TIGERS TRUST

Registered charity 1121748 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide facilities for the improving health and social cohesion through participation in sport and leisure activities.To advance educational opportunities for young people and adults, working with a wide range of partners.To promote activities that will enhance social welfare and inclusion for families and people of all ages.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£327k
Latest spending
£455k
Registered
2007
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity has negative unrestricted funds totalling £500,654 and net current liabilities of £434,743. The trustees concluded it was appropriate to prepare the financial statements on a going concern basis due to confirmed continued support from Castleford Rugby League Football Club Limited.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Grants (68% of income)
“Grants 5,300 221,738 227,038” — page 11
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £-501k; policy: twelve months of anticipated running costs)
“At the year end the charity had negative unrestricted funds totalling £500,654” — page 4
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Going concern: noted by the trustees or auditor
“On this basis, the Trustees concluded it appropriate to prepare the financial statements on a going concern basis.” — page 4
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: The staff included in note 9 of the accounts are employed by Castleford Rugby League Club. The staff salaries and other costs originally paid are recharged from the club to the charity each month. At the year-end £352,269 (2024: £366,489) was outstanding to the Rugby Club.
“The staff included in note 9 of the accounts are employed by Castleford Rugby League Club. The staff salaries and other costs originally paid are recharged from the club to the charity each month. At the year-end £352,269 (2024: £366,489) was outstanding to the Rugby Club.” — page 23
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: City Of Wakefield · Leeds City

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/11/2025£327k£455k
30/11/2024£251k£415k
30/11/2023£315k£350k
30/11/2022£257k£405k
30/11/2021£309k£342k

Common questions

Is TIGERS TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity has negative unrestricted funds totalling £500,654 and net current liabilities of £434,743. The trustees concluded it was appropriate to prepare the financial statements on a going concern basis due to confirmed continued support from Castleford Rugby League Football Club Limited. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds TIGERS TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name TIGERS TRUST as a grant recipient include COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR WAKEFIELD, YORKSHIRE BUILDING SOCIETY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR WAKEFIELDFY2025£21kGrassroots Endowment
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR WAKEFIELDFY2024£5k
YORKSHIRE BUILDING SOCIETY CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2023£2k

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund30/04/2026£50kTigers Youth Club
The National Lottery Heritage Fund11/08/2025£99k"The History of Castleford and District Amateur Rugby League"
Sport England09/06/2025£14kCastleford Tigers Wheelchair Rugby
The National Lottery Community Fund13/06/2024£15kCommunity Engagement Project
Sport England22/02/2024£14kWheelchair Rugby
The National Lottery Community Fund05/08/2015£9kTigers Community Programme
The National Lottery Heritage Fund11/02/2015£66k"The Castleford TigersÂ’ Community Heritage Project: linking the past, present and the future"

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 TIGERS SPORT AND EDUCATION TRUST.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
TIGERS TRUST£327k—0below—noted
TIGERS SPORT AND EDUCATION TRUST FY2025£1.8m——unclear—no doubt
LEICESTER TIGERS FOUNDATION FY2025£432k—0unclear—no doubt
TAMESIDE SPORTS TRUST FY2025£14.8m——below—no doubt
WIGAN ATHLETIC FC COMMUNITY TRUST FY2025£1.8m—0below—no doubt
TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR FOUNDATION FY2025£3.2m£60,001 - £70,0001unclear—no doubt

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