YOUTH SPORT TRUST

Registered charity 1086915 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Improving the quality of PE & school sportDeveloping incl. PE & school sport to engage the least activeModernising competitive school sport to offer more young people the opp to competeEnabling & empowering young people to lead & be role modelsMaximising the experiences of elite athletes via mentor training & deploymentSupporting the use of PE to impact on academic progress & acheivement

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity returned an unrestricted deficit of £119,815 for the year ended 31 March 2025, which included a profit from its trading subsidiary. Per the trustees' report, the Group’s unrestricted reserves stood at £5,638,771, which is above the stated minimum reserves policy of £3.2m, and the auditor confirmed there are no material uncertainties related to going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: YOUTH SPORT TRUST ENTERPRISES LTD Companies House 03289889
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04180163

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Youth Sport Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Lidl Ireland — “We have been working with Lidl Ireland since 2018, delivering impactful initiatives into schools across the Republic and Northern Ireland.” (source page)
• Sports Direct — “With a different theme each year, Youth Sport Trust’s National School Sports Week, powered by Sports Direct, invites schools, organisations …” (source page)
• London Marathon Foundation — “We are working in partnership with the London Marathon Foundation and London Marathon Events to address the urgent crisis of physical inacti…” (source page)
• Bidfood — “In 2024, Bidfood selected Youth Sport Trust as the charity partner for their black white coffee range. A key part of the partnership is the …” (source page)
• David Lloyd Clubs — “David Lloyd Clubs selected Youth Sport Trust as the benefitting charity from their partnership with kitround on their 2024 and 2025 kit coll…” (source page)
• NEXA Properties — “The structure of the Youth Sport Trust helping schools local to all of our offices was ideal to ensure we can help as many children and youn…” (source page)

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.

• BRIDGE, Matthew Wakefield, Prof — director, appointed 15/07/2026on trustee list
• YASIN, Sara Tahaani — director, appointed 27/11/2025on trustee list
• HUNT, Timothy Jason Andrew — director, appointed 16/07/2025on trustee list
• ASCROFT, Simon Peter — director, appointed 16/07/2025on trustee list
• LEVINSON, Ben Davies — director, appointed 16/07/2025on trustee list
• JENG, Fatou — director, appointed 06/07/2023on trustee list
• GILLIGAN, John Francis — director, appointed 17/11/2022on trustee list
• SHARMA, Shweta — director, appointed 07/07/2022on trustee list
• BOAKES, Claire — director, appointed 07/07/2022on trustee list
• COPENHAGEN-CRUMLIN, Valerie Elizabeth Marie — director, appointed 13/09/2018on trustee list
• DAVIDSON, Richard Colin Neil — director, appointed 01/01/2018on trustee list
• ELLIS, Peter Jonathan — secretary, appointed 10/12/2018

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). 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 · linkedin

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (87% 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: 4.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard Colin Neil Davidsonchair
• Ben Davies Levinson
• Claire Boakes
• Fatou Jeng · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Francis Gilligan
• Prof Matthew Wakerfield Bridge
• Sara Tahaani Yasin
• Shweta Sharma
• Simon Peter Ascroft
• Timothy Jason Andrew Hunt
• Valerie Elizabeth Marie Copenhagen-Crumlin

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE YOUTH SPORT UK CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE YOUTH SPORT UK CHARITABLE TRUST income £428k
• LONDON YOUTH SPORTS TRUST LIMITED income £199k
• DAME KELLY HOLMES TRUST income £1.0m
• INSPIRE PLUS income £1.2m
• LEYTON ORIENT TRUST income £1.6m
• YOUTH EXPERIENCE IN SPORT income £133k

Side by side with its peers

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