The Four Oaks Boys' Club
Charity 506866
Overview
Summary
The Four Oaks Boys' Club appears to be a youth-development organisation using leisure activity, sport and access to facilities as its principal means of supporting boys’ transition into adulthood. Its stated role is broader than recreation: it frames physical activity and club-based participation as routes to personal development, social membership and improved life conditions. The available evidence suggests a place-based, relationship-oriented model, but does not yet show who participates, how activities are delivered, or what partnerships sustain the club.
Operational geography
Coverage: Citywide
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct evidence: the Charity Commission currently records the charity as operating in the City of Birmingham, and its financial return for the year ended 31 March 2025 records ongoing income, expenditure and 30 volunteers.
- Reasonable interpretation: the Charity Commission's Birmingham-wide operating-area declaration supports a citywide coverage classification, but it does not identify active delivery locations or demonstrate that services are distributed across the city.
- The organisation's previously evidenced base in Mere Green was listed by Birmingham City Council in October 2024 as a former youth centre with vacant possession and was marketed and sold in May 2025 as a vacant former youth centre. It should therefore not be treated as a current operational site.
- The charity's registered address in Sutton Coldfield may be a correspondence address; there is no evidence that services are delivered there.
- No current official evidence identifies replacement premises, active sessions, delivery wards, or material partnerships extending the club's present operational reach.
Additional evidence needed
- The charity's latest trustees' annual report and accounts, including its activities report, to identify current programmes and venues.
- Current confirmation from the charity of where sports or youth activities are delivered following the loss of the Mere Green site.
- Current programme, booking or partner information identifying any schools, sports grounds, community venues or delivery partners used by the charity.
Areas of work
- Amateur Sport
- General Charitable Purposes
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Other Defined Groups
How they help
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Human Resources
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
Leisure is used as a developmental pathway
The club appears to treat leisure-time activity not as an end in itself, but as a practical setting for developing physical, mental and spiritual capacities.
Why it matters
This distinguishes the organisation from a purely recreational sports provider. Its potential value may lie in the developmental relationships and structured experiences surrounding activity, rather than in sport alone.
Show evidence
“To help and educate boys through their leisure time activities so to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacities.”
Source:Charity Commission“The aim of the club is to help and educate young people through their leisure time activities.”
Source:Organisation
The club may combine space with human support
The organisation appears to have a dual operating model: providing facilities or open space while also supplying human resources, potentially allowing activities to be supported rather than simply hosted.
Why it matters
This may make the club a useful local asset for organisations seeking both accessible places for young people and adults who can organise, supervise or mentor activity.
Show evidence
“Provides Human Resources.”
Source:Charity Commission“Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its mission reaches beyond sport
Although amateur sport is identified as a charitable activity, the stated ambition is social as well as athletic: helping participants mature as individuals and members of society and improving their conditions of life.
Why it matters
This suggests that potential relationships may extend beyond sports organisations to youth work, education, family support and community-development networks.
Show evidence
“Amateur Sport.”
Source:Charity Commission“That they may grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society and that their conditions of life may be improved.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Whether the club currently serves boys only or a broader group of young people.
- What activities, facilities, staffing and volunteer roles it actually provides.
- Which communities participate and whether any groups face barriers to access.
- Whether the club works with schools, sports bodies, youth services or other local organisations.
Remaining uncertainties
- Current programme, attendance and participant-profile information.
- Details of facilities, staff, volunteers and safeguarding arrangements.
- Evidence of partnerships, referrals and local community relationships.
- Recent accounts, annual reports or participant feedback showing outcomes and current priorities.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
The aim of the club is to help and educate young people through their leisure time activities so as to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacities that they may grow to maturity as individuals and members of society and that their coditions of life may be improved.
Charity objects
TO HELP AND EDUCATE BOYS THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES SO TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.