RIGHT TO PLAY UK LIMITED

Registered charity 1112404 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC052331 (OSCR)

Right To Play is a global organisation that uses the transformative power of play - playing sports, playing games - to educate and empower children affected by conflict, poverty and disease. We reach more than one million children in regular weekly activities, and have a direct impact on the development of critical life skills that affect positive and sustainable change.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year ended 31 December 2024 was £2,425,921, representing a 17% increase from the previous year. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £181,140, resulting in total unrestricted and restricted funds of £725,577 at year-end. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2023) to £90,001 - £100,000 (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Right To Play UK (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jessie Thomson — President and CEO (source)
• Gillian McMahon — Executive Director (source)
• Kate McGilvray — Chair (source)
• Lindsay Groves — Chief Development Officer (source)
• David Danylewich — Chief Financial Officer (source)
• Elizabeth Boonman-Salgado — Chief People and Culture Officer (source)
• Leslie McCormack Gathy — Deputy Chair (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).

• POSTCODE LOTTERY — “Partners POSTCODE LOTTERY” (source page)
• Education Cannot Wait — “Education Cannot Wait” (source page)
• Flutter International — “Flutter International” (source page)
• Future Skills Centre — “Future Skills Centre” (source page)
• Global Affairs Canada — “Global Affairs Canada” (source page)
• Government of Norway — “Government of Norway” (source page)
• Government of Ontario — “Government of Ontario” (source page)
• International Development Research Centre — “International Development Research Centre” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (56% 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: 22.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Greg Laichair
• Alexander Howell
• Benjamin James Cresswell Kay
• Chimene Crawford
• Douglas Smith
• Karyn MacDonald
• Kasase Kabwe · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kjartan Rist
• LESLIE MCCORMACK GATHY
• Lindsay Groves
• Mireille Abujawdeh
• Nancy Curtin
• Sonal Dash

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

Operates in: Burundi · Canada · Ethiopia · Ghana · Jordan · Lebanon · Mali · Mozambique · Occupied Palestinian Territories · Pakistan · Rwanda · Senegal

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 BATH AREA PLAY PROJECT.

• BATH AREA PLAY PROJECT income £723k
• HOPE AND PLAY income £313k
• PLAY WALES/CHWARAE CYMRU income £607k
• 5RIGHTS FOUNDATION income £1.8m
• LONDON PLAY income £148k
• SPORTS FUN 4 ALL income £251k

Side by side with its peers

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