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.

Objects

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

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED, IN PRACTICE

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

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

Registered contact address: Southwark, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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
• Investment
• 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 06483060
• Trading subsidiary: BUCS TRADING LIMITED Companies House 07125529

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.

• ROWLEY, Freya — director, appointed 09/07/2026on trustee list
• O'CONNELL, Ben — director, appointed 24/04/2026on trustee list
• DHILLON, Harneet Kaur — director, appointed 24/04/2026on trustee list
• TILLEY, Daniel John Richard — director, appointed 17/07/2025on trustee list
• DICK, Fiona Marnie — director, appointed 17/07/2025on trustee list
• KIRKPATRICK, Karl Alexander Ian — director, appointed 17/07/2025on trustee list
• BRODERICK KILMINSTER, Amanda Jayne, Professor — director, appointed 08/01/2024not on trustee list
• RUSS, Kathleen — director, appointed 13/11/2023on trustee list
• STEPHENSON, Carolyn Tracey — director, appointed 26/07/2023on trustee list
• JAMES, Russell Malcolm Richard — director, appointed 28/04/2022on trustee list
• WILSON, Simon Richard — director, appointed 09/12/2020on trustee list
• STORIE, Katy Elizabeth — director, appointed 05/12/2017on trustee list
• EDWARDS, Judith Claire — secretary, appointed 22/10/2025

Official officers record.

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.

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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 4.7 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 (5.3%) (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

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Government & lottery funding

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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
• THE UNIVERSITY OF BUCKINGHAM income £62.8m
• THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY income £5.0m
• BRANDON UNITED FOOTBALL CLUB income £101k
• THE ACCESS TO SPORTS PROJECT income £896k
• YOUTH SPORT TRUST income £12.2m

Side by side with its peers

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