SKY BLUES IN THE COMMUNITY

Registered charity 1127014 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Aim - To provide high quality, life changing opportunities through sport and physical activity, improving peoples health, education, confidence and skills, increasing positive behaviours and bringing enjoyment to the people we work with. To use the power of professional football and sport to engage with the local community.

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY AND, IN PARTICULAR THE INHABITANTS OF COVENTRY AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS:-A) TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR THE PLAYING OF ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL AND OTHER SPORTS CAPABLE OF IMPROVING HEALTH ("FACILITIES" IN THIS CLAUSE MEANS LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT AND ORGANISING SPORTING ACTIVITIES);B) TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR SPORT, RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF SUCH PERSONS WHO HAVE THE NEED FOR SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE; ANDC) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF CHARITY.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a deficit of £79,152 for the year ended 31 December 2025, compared to a surplus in the prior year. At the year end, the charity held unrestricted reserves of £618,030 and restricted reserves of £307,500, with cash at bank totaling £929,393.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Flint & Thompson. 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
• 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

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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

• Christopher Salterchair
• Alan East
• Laina Tebbutt · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Hornby
• Paul Sullivan
• Samantha Wright
• Sharan Sandhu
• Teerath Gill

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

Operates in: Coventry City · Warwickshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CARDIFF BLUES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

• THE CARDIFF BLUES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £404k
• FULHAM FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION income £2.9m
• MIDDLESBROUGH FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION income £2.6m
• Stockport County Community Trust income £976k
• CLUB DONCASTER COMMUNITY SPORTS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION income £2.0m
• THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE (COMMUNITY) LIMITED income £15.7m

Side by side with its peers

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