Northfield Town Foundation
Charity 1213828
https://www.facebook.com/NorthfieldTown/?locale=en_GB
Overview
Summary
Northfield Town Foundation appears to be a place-based charity using sport, facilities and recreational activity as a broad platform for community wellbeing in Northfield and nearby areas. Its remit is notably wider than football: it combines physical health, social welfare, disability inclusion and educational advancement for children and young people. The available evidence suggests an organisation designed to serve multiple generations and needs, potentially through both direct provision and individual grants, although its actual operating model and partnerships remain unclear.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Weoley and Selly Oak
Confidence: high
The foundation is recorded as using Shenley Lane Community Association & Sports Centre as the home venue for a Northfield Town Foundation team. Birmingham City Council's planning record identifies the venue as being in the Weoley & Selly Oak ward.
- TeamStats match report: Northfield Town Foundation U10 Lionesses v Redditch United U9 JO, 12 October 2025
Records Northfield Town Foundation hosting a home fixture at Shenley Lane Community Association & Sports Centre. - Birmingham City Council planning record 2010/02415/PA
Identifies Shenley Lane Community Association & Sports Centre as being in the Weoley & Selly Oak ward. - Charity Commission record supplied for Northfield Town Foundation
Lists the charity address in Selly Oak, Birmingham.
Remaining uncertainties
- The charity's stated beneficiary focus is Northfield and local surrounding areas, but this does not by itself establish current delivery sites within the Northfield ward; it has therefore not been recorded as an operational area.
- Public evidence indicates that Northfield Town Foundation has youth football activity, but there is insufficient authoritative current evidence to map all teams, training venues, outreach activity or beneficiary catchments.
- The registered address is shared with Shenley Lane Community Association & Sports Centre. The evidence supports use of the site, but does not establish that the foundation owns or exclusively manages it.
- A public football-club profile reports that the foundation's U18 team plays at Shenley Academy, but this was not independently confirmed through an official current foundation, academy or league source; Bartley Green has therefore not been included.
Additional evidence needed
- A current foundation programme, fixture list or venue schedule identifying every regular home, training and activity location.
- Confirmation from Northfield Town Foundation or Shenley Lane Community Association of the foundation's current relationship to the Shenley Lane site and the activities delivered there.
- Official confirmation of the U18 team's present home venue and any other school or community venues used by the foundation.
- Current information on the geographic origin of participants and whether activities are actively delivered beyond the Northfield/Shenley Lane locality.
Areas of work
- Amateur Sport
- Disability
- General Charitable Purposes
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
Sport appears to be the organisation's entry point, not its whole purpose
Football and other sports may be the Foundation's practical means of bringing people together, while its intended outcomes extend to wellbeing, social welfare and education.
Why it matters
This suggests the organisation may be relevant to partners beyond amateur sport, including youth, health, disability and community-development organisations.
Show evidence
“The objects include providing facilities for association football and other sports that promote physical health and fitness.”
Source:Charity Commission“The objects include recreational and leisure activities intended to improve conditions of life.”
Source:Charity Commission“The objects include advancing the education of children and young people.”
Source:Charity Commission
The Foundation has an unusually broad inclusion mandate
The organisation appears intended to work across age, disability and economic disadvantage rather than serving a single participant group.
Why it matters
This breadth may make it a potential connector between groups that are often supported through separate services, but it also raises questions about how it prioritises limited capacity.
Show evidence
“The charity helps children and young people, elderly people, people with disabilities and the general public.”
Source:Charity Commission“Its recreational objects refer to need arising from youth, age, infirmity or disability, poverty, or social and economic circumstances.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its stated model combines community infrastructure with individual support
The Foundation may be positioned to reduce barriers to participation both by making facilities available and by supporting individuals directly through grants or services.
Why it matters
This is a potentially distinctive operating model: access can depend not only on whether activities exist, but also on whether people can afford, reach or participate in them.
Show evidence
“The charity makes grants to individuals.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity provides buildings, facilities or open space.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity provides services.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which activities, facilities, services and grants are currently delivered, and at what scale.
- Whether the Foundation operates facilities itself or works through sports clubs, schools or other local partners.
- How it reaches disabled people, older residents and people facing economic disadvantage.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, accounts or impact reporting showing beneficiaries, spending and delivery activity.
- Information on facilities, grant criteria, programmes and delivery partners.
- Evidence of local need and participant feedback, including who is not currently being reached.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Northfield Town Foundation's activities are for the public benefit, in particular, to the inhabitants of Northfield, Birmingham, and the local surrounding areas. This includes the promotion of community participation in healthy recreation by providing provision for the playing of association football and other sports capable of promoting wellbeing, physical health and fitness.
Charity objects
3. OBJECTS THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, TO THE INHABITANTS OF NORTHFIELD, BIRMINGHAM, AND THE LOCAL SURROUNDING AREAS: 3.1. THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR PLAYING OF ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL AND OTHER SPORTS CAPABLE OF PROMOTING PHYSICAL HEALTH AND FITNESS ("FACILITIES" MEANS LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT AND ORGANISING SPORTING ACTIVITIES) 3.2. THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY, OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE, WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS 3.3. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, WHETHER THEY ARE UNDERGOING FORMAL EDUCATION OR NOT, THROUGH SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF CHARITY ("THE OBJECTS").