Talent Engaged Academy
Charity 1158559
Overview
Summary
Talent Engaged Academy appears to occupy a focused role in educational access: providing tuition support across the school years while explicitly directing free provision towards people experiencing financial hardship. Its combination of 11-plus preparation and support through A-level suggests an organisation working both at key selection points and on longer-term educational progression. The stated equality remit may indicate that academic support is also understood as a route to reducing unequal opportunity, although the available evidence does not show how this is put into practice.
Operational geography
Coverage: Regional
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission register identifies Birmingham City as an area where the charity operates, but gives no Birmingham service venue, ward, neighbourhood or City Centre location. No supplied Birmingham area identifier can therefore be evidenced.
- The latest trustees' report confirms continuing tuition activity and substantial building-rent expenditure, but does not identify the building or say whether it is in Birmingham, Solihull, London or elsewhere.
- The charity's correspondence address should not be treated as a Birmingham operational site.
- No authoritative evidence was found of Birmingham-based delivery partners or partnerships that extend the charity's reach within particular wards.
- The report refers to classes having moved online 'due to the pandemic'; this wording may be retained from an earlier period and does not reliably establish the charity's current balance of online versus in-person delivery.
Additional evidence needed
- A current timetable, enrolment page, venue list or service-location statement identifying where Birmingham tuition is delivered.
- Confirmation from the charity of the ward or broader area of any Birmingham teaching site or leased building.
- Current information on whether Birmingham provision is delivered directly, online, or through schools, community venues or other partners.
- Names and locations of any material Birmingham delivery partners.
Areas of work
- Education/training
- Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Who they help
- Children/young People
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
Educational support is framed as an access issue
The organisation appears to treat tuition not only as academic enrichment but as a means of widening access for families whose financial circumstances could otherwise limit educational support.
Why it matters
This distinguishes the organisation from a conventional private tutoring provider and suggests that affordability is central to its civic role.
Show evidence
“The charity's objects include providing free educational courses to people in financial hardship.”
Source:Charity Commission“The organisation runs after school tuition classes.”
Source:Organisation
It may support both educational gateways and sustained progression
By offering 11-plus preparation alongside support from primary school to A-level, the organisation appears positioned to help young people at a selective transition point as well as through continuing academic needs.
Why it matters
This suggests a broader progression model than a narrowly exam-focused service, potentially allowing relationships with learners to continue across several stages of education.
Show evidence
“The organisation runs tuition classes for students taking 11 plus exams.”
Source:Organisation“The organisation supports students with primary and secondary school education up to A level standard.”
Source:Organisation
Equality is part of the stated mission, but its operational meaning is unclear
The organisation may see educational support as connected to equality, racial harmony or diversity; however, the available evidence does not identify specific communities, barriers or approaches.
Why it matters
This is a potentially important strategic dimension, but clarifying it would show whether the organisation addresses particular local inequities or uses a broadly inclusive model.
Show evidence
“The charity is classified under human rights, religious or racial harmony, equality or diversity.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps children and young people.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which young people receive free or subsidised support, and how financial hardship is identified.
- Whether the organisation works with schools, families, community groups or other education providers.
- How equality and diversity objectives shape recruitment, curriculum or outreach.
Remaining uncertainties
- Information on learner numbers, locations, fees, eligibility and outcomes.
- Evidence of referral routes, delivery partners and the communities reached.
- Examples of how the organisation addresses educational inequality or diversity in practice.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
The organisation runs after school tuition classes for students taking 11 plus exams as well as for students requiring support with primary and secondary school education up to A level standard.
Charity objects
THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF PERSONS LIVING IN THE BOROUGH OF BRENT, EALING AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE PROVISION OF FREE EDUCATIONAL COURSES TO PEOPLE WHO ARE IN FINANCIAL HARDSHIP