Solihull Lions Club (CIO)
Charity 1206383
Overview
Summary
Solihull Lions Club (CIO) appears to function as a long-standing, flexible local civic resource: combining direct help to people facing need with support for other charities and voluntary bodies. Its unusually broad charitable scope may allow it to respond to varied local circumstances rather than operate around a single issue. The available evidence suggests that its role is partly relational, using grants, activities and human resources to connect individual needs with wider voluntary-sector capacity.
Operational geography
Coverage: Regional
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct evidence: the Charity Commission record, updated through the 2025 reporting year and filed in March 2026, declares Birmingham City, Solihull and Warwickshire as places where the charity operates. It does not identify Birmingham wards, service venues or beneficiary locations.
- Direct evidence: the organisation's own events page records fundraising collections at Morrisons Sheldon on 19 and 20 December 2024. This demonstrates activity in Sheldon at that time, but is not sufficient evidence that it currently operates there on an ongoing basis.
- Reasonable interpretation: Solihull is the organisation's principal operational base and identity. Its current website describes support for local causes and for older people 'in the borough'; its regular meetings are held at Solihull Indoor Bowls Club. The Birmingham and Warwickshire declarations indicate a wider, secondary operational reach rather than a Birmingham-centred service model.
- The organisation's website refers to working with partners and friends when supervising activities, and proposed a joint 2024 social event with Acocks Green Lions. There is no evidence that this proposed collaboration created a continuing operational presence in Acocks Green or elsewhere in Birmingham.
- The charity reports donations to national and international Lions disaster and humanitarian projects. These grants extend the destinations of its funding, but the available evidence does not show that Solihull Lions directly delivers services outside its local operating area.
- No Birmingham physical site is evidenced. The organisation's regular meetings are held at Solihull Indoor Bowls Club in Solihull, and the Charity Commission records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual report, activity report or event programme identifying Birmingham locations used during 2025-26.
- Confirmation from the organisation of whether fundraising at Morrisons Sheldon is recurring and whether it undertakes any other regular Birmingham-based activity.
- A current list of grant recipients, service venues or delivery partners in Birmingham.
- Evidence distinguishing work delivered directly by Solihull Lions from grants made to independent organisations serving Birmingham.
Areas of work
- Disability
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- General Charitable Purposes
- Other Charitable Purposes
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- Recreation
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A flexible local support platform
The organisation appears designed to allocate help across multiple causes and beneficiary groups, rather than being restricted to one defined service area. Its discretion over funds may enable responsive support when needs emerge.
Why it matters
This helps explain why the club spans individual grants, activities and organisational support: its potential value may lie in adaptability and local judgement rather than specialist delivery.
Show evidence
“The club may apply funds and income for charitable purposes in such shares and manner as it determines.”
Source:Charity Commission“Its activities aim to make a difference to individuals, groups or charitable organisations.”
Source:Organisation
A bridge between personal need and civic capacity
Solihull Lions appears to operate at two levels: providing direct assistance to people, while also strengthening other charities and voluntary bodies through grants or human resources.
Why it matters
This dual role may make the organisation a useful connector in the local ecosystem. Its impact could extend beyond its own activities if it enables other groups to respond more effectively.
Show evidence
“The charity gives grants to individuals in need and works closely with other charitable organisations.”
Source:Organisation“The charity makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations, and provides human resources.”
Source:Charity Commission
Breadth may be a strength, but obscures priorities
The stated purposes cover health, disability, overseas aid, environment, heritage, recreation and general charitable purposes, while beneficiaries include children, older people, disabled people, charities and the general public. This may reflect wide local responsiveness, but the available evidence does not reveal which areas receive most attention.
Why it matters
Understanding actual priorities is necessary to identify where the club complements existing provision, where it may be stretched across too many needs, and which relationships are most important.
Show evidence
“The charity works in health, disability, overseas aid, environment, conservation, heritage, recreation and other charitable purposes.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps children and young people, older people, people with disabilities, charities or voluntary bodies, and the general public.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which needs, locations and beneficiary groups receive the greatest share of funding and volunteer time.
- Which charities the club works with, and whether these relationships are occasional, strategic or long-term.
- How direct activities for disabled and older people are designed and delivered.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or grant lists showing recipients, amounts, purposes and geographic reach.
- Information on partnerships, volunteer capacity, referral routes and outcomes for people receiving support.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
For over fifty years our charity Solihull Lions (CIO) has served the citizens of Solihull. Our activities our wide ranging but aim to make a difference to individuals, groups or charitable organisations. We give grants to individuals in need, provide activities for disabled and elderly individuals as well as work closely with other charitable organisations.
Charity objects
TO APPLY THE FUNDS AND INCOME FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES IN SUCH SHARES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE CLUB SHALL IN ITS ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE AND SELECT.