The Bill Lloyd Memorial Trust Limited
Charity 1155515
Overview
Summary
The Bill Lloyd Memorial Trust appears to be a Birmingham-focused, specialist cricket charity using sport as a route to social inclusion. Its role seems less like that of a conventional sports club and more like an enabling funder and supporter of local youth and disability cricket. The available evidence suggests a deliberately grassroots orientation, with cricket treated both as recreation and as a means of improving life conditions for people facing exclusion or disadvantage.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Ladywood
Confidence: medium
The Trust's official website records a School Cricket Awareness Day at 'Ladywood Primary School, Birmingham' on 11 July 2024. This is direct evidence of a delivered activity associated with Ladywood, but the school name could not be conclusively matched to a current Birmingham school record.
- The Bill Lloyd Memorial Trust official website — Events & Newsletters
Records a 'School Cricket Awareness Day' at 'Ladywood Primary School, Birmingham' on Thursday 11 July 2024.
Remaining uncertainties
- The available evidence does not identify the current locations of the Trust's grant recipients, supported cricket clubs, disability-cricket activity or youth-cricket programmes.
- The Charity Commission records Birmingham City and Warwickshire as areas where the charity operates, but does not identify individual Birmingham wards, venues or beneficiary organisations.
- The Trust's registered/contact address is not treated as a service-delivery site: the evidence supports it as a contact address only.
- The Charity Commission states that the charity owns and/or leases land or property, but no public evidence located identifies that property's location or operational use.
- No current formal delivery partnerships were evidenced. References to cricket governing bodies, county boards and leagues describe gaps in funding rather than confirmed operational partnerships.
Additional evidence needed
- A current grants list or annual impact report identifying recipient organisations, projects and delivery venues.
- Confirmation from the Trust of whether it directly runs activities or principally funds other organisations, and the wards in which current funded activity takes place.
- The geographic area and operational purpose of any land or property owned or leased by the Trust.
- Confirmation that the Birmingham location referred to as 'Ladywood Primary School' in the July 2024 event listing was within Ladywood.
Areas of work
- Amateur Sport
- Recreation
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- People With Disabilities
How they help
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
An enabling rather than club-delivery model
The Trust appears to operate primarily by strengthening other local organisations and cricket activity, rather than being evidenced as a direct provider of teams, facilities or coaching itself.
Why it matters
This suggests its influence may extend beyond its own visible presence: its role may depend on identifying capable local partners and helping them sustain inclusive cricket opportunities.
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“Makes Grants To Organisations.”
Source:Charity Commission“Provision of funding/support for Local Birmingham Youth & Disability Cricket.”
Source:Charity Commission“Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies.”
Source:Charity Commission
Cricket is positioned as an inclusion mechanism
The Trust’s charitable purpose appears to frame cricket not simply as sport, but as a practical vehicle for social welfare, participation and improved life conditions for young people and disabled people.
Why it matters
This distinguishes the organisation from a purely performance- or participation-focused cricket funder and indicates that accessibility and social benefit should be central to understanding its decisions.
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“To provide or assist in the provision of facilities for cricket and associated sporting activities in the interests of social welfare.”
Source:Charity Commission“To advance young people in life through the provision of recreational and leisure time activities associated with the game of cricket.”
Source:Charity Commission“Children/young People, People With Disabilities.”
Source:Charity Commission
A broad legal remit may be more focused in practice
Its objects allow support for people affected by youth, age, infirmity, disability, financial hardship or social circumstances, while its stated activity concentrates on Birmingham youth and disability cricket. This may indicate strategic prioritisation within a wider charitable mandate.
Why it matters
The distinction is useful when assessing who may be underserved or who the Trust could support in future, particularly older people and those experiencing hardship without a disability-related need.
Show evidence
“Individuals who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age infirmity or disability, financial hardship or social circumstances.”
Source:Charity Commission“Provision of funding/support for Local Birmingham Youth & Disability Cricket.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which organisations, clubs or programmes receive support is unknown.
- There is no evidence of funding scale, geographic reach beyond Birmingham, or outcomes for participants.
- It is unclear whether the Trust directly provides facilities, advice or activities alongside grants.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, accounts and grant recipient lists.
- Information on supported programmes, participant demographics and outcomes.
- Evidence of partnerships with cricket clubs, disability organisations and youth providers.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Provision of funding/support for Local Birmingham Youth & Disability Cricket in accordance with the Organisation's Charitable Aims & Objectives
Charity objects
1) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR CRICKET AND ASSOCIATED SPORTING ACTIVITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE; AND 2) TO ADVANCE YOUNG PEOPLE IN LIFE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE GAME OF CRICKET, PROVIDED IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE, DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.