GREENHOUSE SPORTS LIMITED

Registered charity 1098744 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GREENHOUSE, GREENHOUSE BETHWIN, GREENHOUSE SCHOOLS PROJECT LIMITED, TTK GREENHOUSE

Greenhouse Sports is a London-based charity that uses sport to engage young people living in the inner-city. It aims to develop social, thinking, emotional and physical (STEP) skills for young people in London's inner-city communities through high-quality, intensive sports programmes delivered by inspirational coaches.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £0.8m for the year, largely driven by £1.2m in one-off costs for the Greenhouse Centre restoration project. Despite this loss, the charity maintained unrestricted general reserves of £2.8m, which the trustees confirmed represented four months of expected operating expenditure, supporting a going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Greenhouse Sports (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Luke Ellis — Chair of the board of Trustees (source)
• Bethany Kinsella — Director of Fundraising and Communications (source)
• Camilla Knight — Director of Impact, Innovation and Engagement (source)
• Hannah Forster — Director of Finance & Resources (source)
• Jason Sugrue — Director of Coaching (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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• The Childhood Trust — “Partner Spotlight Here are a select few of our Trusts, Foundations and corporate partners we work with: Trusts & Foundations The Childhood T…” (source page)
• 3i Group — “Corporate Partners 3i Group” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £11.0m. 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 ~4.4 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 (62% 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: 16.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Lowenthal
• Carsten Jens Huwendiek
• Fiona Laffan
• Gary Shenk
• James Reynolds
• MICHAEL DE GIORGIO · trustee of 1 other charity
• MICHAEL SHERWOOD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Greatrex
• Nicholas Prempeh · trustee of 1 other charity
• STEPHEN LUKE ELLIS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Chambers

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LONDON YOUTH SPORTS TRUST LIMITED.

• LONDON YOUTH SPORTS TRUST LIMITED income £199k
• THE GREEN HOUSE BRISTOL income £1.2m
• THE BOURNE GREEN SPORTS CLUB income £219k
• SMALL GREEN SHOOTS income £776k
• GOLDEN HILL SPORTS LIMITED income £242k
• COLOMBO STREET COMMUNITY AND SPORTS CENTRE income £667k

Side by side with its peers

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