Community groups & clubs

Old Wulfrunians Sports & Social Club

A football, cricket and snooker club in Castlecroft with function rooms. It hosted the 2026 Penn Wolverhampton Family Music Festival.

🗓️ Castlecroft, Wolverhampton

Penn Cricket Club

A cricket club founded in 1908 with several senior sides and junior coaching at Under 9, 10 and 11. New players are welcome.

🗓️ Clubhouse at Mount Road, Penn, WV4 5RS; Saturday league cricket in season. Contact 07479 848223 / penncricketclub1@hotmail.com

Penn Golf Club

A heathland course on Penn Common, founded in 1908: par 70, 6,453 yards, with views to the Clee Hills. Visitors are welcome Monday to Friday except public holidays, and the club is home to Staffordshire junior boys' golf.

🗓️ Penn Common, Penn, Wolverhampton WV4 5JN; tel 01902 341142

Wolverhampton parkrun

A free, volunteer-run 5k held every week in West Park, open to runners and walkers.

🗓️ Every Saturday 9am, West Park bandstand, WV1 4PN

Friends of Bantock House Museum and Park

A registered charity (no. 1065808) that raises money to support Bantock House Museum and Park. Its offshoot, the Bantock User Group (BUG), is a team of volunteers who help look after the park.

🗓️ Membership £10 single / £15 household; contact friendsofbantock.charity@gmail.com or 01902 342715

The Wolverhampton Society

The city's local history and civic society, formed in 2020 by merging the Literary and Scientific Society with the Wolverhampton Civic and Historical Society (founded 1960). It promotes local heritage, civic pride, science and literature through a programme of talks. It is based in Penn; no separate 'Penn Local History Society' was found.

🗓️ Evening talks at Penn Bowling and Social Club, 10 Manor Road, WV4 5PY; doors 7:15pm for 7:30pm (typically a Thursday). Membership £24; visitors £5.

Lea Road Community Church / Together in Penn Fields

A church on the corner of Lea Road and Claremont Road since 1905. Its lottery-funded Together in Penn Fields project, started in 2021, runs youth clubs, parent and toddler groups, adult education and groups for refugees and migrants, as well as a community food project.

🗓️ Lea Road, Penn Fields WV3 0LW; tel 01902 337633

Springdale Methodist Church and Community Centre

A Methodist church and busy community centre in Warstones. Weekly activities include stay-and-play, a craft group, bowling, keep fit, a poetry group, an art class, a lunch club, a youth club, Girlguiding and Scouts.

🗓️ 170 Warstones Road, Penn WV4 4LF. Sunday service 10:30am (also live-streamed on YouTube). Office 01902 338420

St Anne's Church, Lower Penn

The village church of Lower Penn, in the same parish as St Bartholomew's.

🗓️ Springhill Lane, Lower Penn WV4 5JD (address as given on A Church Near You). Parish office 01902 576809

St Bartholomew's Church, Penn

Penn's ancient parish church. As well as services, it runs choirs, a worship band, bellringing, a Monday coffee morning, the Mothers' Union, Painting in Penn, Bart's Butterflies, Junior Church, and Alpha and Living Faith courses. At the time of research the parish was between vicars (in interregnum).

🗓️ Church Hill, Penn WV4 5JD. Sun 8am BCP, 10am Family Communion, 5:30pm Choral Evensong (term time); Wed 9:15am; Sat 5:30pm; Morning Prayer 9am Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri/Sat. Parish office 01902 576809

1st Finchfield Scout Group

The scout group for the Finchfield and Merry Hill area.

🗓️ Off Langley Road, Merry Hill: Beavers Thu 6-7:15pm, Cubs Tue 7-8:30pm, Scouts Wed 7-8:30pm. Contact 07306 184862 / 1ffscouts@gmail.com

1st Penn Fields Scout Group

A scout group for ages 6-14, with camping, crafts and outdoor activities.

