LONDON WHEELCHAIR RUGBY CLUB

Registered charity 1096669 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

London Wheelchair Rugby Club aim's and objectives are to promote the sport of wheelchair rugby to the community of all London boroughs, and non-metropolitan counties of the South East of England, including Essex. Through development, education of the sport to adults and children with a disability to improve the quality of life.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ("THE OBJECTS") ARE THE RELIEF OF DISABLED PEOPLE BY THE PROMOTION OF WHEELCHAIR RUGBY IN LONDON AND THE SOUTH EAST OF ENGLAND

Area of benefit: LONDON AND THE SOUTH EAST OF ENGLAND

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Maldon, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £27,370 for the year, reducing unrestricted funds from £110,755 to £83,385. The trustees have established a reserves policy requiring unrestricted reserves to cover at least six months of expenditure, a target not currently met given the reduced fund balance. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention regarding the accounts.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/05/2023 (received 30/04/2024, 30 days after the 31/03/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — London Wheelchair Rugby Club (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• STEVE PALMERchair
• Ann Burns
• David Goddard
• JUSTIN FRISHBERG

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · East Sussex · Essex · Hampshire · Kent · Oxfordshire · Surrey · Throughout London · West Sussex

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GREAT BRITAIN WHEELCHAIR RUGBY LIMITED.

• GREAT BRITAIN WHEELCHAIR RUGBY LIMITED income £2.0m
• LEICESTER TIGERS WHEELCHAIR RUGBY CLUB income £148k
• NORTH WEST WHEELCHAIR RUGBY income £109k
• OSPREYS WHEELCHAIR RUGBY income £85k
• WESTCOUNTRY HAWKS WHEELCHAIR RUGBY CLUB income £30k
• Burton Wheelchair Rugby income £27k

Side by side with its peers

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