Golf For Disabled Children
Charity 1206251
Overview
Summary
Golf For Disabled Children appears to be a narrowly focused, place-based charity using golf as a structured route into inclusion for disabled young people in West Midlands SEND schools. Its apparent connection to Shirley Golf Club suggests an operating model rooted in access to an established sporting venue rather than a standalone disability-service infrastructure. The organisation’s distinctive role may be to make a traditionally less accessible sport available within a defined educational and geographic community.
Operational geography
Coverage: Regional
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- No current evidence identifies a service venue, partner school or outreach location within any Birmingham ward or the City Centre. Birmingham operational areas therefore cannot be assigned confidently from the supplied area list.
- The charity's principal physical base appears to be Shirley Golf Club, Solihull, which is outside Birmingham; the registered address should not be treated as evidence of a Birmingham operational site.
- The charity's objects cover SEND schools across the West Midlands, and a 2023 account described coaching both at the club and in the community across the West Midlands. However, the available current evidence does not name the schools, local authorities or community locations involved.
- Current reporting confirms that weekly free coaching continues for more than 100 SEND children from local schools, but does not establish whether those schools are in Birmingham, Solihull, or elsewhere in the West Midlands.
Additional evidence needed
- A current programme timetable or delivery report naming the schools, venues or local authorities served.
- Confirmation from Golf For Disabled Children or Shirley Golf Club of whether coaching is currently delivered in Birmingham schools or community venues, and in which wards.
- The charity's latest trustees' annual report or accounts with a description of delivery locations and partner schools.
Areas of work
- Disability
Who they help
- Children/young People
- People With Disabilities
How they help
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A highly targeted inclusion model
The charity appears to concentrate resources on a specific group: disabled children aged 10–17 attending SEND schools in the West Midlands. This suggests a deliberately bounded intervention rather than a general disability-sport offer.
Why it matters
The narrow eligibility focus may allow coaching, facilities and relationships with schools to be adapted to participants’ needs. It also raises useful questions about which young people are reached or excluded by the age, school and regional boundaries.
Show evidence
“The objects are to relieve the needs of children aged 10 to 17 who attend SEND schools in the West Midlands.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps children/young people and people with disabilities.”
Source:Charity Commission
Golf is being used as a means of access, not simply an end activity
By framing its purpose as relieving needs through facilities and coaching, the organisation appears to treat golf as a vehicle for participation and support, rather than merely providing recreational sessions.
Why it matters
This distinguishes the charity from a conventional junior golf programme. Understanding whether golf creates confidence, social connection, physical activity or access to valued community spaces would clarify its wider civic contribution.
Show evidence
“The charity provides facilities and golf coaching.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity's activity is classified as disability.”
Source:Charity Commission
Possible reliance on an established golf-club setting
The available website material places 'Golf for Disabled Children' within Shirley Golf Club's navigation and identifies the club's Solihull address. This may indicate that the charity’s delivery depends on, or is closely connected to, an existing golf-club environment.
Why it matters
If so, the organisation may bridge SEND schools with a mainstream community asset. That relationship could be central to its capacity, accessibility and long-term resilience, but is not yet clearly evidenced.
Show evidence
“The website navigation includes 'Golf for Disabled Children'.”
Source:Organisation“The website identifies Shirley Golf Club, Stratford Road, Monkspath, Solihull, West Midlands, B90 4EW.”
Source:Organisation
- How many children and SEND schools participate, and how regularly coaching is delivered.
- Whether the charity is independent from, hosted by, or partnered with Shirley Golf Club.
- What outcomes participants, families and schools experience beyond access to golf.
Remaining uncertainties
- Programme descriptions, session locations, accessibility adaptations and participant numbers.
- Evidence of partnerships with SEND schools, funders, coaches and Shirley Golf Club.
- Participant, parent and school feedback alongside outcome or impact reporting.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Charity objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN AGED 10 TO 17 WHO ATTEND SEND SCHOOLS IN THE WEST MIDLANDS BY PROVIDING FACILITIES AND GOLF COACHING. NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH [SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005] AND [SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008].