Adrian Sidaway Memorial Fund
Charity 1043825
Overview
Summary
The Adrian Sidaway Memorial Fund appears to function as a targeted participation fund embedded in the 59th Birmingham Company of The Boys’ Brigade. Rather than delivering youth activities itself, it reduces the personal cost barriers that can prevent individual members from taking part. Its role is therefore narrow but potentially consequential: protecting access to an existing local youth community for children and young people whose participation might otherwise be limited by affordability.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Quinton
Confidence: medium
Direct evidence establishes that the fund exclusively supports members and officers of the 59th Birmingham Company of The Boys' Brigade. The 59th Birmingham Company is evidenced as currently active by a 2025 Boys' Brigade competition result. Quinton Methodist Church currently lists a weekly Boys' Brigade session, while Methodist records identify its Boys' Brigade as the 59th Birmingham Company. The latter identification is historical rather than current, so Quinton is a well-supported but not fully contemporaneously confirmed operational location for the fund.
- Charity Commission record supplied for Adrian Sidaway Memorial Fund (charity 1043825)
The charity's stated activity is financial support for individual members of the 59th Birmingham Company of The Boys' Brigade to enable participation in BB activities; its objects are financial support to boys and officers of that company. - The Boys' Brigade, Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2025 full results
The official 2025 results list the 59th Birmingham Company, providing recent evidence that the company remains active. - Birmingham (West) & Oldbury Methodist Circuit, Quinton church page
The current Quinton Methodist Church programme lists Boys' Brigade for ages 4–18 at 6.15pm on Wednesdays. - Methodist Church, Statistics for Mission: Church Groups and Outreach/Community Engagement Activities 2012
The Quinton entry identifies the Boys' Brigade group operating on church premises as the '59th Birmingham'.
Remaining uncertainties
- There is no current official source explicitly naming Quinton Methodist Church as the meeting place of the 59th Birmingham Company; the direct naming link located is from 2012, although the church still lists a Boys' Brigade session and the company is evidenced as active in 2025.
- The fund appears to be a grant-maker rather than a provider of sessions or a venue operator. No evidence was found that it owns, leases or directly runs a physical site in Birmingham.
- No evidence establishes the residential geography of grant recipients. Beneficiaries may travel from outside Quinton, but that would not demonstrate that the fund operates in those areas.
- The registered correspondence address is in Halesowen and should not be treated as an operational site or as evidence of Birmingham service delivery.
Additional evidence needed
- A current 59th Birmingham Company or Quinton Methodist Church timetable, contact page or annual report explicitly confirming the company's meeting venue.
- Recent grant records or a trustee report confirming whether all supported members currently participate through the Quinton-based company and whether any activities occur at other venues.
- Evidence of any formal arrangement between the fund and Quinton Methodist Church or The Boys' Brigade beyond the fund's beneficiary relationship with the 59th Birmingham Company.
Areas of work
- Other Charitable Purposes
Who they help
- Children/young People
How they help
- Makes Grants To Individuals
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A participation-enabling fund rather than a service provider
The fund appears to operate by making grants to individual members, using financial support to widen access to activities delivered through the Boys’ Brigade company rather than running a separate programme.
Why it matters
This clarifies that its civic value may lie in sustaining inclusion within an existing youth infrastructure. Its effectiveness is likely closely connected to the reach and activity of the 59th Birmingham Company.
Show evidence
“The primary objective is to provide financial support to individual members of the 59th Birmingham Company of The Boys' Brigade.”
Source:Organisation“Makes Grants To Individuals.”
Source:Charity Commission
Affordability is the organisation’s central inclusion mechanism
The fund appears designed to address economic barriers to participation, specifically where members would otherwise struggle to afford Boys’ Brigade activities.
Why it matters
This suggests the organisation may be an important but low-visibility safeguard against exclusion: it does not create activities, but may determine who can realistically access them.
Show evidence
“To enable them to participate in BB activities which they would otherwise find it difficult to afford.”
Source:Organisation“Children/young People.”
Source:Charity Commission
The fund is highly relationship-dependent
Its beneficiary group is restricted to boys and officers of one named Boys’ Brigade company, indicating a deliberately bounded relationship with a single local institution rather than an open community grant-making role.
Why it matters
This focus may enable contextual, trusted support, but also means the fund’s local impact and accessibility depend on who is connected to that company.
Show evidence
“FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO BOYS AND OFFICERS OF THE 59TH BIRMINGHAM COMPANY OF THE BOYS BRIGADE.”
Source:Charity Commission“Individual members of the 59th Birmingham Company of The Boys' Brigade.”
Source:Organisation
- The scale, frequency and typical value of grants are unknown.
- It is unclear which activities or costs are supported and whether officers receive support in practice.
- There is no evidence about unmet need, application processes or the number of beneficiaries.
Remaining uncertainties
- Annual reports or accounts showing grant expenditure, beneficiary numbers and trends over time.
- Information from the 59th Birmingham Company about activities, membership, costs and how members access support.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
The primary objective is to provide financial support to individual members of the 59th Birmingham Company of The Boys' Brigade to enable them to participate in BB activities which they would otherwise find it difficult to afford.
Charity objects
FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO BOYS AND OFFICERS OF THE 59TH BIRMINGHAM COMPANY OF THE BOYS BRIGADE.