THE SURREY CRICKET BOARD

Registered charity 1118770 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SURREY CRICKET FOUNDATION

To promote community participation in healthy recreation by providing facilities for the playing of and development of cricket and other sports capable of improving health.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£2.6m

Latest spending

£2.7m

Registered

2007

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £78,004 for the year, resulting in total funds decreasing from £1,170,529 to £1,092,525. However, the charity maintains a strong cash position of £1,407,720 and unrestricted free reserves of £466,483, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet obligations for at least 12 months. The trustees have adopted the going concern basis, noting that reserves provide protection against potential shortfalls in income streams.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £100,001 - £105,999 — in the top quarter for charities its size (median £70k)

“one whose emoluments fell between £100,000 and £105,999 and one with emoluments fell between £70,000 and £75,999.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Employees paid over £60,000: 2

“During the year there were two employees with emoluments over £60,0000” — page 21

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: appropriate to the risks which the Charity faces, in order to provide protection for the Charity against unforeseen adverse financial circumstances (held: £466k)

“The Trustees' policy is to retain a level of Free Reserves which is appropriate to the risks which the Charity faces, in order to provide protection for the Charity against unforeseen adverse financial circumstances.” — page 8

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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

Year-over-year changes

Top pay band moved from £90,001 - £100,000 (FY2024) to £100,001 - £105,999 (FY2025).
Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Surrey Cricket Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Bob Qureshi — Chair of the Development Board (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).

ECB — “Our work is funded through a number of partnerships, including the ECB and Surrey County Cricket Club , as well as our own range of events i…” (source page)
Surrey County Cricket Club — “Our work is funded through a number of partnerships, including the ECB and Surrey County Cricket Club , as well as our own range of events i…” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Total income

£2.6m

Total spending

£2.7m

Cost of raising funds

£63k

Reserves (reported)

£466k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (70% 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: 2.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Carol Potter Marmolchair
Arun Harinath
Crispin Lyden-Cowan · trustee of 1 other charity
David John Plowman · trustee of 1 other charity
Douglas McAllister
Dunstan Dennis Holder
Laura Pierce
Louise Rachel Walker
Nigel Martyn
Sean Patrick Keaton · trustee of 1 other charity
Sophia Aemilia Alison Kent · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Lambeth · Southwark · Surrey

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/09/2025	£2.6m	£2.7m
30/09/2024	£2.2m	£2.2m
30/09/2023	£2.1m	£1.8m
30/09/2022	£1.7m	£1.6m
30/09/2021	£1.1m	£1.1m

Common questions

Is THE SURREY CRICKET BOARD financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £78,004 for the year, resulting in total funds decreasing from £1,170,529 to £1,092,525. However, the charity maintains a strong cash position of £1,407,720 and unrestricted free reserves of £466,483, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet obligations for at least 12 months. The trustees have adopted the going concern basis, noting that reserves provide protection against potential shortfalls in income streams. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Deloitte LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of THE SURREY CRICKET BOARD earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £100,001 - £105,999 band, and 2 employees earned over £60,000.

Who funds THE SURREY CRICKET BOARD?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE SURREY CRICKET BOARD as a grant recipient include THE BATCHWORTH TRUST, THE ROGER RAYMOND CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE BATCHWORTH TRUST	FY2023	£15k
THE ROGER RAYMOND CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£10k

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
Sport England	13/11/2010	£4k	Lambeth Cricket Project

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
ALDRIDGE FOUNDATION CIO	1	£147k
PETER HARRISON FOUNDATION	1	£20k
THE PRIORY FOUNDATION	1	£8k
MISS W E LAWRENCE 1973 CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT	1	£5k
Get Berkshire Active	1	£3k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SURREY COUNTY FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION LIMITED.

SURREY COUNTY FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £1.6m
DURHAM COUNTY CRICKET FOUNDATION income £858k
ENGLAND AND WALES CRICKET TRUST income £41.7m
BERKSHIRE CRICKET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £1.4m
SHROPSHIRE CRICKET BOARD LIMITED income £768k
FRINTON-ON-SEA CRICKET CLUB income £255k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE SURREY CRICKET BOARD	£2.6m	£100,001 - £105,999	2	above	—	no doubt
SURREY COUNTY FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION LIMITED FY2025	£1.6m	—	—	above	—	no doubt
DURHAM COUNTY CRICKET FOUNDATION FY2025	£858k	—	—	above	—	no doubt
ENGLAND AND WALES CRICKET TRUST FY2026	£41.7m	—	0	above	—	no doubt
BERKSHIRE CRICKET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FY2025	£1.4m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
SHROPSHIRE CRICKET BOARD LIMITED FY2026	£768k	—	0	within	—	no doubt

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