SPORTS CONNECTIONS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1133694 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SC FOUNDATION

To advance education and amateur sport, to inspire, bring hope and relieve suffering of underprivileged children through sporting achievement, providing visits by retired professional sportspersons especially footballers to schools and other organisations to provide training in order to pass on their sporting and life skills in the United Kingdom or the World

Objects

A) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND AMATEUR SPORT PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING VISITS BY RETIRED PROFESSIONAL SPORTSPERSONS ESPECIALLY FOOTBALLERS TO SCHOOLS AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS TO PROVIDE TRAINING IN ORDER TO PASS ON THEIR SPORTING AND LIFE SKILLS IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT B) TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE GOOD HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS, GOODS OR SERVICES OF ANY KIND, IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT AND TO FULFIL SUCH OTHER PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND ARE CONNECTED WITH THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE CHARITY;

Area of benefit: THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net deficit of £31,512 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in a reduction of unrestricted reserves to £28,955. The trustees report that the charity remains in a suitable position to continue operations and has adequate resources for the foreseeable future, despite a decrease in total income and the pausing of several programmes due to funding constraints.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07027448

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Sports Connections Foundation (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).

• National Lottery Community Fund — “SCF are delighted to be able to reach even more young people in Huntingdon thanks to the National Lottery Million Hours Funding. The Million…” (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.

• MOORE, Austen William — director, appointed 18/03/2025on trustee list
• SINYINZA, Elena — director, appointed 07/03/2024on trustee list
• SINGLE, Trevor Anthony — director, appointed 24/11/2020on trustee list
• MCDOUGALD, David — secretary, appointed 13/12/2015

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Trevor Singlechair
• Austen William Moore
• Elena Mwila Sinyinza

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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 TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR FOUNDATION.

• TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR FOUNDATION income £3.2m
• THE STREET SOCCER FOUNDATION income £291k
• FULHAM FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION income £2.9m
• CARLISLE UNITED FC COMMUNITY SPORTS TRUST income £765k
• SPORTED FOUNDATION income £6.8m
• SPORTING FOUNDATION income £329k

Side by side with its peers

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