SOUTH BRISTOL SPORTS CENTRE

Registered charity 1118018 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity is responsible for running the South Bristol Sports Centre, which consists of a gymnasium, playing fields, changing rooms and refreshment facilities near West Town Lane, South Bristol. The charity also supports and encourages sport and healthy living in the Bristol area.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£1.5m
Latest spending
£1.5m
Registered
2007
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

Unable to assess financial health as the provided document is a system activity log rather than the charity's financial statements. No financial data, reserves, or operational details are contained within the text.

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

What the accounts disclose

Related-party transaction: No related party transactions are disclosed in this system activity report.
“Document Activity Report Document Sent Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:19:50 GMT Document Activity History Document history shows most recent activity first Date Activity You can verify that this is a genuine Portal document by uploading it to the following secure web page: http://tcgroup.accountantspace.co.uk/messages/VerifyDocument” — page 45
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Governance: The document is a system-generated activity report, not the charity accounts themselves. No governance matters are stated.
“Document Activity Report Document Sent Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:19:50 GMT Document Activity History Document history shows most recent activity first Date Activity You can verify that this is a genuine Portal document by uploading it to the following secure web page: http://tcgroup.accountantspace.co.uk/messages/VerifyDocument” — page 45
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

SOUTH BRISTOL SPORTS CIC — per its own Companies House accounts

    Leadership, per the charity’s website

    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.

    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.

    Official officers record.

    Property (HM Land Registry)

    2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). 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 31/12/2025)

    Total income
    £1.5m
    Total spending
    £1.5m
    Cost of raising funds
    £1.4m
    Reserves (reported)
    £0
    Employees
    17

    Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

    Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (51% 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: 95.5% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

    Trustees · trustee networks

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

    Operates in: Bristol City

    Income and spending

    Financial year endIncomeSpending
    31/12/2025£1.5m£1.5m
    31/12/2024£1.4m£1.4m
    31/12/2023£1.3m£1.3m
    31/12/2022£1.1m£1.1m
    31/12/2021£682k£795k

    Common questions

    Is SOUTH BRISTOL SPORTS CENTRE financially healthy?

    Per its FY2024 accounts: Unable to assess financial health as the provided document is a system activity log rather than the charity's financial statements. No financial data, reserves, or operational details are contained within the text.

    Government & lottery funding

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

    FunderDateAmountPurpose
    Sport England12/11/2020£40kCovid-19 Return to play
    Sport England15/06/2020£10kCOVID-19 CEF

    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 SPORT4HEALTH.

    Side by side with its peers

    CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
    SOUTH BRISTOL SPORTS CENTRE£1.5m—0unclear—no doubt
    SPORT4HEALTH FY2025£228k—0unclear—no doubt
    TOCKWITH AND WILSTROP RECREATION GROUND FY2025£144k—0unclear—noted
    ACTIVE LUTON FY2025£15.7m——unclear—no doubt
    BROADOAK AND SMALLSHAW COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FY2025£100k—0unclear—no doubt
    SHENLEY LEISURE CENTRE TRUST LIMITED FY2025£689k——unclear—no doubt

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