Yardley Wood Baptist Charitable Company
Charity 1145815
Overview
Summary
Yardley Wood Baptist Charitable Company appears to use a church-linked, volunteer-run food pantry as a practical local entry point into a much broader charitable mission. Its current visible model is not simply emergency food provision: the membership structure is designed to stretch household budgets, while its formal objects retain scope for advice, employment training, education, faith activity and wider community benefit. This suggests an organisation with potential to connect immediate hardship relief to longer-term resilience, though evidence of those wider functions is not currently available.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Highter’s Heath
Confidence: high
The charity reports that it operates a Local Food Pantry in conjunction with Yardley Wood Baptist Church, and the church states that it runs Yardley Wood Pantry from its site in Yardley Wood. Birmingham City Council identifies facilities near the church as being in Highter’s Heath ward.
- Yardley Wood Baptist Church, official website
The church states that it runs Yardley Wood Pantry from its site in Yardley Wood, Birmingham. It lists Pantry and Coffee sessions on Wednesdays. - Yardley Wood Baptist Church, official Your Local Pantry page
The page states that Yardley Wood Pantry is run by Yardley Wood Baptist Charitable Company, charity number 1145815, as a volunteer-run community food store for local people. - Charity Commission Register of Charities, charity 1145815
The charity reports that it operates a Local Food Pantry in conjunction with Yardley Wood Baptist Church. - Birmingham City Council
The council identifies facilities near Daisy Farm Road as being in Highters Heath ward.
Remaining uncertainties
- The evidence establishes one active delivery site, but does not provide a definitive, current boundary for the Pantry’s membership catchment. A school information page indicates that applications have been accepted from several nearby areas, but this indicates where members may live rather than additional places where the charity operates.
- The charity’s registered address and the church’s current website use different postal details for the church site. Both refer to the same church site area and Highter’s Heath ward, but the precise postal address used for service access is not fully consistent.
- The church names supporting churches, schools, voluntary organisations and food-sector partners. These appear to contribute donations, funding or operational support to the Pantry, but there is no evidence that Yardley Wood Baptist Charitable Company delivers services from their premises.
- The charity's objects permit activity elsewhere in Birmingham and beyond, but the available current operational evidence supports only the local Pantry at Yardley Wood Baptist Church. These objects should not be treated as evidence of wider delivery.
Additional evidence needed
- A current Pantry membership policy or catchment map showing the neighbourhoods eligible to join.
- The latest trustees’ annual report or impact report describing service locations, member origins, outreach activity and any services other than the Pantry.
- Confirmation from the charity of whether any named partner venues host charity-delivered sessions, collection points, satellite provision or referral activity.
Areas of work
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Religious Activities
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A membership model focused on household resilience
The pantry appears designed to make regular food access more affordable, rather than operating solely as one-off crisis relief. Providing food valued at around six times the membership fee may help members preserve limited income for other essentials.
Why it matters
This distinguishes the organisation from a conventional emergency food provider and suggests its role may include reducing the ongoing financial pressure that can deepen hardship.
Show evidence
“The Food Pantry operates as a membership scheme.”
Source:Organisation“It aims to provide food to the value of around six times the weekly membership fee.”
Source:Organisation
Church-linked delivery with a distinct charitable vehicle
The charitable company appears to work closely with Yardley Wood Baptist Church while holding objects that extend beyond religious activity. This may allow a faith-rooted local network to support broader community-facing work.
Why it matters
Understanding this relationship is important because the church may provide trust, volunteers and local relationships, while the company’s charitable purposes create scope for wider civic partnerships.
Show evidence
“The Local Food Pantry operates in conjunction with Yardley Wood Baptist Church.”
Source:Organisation“The objects include advancing education, relieving need and hardship, relieving unemployment, relieving poverty, advancing the Christian faith and other charitable purposes beneficial to the community.”
Source:Charity Commission
Potential bridge from immediate relief to wider support
The organisation’s stated purposes suggest that food access could be one part of a broader pathway involving advice, education or employment-related support, but the available evidence does not show whether those links are active.
Why it matters
This identifies a useful question for local partners: whether pantry contact creates opportunities to connect people facing financial hardship with support that addresses underlying causes.
Show evidence
“The objects include providing training for employment for people in financial and economic need.”
Source:Charity Commission“The objects include promoting provision of advice and other services for people in need, hardship or distress.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity provides services and advocacy, advice or information.”
Source:Organisation
- Whether the charity currently delivers advice, employment training, education or referral support alongside the pantry.
- Who uses the pantry, how local membership is defined and whether any groups face barriers to access.
- How volunteers, the church and the charitable company divide responsibility for delivery and governance.
Remaining uncertainties
- Information on current services, referral routes, partnerships and outcomes beyond food provision.
- Membership, demand and beneficiary data, including unmet need and reasons people use the pantry.
- Evidence of the charity’s relationship with Yardley Wood Baptist Church, including shared resources and decision-making.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Yardley Wood Baptist Charitable Company operates a Local Food Pantry in conjunction with Yardley Wood Baptist Church. The Food Pantry is a community food store run by volunteers for the benefit of local people. It operates as a membership scheme and aims to help people make their money go further by providing food to the value of around six times the weekly membership fee.
Charity objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY ARE: 4.1 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY CONSIDER APPROPRIATE, PRIMARILY IN BIRMINGHAM BUT ALSO IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT; 4.2 TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED OR HARDSHIP OR WHO ARE AGED OR SICK AND TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS CAUSED, PRIMARILY IN BIRMINGHAM BUT ALSO IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS OF THE CHARITY MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT; 4.3 TO RELIEVE UNEMPLOYMENT BY MEANS OF PROVIDING TRAINING FOR EMPLOYMENT FOR THOSE IN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC NEED IN BIRMINGHAM AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT; 4.4 TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLE APPEARING IN THE SECOND SCHEDULE, IN BIRMINGHAM AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT; 4.5 THE RELIEF OF POVERTY (IN BIRMINGHAM, AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT) FOR PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL AND OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES BY PROVIDING AND PROMOTING THE PROVISIONS OF ADVICE AND OTHER SERVICES AS THE DIRECTORS OF THE CHARITY MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT; AND 4.6 TO PROMOTE AND FULFIL SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY IN BIRMINGHAM AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.