POMPEY IN THE COMMUNITY
Registered charity 1126118 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as POMPEY SPORTS AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION
Promotion of Community participation in healthy recreation. Providing facilities for sport, education, leisure,health checks to such persons who have need by reason of youth, age, infirmity, disablement, poverty or social and economic circumstances - with the object of improving conditions of life and to advance the education of adults, children and young people.
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £258,181 for the year, resulting in total funds of £7,277,067. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £1,621,050 exceed their stated policy target of £250,000, which is based on covering four months of net running costs. The auditors reported no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: £250,000 (held: £1.6m)
“The Trustees consider that the ideal level of reserves at 31st August 2025 is £250,000, being based on the Charity's ability to cover four month's net running costs” — page 7
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Loan from Nexgen Capital Investments Limited
“A company with a common trustee director and partner provided a loan to the charity with the balance totalling £170,833 (2024: £205,000). Interest on the loan and capital repayments in the year totalled £42,367 (2024: £12,769)” — page 30
“A company with a common trustee director and partner provided legal services to the charity during the year totalling £720 (2024: £22,510).” — page 30
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Legal services from Biscoes
“A company with a common trustee director and partner provided a loan to the charity with the balance totalling £170,833 (2024: £205,000). Interest on the loan and capital repayments in the year totalled £42,367 (2024: £12,769)” — page 30
“A company with a common trustee director and partner provided legal services to the charity during the year totalling £720 (2024: £22,510).” — page 30
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Pompey Foundation Trading Company Limited
“These financial statements consolidate the results of the charity and its wholly owned subsidiary, Pompey Foundation Trading Company Limited (Company Number 06930934)” — page 16
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by MC Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
POMPEY FOUNDATION TRADING COMPANY LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts
- Amounts owed to group undertakings are unsecured, interest free, have no fixed date of repayment and are repayable on demand.
Funders the charity credits
Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).
- Utilita — “Utilita donated and installed a huge array of solar panels to the John Jenkins Stadium expecting to cut energy costs by more than 60% per ye…” (source page)
- Harnesses.com — “Harnesses.com provided safety railings for us to enable our solar panels to be installed” (source page)
- Delivered Social — “Delivered Social have created our website for us free of charge” (source page)
- Tap and Tandoor — “Tap and Tandoor ran a campaign donating £1 per diner in February” (source page)
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.
- PAUL, Nicola Mary — director, appointed 01/08/2026on trustee list
- SANDERCOCK, Janice Rose — director, appointed 21/02/2026on trustee list
- CHANNER, Darren Spencer — director, appointed 11/02/2026on trustee list
- MARSTON, Christopher John — director, appointed 10/02/2026on trustee list
- MEHTA, Bobby Shailesh — director, appointed 26/06/2024on trustee list
- MORAN, Jamie Paul — director, appointed 11/06/2024on trustee list
- JONES, Dominic Edward — director, appointed 11/06/2024on trustee list
- CARLIN, Daniel James — director, appointed 10/06/2024on trustee list
- MADDOX, Joyce Margaret — director, appointed 10/06/2024on trustee list
- PERCIVAL, Elizabeth Melanie Anne — director, appointed 10/06/2024on trustee list
- CULLEN, Andrew Paul — director, appointed 30/07/2021on trustee list
- HENSON, Miles Anthony — director, appointed 19/07/2019on trustee list
- STAMP, Trent — director, appointed 25/06/2019on trustee list
Official officers record.
Property (HM Land Registry)
3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£84k
Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
- Andrew Paul Cullen
- Bobby Mehta
- Christopher Marston
- Daniel James Carlin · trustee of 1 other charity
- Darren Spencer Channer
- Dominic Edward Jones
- Elizabeth Melanie Anne Percival
- Jamie Paul Moran
- Janice Rose Sandercock
- Joyce Margaret Maddox
- Nicola Mary Paul
- Trent Stamp
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Portsmouth City
Income and spending
Common questions
Is POMPEY IN THE COMMUNITY financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £258,181 for the year, resulting in total funds of £7,277,067. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £1,621,050 exceed their stated policy target of £250,000, which is based on covering four months of net running costs. The auditors reported no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by MC Audit Limited.
Who funds POMPEY IN THE COMMUNITY?
Funders whose own accounts filings name POMPEY IN THE COMMUNITY as a grant recipient include ENERGISE ME, CEO SLEEPOUT.
Known funders
Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.
Government & lottery funding
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