MILTON KEYNES GYMNASTIC LIMITED

Registered charity 1080223 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MILTON KEYNES GYMNASTICS

Provision of Gymnastic Facilities

Objects

TO PROVIDE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE PERSONS FOR WHOM THE FACILITIES ARE PRIMARILY INTENDED.

Area of benefit: MILTON KEYNES AND SURROUNDING AREAS

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity faces a challenging financial environment with increasing costs for rent, energy, and staff, while the new building project remains on hold. Despite these pressures, unrestricted reserves increased to £555,202, and the charity continues to subsidize vulnerable children and elite gymnastics, though trustees warn that future support may need to be cut back or fees raised significantly.

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.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investing charity funds 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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (89% 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: 50.2% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• GARRY WINDERchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• DEBORAH WINDER BA
• Julie Ann Doyle
• Mark Johnston
• Michael French
• Paula Marie Davies
• Sean Francis McDermott

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

Operates in: Bedford · Buckinghamshire · Central Bedfordshire · Milton Keynes · Northamptonshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YORK CITY GYMNASTICS FOUNDATION.

• YORK CITY GYMNASTICS FOUNDATION income £608k
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• Sherwood Oaks Gymnastics Academy income £245k
• BRITISH GYMNASTICS FOUNDATION income £366k
• WEALD GYMNASTICS CENTRE income £414k

Side by side with its peers

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