LEYTON ORIENT TRUST

Registered charity 1071766 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEYTON ORIENT COMMUNITY SPORTS PROGRAMME

We work with disadvantaged young people offering them the opportunity to fulfill their potential by offering them a range of sporting, educational and cultural programmes

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF GREATER LONDON AND IN PARTICULAR FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE INHABITANTS WHO ARE ELDERLY, DISABLED, UNEMPLOYED, GIRLS, WOMEN OR WHO ARE FROM MINORITY ETHNIC GROUPS BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR SPORT, RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND SO THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED

Area of benefit: GREATER LONDON

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

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

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

Latest income
£1.6m
Latest spending
£1.5m
Registered
1998
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves stood at £934,372, which the trustees consider adequate to cover approximately 12 months of projected expenditure, exceeding their policy target of six to nine months. The charity reported a net income of £32,592 for the year, with total income of £1,514,608 primarily derived from grants and charitable activities. 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

Reserves policy: average expenditure incurred over six to nine months of activities (reserves figure: £934k)
“The Trust is of the opinion that the level of reserves appropriate to meet efficiently the needs of the charity should equal the average expenditure incurred over six to nine months of activities.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Leyton Orient Football Club Limited - Expenditure - The purchase of student kit, staff uniform and office/meeting space and service charges £47,354 (2024: £36,522).
“Leyton Orient Football Club Limited - Expenditure - The purchase of student kit, staff uniform and office/meeting space and service charges £47,354 (2024: £36,522).” — page 34
“Leyton Orient Football Club Limited - Donations - £30,266 (2024: nil).” — page 34
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Leyton Orient Football Club Limited - Donations - £30,266 (2024: nil).
“Leyton Orient Football Club Limited - Expenditure - The purchase of student kit, staff uniform and office/meeting space and service charges £47,354 (2024: £36,522).” — page 34
“Leyton Orient Football Club Limited - Donations - £30,266 (2024: nil).” — page 34
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2025

  • Volunteers: 3
  • Government income: £120,000 — contracts £120,000 (6); 8% of the £1,579,832 total gross income on the same return
  • Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£60,001–£70,000: 1)
  • Has a trading subsidiary

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2024

  • Volunteers: 2
  • Government income: £70,000 — contracts £70,000 (4); 5% of the £1,343,233 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2023

  • Volunteers: 20
  • Government income: £145,000 — contracts £100,000 (1), grants £45,000 (3); 12% of the £1,256,336 total gross income on the same return
  • Has a trading subsidiary

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Leyton Orient Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Total income
£1.6m
Total spending
£1.5m
Reserves (reported)
£1.1m
Employees
63

Reported reserves equal ~8.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£1.6m£1.5m
31/08/2024£1.3m£1.3m
31/08/2023£1.3m£1.2m
31/08/2022£1.1m£1.0m
31/08/2021£1.0m£889k

Common questions

Is LEYTON ORIENT TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that free reserves stood at £934,372, which the trustees consider adequate to cover approximately 12 months of projected expenditure, exceeding their policy target of six to nine months. The charity reported a net income of £32,592 for the year, with total income of £1,514,608 primarily derived from grants and charitable activities. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Sayer Vincent LLP.

Who funds LEYTON ORIENT TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name LEYTON ORIENT TRUST as a grant recipient include OSMANI TRUST, The Portal Trust, THE ESSEX AND SOUTHEND SPORTS TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
OSMANI TRUSTFY2023£66kTHICN project grant funding
OSMANI TRUSTFY2024£30kTHICN Youth Opportunities Fund
The Portal TrustFY2024£20kOrient Opportunities Life Skills Coaching
The Portal TrustFY2025£20kLyric Theatre Hammersmith
THE ESSEX AND SOUTHEND SPORTS TRUSTFY2023£19kGrant funding of activities
THE ESSEX AND SOUTHEND SPORTS TRUSTFY2024£19kGrants to institutions
THE ESSEX AND SOUTHEND SPORTS TRUSTFY2025£13kMaintaining the HUB
THE ESSEX AND SOUTHEND SPORTS TRUSTFY2021£12kCommunity projects in East London

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund02/04/2026£20kLeyton Orient Seniors Lounge
Sport England15/01/2025£15kLeyton Orient Seniors Lounge
The National Lottery Heritage Fund07/06/2017£49k"Playing in the Community: 80 Years of Leyton Orient Football Club 1937 - 2017"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund14/01/2016£10k"Women's Football on the Home Front - East London"
The National Lottery Community Fund17/09/2015£7kFootball Fans In Training (FFIT)
The National Lottery Heritage Fund04/03/2015£35k"Clapton Orient FC and the Great War - They Took the Lead"
The National Lottery Community Fund21/06/2012£10kMoving Forward
The National Lottery Community Fund05/03/2010£9kHealth young people's multisports sessions

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YOUTH OPTIONS.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
LEYTON ORIENT TRUST£1.6m—0above—no doubt
YOUTH OPTIONS FY2025£3.8m£60,001 - £70,0001unclear—no doubt
OLD MOAT YOUTH OUTREACH PROJECT FY2025£105k—0unclear—no doubt
THE JONGEN CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£22.3m—0above—no doubt
THE LIMBOURNE TRUST FY2026£120k—0unclear—no doubt
LEISTON SCOUT GROUP FY2025£49k—0unclear—no doubt

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