THE LONDON SPORTS TRUST

Registered charity 1077167 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE WEST LONDON SPORTS TRUST, WEST LONDON SPORTS TRUST

Sports, Leadership and Lifeskills programmes for children and young peopleHealth and well being education for families Mentor programmeWorkshops for young people, parents and AOTTStudy support programme

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING THROUGH THE PROVISION OF COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAMMES, COACHING AND MENTORING FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE RESIDING IN ALL LONDON BOROUGHS WHO ARE IN FULL TIME EDUCATION OR VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND ARE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 4-25 YEARS AND IN FINANCIAL NEED TO ENABLE THEM TO PURSUE CAREERS IN SPORT, RECREATION OR SUCH OTHER CAREER.

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGHS OF BRENT, EALING, HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM, KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hammersmith and Fulham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus on unrestricted funds of £393,730 for the year ended 31 March 2025. The trustees confirm that the current level of free reserves covers their stated policy target of approximately three months of charitable expenditure. The independent examiner reported that no matters came to their attention requiring further explanation.

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
• 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (88% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Paul Hymanchair
• MICHAEL DEFOE
• RICHARD BELLARS
• Rod Jack
• Sally Kettle · trustee of 1 other charity
• Samuel Dale
• Sonia Mkoloma

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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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
• LONDON YOUTH SPORTS TRUST LIMITED income £199k
• LLANGOLLEN SPORTS CLUB LTD income £11k
• LONDON RUGBY LEAGUE FOUNDATION income £145k
• THE BRITISH SPORTS TRUST income £2.3m
• CLEETHORPES COMMUNITY SPORTS AND EDUCATION income £778k

Side by side with its peers

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