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

Objects

The Charity's objects ("Objects") for the public benefit and in particular for the benefit of young people under the age of 25 both in the United Kingdom and internationally ("Young People") are:(1) To support, enable and encourage Young People, irrespective of ability, to participate in sport and physical activity, whether in schools, other educational establishments or the wider community, by providing advice and assistance and organising programmes of physical, educational and other activities to help Young People to develop their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as independent, mature and responsible individuals, advancing their mental and physical health and education.(2) To provide advice and assistance to parents, carers and families to enable and encourage them to support Young People, irrespective of age or ability, to participate in sport and physical activity.(3) To improve and increase the provision of sport and physical activity opportunities available for Young People by building networks, delivering training and seeking co-ordination, collaboration and co-operation amongst providers of sport, physical activity and physical education, and between sport, education and health providers.(4) To promote the benefits of sport and physical activity (in general and in particular) and the physical and mental health of Young People by undertaking and disseminating research into sport, physical activity, the impact of sport on academic achievement and into the physical and mental health of Young People.(5) To seek to influence policy makers at local, national and international levels about the importance of sport and physical activity and its benefits to Young People (without engaging in any party-political activity).(6) To advance such other charitable purposes as the directors may from time to time think fit.Nothing in the articles shall authorise an application of the property of the charity for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and/or section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.

Area of benefit: THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Charnwood, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

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.

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.

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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 (3.7%) (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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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 YOUTH SPORT UK CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE YOUTH SPORT UK CHARITABLE TRUST income £428k
• YOUTH EXPERIENCE IN SPORT income £133k
• THE ACCESS TO SPORTS PROJECT income £896k
• DAME KELLY HOLMES TRUST income £1.0m
• YEOVIL TOWN COMMUNITY SPORTS TRUST LIMITED income £295k
• LONDON YOUTH SPORTS TRUST LIMITED income £199k

Side by side with its peers

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