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

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

Latest income

£155k

Latest spending

£186k

Registered

2010

Accounts read

FY2025

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

Reserves policy: six months of expenditure (held: £29k)

“The Trustees therefore aim to hold up to six months of expenditure as unrestricted funds.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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)

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

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/08/2025	£155k	£186k
31/08/2024	£246k	£257k
31/08/2023	£250k	£281k
31/08/2022	£156k	£252k
31/08/2021	£289k	£110k

Common questions

Is SPORTS CONNECTIONS FOUNDATION financially healthy?

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. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds SPORTS CONNECTIONS FOUNDATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name SPORTS CONNECTIONS FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include THE GOSLING FOUNDATION LIMITED, CHAPMAN CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE GOSLING FOUNDATION LIMITED	FY2024	£10k	General
CHAPMAN CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£1k

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	21/03/2024	£19k	Youth Mental Health Project- Wisbech
The National Lottery Community Fund	11/08/2023	£10k	MH Pop up Summer Sport & Social on the Oxmoor Estate
Sport England	06/02/2023	£9k	Jubilee Fund - Huntingdon Inspire through Sport
Postcode Lottery	26/04/2022	£17k	Inspire through Sport Huntingdon
The National Lottery Community Fund	11/04/2019	£10k	Themed Positive Mentoring