Trinity Christian Centre
Charity 1133824
Overview
Summary
Trinity Christian Centre appears to operate as a locally rooted Pentecostal church with a wider social-support mandate. Its public-facing model combines worship and small-group belonging with practical support such as debt and relationship counselling, personal development and help for people experiencing hardship. The organisation seems to use a single Small Heath site as both a congregational base and a potential civic resource, while its affiliation with AoG GB places it within a broader denominational network.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Small Heath
Confidence: high
The organisation's official website explicitly identifies a church site in Small Heath as both its Sunday-service venue and office. It also states that children's ministry runs alongside the Sunday service and that its youth ministry meets at church, providing direct evidence of multiple regular services from this site.
- Trinity Birmingham official website, Home page
Lists Sunday service in Small Heath, Birmingham, and lists the office at the same location. - Trinity Birmingham official website, Trinity Kids and Ignyte Youth page
States that children's ministry runs weekly alongside the Sunday service and that Ignyte Youth meets on Fridays 'at church'; the page identifies the church as being in Small Heath, Birmingham.
Remaining uncertainties
- The official website says Connect Groups happen 'around Birmingham' and invites people to join the closest group, while the Charity Commission records Birmingham City as the area where the charity operates. This supports a citywide operational footprint as a reasonable interpretation, but the organisation does not publish current group venues or neighbourhoods. Individual additional wards therefore cannot be identified confidently.
- There is no current evidence that the organisation operates a second fixed public-facing site in Birmingham beyond its Small Heath church site.
- The organisation is affiliated with Assemblies of God GB, but the available evidence does not show that this affiliation materially extends Trinity Christian Centre's delivery footprint within Birmingham.
- The charity's governing objects permit activity elsewhere in the UK and world, but these are charitable powers rather than evidence of current operations outside Birmingham.
Additional evidence needed
- A current official list or map of Connect Group venues, including the wards or places in which they meet.
- The latest trustees' annual report or impact report describing the locations of worship, advice, poverty-relief, counselling or community-support activity.
- Confirmation from the organisation of whether any services are delivered at partner venues or in neighbourhood settings other than the Small Heath church site.
Areas of work
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Religious Activities
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Other Charitable Activities
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
Faith community and practical-support provider
The available evidence suggests that Trinity’s role extends beyond religious services: it appears to translate its faith mission into direct support around financial hardship, relationships, health and personal development.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish Trinity from a worship-only organisation. It may be a point of contact for people whose needs cross spiritual, relational and financial boundaries.
Show evidence
“Its objects include relieving sickness and financial hardship, promoting good health, and providing counselling and support.”
Source:Charity Commission“Its activities include assistance for the poor, debt counselling, relationship counselling and personal development.”
Source:Organisation
Small groups may be its main relationship infrastructure
Fortnightly Connect groups appear to be more than an event format: they may be Trinity’s mechanism for sustaining belonging, pastoral connection and local reach between Sunday services.
Why it matters
Understanding this networked model is important because relationships and informal support may be organised through groups rather than solely through the central church site.
Show evidence
“Connect groups run fortnightly on Thursday and Friday.”
Source:Organisation“The website invites people to find their nearest group.”
Source:Organisation
A broad mandate, but unclear delivery priorities
Trinity has authority to work across faith, poverty relief, health and education in the United Kingdom or internationally, yet the evidence does not show which areas receive most of its resources or attention.
Why it matters
This creates an important question for potential partners: the organisation may have wider capability than its local church profile suggests, but its current strategic focus cannot be inferred reliably.
Show evidence
“Its objects include advancing Christian faith, relieving hardship, promoting health and advancing education in the United Kingdom or the world.”
Source:Charity Commission“Sunday services and the office are based at 150 Coventry Road, Small Heath, Birmingham.”
Source:Organisation
- Whether counselling and debt support are delivered directly, by volunteers, or through referral partners.
- Which communities use the groups, services and building, and whether support reaches people beyond the congregation.
- The scale, outcomes and current priority of poverty relief, education and international activity.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or accounts showing expenditure, beneficiary numbers and programme priorities.
- Information on referral pathways, delivery partners, safeguarding and counselling or debt-advice provision.
- A map or list of Connect groups and evidence of their activities, membership and local relationships.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Connect Church is the working name for Connect Church UK. Our Charity's activities include Christian Worship Services, Kids Club, Youth Programs, Assistance for the poor, Debt Counselling, Relationship Counselling, Marriage prepraration, Personal Development, Marriage preparations and Funerals.
Charity objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CHURCH ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC: A) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT; B) TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE GOOD HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS, GOODS OR SERVICES OF ANY KIND INCLUDING THROUGH THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT; AND C) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT.