The Pump (East Birmingham) Ltd
Charity 1134459
Overview
Summary
The Pump appears to be a place-based youth-development hub whose role extends beyond delivering individual activities. It combines a physical venue, practical learning, youth work and access to multiple providers around a broad transition into adult life: skills, employment, inclusion, wellbeing and participation. Its unusually wide charitable remit suggests capacity to respond to interconnected barriers, while its published outcomes indicate that regular attendance, food provision and volunteering are meaningful parts of its operating model—not incidental additions.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Glebe Farm and Tile Cross
Confidence: high
The Pump’s own website describes the organisation as housed in a purpose-built project building. Birmingham City Council identifies The Pump as a venue in Glebe Farm & Tile Cross ward. Current youth sessions, facilities and partner/tenant provision are presented as operating from The Pump.
- The Pump official website — Who We Are
States that The Pump is housed in a purpose-built project building; it describes the organisation as a youth-work hub working with partners. - Birmingham City Council — The Pump directory entry
Lists The Pump with current opening hours and youth and family support services for East Birmingham. - Birmingham City Council — Councillor Marje Bridle page
Identifies The Pump as a venue in Glebe Farm & Tile Cross ward. - The Pump official website — What's on / Our Tenants
Lists current youth activities and a range of tenant organisations, including Birmingham Children's Trust Early Help, IntoUniversity and Birmingham Careers Service, operating through the building. - Trustees' report and financial statements for year ended 30 September 2025
Reports that the charity leases and operates the centre, retained full occupancy of rentable space, expanded use of its Creative Spaces by schools and alternative provisions, and developed partnership working including Early Help.
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct evidence strongly supports one physical operational hub in Glebe Farm & Tile Cross, but does not identify regular Pump-run delivery sites in other Birmingham wards.
- The organisation and Birmingham City Council describe its service reach as East Birmingham. This supports a district-scale operational identity and catchment, but the available evidence does not define the geographic boundary of 'East Birmingham' or show the ward-level origins of service users.
- Partners and tenants materially broaden the range of support available at the hub. The evidence does not establish that all tenant organisations are formally commissioned delivery partners of The Pump, or that their work should be treated as Pump delivery beyond the shared site.
- The 2025 trustees' report refers to visiting schools and alternative provisions using the centre, rather than Pump staff delivering services at those schools or provisions.
Additional evidence needed
- A current service or impact report showing beneficiary areas, referral origins or outreach locations, to test and define the practical East Birmingham catchment.
- A current programme timetable or partnership agreement identifying any regular off-site delivery venues and the wards in which they operate.
- Clarification from The Pump on which tenant organisations are active delivery partners, the services jointly delivered, and whether these operate solely from the hub.
Areas of work
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
Who they help
- Children/young People
How they help
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A hub model rather than a single-service charity
The available evidence suggests The Pump positions itself as shared local infrastructure for youth support, combining its own activity with an integrated network of service providers.
Why it matters
This changes how the organisation should be understood: its potential value may lie partly in connecting young people to support and enabling other providers to work from a trusted, accessible base.
Show evidence
“The Pump is an integrated hub of service providers supporting young people's development.”
Source:Organisation“The charity helps by providing buildings, facilities or open space, advocacy, advice and information, and acting as an umbrella or resource body.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its strategy treats youth transitions as interconnected
The Pump appears to address employment, education, social inclusion, physical and emotional needs, recreation and childcare as related rather than separate issues.
Why it matters
This broad remit may allow the organisation to support young people whose barriers do not fit neatly into one service category, particularly where exclusion is shaped by several disadvantages at once.
Show evidence
“The objects include education, employment support, social inclusion, recreational activity, addiction-related counselling and support, public health facilities and childcare.”
Source:Charity Commission“The organisation focuses on skills, employment and training.”
Source:Organisation
Participation may be designed as both support and contribution
Reported attendance, meals and volunteering suggest The Pump may use a welcoming youth-club offer to build sustained engagement, alongside opportunities for young people to contribute through volunteering.
Why it matters
This may indicate a progression model: practical support and safe participation can create a foundation for skills, responsibility and positive outcomes, rather than being separate strands of work.
Show evidence
“The website reports 3,386 young people's attendances and 2,120 meals provided between 1 October 2025 and 31 March 2026.”
Source:Organisation“The website reports 992 hours volunteered by young people between 1 October 2024 and 30 September 2025.”
Source:Organisation
- Which external providers operate through the hub and how relationships are organised.
- Whether the broad charitable objects reflect current delivery, referral pathways or future capacity.
- Who is least well reached within East Birmingham, including young people absent from the organisation's published measures.
Remaining uncertainties
- A current service map showing direct provision, partner provision, referral routes and target groups.
- Outcome data showing what the recorded positive outcomes measure and how they vary by programme or participant.
- Evidence of local need, participant voice and geographic reach beyond the Kitts Green site.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
The Pump (East Birmingham) Ltd is an intergrated hub of service providers working to support the development of young people with a focus on skills, employment and training.
Charity objects
1 TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE UP TO THE AGE OF 25 LIVING IN THE EAST BIRMINGHAM AREA BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE (ESPECIALLY OF THE TYPES SET OUT BELOW) AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF PHYSICAL, EDUCATIONAL, CULTURAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF: A ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS B PROMOTING SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING YOUNG PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY (FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE 'SOCIALLY EXCLUDED' MEANS YOUNG PEOPLE UP TO THE AGE OF 25 YEARS OF AGE WHO ARE EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS - UNEMPLOYMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, RACE, GENDER, POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, OR WHO ARE WITHIN, OR HAVE EXPERIENCED, THE PUBLIC CARE OR PENAL SYSTEM) C ADVANCING EDUCATION (INCLUDING SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL TRAINING) IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES THINK FIT D RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT, INCLUDING ASSISTANCE TO FIND EMPLOYMENT E PROVIDING RECREATIONAL, EDUCATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITY IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH AND SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS F ADDRESSING THE PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL NEEDS OF YOUNG PERSONS IN NEED BY REASON OF ADDICTION TO DRUGS, ALCOHOL OR ANY ACTIVITY SUCH AS GAMBLING, IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT, AND G THE PROVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH FACILITIES AND CHILDCARE