The Warstock Community Centre
Charity 216905
www.warstockcomm.wix.com/warstockcomm
Overview
Summary
The Warstock Community Centre appears to function as a neighbourhood civic platform rather than a narrowly defined service provider. Its role is to make shared space, activities and support available across four adjoining areas, while working with residents, voluntary organisations and public bodies. The breadth of its charitable remit suggests that the centre may be intended to connect recreation, education and community development, offering a local base through which different age groups and needs can meet.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Highter’s Heath
Confidence: high
Direct evidence identifies Warstock Community Centre as the charity's community-centre site and describes provision of accommodation for community groups there. Birmingham City Council lists Warstock Community Centre as a venue for a Highter’s Heath Ward councillor surgery.
- Charity Commission register, The Warstock Community Centre (charity 216905), current overview and contact record
The charity states that it provides facilities for social welfare, recreation and leisure at the Warstock Community Centre. - Trustees' report for year ended 31 March 2024, filed with the Charity Commission
The report says the charity's main activity was provision of a community centre for use by community groups, and that its policy was provision of accommodation for community use. - Birmingham City Council, Councillor Adam Higgs page, updated 27 May 2026
The Council lists Warstock Community Centre as the venue for a Highter’s Heath Ward councillor surgery.
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct evidence supports one active physical operating site in Highter’s Heath Ward, rather than a network of sites.
- The charity's current Charity Commission activity statement names Warstock, Maypole, Yardley Wood and Highters Heath as its intended local area of benefit. It is reasonable to interpret this as a multi-neighbourhood operational identity, but the evidence does not show separate delivery locations or distinct programmes in each named neighbourhood.
- The Charity Commission's broad 'Birmingham City' operating-area classification should not be read as evidence of citywide delivery: the more specific current activity description and the available annual report point to a locally based community-centre model.
- The charity's objects refer to working with local authorities and voluntary organisations, but the available current evidence does not identify a continuing partnership that materially extends delivery beyond the community-centre catchment.
Additional evidence needed
- A current programme, room-hire schedule or annual report identifying the groups and services hosted at the centre and the areas they serve.
- Confirmation from the organisation of whether it operates or commissions activity away from the community centre.
- Current partnership documentation showing whether any local-authority, NHS, voluntary-sector or other partners deliver services through the centre under a formal arrangement.
Areas of work
- Amateur Sport
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Recreation
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A place-based convenor across several neighbourhoods
The centre appears to define its constituency geographically, serving Warstock, Maypole, Yardley Wood and Highters Heath rather than a single client group. Its stated intention to work with local authorities, voluntary organisations and inhabitants suggests a convening role between residents and local institutions.
Why it matters
This indicates that its value may lie not only in direct activities, but in creating a shared local infrastructure for collaboration across neighbourhood boundaries.
Show evidence
“The charity promotes the benefit of inhabitants of Warstock, Maypole, Yardley Wood and Highters Heath.”
Source:Charity Commission“It works with local authorities, voluntary organisations and inhabitants.”
Source:Organisation
The building is likely a means, not the whole mission
Although the organisation provides facilities at the community centre, its remit also includes education, social welfare, advice and community development. The physical site may therefore operate as an enabling asset for a wider mix of local support and participation.
Why it matters
This helps avoid viewing the organisation simply as a venue. Its strategic significance may depend on what relationships, services and opportunities the space makes possible.
Show evidence
“It provides facilities for social welfare, recreation and leisure time occupation at the Warstock Community Centre.”
Source:Organisation“The charity helps by providing buildings, facilities or open space; services; advocacy, advice or information; and acting as an umbrella or resource body.”
Source:Charity Commission
Broad inclusion may create both reach and ambiguity
The organisation identifies children and young people, older people, disabled people and the general public as beneficiaries. This may indicate an intergenerational, inclusive model, but the available evidence does not reveal whether particular groups receive tailored provision or whether some are less well served.
Why it matters
A broad beneficiary definition can make a centre an important shared resource, while also raising useful questions about whose needs shape programming, access and governance.
Show evidence
“The charity helps children or young people, elderly or old people, people with disabilities and the general public.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity works in arts, culture, heritage or science; amateur sport; economic or community development or employment; and recreation.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which activities and services are currently delivered directly, and which are provided by partner organisations.
- Whether the four named neighbourhoods are equally reached, represented and able to use the centre.
- How residents participate in governance or decisions about programmes and facilities.
Remaining uncertainties
- A current programme, room-use schedule and list of delivery partners.
- Information on attendance, beneficiary reach, accessibility and unmet local demand.
- Annual reports or impact evidence showing how the centre's facilities contribute to education, welfare and community development.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
To promote the benifit of the inhabitants of Warstock, Maypole, Yardley Wood and Highters Heath areas, by working with local authorities, voluntary organisations and inhabitants to advance education and to provide facilities for social welfare, recreation and leisure time occupation at the Warstock Community Centre.
Charity objects
(A) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF WARSTOCK, MAYPOLE, YARDLEY WOOD AND HIGHTERS HEATH AREAS, BY ASSOCIATION WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND INHABITANTS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 2 OF THE CONSTITUTION).