Tudor Community Sports Trust
Charity 1188620
Overview
Summary
Tudor Community Sports Trust appears to be a place-based steward of publicly owned recreational infrastructure rather than simply a sports provider. Its role combines operating leased grounds, widening access to bowls and tennis, and maintaining facilities for long-term community use. The charity’s objects suggest an inclusive social-welfare mission extending beyond sport alone, while its reliance on a Birmingham City Council lease makes its local civic relationship central to how it operates.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Sutton Trinity
Confidence: high
The Trust’s current operational activity is evidenced at a single leased sports ground in Sutton Coldfield. An official Sutton Coldfield Town Council asset list identifies the sports ground as being in Sutton Trinity ward.
- Charity Commission register and 2023–24 annual report for Tudor Community Sports Trust
The Trust states that it operates Birmingham City Council-leased sports grounds in Sutton Coldfield. Its latest annual report records active crown-green bowls provision, including league and social pay-as-you-go play, alongside maintenance and restoration of the pavilion and site. - Tudor Sports official website
The website describes the Trust as providing accessible local opportunities for bowls and, following redevelopment, tennis at its community sports site; it reports that bowls continues seasonally while tennis courts remain under development. - Royal Sutton Coldfield Town Council asset list
The asset list identifies the sports ground as being in Sutton Trinity.
Remaining uncertainties
- Evidence supports one current delivery site rather than delivery across multiple Birmingham wards. The Trust’s facilities are publicly accessible and may attract users from Sutton Coldfield and wider North Birmingham, but this does not evidence regular service delivery in those other areas.
- The Trust originated through a partnership involving local residents, bowls and tennis players, the Royal British Legion Bowls Club and the adjoining Royal Sutton Coldfield Community Town Hall Trust. Available evidence does not show that these relationships create additional operational sites or a wider delivery footprint.
- Tennis redevelopment is planned and funded, but the available current evidence indicates that tennis provision is not yet operating; current direct service evidence is strongest for bowls and site maintenance at the current site.
Additional evidence needed
- A current programme, booking system or timetable confirming whether any activities are delivered away from the current site.
- A current annual report or operational plan identifying the geographic origin of participants and whether the Trust runs outreach, events or partner-delivered activity elsewhere in Birmingham.
- Confirmation from the Trust of the status and opening date of the planned tennis courts and any future additional facilities.
Areas of work
- Amateur Sport
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Environment/conservation/heritage
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
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Observations
A community asset steward, not only a sports club
The Trust appears to hold responsibility for sustaining a local recreational site as a shared community asset, combining day-to-day operation with longer-term improvement.
Why it matters
This frames the organisation’s value in terms of preserving accessible local infrastructure, not just delivering particular sporting activities. Its decisions may therefore affect the wider availability of informal recreation and community space.
Show evidence
“The Trust operates sports grounds at Tudor Road, Sutton Coldfield under leasehold from Birmingham City Council.”
Source:Organisation“The Trust aims to improve and develop the facilities for long term sustainability.”
Source:Organisation
Inclusion is embedded in the charitable purpose
The Trust appears designed to use recreation as a route to social inclusion, particularly for people whose age, disability, financial position or circumstances may otherwise limit access to leisure.
Why it matters
This suggests that affordability, accessibility and outreach may be as important to understanding the organisation as participation levels in bowls or tennis. It also creates potential alignment with disability, ageing, youth and social-support organisations.
Show evidence
“The charity may provide or assist facilities for people needing them because of youth, age, infirmity, disability, financial hardship or social circumstances.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps children and young people, elderly people, people with disabilities, other charities or voluntary bodies, and the general public.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its civic relationship may be strategically significant
The Council lease appears to make the Trust dependent on, and potentially complementary to, local public-sector stewardship of parks and recreation assets.
Why it matters
Understanding this relationship could reveal whether the Trust fills a gap in municipal provision, has scope to influence investment, or faces constraints around tenure, maintenance and future development.
Show evidence
“The Trust operates under leasehold from Birmingham City Council.”
Source:Organisation“The Trust aims to operate the facilities for the benefit of the local community.”
Source:Organisation
- Whether the facilities are affordable, physically accessible and actively used by the priority groups named in the objects.
- How the Trust is funded, governed and supported to maintain or improve the site.
- Whether bowls and tennis are the principal activities or part of a broader programme of community use.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, accounts and usage data, including participant demographics and concession arrangements.
- Lease terms, site-development plans and evidence of partnerships with local community, disability, youth or older-person organisations.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
The Trust operates under leasehold from Birmingham City Council the sports grounds located at Tudor Road Sutton Coldfield. The Trust aims to operate the facilities for the benefit of the local community encouraging wide participation in sports. The Trust further aims to improve and develop the facilities for long term sustainability.
Charity objects
1. THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE PLAYING OF BOWLS AND TENNIS. 2. TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION 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.