SPORTS AID EASTERN

Registered charity 1070957 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SPORTSAID EASTERN

Sports Aid eastern has a wide-ranging trust deed within the fields of education, disability and social welfare to:i. further the education of young people through the medium of sportii. encourage those with social and physical disadvantages to improve their lives through sportiii. enable those living in poverty to take advantage of the opportunities offered by sport

Objects

(1) TO ADVANCE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PERSONS WHO ARE PUPILS AT SCHOOLS COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN THE EASTERN REGION OF ENGLAND BY ENSURING THAT DUE ATTENTION IS GIVEN TO THE PHYSICAL EDUCATION OF SUCH PUPILS AS WELL AS TO THE DEVELOPMENT AND OCCUPATION OF THEIR MINDS AND WITH A VIEW TO FURTHERING THAT OBJECT TO PROVIDE FUNDS AND TO ASSIST IN THE ORGANISATION AND PROVISION OF FACILITIES WHICH WILL ENABLE AND ENCOURAGE SUCH PUPILS TO PARTICIPATE IN PHYSICAL RECREATION AND SPORT;(2) IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE TO PROVIDE FUNDS OR TO ORGANISE OR PROVIDE (OR ASSIST IN THE ORGANISATION OR PROVISION OF) FACILITIES FOR RECREATION IN THE EASTERN REGION OF ENGLAND (WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE PERSONS FOR WHOM THE SAME ARE PROVIDED) FOR PERSONS WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES;(3) SUCH OBJECTS AND PURPOSES IN THE EASTERN REGION OF ENGLAND BEING OBJECTS AND PURPOSES EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

Area of benefit: EASTERN REGION OF ENGLAND

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: Milton Keynes, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

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What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Financial Conduct Authority. 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

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• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03574841

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.

• BECK, Melanie — director, appointed 11/01/2024not on trustee list
• PURBRICK, Sally — director, appointed 11/01/2024on trustee list
• ROBINSON, Stephen John — director, appointed 06/10/2019on trustee list
• SINCLAIR, Jason Julian — director, appointed 06/10/2019on trustee list
• BRADLEY, Adam — director, appointed 27/09/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

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Register events

• Transferred assets to another charity (14/03/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Melanie Beck MBEchair
• Adam Bradley
• Andrew David Turpin
• Jason Julian Sinclair
• Sally Purbrick
• Stephen John Robinson

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

Operates in: Bedford · Buckinghamshire · Cambridgeshire · Central Bedfordshire · Essex · Hertfordshire · Norfolk · Northamptonshire · Suffolk

Income and spending

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