Warwickshire Cricket Club For Visually Impaired
Charity 1113510
Overview
Summary
Warwickshire Cricket Club For Visually Impaired appears to be a specialist participation organisation: it creates a route into competitive cricket for visually impaired people rather than providing a broad range of disability services. Its role seems to depend on linking local players across Warwickshire and the West Midlands to a wider national blind-cricket structure, while using organised competition as a means of supporting healthy recreation, community participation and inclusion.
Operational geography
Coverage: Regional
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission record lists Birmingham City among the places where the charity operates, but the charity's reporting is substantially overdue and its most recent financial data are for the year ended 31 March 2021. This is therefore evidence of a stated operational area, not reliable confirmation of current delivery in Birmingham.
- No current source identifies a Birmingham training venue, match venue, or service location in which the organisation directly delivers activity.
- Blind Cricket England & Wales currently identifies the club's location as Leamington Spa and its home ground as Offchurch Cricket Club, Leamington Spa. This supports an operational base outside Birmingham and does not establish a Birmingham physical site.
- The club's participation in Blind Cricket England & Wales competitions materially connects it to a wider sporting network, but the available evidence does not show that this partnership currently creates a specific Birmingham delivery location.
- The organisation's stated operating footprint spans Birmingham City and multiple West Midlands local-authority areas, so its overall identity is better interpreted as regional rather than neighbourhood-, district- or Birmingham-citywide. However, the current intensity and form of activity in each area cannot be established from the available evidence.
Additional evidence needed
- A current fixture list, training schedule, or venue-hire record identifying any Birmingham-based sessions or home/away matches.
- A current annual return, trustees' report, or impact report confirming where the club has delivered activities since 31 March 2021.
- Confirmation from the organisation or Blind Cricket England & Wales of whether Birmingham residents are served through Birmingham-based activity, travel to the Leamington Spa base, or both.
- If Birmingham activity exists, evidence identifying the Birmingham area in which it operates.
Areas of work
- Amateur Sport
- Disability
- General Charitable Purposes
Who they help
- Children/young People
- People With Disabilities
How they help
- Other Charitable Activities
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A local gateway into a wider competitive system
The club appears to translate a local charitable purpose into access to a structured wider sporting pathway, through leagues, a memorial trophy and a knockout cup governed or supported beyond the club itself.
Why it matters
This suggests the organisation's value may lie not only in running cricket activity, but in reducing isolation from competitive sport by connecting visually impaired participants to opportunities that extend beyond their immediate area.
Show evidence
“WCCVI is a cricket club specifically set up for visually impaired people to take part in the cricket league and Bill Frindell Memorial Trophy.”
Source:Organisation“The club also takes part in the Knock Out Cup.”
Source:Organisation“The charity promotes community participation in healthy recreation within Warwickshire and the West Midlands, in particular among visually impaired people, through cricket activities and facilities.”
Source:Charity Commission
Competition is used as an inclusion mechanism
The available evidence suggests that cricket is not simply an end in itself: organised competition may provide a recurring social structure through which visually impaired people can participate in community life and healthy recreation.
Why it matters
This frames the club as part of the social infrastructure of inclusion. Understanding that role could help identify relevant partners in disability access, wellbeing, youth participation and community sport.
Show evidence
“The charity's object is the promotion of community participation in healthy recreation.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps children and young people and people with disabilities.”
Source:Charity Commission“WCCVI is specifically set up for visually impaired people to take part in cricket.”
Source:Organisation
The club may rely on an interdependent support network
Its operating model appears connected to external institutions: Blind Cricket England & Wales provides the competition framework, while The Primary Club is described as the main or total funder of the knockout cup.
Why it matters
This indicates that the club's capacity and opportunities may be shaped by relationships outside Warwickshire. Those dependencies could be important when assessing resilience, funding risk or collaboration opportunities.
Show evidence
“The cricket league and Bill Frindell Memorial Trophy are run under Blind Cricket England & Wales.”
Source:Organisation“The Knock Out Cup is mainly, if not totally, funded by The Primary Club.”
Source:Organisation
- How many people participate, and whether children and young people are actively served or only included within the stated beneficiary categories.
- Whether the club provides coaching, transport, adapted equipment, social support or only access to competitive fixtures.
- How stable its relationships with Blind Cricket England & Wales and The Primary Club are.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or activity updates showing participant numbers, age groups, geography, fixtures and outcomes.
- Information on funding, volunteers, facilities, coaching arrangements and partnerships with local disability, health and community organisations.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
WCCVI is a Cricket Club specifically set up for visually impaired people to take part in the cricket league and Bill Frindell Memorial Trophy, ran under BCEW (Blind Cricket England & Wales) a charity wich governs sports in England & wales. Also to take part in the Knock Out Cup that is mainly if not totally funded by The Primary Club.
Charity objects
THE PROMOTION WITHIN WARWICKSHIRE AND THE WEST MIDLANDS OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION, IN PARTICULAR AMONG VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE BY THE PROVISION AND SUPPORT OF ACTIVITIES AND FACILITIES FOR PLAYING CRICKET.