SPORT 4 LIFE UK

Registered charity 1115222 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Sport 4 Life UK (S4L) believes in a level playing field where every young person has the opportunity to create a better future for themselves. S4L is proud to provide the opportunity for young people aged 11-29 to prepare for, and move into, sustained education, employment or training, by improving their employability and key life skills - through its sports-themed mentoring and training services.

Objects

1. The Objects of the charity are for the public benefit: 1.1 To act as a resource for (in particular but not limited to) young people up to the age of 30 by providing advice and assistance and organising programmes of physical, educational and other activities as a means of: (a) advancing in life and helping young people by developing their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as independent, mature and responsible individuals;(b) advancing education;(c) relieving unemployment;(d) providing recreational and leisure time activity in the interests of social welfare for people who have need by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disability, poverty or social and economic circumstances with a view to improving the conditions of life of such persons. 1.2 The promotion of community participation in healthy recreation in particular by the provision of facilities for the playing of sports. 1.3 To advance such other charitable purposes (according to the law of England and Wales) as the trustees see fit from time to time.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £174,682 for the year ended 30 June 2025, resulting in the utilization of unrestricted reserves. Per the trustees' report, the charity remains in a stable financial position due to strengthened controls and secured future funding, despite operating in a challenging external environment.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cooper Parry Group Limited. Discloses 3 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05664605

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Sport 4 Life UK (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Sports Key — “Partnering with Sport 4 Life UK we have not only had significant funding support but also support with vital insight, expert guidance on str…” (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.

• BAYLISS, Robert James — director, appointed 07/05/2026on trustee list
• KEENAN, Carolyn Anne — director, appointed 07/08/2025on trustee list
• BILKHU, Gurdeep Kaur — director, appointed 07/08/2025on trustee list
• SHARMAN, Christopher James — director, appointed 07/08/2025on trustee list
• BAILEY, Julie Iris Ann — director, appointed 02/02/2024on trustee list
• BROWN, Alton — director, appointed 19/10/2023on trustee list
• GAHIR, Michael — director, appointed 01/04/2023on trustee list
• NEALE, Emma Elizabeth — director, appointed 22/01/2021on trustee list
• CLARKE-FORREST, Thomas Michael — secretary, appointed 24/10/2013

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 ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 4.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michael Gahirchair
• Alton Brown
• Carolyn Anne Keenan
• Christopher James Sharman
• Emma Elizabeth Neale
• Gurdeep Kaur Bilkhu
• Julie Iris Ann Bailey
• Robert James Bayliss

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Dudley · Sandwell · Walsall · Worcestershire

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 SPORTS FUN 4 ALL.

• SPORTS FUN 4 ALL income £251k
• LIFE PROJECT FOR YOUTH, ENGLAND income £145k
• THE SPORT LEGACY FOUNDATION income £94k
• W4 YOUTH LIMITED income £68k
• ROUTES4LIFE LIMITED income £516k
• LEADERSHIP THROUGH SPORT AND BUSINESS income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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