BRITISH UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES SPORT LIMITED

Registered charity 1126863 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as UK UNIVERSITIES SPORT LIMITED · also registered in Scotland as SC041947 (OSCR)

The objects for which the Company is established ("Objects") are to advance for the public benefit physical education, by providing higher education sport pathway competitions and experiences for students within Universities and Colleges, and promoting the lifelong benefits of physical activity for all.

Causes: Education/training · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Group made a net surplus of £231k for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total income of £6.2m and expenditure of £6.0m. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £737k, which is above the stated minimum policy target of £550k. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate 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 HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles 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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

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, largest income source: Charitable activities (90% 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: 4.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/02/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Amanda Jayne Broderick Kilminsterchair
• Ben O'Connell
• Carolyn Stephenson
• Daniel John Richard Tilley
• Fiona Dick
• Freya Rowley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Harneet Dhillon
• Karl Kirkpatrick
• Kathleen Russ
• Katy Elizabeth Storie
• Russell James · trustee of 1 other charity
• Simon Wilson

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BRITISH SPORTS TRUST.

• THE BRITISH SPORTS TRUST income £2.3m
• BUCKS STUDENTS' UNION income £2.8m
• BEDS SU income £1.6m
• UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD STUDENTS' UNION income £2.4m
• UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES INFORMATION SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION income £2.4m
• BRITISH SCHOOLS GYMNASTICS ASSOCIATION income £111k

Side by side with its peers

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