CHRISTIANS IN SPORT

Registered charity 1086570 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC045299 (OSCR)

The purpose of Christians in Sport remains to 'reach the world of sport for Christ'

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an overall deficit of £66,756 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £1,007,235 to £940,479. Despite a 19% fall in donations, the charity maintains unrestricted reserves of £749,281, which exceed its stated policy target of £500,000 (three months of expenditure on salaries and fixed costs). The trustees confirm that resources are sufficient to continue as a going concern for at least twelve months.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Wenn Townsend. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04146081

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Christians in Sport (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Emma Watson — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Keith Proctor — Managing Director (source)
• Dr. Graham Daniels — General Director (source)
• Tom Beaumont — Operations Director (source)
• Ian Lancaster — Mission Director (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.

• CHADWICK, Lindsay Victoria Anne — director, appointed 07/12/2023on trustee list
• BEEBY, Matthew — director, appointed 07/12/2023on trustee list
• ROBSON, James Edward — director, appointed 19/12/2019on trustee list
• BENNETT, Michael Richard — director, appointed 01/08/2018not on trustee list
• WATSON, Emma Jane — director, appointed 01/08/2018on trustee list
• LION-CACHET, Chad Clinton — director, appointed 01/02/2015not on trustee list
• BEAUMONT, Thomas William — secretary, appointed 19/12/2022

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £535k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (72% 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/03/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Emma Jane Watsonchair
• James Robson
• Lindsay Chadwick · trustee of 1 other charity
• MATTHEW BEEBY

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

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• SPORTSREACH income £307k
• THE CHRISTIAN INSTITUTE income £3.8m
• ACTIVE AMBASSADORS OF CHRIST INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES income £219k
• Sportily income £1.2m
• CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS LIMITED income £4.5m
• TOGETHER FOR CHRIST HIS KINGDOM AND HIS CHURCH income £141k

Side by side with its peers

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