CHESS IN SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES

Registered charity 1133120 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Advancement of education, amateur sport,social inclusion for the public benefit by promoting the mental and moral development and improvement of young people, socially and economically disadvantaged and socially excluded as a result of unemployment, financial hardship, old age, ill health or disability through the promotion, teaching, coaching, playing and competition of chess

Objects

3.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROMOTING THE MENTAL AND MORALDEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE, IN PARTICULAR THOSE WHO ARE SOCIALLY ANDECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED, THROUGH THE PROMOTION, TEACHING, COACHING, PLAYING ANDCOMPETITION OF CHESS.3.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF AMATEUR SPORT, INCLUDING THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION,FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THROUGH THE PROMOTION, TEACHING, COACHING, PLAYING AND COMPETITION OFCHESS.3.3 THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THROUGH THE PROMOTION, TEACHING,COACHING, PLAYING AND COMPETITION OF CHESS AMONG THOSE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AS A RESULTOF UNEMPLOYMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, OLD AGE, ILL HEALTH OR DISABILITY.

Area of benefit: ENGLAND

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

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a deficit of £232,903 before net investment gains, resulting in a net decrease in total funds. However, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £1,057,517, which the trustees confirm are adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by CAS House Limited. Discloses 3 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2022 (received 07/08/2023, 38 days after the 30/06/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Chess in Schools and Communities (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).

• John Lyon's Charity — “John Lyon's Charity has given over £100 million in support of education initiatives across north-west London since 1991. CSC is delighted to…” (source page)
• Google DeepMind — “Google DeepMind , the company behind the groundbreaking Alpha self-teaching AI, is supporting Chess in Schools and Communities in a pioneeri…” (source page)
• The ORP Foundation — “The ORP Foundation is a UK charitable trust set up in 2011 by first and second-generation descendants of refugees. CSC is very grateful for …” (source page)
• The Vincit Foundation — “We would also like to express our gratitude to: The Vincit Foundation” (source page)

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (66% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Sharp
• Christopher John Clark
• Isabel Keen
• Stephen Meyler
• Stephen O'Connell CBE
• WILLIAM WATSON

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

Operates in: Gibraltar · Isle Of Man · Kenya · South Africa · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 THE CHESS TRUST.

• THE CHESS TRUST income £27k
• PSHE ASSOCIATION income £1.5m
• THE CHARTERED ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS SCHOOLS income £18.3m
• COMMUNITIES AND HOUSING INVESTMENT IN PEOPLE income £261k
• SHE PLAYS TO WIN income £62k
• ICE HOCKEY INSPIRED LTD income £405k

Side by side with its peers

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