockfield Estate Community by engaging in community projects, organising events and building links with service providers. Improving education and standards of living on the Stockfield Estate.
Charity objects
(A) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF STOCKFIELD AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD IN THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SHOWN DELINEATED WITH A THICK BLACK LINE ON THE PLAN ATTACHED HERETO (OR SUCH LARGER OR SMALLER AREA WITHIN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT WARD OF ACOCKS GREEN AS DEFINED BY THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM (ELECTORAL ARRANGEMENTS) ORDER 1980 OR ANY STATUTORY RE-ENACTMENT OR MODIFICATION THEREOF AS THE COMPANY IN GENERAL MEETING MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE) WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SAID INHABITANTS AND VARIOUS OTHER PERSONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS; (B) TO CARRY ON FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM THE BUSINESS OF PROVIDING HOUSING AND ANY ASSOCIATED AMENITIES FOR PERSONS IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES UPON TERMS APPROPRIATE TO THEIR MEANS; (C) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE RELIEF OF PROPERTY.