SPORTING EQUALS

Registered charity 1119365 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Sporting Equals is a national charity who promotes equality, diversity and inclusion in sport and physical activity. Our mission is to create healthier, stronger and fairer communities through sport and physical activity. We increase participation of under-represented race and faith communities in all levels of sport, and use sport to build more integrated communities.

Objects

TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY IN SPORT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BYA) WORKING TOWARDS THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF RACE;B) PROMOTING THE PARTICIPATION AND INTEGRATION OF MEMBERS OF ETHNIC MINORITY MIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITIES IN SPORT;C) ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS IN EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY;D) CONDUCTING OR COMMISSIONING RESEARCH ON EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY ISSUES AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTS TO THE PUBLIC; ANDE) PROMOTING ETHICAL STANDARDS OF CONDUCT AND COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAW IN RELATION TO RACE RELATIONS AND RACIAL EQUALITY.

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 · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Coventry, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £46,999 for the year, with total incoming resources of £1,415,703 and total expenditure of £1,368,704. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £247,287 are held in line with a policy to retain 6-12 months of operating costs. While the auditor issued a qualified opinion due to scope limitations, they concluded that the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. Discloses 4 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 08/04/2025, 67 days after the 31/01/2025 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Sporting Equals (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Howard Phillip Haughtonchair
• Lindon Wilson Neil
• MONICA SHAFAQ · trustee of 4 other charities
• Naseem Akhtar
• Naz Deen
• Nikita Shree Workneh
• Oriana Isabel Chirinos
• Richard Patel-Grainger
• Simon Philip Kirkland
• Stephen Douglas Shaw

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ACCESS TO SPORTS PROJECT.

• THE ACCESS TO SPORTS PROJECT income £896k
• UNITED THROUGH SPORT income £125k
• DISABILITY SPORTS COACH income £401k
• Commonwealth Sport Foundation income £135k
• SPORT IN MIND income £1.7m
• SAFE SPORT INTERNATIONAL income £195k

Side by side with its peers

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