Birmingham & Black Country Community Foundation (03083289): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2015-11-17
- Formerly
- The Birmingham Foundation; The Birmingham Foundation Limited
- Incorporated
- 1995-07-19
- Location
- Birmingham
- Industry
- 88990 Other social work activities without accommodation n.e.c.
Why it went into administration
- Management failings / irregularities
From the administrators' statement
Birmingham & Black Country Community Foundation Limited (BBCCF) ts a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee, as defined by the Companies Act 2006 The charity owns freehold property known as Nechells Baths, Nechells Park Road, Nechells, Birmingham, B7 5PD The operations of the Baths, a community centre and childcare facility, are distinct from the Foundation’s charitable activities and are carried on by a separate chantable company, Nechells Regeneration Project, which entered Administration on the same date as BBCCF
BBCCF became a registered charity in 1995, its formal objectives being the support and promotion of any charitable purpose to include, in particular but not exclusively the relief of poverty and sickness, protection and preservation of good health, advancement of education Its mission was to promote and support local giving for social good, benefit or change in Birmingham and the Black Country
BBCCF has operated in one of the 10% most challenged catchment areas in the UK based on national deprivation scores — with the highest proportion of people in the UK with no qualification / 40% unemployment in the 16 — 25 age range
Administrators' statement of proposals (2016-01-12) · Companies House register