Friends Of Bournville Park

Charity 1192446

facebook.com/bournvillepark

Overview

Summary

Sources:Civic AtlasAI-assisted

Friends Of Bournville Park appears to be a place-based stewardship organisation: it uses the park as a practical focus for improving local quality of life, while framing that work broadly through recreation, heritage, environmental care, education and advocacy. Its role may therefore extend beyond maintaining a green space to helping sustain a shared civic asset for Bournville and nearby residents. The available evidence suggests a community-benefit orientation, but provides little visibility of its delivery model, partnerships or current priorities.

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Operational geography

Sources:ONSCivic AtlasAI-assisted

Coverage: Neighbourhood

Operational areas:

Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Bournville and Cotteridge

Confidence: low

The organisation's evidenced activity is concentrated at Bournville Park. The charity's most detailed available annual report describes leisure, education, youth-work and park-improvement activity at the Park rather than at dispersed venues. However, the available evidence does not directly establish the ward assignment.

  • Birmingham City Council — Bournville Park page ([birmingham.gov.uk](https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/directory_record/9083/?utm_source=openai))
    Lists Bournville Park, identifies Friends of Bournville Park as the park's charitable friends group, and says the group works with Birmingham City Council and Bournville Village Trust to care for the park and promote it for recreation, learning and wellbeing.
  • Friends of Bournville Park trustees' annual report, 20 November 2023 to 19 November 2024, Charity Commission ([register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk](https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/about-the-register-of-charities?_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_objectiveId=A16892648&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_priv_r_p_mvcRenderCommandName=%2Ffull-print&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_priv_r_p_organisationNumber=5166922&p_p_cacheability=cacheLevelPage&p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=2&p_p_mode=view&p_p_resource_id=%2Faccounts-resource&p_p_state=maximized))
    Reports Tennis for Free, Tai Chi sessions 'in the Park', a summer event, Forest School, detached youth work, tennis-court refurbishment and other improvements focused on Bournville Park. It also records Forest School links with adjacent Bournville Village Primary School, youth work delivered by Youth Work Europe, and tennis coaching through Tennis for Free and Weoley Hill Tennis Club.
Remaining uncertainties
  • The latest detailed activity report reviewed covers the period ending 19 November 2024. Charity Commission records show a return and accounts for the year ending 31 December 2025 were filed on 16 April 2026, but their detailed narrative activities were not available in the evidence reviewed. Current delivery frequency and any changes in programme locations therefore cannot be confirmed.
  • The charity's objects refer to Bournville and the surrounding area, but this is a beneficiary area rather than direct evidence of routine delivery outside Bournville Park. There is insufficient evidence to add neighbouring wards as operational areas.
  • The registered address is treated as a correspondence/principal address, not as an operational site. Charity Commission governance information states that the charity does not own or lease land or property.
  • Partnerships with Birmingham City Council, Bournville Village Trust, Bournville Village Primary School, Youth Work Europe, Tennis for Free and Weoley Hill Tennis Club materially support activity at or adjacent to the park, but the available evidence does not show that they create additional operational sites for the charity elsewhere in Birmingham.
Additional evidence needed
  • The full trustees' annual report or activity return for the year ending 31 December 2025, to confirm current programmes, venues and delivery dates.
  • Current official organisation communications or an accessible current programme listing that identifies where Tennis for Free, Tai Chi, Forest School, youth work and events are delivered.
  • Confirmation from the charity or Birmingham City Council of any regular activity undertaken away from Bournville Park, including whether adjacent-school activity is delivered by the charity or solely by the school.

Areas of work

Source:Charity Commission
  • Arts/culture/heritage/science
  • Education/training
  • Environment/conservation/heritage
  • Recreation

Who they help

Source:Charity Commission
  • Children/young People
  • The General Public/mankind

How they help

Source:Charity Commission
  • Provides Advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space

Discoveries involving this organisation

The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.

Observations

Sources:Civic AtlasAI-assisted

  • A park is treated as civic infrastructure

    The organisation appears to regard Bournville Park not simply as land to preserve, but as a shared setting through which social welfare, recreation and improved living conditions can be advanced.

    Why it matters

    This helps distinguish the organisation from a narrowly conservation-focused friends group. Its potential contribution lies in connecting environmental stewardship with community wellbeing.

    Show evidence

    • “The charity's object is to improve conditions of life through facilities for recreation and leisure-time occupation.”

      Source:Charity Commission

    • “The charity specifically includes the preservation, promotion, support, assistance and improvement of Bournville Park.”

      Source:Charity Commission

  • Its remit spans care, use and interpretation

    The combination of open-space provision, advocacy, education, heritage, environment and recreation suggests a potentially hybrid role: protecting the park while encouraging people to use, understand and value it.

    Why it matters

    This may make the organisation a useful bridge between conservation interests, cultural heritage activity and community participation rather than a single-purpose provider.

    Show evidence

    • “The charity helps by providing buildings, facilities or open space and by providing advocacy, advice or information.”

      Source:Charity Commission

    • “The charity works in education and training, arts, culture, heritage, environment, conservation and recreation.”

      Source:Charity Commission

  • The stated beneficiary scope is broad but locally anchored

    Although the organisation is rooted in Bournville and its surrounding area, it identifies both children and young people and the general public as beneficiaries. This may indicate an ambition to make the park an intergenerational community resource.

    Why it matters

    Understanding whether activity is genuinely intergenerational would clarify the organisation's potential role in local belonging, informal learning and everyday access to public space.

    Show evidence

    • “The area of benefit is Bournville and the surrounding area.”

      Source:Charity Commission

    • “The charity helps children and young people and the general public.”

      Source:Charity Commission

    Remaining uncertainties

  • Whether the organisation directly manages activities or primarily supports and advocates for the park.
  • Which local communities use or shape its work, and whether any groups are underrepresented.
  • Its relationships with park owners, local government, schools, heritage bodies or other community organisations.

    Additional evidence needed

  • Recent annual reports, activity plans or event records showing current priorities and delivery.
  • Information on governance, partnerships, funding and volunteer involvement.
  • Evidence of participation, visitor needs and outcomes for local residents.
Charity Commission profile
Source:Charity Commission

Activities

Friends of Bournville Park provides facilities for recreation and other leisure time activities with the object of improving the social welfare and conditions of life of the residents of Bournville and the surrounding area, in particular but not exclusively by the preservation, promotion, support, assistance and improvement of the Park.

Charity objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF BOURNVILLE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA (“THE AREA OF BENEFIT”) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PRESERVATION, PROMOTION, SUPPORT, ASSISTANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE BOURNVILLE PARK