SPORTSREACH

Registered charity 1065723 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The object of the charity is to advance the Christian faith through the vehicle of sport in the UK and abroad.The charity raises income through gifts and donations from churches and individuals and from running children's soccer and netball schools, overseas tours and football and netball leagues.The charity's main expenditure during the year was staff salaries.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH PARTICULARLY (THOUGH NOT BY WAY OF LIMITATION) THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF SPORT IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE

Area of benefit: IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE

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

Causes: Religious Activities · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lancaster, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves at the end of the year were £125,358, representing a net surplus for the period. The Trustees consider the state of affairs to be satisfactory and believe there are sufficient reserves to meet liabilities. The charity maintains these reserves to cover significant cash flow fluctuations not accounted for in the budget.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — SportsReach (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• DANIEL ROBERT ALDREN
• ERIC RICHARD SLOMAN
• GORDON WILLIAM ROGER MARSDEN
• JAMES VERNON
• JONATHAN MARK HALSEY
• SUSAN FRANCES MARSDEN

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

Operates in: Austria · Cumbria · East Sussex · Ecuador · France · Germany · Kent · Kenya · Lancashire · Leicestershire · Malawi · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ACCESS TO SPORTS PROJECT.

• THE ACCESS TO SPORTS PROJECT income £896k
• WRAY CHAPEL income £34k
• LINKS CHRISTIAN TRUST income £44k
• READING FC COMMUNITY TRUST income £2.4m
• REACH SOUTH income £126k
• WORLD OUTREACH income £103k

Side by side with its peers

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