The Tantany Lions Foundation CIO
Charity 1186997
Overview
Summary
The Tantany Lions Foundation CIO appears to use sport as a practical route into wider youth development rather than treating recreation as an end in itself. Its model combines access to sports facilities and activities with mentoring, tutoring, employability help and coaching qualifications. This suggests a locally rooted organisation working across physical health, confidence, skills and transitions into adulthood, with school-holiday provision potentially helping address periods when support and meals may be less available.
Operational geography
Coverage: District
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- There is no direct, current evidence that The Tantany Lions Foundation CIO delivers services, owns or uses a site, or has a material delivery partnership within any of the supplied Birmingham wards or City Centre.
- The charity's stated area of benefit is Sandwell and the surrounding area. This could include parts of Birmingham, but the available evidence does not identify any Birmingham location and should not be interpreted as evidence of Birmingham operations.
- The West Bromwich address is a registered contact address and is not sufficient evidence of an operational venue.
- The Charity Commission record describes activities including holiday camps, mentoring, tutoring and multi-sport provision, but does not give dates or locations for delivery.
- Current operational activity cannot be confirmed: the Charity Commission record shows zero income and expenditure for the year ending 1 April 2022 and overdue reporting for subsequent periods.
Additional evidence needed
- A current programme timetable, booking page, social-media announcement or official website identifying the venues and areas where sessions, camps or mentoring are delivered.
- A current annual report or trustees' report explaining actual delivery locations, participant catchments and partnerships.
- Confirmation from the organisation of whether it currently delivers any activity in Birmingham, and if so the relevant venues or wards.
- Current evidence from venue owners, schools, local authorities or partner organisations confirming any Birmingham-based use of facilities.
Areas of work
- Amateur Sport
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Recreation
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who they help
- Children/young People
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
Sport is the organisation's platform, not its sole outcome
The available evidence suggests that organised sport is being used to engage children and young people while creating opportunities for educational, social and employment-related support.
Why it matters
This distinguishes the organisation from a conventional sports provider. Potential partners may find it relevant not only for recreation, but also for youth mentoring, learning and progression.
Show evidence
“Activities include mentoring, tutoring, help with job searches and applications, coaching qualifications and multi-sports.”
Source:Organisation“The CIO's object is to promote community participation in healthy recreation through sports facilities and activities.”
Source:Charity Commission
The organisation appears to support progression across key youth transitions
Its offer spans Reception age to Sixth Form and includes qualifications and job-search support, which may indicate an intention to remain useful as young people move from early participation towards adult opportunities.
Why it matters
This points to a potentially longitudinal relationship with young people, rather than a short-term activity offer. It raises useful questions about whether participants progress into volunteering, coaching or employment.
Show evidence
“The foundation helps kids from Reception age through to Sixth Form.”
Source:Organisation“Activities include coaching qualifications and help with job searches and applications.”
Source:Organisation
School-holiday provision may connect recreation with practical family support
Providing free meals during holiday camps suggests the organisation may recognise that access to sport can be constrained by wider household pressures, not only by lack of facilities.
Why it matters
This makes the holiday camps potentially relevant to food-support, family-support and school-community networks as well as sports partners.
Show evidence
“A free meal is provided during school holidays at its camps.”
Source:Organisation“Activities include multi-sports.”
Source:Organisation
- Whether the organisation owns, manages or merely uses sports facilities.
- Which communities in Sandwell are reached, and whether any groups are underrepresented.
- Whether mentoring, tutoring and employability support are delivered directly or through partners.
Remaining uncertainties
- Participation data by age, geography, gender and activity, including repeat attendance.
- Information on delivery sites, partner organisations, staffing and volunteer pathways.
- Evidence of outcomes in wellbeing, qualifications, education, coaching or employment.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Tantany Lions Foundation helps kids from Reception age through to Sixth Form, with a range of physical activities and social development. With a free meal during school holidays at our Camps. Activities offered: * Mentoring Scheme * Qualifications Scheme, (i.e. Coaching Qualifications) * Help with Job searches and Applications * Tutoring * Multi-Sports: (i.e. Football, Netball, Cricket etc)
Charity objects
THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS: THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION IN SANDWELL AND SURROUNDING AREA BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR PLAYING ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL, NETBALL, CRICKET, RUGBY, BASKETBALL AND OTHER SPORTS CAPABLE OF PROMOTING HEALTH AND FITNESS (FACILITIES MEANS LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT AND ORGANISING SPORTING ACTIVITIES).