Stonehouse Gang
Charity 522888
Overview
Summary
Stonehouse Gang appears to be a long-established, place-based youth organisation whose role extends beyond youth provision. Its core offer combines a local building, structured developmental activities and access to outdoor residential experiences, while its premises also appear to connect younger people with older residents and new mothers. This suggests an organisation using youth work as its anchor while functioning as a modest intergenerational community asset in South and West Birmingham.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Weoley and Selly Oak
Confidence: high
Direct evidence establishes an active clubhouse and recurring 2025/26 programme in Selly Oak. Birmingham City Council places the Stonehouse Gang venue within the Weoley & Selly Oak ward polling-district section.
- Stonehouse Gang website, Club programme (2025/2026)
The organisation publishes a current 2025/2026 programme of weekday youth clubs, play-and-stay sessions, an over-50s club and Duke of Edinburgh sessions, with its contact address given as The Stonehouse Gang clubhouse in Selly Oak, Birmingham. - Stonehouse Gang website, About us
The organisation identifies its Birmingham clubhouse as a core activity base, stating that its club-night programme is the core of its activity and that it provides daytime holiday activities and community sessions from the clubhouse. - Birmingham City Council, Notice of Poll and Persons Nominated (2026)
The council lists The Stonehouse Gang as a polling station within the Weoley & Selly Oak ward polling-district section.
Remaining uncertainties
- The organisation says its doors are open to older residents of South and West Birmingham, but the available evidence does not identify additional Birmingham delivery venues, regular outreach locations or the specific wards from which those users travel.
- The Charity Commission records Birmingham City as the charity's area of operation, but this is a broad registered-return category and does not by itself demonstrate citywide delivery.
- The organisation operates Ty Carreg, an adventure residential centre in Wales. This materially supports activities for its Birmingham users but is outside Birmingham and does not evidence an additional Birmingham operational area.
- The available evidence does not identify any current partnership that delivers Stonehouse Gang services from another Birmingham location or materially extends its operational footprint within the city.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual report, impact report or service monitoring data showing participants' home areas and any regular off-site delivery locations.
- A current list of delivery partners, schools, venues or referral arrangements, including whether activities are delivered at partner premises.
- Confirmation from the organisation of whether its South and West Birmingham reference describes a beneficiary catchment only or regular services delivered across those areas.
Areas of work
- General Charitable Purposes
Who they help
- Children/young People
How they help
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A youth organisation with a wider community-facing role
Although its charitable purpose and stated activities focus on children and young people, the organisation appears to use its local base to welcome older residents and new mothers as well. This may indicate that it sees youth development as connected to wider community relationships rather than as a separate service.
Why it matters
This helps explain Stonehouse Gang as more than a specialist youth provider: its building may be an important shared civic asset and a potential bridge between groups that are often served separately.
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“Provides facilities and activities for children and young people aged 6-25.”
Source:Charity Commission“We also open our doors to older residents of South and West Birmingham, as well as new mums.”
Source:Organisation
The organisation combines local continuity with outward-looking development
Stonehouse Gang appears to offer development through both a neighbourhood base and residential outdoor experiences. Its Duke of Edinburgh provision and Ty Carreg centre may create progression routes from local participation into skills, volunteering, expeditions and unfamiliar environments.
Why it matters
This combination distinguishes a venue-based youth club from an organisation able to connect everyday local support with broader confidence-building opportunities.
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“Ty Carreg is the Stonehouse Gang's adventure residential centre.”
Source:Organisation“The Duke of Edinburgh Awards have inspired the lives of millions of young people from all walks of life.”
Source:Organisation“The Stonehouse Gang was founded in 1938.”
Source:Organisation
Physical assets may be central to its operating model
The organisation appears to rely on distinctive physical infrastructure: a Birmingham community base and an adventure residential centre in Wales. Its ability to share Ty Carreg with other organisations or families suggests that these assets may support relationships and activity beyond its own direct programmes.
Why it matters
Understanding these assets is important because they may be the organisation's main source of distinctive capacity, partnership potential and financial resilience, as well as a source of maintenance risk.
Show evidence
“Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space.”
Source:Charity Commission“Ty Carreg is the Stonehouse Gang's adventure residential centre.”
Source:Organisation“We love nothing more than sharing the centre with other organisations or families.”
Source:Organisation
- Which communities and age groups use the organisation most, and whether access is equitable across South and West Birmingham.
- How its building, residential centre and Duke of Edinburgh offer are funded and connected in practice.
- Whether the temporary club closure announced in April 2025 affected current delivery or reflects building-related pressures.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, accounts and impact data showing participant numbers, demographics, programme reach and income sources.
- Programme timetables, partnership records and information about use of the Birmingham site and Ty Carreg by external groups.
- Evidence on the reason, duration and consequences of the April 2025 temporary club closure.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
provide facilities and activities for children and young people aged 6-25.
Charity objects
TO HELP AND EDUCATE BOYS AND GIRLS THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 2 OF THE CONSTITUTION.)