🗓️ Lea Road Community Church, Lea Road, Penn Fields WV3 0LW. Contact gsl@1stpennfields.org.uk

1st Penn Scout Group

A scout group for Beavers, Cubs and Scouts, with camping, hiking, swimming, abseiling, cycling and canoeing.

🗓️ Mondays at St Bart's Community Church Hall, Vicarage Road, WV4 5HU: Beavers 5:30-6:45pm, Cubs 6:15-7:45pm, Scouts 7:15-8:45pm

21st Wolverhampton (Springdale Methodist) Scout Group

The Warstones scout group, based at Springdale Methodist Church. It also has an Explorer unit.

🗓️ Wednesdays at Springdale Methodist Church Hall, Warstones Road, WV4 4LF: Beavers 5:20-6:20pm, Cubs 6:30-8pm, Scouts 7-9pm

8th Wolverhampton Scout Group

A scout group based off Warstones Road.

🗓️ Billy Wright Close, Warstones Road, WV4 4LX: Beavers Tue 5:15-6:30pm, Cubs Tue 6:45-8:15pm, Scouts Wed 7:30-9pm

Girlguiding Penn & Penn Fields District

A Girlguiding district in the Wolverhampton South Division, covering Rainbow, Brownie and Guide units across Penn and Penn Fields. Springdale Methodist Church hosts Brownies and Guides on Mondays.

🗓️ Various units; Springdale Brownies Mon 6:15-7:45pm and Guides Mon 7:15-8:45pm

Penn Bowling & Social Club

A members' club with a floodlit crown bowling green and a function room that hosts regular entertainment, including a beer festival in May. It is also where the Wolverhampton Society holds its talks.

🗓️ 10 Manor Road, Penn, WV4 5PY; tel 01902 342516

Wolverhampton u3a

Formed in 1996, this self-help learning and leisure group for people no longer in full-time work has more than 300 members and runs many interest groups.

🗓️ Fourth Tuesday of the month, 2pm, at Woodfield Social and Sports Club, Woodfield Avenue, Penn Road, WV4 4AF (older listings give Springdale Church Hall, Warstones Road). No meeting in August.

Woodfield Social and Sports Club

A social and sports club off Penn Road that hosts social nights and sporting events. It is also the u3a's monthly meeting venue.

🗓️ Woodfield Avenue, Penn Road, Wolverhampton WV4 4AF

Goldthorn Hill Pumping Station Allotment Society

A volunteer group given charge of the disused Goldthorn Hill allotments to bring them back into use.

🗓️ Goldthorn Hill, Penn

Penn and District Gardening Society

A local gardening society that runs a society shop on the Boundary Way Allotments, next to Highfields School.

🗓️ Boundary Way Allotments, Penn

Penn Road Allotments (Penn Gardeners & Allotments Association)

A three-acre allotment site off the A449 Penn Road, run by a committee of plot holders under a management agreement with the council. It has full and half plots, a shop and toilets.

🗓️ Off Penn Road, WV4 4AQ. Join the waiting list via wolverhampton.gov.uk/community/allotments

Finchfield and Castlecroft Community Association

A community association that organises cultural events at Bantock House and Park, including a free family 'Puppet Summer' series.

Penn Library

A council library with books, free Wi-Fi, printing and a room to book. It has hosted reading groups and a weekly yoga group.

🗓️ Coalway Road, WV3 7LT; tel 01902 556281. Tue 9am-5pm, Thu 10am-6pm, Fri 9am-1pm, Sat 9am-4pm

Penn Residents Association

A local residents' group active on planning matters, including a campaign to bring the former Old Stags Head pub on Church Hill back into community use.

Penn ward councillors (City of Wolverhampton Council)

Penn ward elects three councillors: Stephanie Haynes (Conservative, elected May 2026), Paul Singh (Conservative, Mayor of Wolverhampton from May 2026) and Celia 'CeeCee' Hibbert (Reform UK, Leader of the Main Opposition Party; term ends May 2027).

🗓️ Cllr Hibbert holds surgeries at Penn Library, Coalway Road, WV3 7LT, on Thursdays