Alta Sports Club For The Disabled
Charity 514243
Overview
Summary
Alta Sports Club For The Disabled appears to occupy a focused but potentially important role in inclusive local sport: it creates a regular, adapted swimming opportunity for disabled people across a notably wide age range. Its model seems to combine community participation and practical accessibility support with access to University of Birmingham facilities. The available evidence suggests that the club’s value lies not only in swimming provision, but in making both recreational and competitive sporting participation more attainable within an integrated community setting.
Operational geography
No operational geography is currently available for this organisation.
Areas of work
- Amateur Sport
- Disability
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who they help
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
Accessibility is built into the delivery model
The club appears to rely on a deliberately adapted swimming environment rather than expecting disabled participants to fit a standard session. Equipment, physical access arrangements and lifeguard provision may enable participation by people with varied mobility needs.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish the organisation from a general swimming group: its core capability may be reducing practical barriers that commonly prevent disabled people from accessing sport.
Show evidence
“The session has 2 lifeguards, poolside wheelchairs, hoists, steps and platforms to assist with entry and exit.”
Source:Organisation“The group meets at the University of Birmingham Sport & Fitness swimming pool.”
Source:Organisation
A small, recurring social infrastructure for disabled swimmers
A weekly session involving disabled swimmers and helpers aged 10 to 95 may function as a continuing local community, rather than solely as an occasional activity provider.
Why it matters
The organisation’s contribution may include sustained relationships, mutual support and continuity across generations, which are easily overlooked when viewing it only as a sports service.
Show evidence
“Disabled swimmers and their helpers aged 10 to 95 from the local community meet once a week.”
Source:Organisation“The session takes place every Sunday from 13.05 to 14.00.”
Source:Organisation
Sport is positioned as a route to integration
The charity’s formal purpose suggests it sees sport as more than health or leisure provision: non-competitive and competitive activity may be intended to support disabled people’s integration into society.
Why it matters
This clarifies the organisation’s wider civic ambition and raises useful questions about whether its current swimming provision creates pathways into broader sporting, social or community participation.
Show evidence
“The charity provides facilities for non-competitive and competitive sport to assist disabled persons' integration into society.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity's purposes include disability, amateur sport and the advancement of health or saving of lives.”
Source:Charity Commission
- It is unclear how many people attend, what disabilities or support needs are represented, and whether there is unmet demand.
- There is no evidence about funding, staffing or volunteer arrangements, beyond the presence of helpers and lifeguards.
- It is unknown whether competitive opportunities, partnerships or onward pathways currently exist.
Remaining uncertainties
- Participation, waiting-list and demographic data, including participant feedback on accessibility and belonging.
- Information on the club’s relationship with the university, funding model, volunteer capacity and sporting partnerships.
- Evidence of outcomes beyond attendance, including health, confidence, social connection and competitive participation.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
We are a group of disabled swimmers and their helpers (aged 10 to 95) from the local community who meet once a week at the University of Birmingham "Sport & Fitness" swimming pool. We have a session from 13.05 to 14.00 every Sunday in a 1.2 metre deep, 25 metre long pool. We have 2 lifeguards, poolside wheelchairs, hoists, steps and platforms to assist with entry and exit to and from the pool.
Charity objects
TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR PHYSICAL RECREATION OR OTHER SIMILAR LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL DISABLED PERSONS AND IN PARTICULAR TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR NON-COMPETITIVE AND COMPETITIVE SPORT TO ASSIST THEIR INTEGRATION INTO SOCIETY.