ASPIRE SPORTS AND CULTURAL TRUST

Registered charity 1125995 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide or assist in the provision of facilities and services for recreational, sporting or other leisure pursuits in the interests of social welfare. To develop and support education, culture, arts, heritage and history and other related services, promoting community participation in healthy recreation. To promote the benefits of active lifestyle and physical activity targetting young people.

Objects

3.1.1 TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES AND SERVICES FOR RECREATIONAL, SPORTING OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, SUCH FACILITIES BEING PROVIDED TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE SAVE THAT SPECIAL FACILITIES MAY BE PROVIDED FOR PERSONS WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES MAY HAVE BEEN OF SPECIAL FACILITIES AND SERVICES; AND/OR3.1.2 THE ADVANCEMENT AND SUPPORT OF EDUCATION, CULTURE, ARTS, HERITAGE AND HISTORY INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS, GALLERIES, LEARNING AND INFORMATION CENTRES, ARCHIVES AND OTHER RELATED SERVICES; AND/OR3.1.3 TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION; AND/OR3.1.4 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC ON THE BENEFIT OF ACTIVE LIFESTYLE AND IN PARTICULAR THE VALUE OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE; AND/OR3.1.5 SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY CONSISTENT WITH THE OBJECTS ABOVE AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE (THE "OBJECTS")

Area of benefit: LOCAL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tunbridge Wells, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£2.1m
Latest spending
£2.5m
Registered
2008

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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.

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2022

  • Government income: £82,522 — grants £82,522 (1); 4% of the £2,125,944 total gross income on the same return
  • Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£80,001–£90,000: 1)

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2021

  • Government income: £801,869 — grants £801,869 (3); 67% of the £1,192,384 total gross income on the same return
  • Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£80,001–£90,000: 1)

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2020

  • Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£80,001–£90,000: 1)

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

3 annual returns are past their due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Total income
£2.1m
Total spending
£2.5m
Cost of raising funds
£7k
Reserves (reported)
£0
Employees
50

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 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 (88% 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: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025——
31/03/2024——
31/03/2023——
31/03/2022£2.1m£2.5m
31/03/2021£1.2m£1.5m