Hollyfields Football Club
Charity 1210693
Overview
Summary
Hollyfields Football Club appears to use amateur sport as a platform for wider youth development and local connection, rather than treating football as an end in itself. Its charitable purpose combines access to recreation, the development of children and young people, and inclusive community activity. This suggests a potentially place-based role: creating settings where physical activity, skills-building and social cohesion can reinforce one another. However, the available evidence does not yet show how these ambitions are delivered in practice or who participates beyond the stated youth focus.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Pype Hayes
Confidence: low
The charity gives Hollyfields Sports Centre as its contact address, and the current Birmingham & District Football League directory identifies the same venue as Hollyfields F.C.'s ground. The available evidence does not establish operational activity in Pype Hayes ward.
- Charity Commission register — Hollyfields Football Club, charity 1210693
Lists the charity's address as Hollyfields Sports Centre, Birmingham. - Birmingham & District Football League — club directory
Lists Hollyfields F.C.'s ground as Hollyfields Conference and Sports Centre, Erdington, using the same club email address as the charity.
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission records Birmingham City and Warwickshire as places where the charity operates, supporting a regional overall footprint; however, it provides no activity description or named Warwickshire venue, programme or partner.
- Evidence supports a single current Birmingham playing site. It does not establish additional service-delivery sites elsewhere in Birmingham.
- The charity's objects refer to supporting the local community, but available evidence does not define a beneficiary catchment or demonstrate citywide delivery.
- The Birmingham & District Football League listing demonstrates a current competition connection and home ground, but does not by itself evidence a material delivery partnership or services delivered at other clubs' venues.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual report, trustees' report or activity return identifying programmes, teams, regular sessions and the locations where they are delivered.
- Confirmation from the charity or venue operator of the charity's use of Hollyfields Sports Centre and whether it operates any additional sites.
- Details of the charity's reported Warwickshire activity, including the relevant venue, programme or delivery partner.
- Current information on formal partnerships that provide facilities, referrals, coaching or community activity beyond the Hollyfields site.
Areas of work
- Amateur Sport
Who they help
- Children/young People
How they help
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
Football appears to be a vehicle for broader development
The available evidence suggests the club frames sport as a means of developing young people's capabilities, competencies and skills, alongside providing recreation. This may indicate an educational and developmental operating model rather than a narrowly competitive sporting one.
Why it matters
This distinction helps identify the club as a potential contributor to youth development, not only to local sports provision. It may therefore have relevance to organisations concerned with education, wellbeing or youth participation.
Show evidence
“To advance the education of children and young people through physical education and the development of their capabilities, competencies, and skills.”
Source:Charity Commission“What the charity does: Amateur Sport.”
Source:Charity Commission
The club has a dual youth-and-community purpose
Although children and young people are identified as the primary beneficiary group, the objects also position the club as a convenor of inclusive local activities. This may indicate that its intended value extends beyond participants to families and the wider community.
Why it matters
This suggests possible connections with community groups, local events and wellbeing initiatives, while raising a useful question about whether its community-facing work reaches people beyond its playing membership.
Show evidence
“Who the charity helps: Children/young People.”
Source:Charity Commission“To support and engage the local community through inclusive events and activities that encourage social cohesion and physical well-being.”
Source:Charity Commission
Facilities may be central to its contribution
The emphasis on providing facilities suggests the club may contribute local sporting infrastructure as well as organised services. Its objects also leave room for activity beyond football, although no evidence confirms that other sports are currently offered.
Why it matters
Facility-based organisations can become important local assets and potential partners for other activity providers. Clarifying access, ownership and use could reveal a wider civic role.
Show evidence
“To promote community participation in healthy recreation by providing facilities for playing football and other sports.”
Source:Charity Commission“How the charity helps: Provides Services.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Whether the club provides activities beyond football, despite its wider sporting object.
- How inclusive events and services are delivered, and which local communities participate.
- Whether facilities are owned, managed or simply accessed by the club.
Remaining uncertainties
- Programme, membership and participation data, including ages, geography and barriers to access.
- Information on facilities, partnerships, community events and outcomes for young people.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Charity objects
1. TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR PLAYING FOOTBALL AND OTHER SPORTS. 2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR CAPABILITIES, COMPETENCIES, AND SKILLS. 3. TO SUPPORT AND ENGAGE THE LOCAL COMMUNITY THROUGH INCLUSIVE EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES THAT ENCOURAGE SOCIAL COHESION AND PHYSICAL WELL-BEING.