LIVING SPORT CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH SPORTS PARTNERSHIP LIMITED

Registered charity 1124122 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Living Better

LIVING BETTER works to increase opportunities to be active and participate in sport, wellbeing, and physical activity throughout the East of England and East Midlands by connecting, influencing, developing people and organisations to deliver high quality events and activities in their local communities.

Objects

The preservation and protection of good health and the promotion of Community participation in healthy recreation through sport and physical fitness by supporting the development of greater participation and quality in sport in the East of England and East Midlands.

Area of benefit: EAST OF ENGLAND AND EAST MIDLANDS.

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Huntingdonshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a total income of £2,368,302 and a net surplus of £21,519 for the year ended 31 March 2025. Total funds held were £436,956, with unrestricted free reserves of £168,292, which the trustees state is below their amended reserves policy target range of £205,927 to £385,096. The auditor confirmed the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

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

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05894596 · Financial health read from its filings
• Trading subsidiary: LIVING ACTIVE LIMITED Companies House 11214648

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — LIVING SPORT CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH SPORTS PARTNERSHIP (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• PLAYFORD, Daniel — director, appointed 04/12/2025on trustee list
• KAILEY, Arabella — director, appointed 04/12/2025on trustee list
• MORRIS, Andrew John — director, appointed 04/12/2025on trustee list
• TOWNSEND, Martin — director, appointed 19/04/2024on trustee list
• HARDMAN, David Andrew — director, appointed 19/04/2024on trustee list
• HESELWOOD, Paul William — director, appointed 19/04/2024on trustee list
• MCCURDY, Robert Nigel — director, appointed 06/10/2021on trustee list
• COULSON, David — director, appointed 01/10/2020on trustee list
• HYDE, Samantha — secretary, appointed 27/07/2026

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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: Donations and legacies (89% 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Martin Townsendchair
• Andrew John Morris
• Andy Wild
• Arabella Kailey
• Daniel Playford
• David Coulson
• David Hardman
• Paul Heselwood
• Robert Nigel McCURDY · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Norfolk · Peterborough City · Suffolk

Income and spending

Common questions

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 CAMBRIDGE SPORTS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION.

• CAMBRIDGE SPORTS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION income £202k
• SOMERSET ACTIVITY AND SPORTS PARTNERSHIP income £3.3m
• HEALTH THROUGH SPORT LIMITED income £39k
• THE ACCESS TO SPORTS PROJECT income £896k
• BURGESS SPORTS income £283k
• BIRMINGHAM SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY TRUST income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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