THE SPORTING CHANCE CLINIC

Registered charity 1085817 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SPORTING CHANCE CHARITY

The provision of rehab counselling & support for people who are affected by alcohol, drugs & other addictions and who are current or retired professional sportsmen and women. The provision of one-to-one therapy and counselling for mental health, emotional wellbeing and addiction issues The provision of lifestyle and emotional wellbeing education to professional sports clubs.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted funds increased to £888,309, with free reserves at £170,459. The charity generated a net income surplus of £57,761 for the year, funded primarily by core funding from sports stakeholders. The trustees maintain a reserves policy targeting three to six months of operating costs, noting that current free reserves are below the stated lower target of £220,000.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Audit. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04154243 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Sporting Chance Clinic (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Colin Bland — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Shellie Heather — Chief Operating Officer (source)

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.

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.

• ELIAS, Lincoln — director, appointed 17/01/2026on trustee list
• LEGG, Katherine Caroline — director, appointed 25/02/2021not on trustee list
• MUIJEN, Matthijs Frederik — director, appointed 25/02/2021on trustee list
• COLLIS, Alexa Jane — director, appointed 10/12/2019on trustee list
• LESLIE, Alan — director, appointed 07/03/2019on trustee list
• HEATHER, Shellie Louise — secretary, appointed 06/06/2012

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £975k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: The Sporting Chance Clinic — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 16/07/2019.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Crouch House and Crouch Cottage: Good (27/01/2020) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Leslie
• Alexa Jane Collis
• Katherine Caroline Hammond
• Lincoln Elias
• Matthijs Frederik Muijen

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SPORTINSPIRED LTD.

• SPORTINSPIRED LTD income £1.4m
• HILLSIDE CLUBHOUSE income £1.8m
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• CANOLFAN FELIN FACH CENTRE LIMITED income £273k
• SPORT IN MIND income £1.7m
• PROJECT COLT income £260k

Side by side with its peers

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