The Haven Community Project
Charity 1138686
Overview
Summary
The Haven Community Project appears to function as a neighbourhood-based bridge between everyday community participation and longer-term social mobility in Welsh House Farm. Its small community centre is not presented simply as a venue: it appears to be the delivery platform through which children, families and unemployed residents can access social connection, informal support, recreation and routes toward work. Its broad charitable objects suggest an intentionally flexible response to local circumstances rather than a narrowly defined specialist service.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Quinton
Confidence: high
Direct evidence in the charity's latest available trustees' report identifies two active delivery bases: 'the Haven' and 'the Hub' in Quinton. The report records regular food, advice, café, youth, children’s, Stay and Play, women’s and over-50s activity from these bases during 2024/25. This supports an interpretation that the charity is operationally rooted in the Quinton/Welsh House Farm neighbourhood rather than operating a distributed citywide service.
- The Haven Community Project, Trustees' Report and Financial Statements, year ended 31 March 2025
The report states that activities during 2024/25 were run 'from our two bases – the Haven and the Hub' in Quinton. It records food pantry, community café, Warm Welcome, youth sessions, summer activities, Stay and Play, a women's group, one-to-one support and an over-50s café. - The Haven Community Project, Trustees' Report and Financial Statements, year ended 31 March 2025
The report describes support for 'local residents' and 'locals', and states that its summer and youth programmes supported local children and young people. - Birmingham City Council, Welsh House Farm CCC directory entry
The directory lists 'The Haven Community Project' in the Welsh House Farm area, corroborating a Haven site in that area.
Remaining uncertainties
- The latest available operational report covers the year ended 31 March 2025. It does not confirm whether the food pantry and all Hub-based Warm Welcome provision continued after the pantry closed in October 2024, or whether both bases remained in use after March 2025.
- The trustees' report names the Haven but does not give its full address. The Birmingham City Council directory corroborates a Welsh House Farm location, but does not independently describe the full range of Haven Community Project services there.
- The report records links with Birmingham City Council, Citizens Advice Bureau, Harborne Parish Lands and citywide Warm Welcome networks. These appear to support referral, advice or discoverability at the Quinton bases; the evidence does not show that they create regular delivery sites outside Quinton.
- The charity's objects refer to Birmingham and surrounding areas, but this is constitutional scope rather than direct evidence of current delivery beyond the Welsh House Farm/Quinton area.
Additional evidence needed
- A current programme timetable, annual report or official update dated after 31 March 2025 confirming which services remain active and at which of the Haven and Hub sites.
- An official service description for the Haven base, including confirmation that it remains a current operational location.
- Evidence of any recurring delivery, commissioned work or partner-hosted provision outside Quinton, if the organisation considers its present footprint wider than the neighbourhood.
Areas of work
- Amateur Sport
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A community-centre model linking immediate support to longer-term opportunity
The organisation appears to combine low-threshold activities, such as community lunches and play sessions, with mentoring, education and return-to-work support. This may allow residents to encounter more intensive help through ordinary neighbourhood participation.
Why it matters
This suggests the centre may be valuable not only for individual activities, but as a trusted local pathway between social connection, family support and economic opportunity.
Show evidence
“We run a small community centre in Welsh House Farm, Quinton, Birmingham.”
Source:Organisation“We offer after school clubs, community lunches, youth activities a play and stay and education/ mentoring/ support around returning to work.”
Source:Organisation
Broad remit may be a deliberate form of local responsiveness
Its objects span youth development, substance-misuse education, crime prevention, unemployment, recreation and other charitable purposes. This breadth may indicate an organisation designed to respond to interconnected local needs rather than treat them as separate issues.
Why it matters
Understanding this flexibility helps distinguish the project from a single-purpose youth, employment or recreation provider, and suggests potential value as a local connector.
Show evidence
“The charity's objects include youth development, education about alcohol, drug and solvent abuse, crime prevention, training and work experience for unemployed people, and recreational opportunities.”
Source:Charity Commission“The objects particularly, but not exclusively, refer to the Welsh House Farm Estate in Birmingham.”
Source:Charity Commission
Children and young people are central, but the operating model appears intergenerational
Although children and young people are named beneficiaries, community lunches, play-and-stay provision and employment support suggest that the organisation may work through families and the wider neighbourhood as well.
Why it matters
This may make the project relevant to organisations working with parents, carers, unemployed adults and community cohesion, not only youth services.
Show evidence
“The charity helps children/young people and the general public.”
Source:Charity Commission“We offer community lunches, a play and stay and support around returning to work.”
Source:Organisation
- Whether the crime-prevention and substance-misuse elements of the charitable objects are currently active services.
- Which residents use the centre, how often they engage, and whether services reach groups facing the greatest exclusion.
- Whether the project works formally with schools, employers, health services or other local organisations.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or service data showing participation, outcomes and current programme priorities.
- Information on referral routes, partnerships, volunteer capacity and the experiences of local residents using the centre.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
We run a small community centre in Welsh House Farm, Quinton, Birmingham. We offer after school clubs, community lunches, youth activities a play and stay and education/ mentoring/ support around returning to work.
Charity objects
TO PROMOTE OR SUPPORT ACTIVITIES WHICH ENCOURAGE THE PHYSICAL, MENTAL, EMOTIONAL, SOCIAL, MORAL AND SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE; TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN ALL MATTERS RELATING TO ALCOHOL, DRUG AND SOLVENT ABUSE (AND THE CONSEQUENT EFFECTS OF SUCH ABUSE) AND TO THE EFFECTS OF CRIME GENERALLY; TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT A SAFER AND INCREASED QUALITY OF LIFE THROUGH THE PREVENTION OF CRIME AND THE PROTECTION OF PEOPLE AND PROPERTY FROM CRIMINAL ACTS; THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, TRAINING AMONG THE UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE PROVIDING ASSISTANCE AND WORK EXPERIENCE; THE PROVISION OR ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR THOSE WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES; AND THE PROMOTION OF ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE AMONGST THE INHABITANTS OF THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM AND SURROUNDING AREAS AND PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE WELSH HOUSE FARM ESTATE IN BIRMINGHAM.