THE SOUTHGATE SPORTS AND LEISURE TRUST

Registered charity 1044035 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide a recreation and leisure facility for the benefit of the inhabitants of Southgate and the surrounding area. To encourage participation in sporting, recreational and leisure activities including coaching and training.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF SOUTHGATE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA AND IN PARTICULAR THE STAFF AND PUPILS OF MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY AND OTHER COMMUNITY GROUPS IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX SEXUAL ORIENTATION RACE OR OF POLITICAL RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND THE VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS

Area of benefit: SOUTHGATE AND SURROUNDING AREA

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Enfield, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a profit of £19,627 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £178,725. The trustees state that unrestricted reserves of £537,133 are in line with their policy target of approximately £100,000. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis, with the directors confident that funding will continue for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02994706

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MURPHY, Neil John — director, appointed 04/06/2024on trustee list
• CLAYDEN, Christopher Howard John — director, appointed 20/01/2020on trustee list
• HARGROVE, William Peter — director, appointed 20/01/2020on trustee list
• LLOYD-WILLIAMS, David — director, appointed 20/01/2020on trustee list
• MCDONNELL, Matthew John — director, appointed 10/10/2016not on trustee list
• HARGROVE, William Peter — secretary, appointed 21/06/2022

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £150k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Neil John Murphychair
• ADRIAN SCOTT KNIGHT
• CHRISTOPHER HOWARD JOHN CLAYDEN
• David Lloyd-Williams
• Richard Charles Beechener
• William Peter Hargrove

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Enfield

Income and spending

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOUTHWELL LEISURE CENTRE.

• SOUTHWELL LEISURE CENTRE income £1.2m
• BOROUGH OF HAVANT SPORT AND LEISURE TRUST income £8.5m
• STOKE ROW SPORTS AND LEISURE CLUB LIMITED income £35k
• THE SUTTON COLDFIELD RECREATIONAL TRUST income £311k
• SOUTHMEAD DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £4.3m
• THE ACCESS TO SPORTS PROJECT income £896k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.