SPORTED FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1123313 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as INSPIRED BY SPORT FOUNDATION · also registered in Scotland as SC043161 (OSCR)

Sported delivers professional services, free of charge, to a membership network of over 2,500 grassroots groups in the UK. Focusing on deprived/disadvantaged areas we support the incredible group leaders who care passionately about their community and have earnt their trust. Mentoring from Sported allows these groups to survive and thrive, achieving positive social outcomes for all.

Objects

3. OBJECTS THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:3.1 TO ADVANCE THE OPPORTUNITIES OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN SPORT TO HELP ENABLE THEM DEVELOP THEIR FULL CAPACITIES;3.2 TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR SPORT, RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF SUCH PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED FOR SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY, ETHNICITY, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES (IN PARTICULAR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE) OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE;3.3 TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC (ESPECIALLY YOUNG PEOPLE) IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SPORTS FACILITIES AND SPORTS COACHING;3.4 TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR THE PLAYING OF SPORTS CAPABLE OF IMPROVING HEALTH;3.5 SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DECIDE.("THE OBJECTS").

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE: THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AND WALES.

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 · Disability · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Southwark, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £1,257,506 for the year, with unrestricted reserves at £468,745. However, the trustees note that these free reserves are below the stated policy target of 13 weeks of non-project expenditure, which equated to £527,000. Cash flow projections remain healthy, showing a positive balance for at least a year even without non-contracted income.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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 06541137
• Trading subsidiary: SPORTED TRADING LIMITED Companies House 08623400

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Simon Cummins — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Sarah Kaye — CEO (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.

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.

• BRADLEY, Kathryn Ann — director, appointed 03/09/2025on trustee list
• BIRCHINALL, Timothy Peter — director, appointed 29/08/2025on trustee list
• HALL-RAMSAY, Mickela Latoyah — director, appointed 25/04/2025on trustee list
• ENEBERI, Jeffrey Amatari — director, appointed 25/04/2025on trustee list
• DOUGLAS, Jill Alison — director, appointed 24/03/2025on trustee list
• STEWART, Martin David — director, appointed 06/07/2022on trustee list
• TOMS, Kilian Leon — director, appointed 17/02/2021on trustee list
• DIER, Louise — director, appointed 01/02/2020on trustee list
• MILLS, Rebecca — director, appointed 25/04/2019on trustee list
• BUCHANAN, Karen Jane — director, appointed 17/01/2019on trustee list
• CUMMINS, Simon Paul Jeremiah — director, appointed 12/07/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~0.9 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 (97% 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: 2.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jeffrey Amatari Eneberi
• Jill Alison Douglas
• KAREN JANE BUCHANAN
• KILIAN LEON TOMS
• Kathryn Ann Bradley
• Louise Dier
• Martin David Stewart
• Mickela Latoyah Hall-Ramsay
• REBECCA CATHERINE MILLS
• Simon Paul Jeremiah Cummins
• Timothy Peter Birchinall

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

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

Income and spending

Common questions

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 SPORTINSPIRED LTD.

• SPORTINSPIRED LTD income £1.4m
• THE ACCESS TO SPORTS PROJECT income £896k
• UNITED THROUGH SPORT income £125k
• SPORTS AID TRUST income £16.8m
• THE LONDON SPORTS TRUST income £669k
• SPORTING FOUNDATION income £329k

Side by side with its peers

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