The Centre Of Light Ltd
Charity 1143516
Overview
Summary
The Centre Of Light Ltd appears to be a broad-based neighbourhood charity using accessible activities—particularly learning support, trips and sport—to improve participation and quality of life in Birmingham. Its formal objects give it a wide social-welfare remit across ages and circumstances, while its stated activity suggests a practical concentration on children and young people. It may function as a local entry point through which recreation, informal education and social connection are combined rather than delivered as separate services.
Operational geography
Coverage: Citywide
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission currently records Birmingham City as the area in which the charity operates, supporting a citywide reported footprint, but it does not identify service venues, neighbourhoods, delivery partners or the geographic reach of individual activities.
- The charity describes itself as community-based and lists homework clubs, trips and football sessions, but the available current record does not state where these activities take place or whether they are presently being delivered.
- The registered office and Charity Commission contact address should not be treated as a confirmed operational site: the Charity Commission also records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.
- The financial return for the year ended 31 December 2024 records £0 income and £0 expenditure. This creates material uncertainty about the scale and continuity of current delivery, despite the charity remaining registered and the company remaining active.
- No evidence was found of partnerships that currently extend the organisation's operational reach within Birmingham.
Additional evidence needed
- A current programme, timetable, annual report or impact report identifying the venues and wards where homework clubs, trips and football sessions are delivered.
- Confirmation from the organisation of whether the registered office is used for service delivery, administration only, or correspondence only.
- Details of any current venue-hosting, school, sports-club, community-centre or other delivery partnerships.
- A current activity or financial update clarifying whether services resumed or continued after the zero-income and zero-expenditure financial year ending 31 December 2024.
Areas of work
- Amateur Sport
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Other Charitable Purposes
- Recreation
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Other Defined Groups
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A youth-facing delivery model within a wider welfare remit
The charity appears to have broad authority to serve the public and people facing disadvantage, but its described delivery is currently oriented toward children and young people through homework clubs, trips and football.
Why it matters
This distinction helps separate the organisation's potential role from its apparent operational focus. It may be able to respond flexibly to wider community needs, while currently serving as a youth-development organisation.
Show evidence
“We run educational classes such as Homework clubs, educational and leisure trips, and sporting activities such as football sessions.”
Source:Organisation“The charity helps children/young people, other defined groups and the general public.”
Source:Charity Commission
Recreation is being used as a route into development
Sport and leisure appear to be more than standalone activities: alongside homework support and educational trips, they may provide a practical route to confidence, skills and social participation.
Why it matters
This suggests the organisation's distinctive contribution may lie in combining engagement activities with developmental aims, potentially reaching people who would not engage through formal education alone.
Show evidence
“We run educational classes such as Homework clubs, educational and leisure trips, and sporting activities such as football sessions.”
Source:Organisation“The charity's objects include providing support and activities which develop young people's skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as mature and responsible individuals.”
Source:Charity Commission
Potentially a community-space and connection hub
Because the charity reports providing buildings, facilities or open space as well as services and advice, it may play a convening role in addition to running activities.
Why it matters
If so, its value may include providing local infrastructure through which residents, families and partner organisations can connect—not only delivering individual sessions.
Show evidence
“The charity provides buildings, facilities or open space, services, and advocacy, advice or information.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity promotes facilities for recreation or leisure-time occupation in Birmingham and the surrounding area.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which neighbourhoods, communities and age groups are reached in practice.
- Whether the charity owns, manages or merely uses community facilities.
- Its partnerships, referral routes, scale of delivery and outcomes.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual report or activity data showing participant numbers, locations and services.
- Information on premises, staff, volunteers, partners and the experiences of beneficiaries.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
We are a community based charity. We run educational classes such as Homework clubs. We also run educational (and leisure) trips As well as sporting activities such as football sessions.
Charity objects
1) TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF BIRMINGHAM AND THE SURROUNDING AREA THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS. 2) TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND HELP YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH: (A) THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES PROVIDED IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE, DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE; (B) PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS. 3) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL CLASSES AND TRIPS. 4) FOR ANY OTHER SUCH PURPOSES DEEMED CHARITABLE BY THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE."