Creation Adventure Sports Ltd
Charity 1131084
Overview
Summary
Creation Adventure Sports Ltd appears to operate as both a substantial extreme-sports venue and an inclusion-oriented civic resource. Its model combines an everyday commercial-style public facility with charitable purposes focused on access for people facing age, disability, financial or social barriers. Rather than treating skating, BMX and related activities solely as recreation, it appears to use them as a route into confidence, mobility, learning and safer leisure opportunities, including through school and nonprofit relationships.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Balsall Heath West
Confidence: high
Direct current evidence identifies Creation Skatepark as an operating extreme-sports venue in Birmingham. Birmingham City Council planning records identify the venue site as being in Balsall Heath West ward.
- Creation Skatepark official website
The organisation describes Creation Skatepark as a Birmingham extreme-sports venue and publishes current daily opening hours, on-site facilities and lessons. - Birmingham City Council planning record, application 2024/05747/PA
The Council identifies the venue site as being in Balsall Heath West ward. - Charity Commission register, Creation Adventure Sports Ltd, charity number 1131084
The charity's contact address is recorded as Creation Skatepark, Birmingham.
Remaining uncertainties
- The organisation has direct evidence of a venue-led operation in Balsall Heath West, but the available evidence does not identify the individual schools or wards where it currently delivers Bikeability through the named Golden Hillock Sports Partnership.
- The Charity Commission currently records the charity as operating in Birmingham City, supporting a citywide overall coverage classification. However, this does not show the volume, frequency or precise distribution of activity across Birmingham, and should not be read as evidence of a permanent site or regular delivery programme in every ward.
- The organisation's operational identity appears primarily venue-led, with citywide reach through a publicly accessible Birmingham facility and school partnership work. The evidence is insufficient to determine how much of its activity occurs away from the Balsall Heath West site.
- The current Central Sports Partnership describes itself as formerly based at Golden Hillock School and as serving a Central Birmingham cluster, but it does not publish a current school list that can be reliably matched to Creation's reported Bikeability delivery.
Additional evidence needed
- A current delivery or impact report from Creation Adventure Sports Ltd showing the schools, wards, dates and scale of Bikeability delivery.
- Confirmation from Creation or the relevant school-sport partnership of the current member schools covered by the Golden Hillock Sports Partnership arrangement.
- Current service data distinguishing activity delivered at Creation Skatepark from outreach, school-based or partnership delivery elsewhere in Birmingham.
Areas of work
- Amateur Sport
Who they help
- Children/young People
- 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
A venue-based charity using mainstream recreation to widen access
The organisation appears to use a large, regularly open skatepark as its core charitable infrastructure, while adapting access through discounted tuition and a broad public-benefit remit.
Why it matters
This suggests its social value may depend not only on targeted programmes but on maintaining an accessible, credible and appealing shared venue for ordinary participation.
Show evidence
“Creation is the Midlands' biggest extreme sports venue and has 23,000sqft of ramps for BMXs, in-line skates, scooters and skateboards.”
Source:Organisation“The charity provides facilities for recreation or leisure-time occupation for people affected by youth, age, infirmity, disablement, financial hardship or social and economic circumstances, and for the public at large.”
Source:Charity Commission“The venue is open every day except Christmas Day and Boxing Day.”
Source:Organisation
Sport appears to be a bridge into education and local partnerships
Creation appears to extend beyond drop-in recreation by working through schools, charities and nonprofit organisations, using tuition and Bikeability delivery to reach people through trusted local institutions.
Why it matters
Its role may therefore include supporting educational and community networks, not simply serving people who independently choose to visit a skatepark.
Show evidence
“The charity works with other charities, schools and non profit organisations to offer tuition at discounted rates.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity delivers Bikeability to schools within the Golden Hillock Sports Partnership.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its inclusion claim is broader than its stated beneficiary detail
The organisation's legal purpose identifies financial hardship and wider social circumstances as barriers to participation, yet the recorded beneficiary categories name children and young people, disabled people and the general public. This may indicate an ambition to address disadvantage that is not fully visible in the available beneficiary description.
Why it matters
This is worth examining because affordability and social access may be central to the charity's distinctiveness, but current evidence does not show who receives support or whether the intended groups are being reached.
Show evidence
“The charity's objects include people who need facilities because of financial hardship or social and economic circumstances.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps children or young people, people with disabilities and the general public.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity offers tuition at discounted rates.”
Source:Charity Commission
- How many people receive discounted tuition, and which barriers they face.
- Whether disabled participants and people experiencing financial hardship can access the venue consistently.
- How the on-site cafe, entry fees and hire activity support the charitable operating model.
Remaining uncertainties
- Annual reports or impact data showing participation, concessions and beneficiary outcomes.
- Details of accessibility adaptations, safeguarding and disability-inclusive provision.
- Information from partner schools and charities on the purpose and results of joint activity.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Work with other charities, schools and non profit organisations to offer tuition at discounted rates, making the sport more widely available. Also deliver Bikeability to schools within the Golden Hillock Sports Partnership
Charity objects
"TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF BIRMINGHAM AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, ROLLER-SKATING, SKATEBOARDING AND BMX BIKING, FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS."