DAME KELLY HOLMES TRUST

Registered charity 1128529 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q20736357 · Wikipedia · also known as DKH LEGACY TRUST

We are a UK youth sports charity which supports 11 to 25 year olds in both education and in the community. We use the power of world class athletes to train and mentor young people to achieve their potential through personal, social and emotional development programmes. In partnerships nationally and locally, our programmes increase the self esteem, confidence and resilience of the young people.

Objects

3. OBJECTSThe Objects for which the Trust is established are, for the public benefit:(a) to advance the education, development and improvement of young people through, among others, the provision of mentoring, personal, social and emotional development programmes; (b) to provide support and activities for young people which develop their confidence, skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as independent, mature and responsible individuals;(c) to liaise with national and local partnerships to encourage young people’s engagement in education and within their local community; and(d) to encourage and assist young people to seek employment opportunities, become leaders within their local community, achieve in education and improve their wellbeing.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL.

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bath and North East Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were £55,507 at the year-end, having recovered from a deficit in the prior year. However, the auditors have identified a material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, citing negative unrestricted reserves in interim management accounts and reliance on unconfirmed income. The trustees maintain that mitigating actions, including cost-saving measures and active contract negotiations, support the appropriateness of the going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Third Sector Accountancy. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → material uncertainty (FY2025).

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

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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Who’s Moving: Dame Kelly Holmes Trust, VisionFund International and more civilsociety.co.uk · 14/08/2017

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Dame Kelly Holmes Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jo McDiarmid — Interim CEO (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 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 (58% 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: 17.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Samantha Busseychair
• Helen Clare Donovan
• Philip Bunt · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 YOUTH SPORT TRUST.

• YOUTH SPORT TRUST income £12.2m
• HITCHIN YOUTH TRUST income £265k
• YOUTH EXPERIENCE IN SPORT income £133k
• DURHAM AREA YOUTH income £257k
• TOWER HAMLETS YOUTH SPORT FOUNDATION income £587k
• THE YOUTH SPORT UK CHARITABLE TRUST income £428k

Side by side with its peers

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