EAST GRINSTEAD SPORTS CLUB LTD

Registered charity 1091114 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EAST GRINSTEAD SPORTS AND COUNTRY CLUB

Independent Sports & Leisure Facilities For The Community

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF EAST GRINSTEAD AND THE SURROUNDING AREA WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS.

Area of benefit: EAST GRINSTEAD AND SURROUNDING AREA

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net incoming resource of £68,285 for the year ended 30 September 2025, with total funds carried forward of £2,727,133. The trustees maintain a reserves policy targeting three to six months of uncommitted expenditure, and the auditor confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Affinia (Crawley). 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04279448 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• SMITH, Adam John — director, appointed 16/07/2025on trustee list
• BOWEN, John Spencer — director, appointed 16/07/2025on trustee list
• TOMSETT, David — director, appointed 18/07/2024on trustee list
• COLEMAN, Jason — director, appointed 04/07/2023on trustee list
• FISH, Nigel Timothy — director, appointed 26/09/2019on trustee list
• CHRISTOPHERSON, George Henry Clifford — director, appointed 18/09/2018on trustee list
• NEEDLE, Gary James — director, appointed 12/09/2017on trustee list
• FARREN, Lee Phillip — director, appointed 13/12/2016on trustee list
• THORNLEY-GIBSON, Rebecca — director, appointed 01/06/2010on trustee list
• LEMAN, Richard Alexander — director, appointed 31/08/2001on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adam Smithchair
• David Tomsett
• GEORGE HENRY CLIFFORD CHRISTOPHERSON
• Gary James Needle · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jason Coleman
• Lee Phillip Farren
• Nigel Timothy Fish
• REBECCA THORNLEY-GIBSON
• RICHARD ALEXANDER LEMAN
• Spencer Bowen

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

Operates in: East Sussex · Kent · Surrey · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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