Birmingham Settlement Properties

Charity 517303

Overview

Summary

Sources:Civic AtlasAI-assisted

The Civic Atlas currently has too little evidence to form a substantive understanding of Birmingham Settlement Properties. The supplied material provides only the organisation’s name and no information about its purpose, legal status, activities, beneficiaries, geography, assets, partnerships or history. Its role in Birmingham’s civic ecosystem therefore remains unknown; any interpretation of its operating model or contribution would be speculative.

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Operational geography

Sources:ONSCivic AtlasAI-assisted

Coverage: Multi Neighbourhood

Operational areas:

Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Kingstanding

Confidence: medium

Direct evidence shows that Birmingham Settlement Properties held endowment capital for The Birmingham Settlement and that this capital was reinvested to support development of the Sports & Community Centre in Kingstanding. The current official site confirms that the centre is active and delivers a weekly local programme. This supports an asset-backed operational connection, although the public evidence does not clearly establish that the linked charity itself directly delivers services or currently holds title to the site.

  • The Birmingham Settlement Trustees' Report, year ended 31 March 2024, filed via the Charity Commission
    It states that the endowment was held by Birmingham Settlement Properties and was encashed and reinvested as capital to support development of the Sports & Community Centre in Kingstanding.
  • Birmingham Settlement official website, Kingstanding page
    The organisation identifies its Sports & Community Centre at 600 Kingstanding Road as a renovated community space with a weekly programme of activities for local people.
Ladywood

Confidence: medium

Direct evidence shows that Birmingham Settlement Properties' endowment capital was reinvested to support development of the Nature & Wellbeing Centre at Edgbaston Reservoir, which the organisation identifies as its Ladywood centre. This demonstrates a material asset-development connection to Ladywood, but does not establish that Birmingham Settlement Properties directly runs the activities there or presently owns the site.

  • The Birmingham Settlement Trustees' Report, year ended 31 March 2024, filed via the Charity Commission
    It states that the endowment held by Birmingham Settlement Properties was reinvested as capital to support development of the Nature & Wellbeing Centre by Edgbaston Reservoir.
  • Birmingham Settlement official website, Contact Us and About Us pages
    The organisation identifies the Birmingham Settlement Nature & Wellbeing Centre at Edgbaston Reservoir, 79 Selwyn Road, as its Ladywood base.
Remaining uncertainties
  • Birmingham Settlement Properties is a linked charity for which The Birmingham Settlement is sole trustee. The available evidence identifies it principally as the holder of endowment capital and property-related assets, rather than as a direct service-delivery organisation.
  • The public evidence supports capital investment in the Kingstanding and Ladywood centres, but does not clearly identify the current legal owner, leaseholder or day-to-day operator of each site.
  • The parent charity currently lists a Money Advice Centre in Newtown, but no evidence reviewed links Birmingham Settlement Properties' assets or activities specifically to that centre. Newtown has therefore not been included.
  • No current evidence was found that partnerships materially extend Birmingham Settlement Properties' own geographical footprint beyond the two asset-development locations.
  • The linked charity's charitable area of benefit includes Birmingham and elsewhere in the United Kingdom, but this is an object rather than evidence of current operations outside the evidenced Birmingham locations.
Additional evidence needed
  • The latest consolidated trustees' report and accounts, with a property-asset schedule showing which sites or developments are held or funded by Birmingham Settlement Properties.
  • Current lease, land-registry, or property-management information confirming the linked charity's legal or operational relationship to the Kingstanding and Ladywood sites.
  • A current statement from The Birmingham Settlement distinguishing sites and services directly operated by the parent charity from those owned, funded or otherwise supported by Birmingham Settlement Properties.

Areas of work

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    Who they help

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      How they help

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        Discoveries involving this organisation

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        Findings

        Sources:Civic AtlasAI-assisted

            Remaining uncertainties

          • It is unclear whether the organisation is a charity, company, property-holding body, service provider or another type of entity.
          • There is no evidence of the organisation’s objectives, properties, communities served, relationships, funding, governance or current activity.
          • The relationship, if any, between Birmingham Settlement Properties and similarly named organisations cannot be established from the supplied material.

            Additional evidence needed

          • Official registration records, including legal form, charitable objects, trustees or directors, and filing history.
          • The organisation’s website, annual reports, accounts or strategic documents describing its purpose, assets and activities.
          • Evidence of partnerships, property holdings, beneficiaries, service delivery and recent changes in activity.
          Charity Commission profile
          Source:Charity Commission

          Activities

          Charity objects