Belvoir Education & Sports Trust Ltd

Registered charity 1131442 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BELVOIR CASTLE CRICKET TRUST, BELVOIR CRICKET & COUNTRYSIDE TRUST

Inspiring children to lead healthy, active lives through sport and countryside education. AIMSTo promote the love of sport, develop appreciation for the British countryside and learn the value of community so that children and adults make healthy, informed life choices.Championing equity, diversity, and inclusion so that all have access to a wide range of sports and countryside learning

Objects

PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE IN THE BELVOIR AREA AND ITS SURROUNDS1 TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR THE PLAYING OF AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE GAME OF CRICKET AND OTHER GAMES OR SPORTS ON A RECREATIONAL BASIS FOR THE LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF SUCH PERSONS WHO HAVE 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 LIFE2 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH SUCH MEANS AS THE DIRECTORS THINK FIT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF CHARITY3 TO FURTHER SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE DIRECTORS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE

Area of benefit: BELVOIR

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Melton, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £12,069 from operating activities, increasing its general unrestricted reserves to £65,968. The trustees aim to maintain at least six months' expenditure in general reserves as a prudent protection from unforeseen risks. The charity also holds £141,501 in cash specifically for the completion of a new building project.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06798047

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Belvoir Education and Sports Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• NFU Mutual — “"BEST is an amazing charity and through volunteering I have seen how the children gain in confidence, learn new skills and are inspired to l…” (source page)

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.

• BOYD, Jonathan Aubrey Lewis — director, appointed 08/06/2026on trustee list
• DAVIES-PHIPPEN, Kimberley — director, appointed 23/07/2025on trustee list
• RICHARDS, Anthony Charles — director, appointed 18/04/2024on trustee list
• CLEGG, Richard Hilton — director, appointed 18/04/2024on trustee list
• REASON, Martin John — director, appointed 25/10/2023on trustee list
• BYGOTT, Kathrine Rachel — director, appointed 20/07/2023on trustee list
• HOPKINS, Julie Vivian — director, appointed 16/05/2023on trustee list
• EPTON, David Martin — director, appointed 03/03/2021on trustee list
• CLOWES, Richard Charles Griffin — director, appointed 26/03/2015on trustee list
• TROUGHTON, Alistair Anthony James Lionel — director, appointed 26/03/2015on trustee list
• TURNER, Nicholas John — director, appointed 20/11/2013on trustee list
• PATON, David — director, appointed 05/10/2010on trustee list
• BICKNELL, Darren John — secretary, appointed 29/01/2009

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Martin John Reasonchair
• Alistair Anthony James Troughton
• Anthony Charles Richards Sir · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Epton
• JONATHAN BOYD
• Julie Vivian Hopkins
• KATHRINE RACHEL BYGOTT
• Kimberley Davies-Phippen
• Nicholas Turner · trustee of 1 other charity
• PROFESSOR DAVID PATON
• Richard Clowes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Hilton Clegg

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

Operates in: Leicester City · Leicestershire · Lincolnshire · Nottingham City · Nottinghamshire · Rutland

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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
• BELMONT-BIRKLANDS SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £2.1m
• BURGESS SPORTS income £283k
• BELVEDERE AND CALDER VALE SPORTS CLUB income £73k
• BOURNEMOUTH SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST income £107k
• BEVOIS TOWN COMMUNITY PRE-SCHOOL income £439k

Side by side with its peers

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