Pedmore Sporting Club Trust Fund
Charity 263907
Overview
Summary
Pedmore Sporting Club Trust Fund appears to function primarily as a locally rooted charitable fundraising and grant-making vehicle rather than as a direct service provider. Its role is unusually broad: charitable events generate resources that can be directed to individuals facing need and to other voluntary organisations, across several beneficiary groups. This suggests the trust may act as a flexible connector between community fundraising, immediate hardship relief and the wider voluntary sector, although the evidence does not show how funding priorities are chosen or distributed.
Operational geography
Coverage: Regional
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct evidence from the Charity Commission records Birmingham City as one of seven local-authority areas in which the charity operates, alongside Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton. This supports a regional operational footprint rather than a Birmingham-only or neighbourhood-based identity.
- No current evidence identifies a Birmingham ward or the City Centre as a delivery location, grant-making base, event venue or physical site. Therefore no supplied Birmingham area identifier can be included with confidence.
- The charity's known correspondence address is in Halesowen, outside Birmingham. Its official history page says administration is carried out locally and committee meetings/functions are held at Stourbridge Golf Club and other venues; this is not evidence of a Birmingham physical site.
- The available 2022 accounts show a grant-making model, with applications from individuals or institutions described as preferably locally based, but the listed grants do not demonstrate a current, specific Birmingham neighbourhood footprint.
- The Charity Commission's reported operating-area list is direct evidence of Birmingham-wide eligibility or activity at local-authority level, but it does not establish whether grants have recently been made across Birmingham or only to a small number of recipients within the city.
Additional evidence needed
- The trustees' annual report and detailed grant schedule for the year ended 31 December 2024, including recipient names, project locations and grant amounts.
- Current information from the charity identifying Birmingham-based grant recipients, funded projects or regular fundraising/event venues.
- Confirmation from the charity of whether Birmingham City is an active current grant-making area and, if so, the wards or places in which funded organisations deliver services.
Areas of work
- General Charitable Purposes
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- People With Disabilities
How they help
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A fundraising-to-grant-making model
The trust appears to convert charitable events into flexible support for both individuals and organisations, rather than delivering a defined programme of services itself.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish its likely role in local civic life: it may strengthen other organisations' work while also retaining the ability to respond directly to personal need.
Show evidence
“The principal activity is the organisation of charitable events to raise funding.”
Source:Organisation“Funding is utilised through cash grants or the provision of goods and services.”
Source:Organisation“The charity makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.”
Source:Charity Commission
Broad discretion may be a defining capability
The objects give the club substantial discretion to support poverty relief and other charitable purposes agreed through its formal meetings. This may allow it to respond to changing local opportunities or urgent needs.
Why it matters
Flexible funds can complement charities with narrower remits, but this flexibility also makes the trust's practical priorities difficult to understand without evidence of actual grants.
Show evidence
“The objects include relief of the poor and needy.”
Source:Organisation“Other charitable purposes may be supported as the club shall in duly constituted meeting direct.”
Source:Organisation
Potential bridge across different forms of vulnerability
By identifying children and young people, older people, disabled people and voluntary bodies, the trust appears positioned to support needs across life stages and to work indirectly through community organisations.
Why it matters
This breadth may make the trust a useful relationship-building partner where needs do not fit neatly within one specialist service area.
Show evidence
“The charity helps children and young people, elderly or old people, people with disabilities, and other charities or voluntary bodies.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity's work is classified as general charitable purposes.”
Source:Charity Commission
- There is no evidence of the scale, frequency, geography or recipients of grants.
- It is unclear whether the sporting club provides the trust's main relationships, volunteers or fundraising audience.
- There is no evidence of how decisions balance direct hardship relief against grants to organisations.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or accounts showing income sources, grant totals and named or categorised recipients.
- Information on charitable events, grant criteria, decision-making and the geographic area served.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
THE PRINCIPAL ACTIVITY IS THE ORGANISATION OF CHARITABLE EVENTS TO RAISE FUNDING TO BE UTILISED FOR THE RELIEF OF THE POOR AND NEEDY AND FOR ANY OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANISATION THROUGH CASH GRANTS OR THE PROVISION OF GOODS AND SERVICES.
Charity objects
TO OR FOR THE RELIEF OF THE POOR AND NEEDY OR TO OR FOR SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE, INSTITUTION, SOCIETY OR OBJECT AS THE CLUB SHALL IN DULY CONSTITUTED MEETING FROM TIME TO TIME DIRECT.