THE YORKSHIRE CRICKET FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1130878 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Yorkshire Cricket Foundation is the official charity and community arm of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. Using the power of cricket, the foundation aims to make a lasting, positive impact on the lives of those living in Yorkshire. Focusing on four themes of Education, Health & Wellbeing, Heritage and Participation, using the brand of Yorkshire Cricket to affect communities all over Yorkshire.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ("THE OBJECTS") ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE INHABITANTS OF YORKSHIRE:-(1) TO PROVIDE AND PROMOTE FACILITIES FOR THE PLAYING OF CRICKET AND OTHER SPORTS INORDER TO:(A) PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION AND IMPROVE THEGENERAL HEALTH OF THOSE PARTICIPATING; AND(B) IMPROVE THE QUALITY AND CONDITION OF LIFE FOR THOSE PERSONS WHO HAVENEED FOR SUCH FACILITIES (IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE) BY REASON OFTHEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL ANDECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE;(2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH SUCH MEANS ASTHE DIRECTORS THINK FIT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF CHARITY.(3) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY AND HERITAGE OF YORKSHIRE CRICKETIN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF AMUSEUM

Area of benefit: YORKSHIRE

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2023 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £43,589 for the year ended 31 August 2023, resulting in a decrease in total net assets to £181,916. The auditor has issued a report highlighting a material uncertainty relating to going concern due to instability in income streams and management changes. Despite this, the trustees maintain that adequate financial resources are available for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2023 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2022) → 1 (FY2023).

Comparing this charity’s FY2022 and FY2023 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• 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 06934670
• Trading subsidiary: PRO COACH EDUCATION LTD Companies House 07588848

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Yorkshire Cricket Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• GARRARD, Amanda — director, appointed 13/08/2026on trustee list
• MUZAWAZI, Douglas Tafadzwa — director, appointed 13/08/2026on trustee list
• DOUGLAS, Catherine — director, appointed 19/02/2026on trustee list
• REHAL, Varinder — director, appointed 01/07/2025on trustee list
• MALIK, Parveen Akhtar — director, appointed 01/07/2025on trustee list
• BURTON, Robert Lloyd — director, appointed 01/07/2025on trustee list
• ELLISON, Jane Elizabeth — director, appointed 14/05/2024on trustee list
• HARTLEY, Steven Robert — director, appointed 14/05/2024on trustee list
• CLARKE, Joanne, Dr — director, appointed 16/12/2022on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/01/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (81% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Douglaschair
• Amanda Garrard
• Chiara De Biase
• Douglas Muzawazi · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Joanne CLARKE
• Jane Ellison · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Burton
• Steven Hartley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Varinder Rehal

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

Operates in: Bradford City · City Of York · Doncaster · East Riding Of Yorkshire · Kirklees · Leeds City · Middlesbrough · Rotherham · Sheffield City

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BERKSHIRE CRICKET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

• BERKSHIRE CRICKET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £1.4m
• SUSSEX CRICKET FOUNDATION income £1.3m
• THE YORKSHIRE COUNTY CRICKET CLUB CHARITABLE YOUTH TRUST income £30k
• THE WARWICKSHIRE CRICKET FOUNDATION income £1.6m
• DERBYSHIRE CRICKET FOUNDATION LIMITED income £1.2m
• DURHAM COUNTY CRICKET FOUNDATION income £858k

Side by side with its peers

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