Bordesley Green

Observations

• Faith-based premises appear to be a major part of the ward's practical civic infrastructure

  The evidence directly shows that several mosques, madrasahs and faith-linked organisations in or associated with Bordesley Green provide activity extending beyond worship. Green Lane Masjid combines worship, education, welfare activity, food support and youth football; R.H. Educational and Welfare Trust reports education, conferences and Ramadan meals from Qamarul Islam Mosque; Madrasah-E-Ashraful Uloom advertises regular madrasah, Hifz and prayer activity; and organisations such as An-Noor, Shah Poran, Jamiat Ul Muslimin and Masjid-E-Subhanallah describe advice, education, youth or community services. A reasonable interpretation is that faith settings are not peripheral to local support provision: they may be among the ward's most significant accessible community platforms.

  Why it matters

  This matters because programmes seeking to reach residents, particularly families, young people and people needing advice or language support, may find existing trusted infrastructure rather than needing to create entirely new access points. It also raises a useful question: are these organisations recognised and connected as part of the ward's wider social-support system, or are their non-religious capabilities still relatively invisible to statutory and voluntary-sector partners?

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  • Green Lane Masjid and Community Centre reviewed operational evidence:
    The organisation's current services include worship, education, welfare, food support and youth activity from its Small Heath base, alongside recurring football coaching at Green Lane Playing Fields in Bordesley Green.

  • R.H. Educational and Welfare Trust annual report and reviewed operational evidence:
    The charity reports managing Qamarul Islam Mosque in Bordesley Green, providing worship, free Islamic education, conferences, Ramadan meals and activity in adjacent premises.

  • Madrasah-E-Ashraful Uloom public website and reviewed operational evidence:
    The organisation describes regular prayer, madrasah and Hifz classes in the heart of Bordesley Green.

  • Charity Commission activity descriptions for An-Noor, Shah Poran, Jamiat Ul Muslimin and Masjid-E-Subhanallah:
    These organisations describe combinations of advice, supplementary education, after-school activity, classes, youth programmes, worship and community support.

• Bordesley Green has several overlapping routes into learning and youth development, but the connections between them are unclear

  The ward has evidence of provision for children, young people and adult learners through very different organisational routes: Islamic supplementary education and girls' schooling, ESOL and adult learning, sports coaching, after-school activity, mentoring and advice. BEEAS explicitly identifies Bordesley Green as a current ESOL delivery locality; BYSA runs weekly coaching at Small Heath and Saltley wellbeing venues in the ward; Green Lane Masjid runs football coaching there; SOS lists tutoring, ESOL, childcare, youth sports and health-related support; and Birmingham Urban Rhythm Network was assigned to Bordesley Green in a 2024 place-based anti-social-behaviour pilot. This may indicate an unusually varied local learning-and-belonging ecosystem rather than a simple concentration of similar services.

  Why it matters

  The potential opportunity is not merely more youth provision, but better pathways between existing provision: for example, from supplementary education or ESOL into sports, mentoring, employment guidance or wider family support. The available evidence does not show referral routes, shared safeguarding arrangements, or whether organisations are reaching distinct groups. That uncertainty matters because apparent abundance can still leave particular young people, especially those outside established community networks, disconnected.

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  • BEEAS reviewed operational evidence:
    BEEAS explicitly identifies Bordesley Green as a current entry-level ESOL delivery locality.

  • BYSA reviewed operational evidence:
    BYSA advertises current weekly boys' coaching at Small Heath Leisure Centre and girls' coaching at Saltley leisure centre, both evidenced as Bordesley Green venues.

  • Green Lane Masjid reviewed operational evidence:
    GLM Football Club provides recurring coaching for children aged 6 to 15 at Green Lane Playing Fields in Bordesley Green.

  • SOS Education Organisation and Birmingham Urban Rhythm Network reviewed operational evidence:
    SOS lists ESOL, tutoring, childcare, youth sports and advice from its Bordesley Green base; Birmingham Urban Rhythm Network was identified by Birmingham City Council as the delivery organisation for Bordesley Green in the 2024 ASB Place-Based Pilot.

• A small number of addresses may conceal important local civic clusters

  Several organisations are recorded at the same or immediately connected addresses: An-Noor Masjid and Community Centre and the Somali Disability & Elderly Support Group are both associated with Blake Lane; Shah Poran Islamic Jami Mosque and Community Trust and Hazrat Khadija-Tul-Kubra Girls School share an address on Dixon Road; and Zia Ul Ummah Centre and Zia Ul Ummah Foundation share an address on Victoria Street. This does not prove shared governance, joint delivery or shared premises arrangements. However, it is a notable pattern because it suggests that the ward's civic capacity may be concentrated in a small number of buildings or local institutional clusters.

  Why it matters

  If these are active shared or neighbouring civic sites, they could offer practical opportunities for coordinated outreach, shared facilities, joint advice sessions or more visible referral routes. Conversely, if they are only administrative overlaps, treating them as partnerships would be misleading. Clarifying this would improve understanding of how residents actually encounter support: through individual organisations, or through a smaller number of multi-organisation places.

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  • Organisation address and operational records for An-Noor Masjid and Community Centre and Somali Disability & Elderly Support Group:
    An-Noor is recorded at 45-49 Blake Lane and SODES at 45 Blake Lane; both have evidence of community-facing services associated with Bordesley Green.

  • Organisation address and operational records for Shah Poran Islamic Jami Mosque and Community Trust and Hazrat Khadija-Tul-Kubra Girls School:
    Both organisations are recorded at 18 Dixon Road; the school has high-confidence evidence of active provision in Bordesley Green, while Shah Poran reports advice, supplementary education and after-school activity but lacks location-specific service evidence.

  • Organisation address and operational records for Zia Ul Ummah Centre and Zia Ul Ummah Foundation:
    Both organisations are recorded at 13 Victoria Street. The Centre reports worship and Quran classes, while the Foundation's local operational role at the address remains unconfirmed.

• Employment support may be present in organisational aims, but its practical local pathway is difficult to see

  Employment-related disadvantage is part of the ward context, yet the available evidence provides stronger detail on education, advice, faith activity, family support and youth provision than on current local routes into work. Several organisations refer to vocational training, employment opportunities, language learning or economic development, including An-Noor, BEEAS, SOS, BYSA and Birmingham Urban Rhythm Network. However, for most of these organisations the evidence does not identify current Bordesley Green employment sessions, employer links, job-outcome data, or a clearly connected progression route from local learning into work.

  Why it matters

  This may be an opportunity rather than simply a service gap. The ward appears to have trusted places where residents already engage in ESOL, advice, education and youth activity. It would be worth exploring whether those places are connected to practical employment support, local employers, further-education providers and progression opportunities, particularly for adults whose language, caring, disability or migration-related barriers may affect access to work.

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  • Employment deprivation data for Bordesley Green:
    The ward's recorded 2019 IMD employment-domain score is 22.6%.

  • BEEAS, SOS Education Organisation and An-Noor organisational activity descriptions:
    These organisations refer to ESOL, education, advice, vocational courses, employment opportunities or support for refugees, migrants and ethnically diverse communities.

  • BYSA and Birmingham Urban Rhythm Network organisational activity and reviewed operational evidence:
    BYSA combines sport with mentoring, education and career guidance at its wider Birmingham hub; Birmingham Urban Rhythm Network describes vocational training and employment-related educational aims, while its Bordesley Green deployment was evidenced through a community-safety pilot.