The Saltley Community Association
Charity 502642
Overview
Summary
The Saltley Community Association appears to be a broad, place-based civic organisation rather than a narrowly specialist provider. Its role seems to combine practical community infrastructure—facilities, services, staffing and advice—with learning and training activity, serving people at several life stages and including communities defined by ethnic or racial origin. Its unusually wide charitable remit may allow it to respond flexibly to local needs, but the available evidence does not yet show which needs, programmes or partnerships currently shape its work most strongly.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Alum Rock
Confidence: medium
The association's most recent published accounts (year ended 31 March 2024) identify Norton Hall Women's Enterprise Centre as its principal address, and record that it owns/uses tangible land and buildings. Its funded energy-advice project also named Norton Hall and the Jet Shop on Alum Rock Road as drop-in delivery venues. Birmingham City Council lists the Women's Enterprise Centre at Norton Hall among polling stations for Alum Rock ward. However, the Charity Commission's currently displayed contact address is instead in Saltley, and the latest 2025 return contains no narrative accounts, so present-day use of the Norton Hall site cannot be confirmed.
- Charity Commission, Saltley Community Association trustees' report and accounts for year ended 31 March 2024
The report gives the charity's principal address as Norton Hall Women's Enterprise Centre; it reports fuel-poverty advice through household visits and a Birmingham City Council Communities Prevention Programme for low-income residents in the Hodge Hill area. - Energy Redress Scheme, 'Warm and well in East Birmingham' funded-project record
The project describes advice for households across East Birmingham, delivered through drop-in sessions at the Women's Enterprise Centre at Norton Hall and the Jet Shop on Alum Rock Road, as well as telephone advice and home visits. - Birmingham City Council, notice of poll and polling stations for Alum Rock ward
The council lists the Women's Enterprise Centre at Norton Hall among polling stations for Alum Rock ward.
Remaining uncertainties
- The latest available financial return is for the year ended 31 March 2025 and reports sharply reduced income (£2,216), but no accounts or trustees' report were required. It therefore does not confirm which projects, delivery venues or neighbourhoods remained active after 31 March 2024.
- The Charity Commission currently lists a contact address in Saltley, whereas the 2024 accounts use Norton Hall Women's Enterprise Centre as the principal address. The evidence does not establish whether the Saltley address is an operational site, a correspondence address, or a replacement for Norton Hall.
- The evidence supports a wider East Birmingham/Hodge Hill service focus through home visits and advice, but it does not identify the individual wards reached. No additional ward has therefore been recorded.
- The Energy Redress record establishes a material funder/venue relationship, but does not demonstrate that Norton Hall or the Jet Shop are current partners or delivery sites in August 2026.
Additional evidence needed
- A current service timetable, project update or annual report identifying active delivery venues and the geographic areas served.
- Confirmation from the association of whether Norton Hall Women's Enterprise Centre, the Saltley contact address, and the Jet Shop are currently used for its own services.
- Current information from Energy Redress, Birmingham City Council or named venue partners on the status, dates and geographical scope of the fuel-poverty and energy-advice work.
Areas of work
- Amateur Sport
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- General Charitable Purposes
- Religious Activities
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A flexible local platform rather than a single-service charity
The association appears to operate as a general-purpose community platform: its objects span education, health and poverty, while its activities include training, community activity and direct provision.
Why it matters
This suggests its value may lie in connecting several forms of support around local people, rather than in delivering one defined intervention. It may therefore be an important potential partner for organisations needing a trusted local base.
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“Its objects include the advancement of education, the furtherance of health, and the relief of poverty, distress and sickness.”
Source:Charity Commission“Main activities are training, activities for the community and direct provision.”
Source:Organisation
Infrastructure may be central to its operating model
By providing buildings, facilities, open space and human resources alongside services and advice, the association may enable other activity as well as deliver support itself.
Why it matters
Organisations with accessible space and operational capacity can become convening points for collaboration, informal support and locally led initiatives—roles that are often less visible than individual services.
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“The charity provides human resources.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity provides buildings, facilities and open space.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity provides services and advocacy, advice and information.”
Source:Charity Commission
A potentially intergenerational and culturally responsive role
Its beneficiary groups suggest the association may be positioned to work across generations while responding to the needs of particular ethnic or racial communities.
Why it matters
This combination could make it well placed to notice barriers or strengths that do not fit age-specific or culturally generic service models, and to connect groups often served separately.
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“The charity helps children and young people.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps elderly and old people.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps people of a particular ethnic or racial origin.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which local communities, neighbourhoods and ethnic or racial groups are currently reached.
- Whether its facilities and staffing support external groups, formal partners or only its own programmes.
- How its wide remit is prioritised in practice, and which activities are most significant.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent programme information, participant numbers and examples of outcomes by beneficiary group.
- Information on facility use, tenant or partner organisations, referral relationships and local collaborations.
- A recent annual report or strategy setting out current priorities, geography and community needs.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Main activities are training, activities for the community and learn direct provision.
Charity objects
(I) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE COUNTY BOROUGH OF BIRMINGHAM AND SURROUNDING AREAS AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE FURTHERANCE OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS. (II) TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES.