Glebe Farm and Tile Cross

This summary reflects the Atlas' current understanding of the ward based on the evidence analysed so far.

Overview

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Summary

Based on the organisations currently reviewed by the Civic Atlas, Glebe Farm and Tile Cross appears to have a small but significant set of locally used civic sites that combine youth provision, faith-based community life and access to wider support networks. The strongest pattern is not simply the number of organisations present, but the concentration of activity around venues that can host several forms of support.

Context

The available evidence provides stronger confirmation of particular operational venues than of ward-wide service reach. The Pump, Jamia Masjid Haroonia and the Shilonite Gospel Church have directly evidenced activity in the ward, while other organisations may serve residents from nearby, regional or citywide bases. This should therefore be read as an emerging understanding of visible organisational infrastructure, not a complete account of civic life or of all support available to residents.

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Profile

Political power: Reform UK

IMD: No data%

Civic organisations (13)

The Atlas has evidence of 13 organisations operating here.

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Discoveries involving organisations in this ward

The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving organisations in this ward yet.

Observations

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  • The ward has several civic venues that function as more than single-purpose buildings

    The Pump, Jamia Masjid Haroonia and the Shilonite Gospel Church are each evidenced as active places within Glebe Farm and Tile Cross, but they support different kinds of civic participation: youth development and partner provision; worship, education and recreation; and worship alongside joint community activity. This suggests that some of the ward's most important assets may be trusted hosting spaces rather than narrowly specialised services. It is notable because these venues could create repeated contact with residents across different needs and life stages, even where the organisations themselves are not formally connected.

    Why it matters

    Places with established buildings, regular activity and community legitimacy can be important foundations for collaboration. A future initiative may not need to create a new local presence if it can work through venues residents already use. However, the available evidence does not show whether these organisations currently share referrals, coordinate activity or reach the same residents.

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    • The Pump official website and Birmingham City Council directory evidence:
      The Pump is evidenced as a purpose-built youth-work hub in Glebe Farm and Tile Cross, with current youth and family support activity and tenant organisations operating through the building.

    • Charity Commission Register of Charities and Birmingham City Council Planning Online, application 2024/03100/PA:
      Jamia Masjid Haroonia is evidenced at a mosque and Islamic centre in Glebe Farm and Tile Cross, providing prayer meetings, lectures, religious education for children and welfare-oriented recreation facilities.

    • Birmingham City Council polling-station evidence and Diocese of Birmingham parish profile:
      The Shilonite Gospel Church of Cherubim and Seraphim is evidenced as a venue in the ward and as the location for a jointly established Messy Church activity.

  • There are signs of a potentially complementary youth-support pathway, but its connections are not yet visible

    The Pump offers a locally based route into youth work, skills, employment and support services, including provision involving Early Help, IntoUniversity and Birmingham Careers Service. FITCAP adds a current football session for 12–16-year-olds at Tile Cross Academy and describes wider youth services including mentoring, outreach, diversionary activity and life-skills workshops. These offers appear complementary: one is a multi-agency hub with progression-oriented support, while the other uses sport and youth engagement as an entry point. What stands out is that no direct relationship between them is evidenced.

    Why it matters

    A young person may encounter FITCAP through sport before seeking advice, training or employment support; equally, a hub-based service may need accessible activities that sustain engagement. Exploring whether there are referral routes, shared outreach or gaps between participation and progression could reveal an opportunity to strengthen support without duplicating it.

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    • The Pump official website — What's on / Our Tenants, and trustees' report for the year ended 30 September 2025:
      The Pump lists current youth activities and tenant organisations including Birmingham Children's Trust Early Help, IntoUniversity and Birmingham Careers Service; its trustees' report describes partnership working and use of its Creative Spaces by schools and alternative provisions.

    • FITCAP — Weekly Activities:
      FITCAP lists a current Saturday football session for ages 12–16 at Tile Cross Academy.

    • FITCAP charity activity information:
      FITCAP describes youth services including training, qualifications, sports, mentoring, detached youth work, outreach, diversionary activity, holiday clubs and life-skills workshops.

  • The ward is visible to external funders, but eligibility should not be mistaken for investment

    Two different funding routes touch the ward in materially different ways. Irwin Mitchell Charities Foundation made a 2025 grant to Birmingham Disability Resource Centre, whose Information, Health and Wellbeing Centre is evidenced at ACE Business Park in Glebe Farm and Tile Cross. By contrast, Birmingham Airport Community Trust Fund identifies Tile Cross as a tier-one priority area for eligible projects, but this only shows potential access to funding rather than a current funded project. The distinction is important: one route evidences a local recipient relationship, while the other evidences strategic opportunity.

    Why it matters

    The combination may indicate that locally based organisations have some access to wider resources, particularly where they can frame work around employability, access to justice, environmental improvement, recreation or community benefit. It would be worth investigating whether smaller ward-based groups are aware of these routes, and whether existing anchor venues could help them develop fundable projects.

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    • Irwin Mitchell, ‘Irwin Mitchell Charities Foundation Donates £235,000 To Support Communities Across The UK’, 10 June 2025:
      The Foundation named Birmingham Disability Resource Centre among twelve charities selected for 2025 IMCF Fund grants intended to support employability skills and access to justice.

    • Disability Resource Centre contact page and Birmingham City Council Employment Sites 2025 schedule:
      Birmingham Disability Resource Centre identifies its Information, Health and Wellbeing Centre at ACE Business Park, which the Council identifies as being in Glebe Farm and Tile Cross ward.

    • Birmingham Airport Community Trust Fund: Criteria & Guidelines, November 2023:
      Tile Cross is listed as a tier-one priority area within the Trust's Area of Benefit.

    Remaining uncertainties

  • The current evidence does not show whether the ward's main venues and organisations have formal referral routes, shared programmes or coordinated responses to local needs.
  • A venue within the ward does not establish that an organisation reaches residents across the whole ward; beneficiary catchments, outreach activity and service-user origins are largely unknown.
  • Several organisations linked to the ward have regional, citywide, national or international identities. Their listed addresses or declared operating areas should not be treated as evidence of routine local delivery without more specific operational information.
  • The evidence does not provide a complete map of smaller community groups, informal networks, schools, resident associations, businesses, public services or unregistered organisations that may materially shape civic life in Glebe Farm and Tile Cross.
  • It remains unclear whether priority eligibility for Birmingham Airport Community Trust Fund has resulted in recent awards to projects operating in Tile Cross or elsewhere in the ward.

    Additional evidence needed

  • A current locality map of regular services, activities and venues, including the organisations that host, fund or deliver each activity.
  • Information from The Pump, FITCAP, faith venues and local schools on referral routes, shared participants, outreach locations and unmet demand among children and young people.
  • Current grant-recipient and project-location information from Birmingham Airport Community Trust Fund, alongside details of the Birmingham Disability Resource Centre project supported by Irwin Mitchell Charities Foundation.
  • Ward-level insight from residents and community organisers on which venues are trusted, who is not being reached, and which needs are currently handled informally rather than through registered organisations.