STREET LEAGUE

Registered charity 1101313 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC038884 (OSCR)

Street League use sport and physical activity to tackle youth unemployment. We do this by working with young people who live in the most disadvantaged areas of the UK, and engage them in structured football, fitness or dance fitness and education programmes with a view to getting participants into work, mainstream education or training.

Objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO RELIEVE PERSONS IN FINANCIAL OR OTHER NEED DUE TO UNEMPLOYMENT BY:1. ASSISTING UNEMPLOYED PERSONS TO MORE EASILY ENTER INTO EMPLOYMENT; AND2. ALLEVIATING THE POSITION OF THOSE WHO REMAIN UNEMPLOYED,IN EACH CASE BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION THROUGH: (I) THE MEDIUM OF FOOTBALL AND BY AN ASSOCIATED PROGRAMME OF SUPPORT, TRAINING, COURSES AND ACTIVITIES; AND (II) THE MEDIUM OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY MORE GENERALLY AND BY AN ASSOCIATED PROGRAMME OF SUPPORT, TRAINING, COURSES AND ACTIVITIES.

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Manchester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that Street League delivered a record total revenue of £7.76 million against expenditure of £7.54 million, resulting in a surplus of £224,000. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £3.65 million, which the trustees confirm cover 5.8 months of expenditure, meeting their stated policy target. The trustees and auditors confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2025) → 8 (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Street League (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dougie Stevenson — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• John Coleman — Chair of the Board of Trustees (source)
• Kirsty Steven — Director of Operations (source)
• Anna Campbell — Director of Contracts and Quality (source)
• Nigel Mansfield — Commercial Director (source)
• Shilpa Littlewood — Director of Finance (source)
• Laura Bentley — Director of Human Resources (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).

• North Ayrshire Council — “Street League is delighted to announce funding via North Ayrshire Council has been renewed for 26/27” (source page)
• Liverpool City Region Combined Authority — “Street League are delighted to have been awarded funding from Liverpool City Region Combined Authority” (source page)
• CVC — “Since our partnership began in 2010 , CVC has played a vital role in helping young people across the UK build brighter futures through fundi…” (source page)
• The New Balance Foundation — “THE NEW BALANCE FOUNDATION” (source page)
• The Barratt Foundation — “The Barratt Foundation” (source page)
• Westminster Foundation — “WESTMINSTER FOUNDATION” (source page)
• Santander Foundation — “created in collaboration with The Santander Foundation and Media Trust Films” (source page)

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~5.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (79% 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: 8.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Deepti Leanne Townsend
• Hurbinder Mudan
• Jacquie Irvine
• John Coleman
• Lesley Giddins · trustee of 1 other charity
• William Jonathan Rennie

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England

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 STREETGAMES UK.

• STREETGAMES UK income £8.5m
• THE STREET SOCCER FOUNDATION income £291k
• STREET TEAMS income £233k
• THE NATIONAL LEAGUE TRUST income £1.2m
• SURREY YOUTH LEAGUE income £69k
• STREET SOCCER ACADEMY income £357k

Side by side with its peers

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