The Robin Centre
Charity 1161844
Overview
Summary
The Robin Centre appears to be a locally rooted dementia-inclusive day-care provider whose role extends beyond daytime support for older people: it also creates respite for carers and maintains a social connection for members. Its recent move into new premises suggests that its continuity depends partly on relationships with other local charitable infrastructure. The organisation combines a stable care model with practical adaptations to changing local transport provision.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Brandwood and Kings Heath
Confidence: medium
The charity's official website identifies its current, active day-care centre in Kings Heath, where care, activities, meals and transport arrivals take place. Birmingham City Council's current ward list includes Brandwood and Kings Heath ward, but the supplied evidence does not directly establish the centre's ward location.
- The Robin Centre official website, homepage
The organisation says it provides day care and support from The Robin Centre in Kings Heath; it states that it has recently moved into new premises there and that its service remains in operation. - The Robin Centre official website, About Us page
The organisation states that it is situated within All Saints Centre in the heart of Kings Heath and provides a day-care service for older people, including people with dementia. - Charity Commission register, charity 1161844
Its reported activity is provision of day-care services to older people, including those with dementia. - Birmingham City Council, New ward maps 2024
The council's current ward list includes Brandwood and Kings Heath ward.
Remaining uncertainties
- The evidence supports a single operational site in Kings Heath, but does not identify the precise home locations of current members or the geographical area covered by the taxi transport arrangement.
- The official website says the service is principally for areas surrounding Kings Heath and may consider attendees from elsewhere if they can travel. This indicates a local catchment but does not establish current operational delivery sites or regular transport coverage in other wards.
- The Charity Commission records Birmingham City, Solihull and Worcestershire as areas where the charity operates, while the charity's current website describes one Kings Heath centre. The broader register entry and charitable objects are insufficient on their own to evidence current direct operations outside Birmingham.
- All Saints Community Development Company materially enabled the current premises through redevelopment and is described as the landlord, but the available evidence does not show that this partnership extends The Robin Centre's service delivery beyond the Kings Heath site.
Additional evidence needed
- A current service-user or transport catchment map, referral data by area, or a current annual report specifying where members live and where transport is provided.
- Confirmation from the organisation of whether it currently delivers any services, outreach, satellite sessions or contracted provision outside the Kings Heath centre.
- Current evidence explaining whether the Charity Commission's recorded Solihull and Worcestershire operating areas reflect active delivery, occasional beneficiaries, historic activity or charitable objects.
Areas of work
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who they help
- Elderly/old People
How they help
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A dual role supporting members and carers
The Centre appears to operate as both a day-care service for older people, including people with dementia, and an informal support mechanism for carers through regular respite.
Why it matters
This suggests its value may be wider than the number of people attending: it may help carers sustain caring relationships and delay pressures that arise when families have little reliable daytime support.
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“The charity's objects include supporting elderly people suffering from dementia and their carers.”
Source:Charity Commission“The service provides carers with a day's break while their loved ones are cared for.”
Source:Organisation
Embedded in a local charitable redevelopment relationship
The move to new premises appears to have been enabled by the All Saints Community Development Company and its Youth Investment Fund-backed redevelopment, rather than by an independent expansion led solely by The Robin Centre.
Why it matters
This reveals an important local dependency and opportunity: the Centre's physical future is connected to another charity's estate strategy, creating potential for shared community infrastructure across age groups.
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“The Centre moved into new premises on 29 January.”
Source:Organisation“All Saints Community Development Company obtained a government grant of over £3 million for new youth facilities and incorporated the old centre into the redevelopment.”
Source:Organisation
Transport is a live access vulnerability
The Centre appears to be actively preserving access for people who may not travel independently after previous Ring and Ride and Shencare transport arrangements became unavailable.
Why it matters
For a dementia-inclusive day service, transport may determine whether support is practically reachable. Subsidising taxis indicates responsiveness, but may also signal a potentially fragile or more costly access model.
Show evidence
“Ring and Ride and Shencare transport are no longer available.”
Source:Organisation“The Centre is organising a subsidised taxi service with a daily charge.”
Source:Organisation
- How many people attend, and whether demand exceeds available places.
- Whether the new site creates ongoing collaboration with youth or other All Saints Centre users.
- Whether taxi costs or reduced transport availability exclude potential members.
Remaining uncertainties
- Attendance, waiting-list, referral and catchment-area data.
- Information on fees, transport uptake and subsidy costs.
- Evidence of partnerships, referral routes and shared activity with local health, care and community organisations.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Provision of day care services to older people, including those suffering from dementia.
Charity objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: (1) THE RELIEF OF ELDERLY PEOPLE, IN PARTICULAR THOSE SUFFERING FROM DEMENTIA, LIVING IN AND AROUND BIRMINGHAM, SOLIHULL AND BROMSGROVE BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE CARE, EDUCATION, RECREATION, PHYSICAL AND MENTAL WELL-BEING OF SUCH PERSONS AND THEIR CARERS. (2) TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME.