SPORTING CHALLENGE

Registered charity 1140207 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Sporting Challenge is a family led charity started in 2008 operating in the borough of West Lancashire supporting people aged 18 or over with learning disabilities, where all members of the Board of Trustees are parents and carers themselves. Our activities include: aerobics, ten pin bowling, boccia & kurling, and other fitness activities.

Objects

TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF OPPORTUNITIES AND FACILITIES IN THEINTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PHYSICAL RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIMEOCCUPATION FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OFTHEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIALCIRCUMSTANCES, IN PARTICULAR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES WHO ARERESIDENT IN THE WEST LANCASHIRE AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS, WITH THE OBJECTOF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Area of benefit: WEST LANCASHIRE

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

Causes: Disability · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: West Lancashire, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity relies on grants to continue supporting its members, noting that securing these funds has become more challenging. The trustees have undertaken an independent examination of the financial statements and received a favourable report.

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 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

In the news

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• Teacher's month-long sporting challenge raises £1,400 for charity darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk · 21/07/2022

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alasdair Donald Watsonchair
• Christine Elizabeth Taylor
• Kathryn Amelia Brady
• Marie Claire Monk
• Mildred Watson

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

Operates in: Lancashire

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 LANCASHIRE YOUTH CHALLENGE.

• LANCASHIRE YOUTH CHALLENGE income £200k
• SPORTING FAMILY CHANGE FOUNDATION income £544k
• DISABILITY CHALLENGERS income £3.2m

Side by side with its peers

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