SHEFFIELD UNITED COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1126620 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE UNITED INITIATIVE

Community Charity working in the areas of sports participation, health education and social inclusion

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity concluded the financial year with a net surplus of £121,401 and total income of £2,530,545. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £1,101,310, providing approximately 4.4 months of operational costs. The trustees confirmed no material uncertainties exist 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

Accounts audited by Grant Thornton UK LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2024) to £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2025).
• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DARREN BAKERchair
• Aaron Little
• Andrew Chadwick
• Brett Simpson-Lyons
• Deborah Andrew
• Jonathan Neil Wragg
• LYNN CLARKE
• Nick Sheppard
• Paul Fielder
• Peter Flower
• Stephen Hancock

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

Operates in: Sheffield City

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 SHEFFIELD AND HALLAMSHIRE COUNTY FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION LIMITED.

• SHEFFIELD AND HALLAMSHIRE COUNTY FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £1.2m
• SHEFFIELD MIND LTD income £1.1m
• FOOD AND COMMUNITY TRUST income £2.4m
• ACTIVE COMMUNITY TRUST LTD income £503k
• SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY FOOTBALL CLUB COMMUNITY PROGRAMME income £2.9m
• THE UNITY CENTRE LIMITED income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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