CHANCE TO SHINE FOUNDATION LTD

Registered charity 1123385 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE CRICKET FOUNDATION

The purpose of Chance to Shine is to give all young people the opportunity to play learn and develop through cricket. We do this by grant funding our partners to deliver Chance to Shine programmes in schools and communities and also by providing free digital resources for teachers and schools.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £483,000 for the year ended 30 September 2025, a significant improvement from the £974,000 surplus in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £3,417,000, which exceeds the stated policy target of £2,700,000, providing sufficient funds for business continuity and an orderly winding up.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Chance to Shine (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (93% 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: 16.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/11/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/08/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Timothy Scorechair
• Amit Aggarwal · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anthony Stephen Davies
• Bilal Raja
• Christopher Townsend · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dana Hegazi Abdulkarim
• David Walker
• Emma Bernstein
• Eoin Morgan
• Roland Turnill
• Sharon Hague
• Sir Mark John Harford · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SHINE: SUPPORT AND HELP IN EDUCATION.

• SHINE: SUPPORT AND HELP IN EDUCATION income £2.5m
• BAT FOR A CHANCE income £376k
• CHANCE (UK) LIMITED income £1.7m
• GLOUCESTERSHIRE CRICKET FOUNDATION income £1.2m
• COMMUNITY HELP AND NEIGHBOURLY CARE FOR EVERYONE income £100k
• CFYDC (CHANCE) income £519k

Side by side with its peers

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