THE PANATHLON FOUNDATION LIMITED

Registered charity 1072638 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q17017253 · Wikipedia · also known as PANATHLON FOUNDATION

To promote the physical and personal development of young disabled people, through organising school sports competitions and by the provision of resources including coaching, training, equipment and sports leadership opportunities.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE PHYSICAL AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG DISABLED PEOPLE, THROUGH ORGANISING SCHOOL SPORTS COMPETITIONS AND BY THE PROVISION OF RESOURCES INCLUDING COACHING, TRAINING, EQUIPMENT AND SPORTS LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £49,446 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in total reserves decreasing to £303,326 from £352,772 in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, the charity's reserves policy is to hold six months of expenditure, and the current unrestricted reserves of £286,598 are considered sufficient to sustain working capital requirements. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 5 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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)

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Panathlon Foundation Limited (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 3.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adil Hassan Ghani
• COLIN CHAYTORS
• DANIEL JAMES THOMPSON
• Elizabeth Anne Rodrigues
• Mohammed Faysal

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PLYMOUTH SPORTS CHARITY LIMITED.

• PLYMOUTH SPORTS CHARITY LIMITED income £76k
• SPORTING PENISTONE income £198k
• THE ACCESS TO SPORTS PROJECT income £896k
• THE BRITISH WHEELCHAIR SPORTS FOUNDATION LIMITED income £795k
• YOUTH EXPERIENCE IN SPORT income £133k
• RECREATION AND EASY ACCESS FOR DISABLED YOUTH income £53k

Side by side with its peers

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