THE CHANGE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1046047 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CRICKET FOR CHANGE, LCCA, LONDON COMMUNITY CRICKET ASSOCIATION · also registered in Scotland as SC043569 (OSCR)

The Change Foundation is a charity that uses sport and dance to unlock wider potential and open the doors of opportunity for marginalised young people, using a team of passionate, dedicated coaches who work to make a real and lasting difference in young peoples lives.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total deficit of £61,362 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted reserves falling to £387,310. Per the trustees' report, this level of free reserves is above the stated policy target of £340,000, which is equivalent to three to four months of normal operating expenditure. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MHA. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Navjeet Sira — CEO (source)
• Lucas Mee — Director of Operations (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (63% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 18.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Asha Merie Hajichair
• Catriona Helen Webster
• Daniel Drury
• LUKE SOUTHALL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Muna Ali
• Rachel Billsberry-Grass
• Rebecca Martin
• Sarah Giulia Ludecke
• Stephen Richard Wootten
• Tarun Patel

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

Operates in: Bristol City · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 THE STREET SOCCER FOUNDATION.

• THE STREET SOCCER FOUNDATION income £291k
• CHANGE PLEASE FOUNDATION income £1.6m
• THE HARLEQUINS FOUNDATION income £860k
• SPORTING FOUNDATION income £329k
• TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR FOUNDATION income £3.2m
• BEYOND SPORT FOUNDATION income £1.9m

Side by side with its peers

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