Snow Camp

Registered charity 1101030 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SNOW-CAMP, SWITCH180, Stop.Breathe.Think · also registered in Scotland as SC043344 (OSCR)

Snow Camp turn young lives around with the power of snowsports, to break down barriers, broaden horizons and address the biggest social issues facing underserved young people today. Our Vision is for snowsports to be available to all and for young people to achieve their full potential through positive opportunities. Since 2003, we have been working across the UK in the most deprived areas.

Objects

TO HELP AND EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL CAPACITIES SO THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY IMPROVE, AND BY PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILIITES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Registered contact address: Brighton and Hove, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net income over expenditure of £230,629, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £1,129,555. The trustees report that these reserves satisfy their policy of holding 9-12 months of expenditure, ensuring the charity can meet ongoing liabilities and delivery commitments. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by West & Berry Limited. 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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 30/06/2022 (received 11/05/2023, 11 days after the 30/04/2023 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04929970

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Snow Camp (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lara Kinnear — Managing Director (source)
• Dan Keeley — Community & Events Director (source)
• Rachel Cruz — Development Director (source)
• Matt Conroy — National Programme Director (source)
• Julia Smith — Operations Director (source)
• Ian Brown — Chair of Trustees (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).

• Anand and Sethi Family Charity Trust — “Anand and Sethi Family Charity Trust” (source page)
• Dandia Charitable Trust — “Dandia Charitable Trust” (source page)
• Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust — “Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust” (source page)
• Leicestershire and Rutland Community Foundation — “Leicestershire and Rutland Community Foundation” (source page)
• Speedomick Foundation — “Speedomick Foundation” (source page)
• The Carpenters' Company — “The Carpenters' Company” (source page)
• The Hedley Foundation — “The Hedley Foundation” (source page)
• The Ironmongers' Company — “The Ironmongers' Company” (source page)
• The Leathersellers' Company — “The Leathersellers' Company” (source page)
• The Mercers Charitable Foundation — “The Mercers Charitable Foundation” (source page)
• The Reso Charitable Foundation — “The Reso Charitable Foundation” (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.

• COTTON, James Ross — director, appointed 29/01/2026on trustee list
• MACDONALD, Sarah Jane — director, appointed 13/11/2025on trustee list
• PALMER-TOMKINSON, James Alexander — director, appointed 13/11/2025on trustee list
• BARROW, Antony Andrew — director, appointed 22/09/2020on trustee list
• BROWN, David Ian — director, appointed 16/08/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~11.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (89% 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: 13.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Ian Brownchair
• Antony Andrew Barrow
• James Alexander Palmer-Tomkinson · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Ross Cotton
• Jason Paul Cobbold
• Sarah Jane MacDonald

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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 THE SNOW SPORTS FOUNDATION.

• THE SNOW SPORTS FOUNDATION income £223k
• WINTER SPORTS FOUNDATION income £1.5m
• BASECAMP ADVENTURE TRUST income £245k
• ICE COOL KIDS income £36k
• SNOOP income £525k
• DISABILITY SPORTS COACH income £401k

Side by side with its peers

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