Moseley Park And Pool Trust
Charity 1115870
Overview
Summary
Moseley Park And Pool Trust appears to be a place-based steward of a historically significant urban landscape, using access to green space as its central civic contribution. Its model combines conservation, recreation, education and heritage, while balancing broad public benefit with a subscriber-supported approach to everyday access. The organisation’s distinctive role may be less about delivering discrete programmes than maintaining a shared local asset that enables wellbeing, wildlife engagement, sport and community events.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Moseley
Confidence: high
The Trust's official website directly identifies Moseley Park and Pool as the site it runs and maintains, and describes regular public access, subscriber access and community events at that single site.
- Moseley Park and Pool official website – Plan your visit
The Trust states that it runs and cares for Moseley Park and Pool, a parkland, lake, meadow and woodland site in Moseley. - Moseley Park and Pool official website – Wellness Wednesdays
The Trust states that the Park and Pool is open to everyone every Wednesday and on monthly Open Days. - Moseley Park and Pool official website – Activities
The site hosts sports and wellbeing activity including yoga, tennis and angling; the website says these clubs are independently run, but their activity is based at the Park and Pool.
Remaining uncertainties
- The available evidence establishes a single principal operational site in Moseley, but does not rule out occasional off-site education, outreach or event activity elsewhere in Birmingham.
- The Trust works alongside independently run sports and wellbeing providers and partners on some events, but the available evidence does not show that these relationships create a sustained operational footprint beyond Moseley.
- The Moseley Exchange address is presented as a postal address. It should not be treated as a separate service-delivery site without further evidence.
Additional evidence needed
- The latest trustees' annual report or impact report, specifying whether the Trust delivered any activities away from Moseley Park and Pool during the reporting year.
- Current partnership or venue agreements showing whether the Trust operates, funds or delivers programmes at locations beyond the Park and Pool.
- A current operational plan or programme calendar identifying any recurring off-site services, education sessions or outreach activity.
Areas of work
- Amateur Sport
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Education/training
- Environment/conservation/heritage
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A civic asset steward rather than a conventional service provider
The Trust appears to create public benefit chiefly by caring for and opening a physical place. Education, recreation, heritage and environmental aims seem to be delivered through the park itself rather than through a narrowly defined service.
Why it matters
This explains why the organisation may matter across several local priorities at once: access to nature, informal wellbeing, heritage, learning and leisure can all arise from the same maintained landscape.
Show evidence
“The charity’s objects include restoring, maintaining and promoting Moseley Park and Pool as recreational facilities in the interests of social welfare.”
Source:Charity Commission“Moseley Park and Pool has 11 acres of parkland, meadows and woodland surrounding a lake.”
Source:Organisation
Access is both public-minded and selectively structured
The available evidence suggests a mixed access model: the Trust makes the site available through Wellness Wednesdays and Open Days, while annual subscribers can use it daily. This may help sustain a privately managed park while limiting routine access for non-subscribers.
Why it matters
This is a central tension in understanding its civic role: the organisation seeks benefit for Birmingham’s inhabitants, but the form and frequency of access may shape who can benefit most.
Show evidence
“The park is open for everybody on Wellness Wednesdays and Open Days.”
Source:Organisation“Annual subscribers can enjoy the site from dawn to dusk 365 days a year.”
Source:Organisation
The park may function as a convening habitat for different forms of local participation
The coexistence of resident yoga, tennis and angling clubs alongside wildlife, heritage and community-event activity suggests the Trust may connect groups that would not otherwise share an organisational setting.
Why it matters
This points to unrealised relational value: the site may be an intermediary between sport, nature, culture and neighbourhood life, not simply a venue used independently by each group.
Show evidence
“The site is home to three resident sports clubs: yoga, tennis and angling.”
Source:Organisation“The park supports community and events enquiries.”
Source:Organisation“The charity’s purposes include education, arts, culture, heritage, science, amateur sport and environment or conservation.”
Source:Charity Commission
- It is unclear how many people use the park through public opening opportunities compared with subscriptions.
- There is no evidence of the Trust’s finances, governance, volunteer base, partnerships or educational programming.
- The relationship between the resident clubs, local community organisations and the Trust is not described.
Remaining uncertainties
- Visitor, subscriber and event participation data, including demographic and geographic reach.
- Information on subscription pricing, concessions and access policy.
- Annual reports or accounts showing income sources, maintenance costs, volunteers and partnership activity.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Management of an Urban Park
Charity objects
A) TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF BIRMINGHAM THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION BY RESTORING, MAINTAINING AND PROMOTING MOSELEY PARK AND POOL IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE PUBLIC. B) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, THE STUDY OF SCIENCE, NATURAL HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION.