Ward End Community College
Charity 1120769
Overview
Summary
Ward End Community College appears to operate as a locally rooted bridge between individual progression and wider community wellbeing. Its stated purpose combines preparation for further education or employment with social, leisure and cultural provision, suggesting that it sees learning not as an isolated service but as part of improving local conditions of life. The organisation may therefore play a convening, place-based role as well as a training role, although the available evidence does not show how these strands are connected in practice.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Ward End
Confidence: low
The charity and its linked company continue to use addresses in Ward End as their registered/contact or correspondence addresses, and the Charity Commission records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property. However, registered, contact and correspondence addresses do not confirm that education, advice or community services are currently delivered in Ward End. The former independent school in Ward End closed on 25 October 2018.
- Charity Commission, Ward End Community College charity record (1120769), current contact and full-print records
Lists the charity's address in Ward End, Birmingham, and states that the charity owns and/or leases land or property. - Companies House, Ward End Community College Limited (05994505), persons with significant control record
Lists an address in Ward End, Birmingham as the correspondence address for the company's active persons with significant control.
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission currently records Birmingham City as the charity's area of operation, but this is a self-reported city-level category and does not identify services, delivery locations or beneficiary reach within Birmingham.
- The latest reported charity income and expenditure for the year ended 31 March 2025 were £106 and £53 respectively, while the linked company filed dormant accounts for the same period. These records give little evidence of substantive current service delivery.
- The Department for Education records that the independent school formerly known as Ward End Community College in Ward End closed on 25 October 2018. It is therefore unclear whether the charity now delivers any education or community activity there.
- No current official website, annual report, programme information, venue timetable or partner documentation was found that evidences operational activity in particular Birmingham neighbourhoods.
- Shared trustees and a common address connect the organisation historically with Sultan Bahu Centre and Hazrat Sultan Bahu Trust, but the available evidence does not establish a current delivery partnership or show that their activities extend Ward End Community College's operational reach.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual report, trustees' report or activity return describing services delivered during or after the year ending 31 March 2025.
- Current programme, course, advice-session or community-facility timetables stating delivery venues and the areas served.
- Confirmation from the charity of whether its address in Ward End is an active service site, a leased property, or solely a registered/contact address.
- Current agreements or public statements identifying any delivery partnerships, shared premises arrangements or commissioned work.
Areas of work
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
Who they help
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
Education is framed as a route into participation and opportunity
The organisation appears to position education and training primarily as a means of helping people move toward further study or employment, rather than as an end in itself.
Why it matters
This suggests its contribution may be measured through progression, confidence and access to opportunity, not only through the delivery of courses. It may be relevant to organisations working on employability, adult learning or local economic inclusion.
Show evidence
“To promote for the benefit of the public the provision of education and training to prepare individuals for either further education or employment.”
Source:Charity Commission“To provide education and training to individuals.”
Source:Organisation
It may use facilities as part of its community-development model
The combination of buildings or facilities with education, social, leisure and cultural activity suggests that physical space may be an important enabling asset, not merely an administrative base.
Why it matters
If so, the organisation may have potential value as accessible local infrastructure: a place where learning, community activity and informal connection can overlap. This could create collaboration opportunities with groups needing space or routes to local residents.
Show evidence
“To provide social, leisure and cultural facilities for local people with a view to improve their conditions of life.”
Source:Organisation“Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its remit spans individual support and place-based improvement
The organisation appears to work across two connected scales: supporting individuals through education and advice, while also seeking to improve local quality of life through shared community provision.
Why it matters
This breadth may make it a useful connector between employment, learning and community-development systems. It also raises a useful question about whether its services are intentionally integrated or operate as separate offers.
Show evidence
“Education/training, Economic/community Development/employment.”
Source:Charity Commission“Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information.”
Source:Charity Commission“To provide social, leisure and cultural facilities for local people with a view to improve their conditions of life.”
Source:Organisation
- Which people use its education, advice and community facilities, and whether particular communities are prioritised.
- Whether education, employment support and social or cultural activities are delivered as an integrated pathway.
- What local organisations, funders or employers it works with.
Remaining uncertainties
- Current programme information, participant numbers and evidence of progression into further education or employment.
- Details of facilities, community use, partnerships and the geographic area served.
- Recent annual reports or impact evidence showing how activities improve local conditions of life.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
To provide education and training to individuals. To provide social, leisure and cultural facilities for local people with a view to improve their conditions of life.
Charity objects
TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE OF THE PUBLIC BY THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING TO PREPARE INDIVIDUALS FOR EITHER FURTHER EDUCATION OR EMPLOYMENT