UK Chinese Basketball Cultural Exchange Association CIO
Charity 1163765
Overview
Summary
The available evidence suggests that the UK Chinese Basketball Cultural Exchange Association CIO is a sport-led community organisation using basketball as a route into health, participation and inclusion. Its stated remit reaches beyond a single event or ethnic community: it identifies children and young people, disabled people and people of a particular ethnic or racial origin as beneficiaries, while its objects allow collaboration with charities, public bodies and community organisations. However, the evidence currently reveals far more about its intended purpose than its ongoing delivery model or relationships.
Operational geography
Coverage: International
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct evidence from the Charity Commission lists Birmingham City among the places where the charity operates, but it does not identify any Birmingham venue, ward, neighbourhood, project location or delivery partner.
- The charity's listed activity is '2016 UK Chinese Sports Game - Basketball', which does not demonstrate that Birmingham delivery is current.
- The Charity Commission record shows overdue reporting and no financial information for recent reporting periods; this substantially limits confidence that the listed operational geography reflects current activity.
- No official website content, current annual report, project material or partner evidence was available to establish whether Birmingham activity is neighbourhood-based, district-wide or citywide.
- The Sheffield address is a registered contact address and is not evidence of a Birmingham operational site.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual return, trustees' report or activity report specifying Birmingham services, dates and venues.
- Official organisation or venue information identifying the basketball facilities or events currently delivered in Birmingham.
- Confirmation from named Birmingham delivery partners, if any, showing the nature and location of current joint activity.
- A current programme timetable or booking information sufficient to map delivery to one or more supplied Birmingham wards or City Centre.
Areas of work
- Amateur Sport
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who they help
- Children/young People
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- People With Disabilities
How they help
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
Basketball appears to be a vehicle for wider inclusion
The organisation appears to frame basketball not only as amateur sport, but as a practical means of supporting health and community participation among groups who may face unequal access to recreational activity.
Why it matters
This suggests its role may sit at the intersection of sport, health and inclusion, rather than being understood simply as a basketball provider.
Show evidence
“The CIO's objects are to promote community participation in healthy recreation, particularly but not exclusively by providing basketball facilities.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps children and young people, people with disabilities, and people of a particular ethnic or racial origin.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its remit may extend beyond the UK Chinese community
Despite its name, the stated charitable objects are framed for public benefit and the listed beneficiary groups include disability and youth alongside ethnic or racial origin. This may indicate an outward-facing inclusion model rather than an organisation serving only one cultural community.
Why it matters
This distinction affects which partners, funders and communities might see the organisation as relevant, and raises a useful question about how cultural identity and wider public access are balanced in practice.
Show evidence
“The CIO's objects are to promote community participation in healthy recreation for the public benefit.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps children and young people, people with disabilities, and people of a particular ethnic or racial origin.”
Source:Charity Commission
Collaboration is built into the formal operating model
The organisation appears to have been constituted with collaboration in mind, including the ability to assist and cooperate with charities, statutory bodies, community enterprises and other aligned organisations.
Why it matters
This creates potential for the organisation to contribute specialist cultural relationships or basketball-based engagement within broader health, youth, disability or community-development partnerships.
Show evidence
“The CIO has power to assist and co-operate with charities, statutory bodies, community enterprises and organisations whose aims further its objects.”
Source:Charity Commission“2016 UK Chinese Sports Game - Basketball.”
Source:Organisation
- Whether activity continued beyond the 2016 basketball event.
- Whether basketball facilities, coaching, competitions or other services are currently provided.
- Which places, communities and partner organisations the CIO actually reaches.
- How disabled participants and young people are included in practice.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports, activity updates and participant numbers.
- Details of current programmes, locations, accessibility arrangements and delivery partners.
- Evidence of outcomes for health, participation, cultural exchange and community connection.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
2016 UK Chinese Sports Game - Basketball
Charity objects
TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING BASKETBALL FACILITIES. IN FURTHERANCE OF THIS OBJECT THE CIO SHALL HAVE THE POWER TO ASSIST AND CO-OPERATE WITH ANY CHARITY, STATUTORY BODY, COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE OR ORGANISATION WHOSE AIM AND OBJECTIVE INCLUDE THOSE OF THE CIO AND IS IN FURTHERANCE OF ITS OBJECTS.