Sale Sharks Foundation
Registered charity 1142956 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SHARKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, SHARKS COMMUNITY TRUST
To promote community participation in healthy recreation by providing or assisting to provide facilities for the playing of sports, recreation or other leisure time occupation capable of improving health or for people who require such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, poverty, social and economic circumstances or for the public at large
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Amateur Sport · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £62,685 for the year ended 30 June 2025, with total income increasing by 4% to £990,967. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £448,700, which is within the stated policy target of three to six months of running costs. The charity is not prepared on a going-concern basis of doubt, as trustees confirmed adequate resources for the foreseeable future.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: three-six months running costs (held: £449k)
“The Board has a free reserves policy of between three-six months running costs if all funding ceased suddenly. This equates to between £245,000 - £491,000 based on proposed 2025/26 expenditure and designated funds which forms part of the reserves policy.” — page 8
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Sale Sharks Foundation (matched by registered charity number).
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.
- BROOKSTEIN, Jonathan David — director, appointed 10/10/2025on trustee list
- ANTROBUS, Mercedes Mary — director, appointed 13/06/2024on trustee list
- GODKIN, Lorraine — director, appointed 13/06/2024on trustee list
- GORDON, Kelly Michelle — director, appointed 13/06/2024on trustee list
- NEWTON, Stephen David — director, appointed 06/01/2023on trustee list
- HANSON, Natasha Dawn Gynette — director, appointed 02/01/2021on trustee list
- ORANGE, Michelle — director, appointed 04/09/2018on trustee list
- LEECH, Jack David — secretary, appointed 28/05/2026
Official officers record.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£10k
Reported reserves equal ~7.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (89% 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: 1.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).
- Natasha Hansonchair
- Eloise Victoria Crawshaw
- Jonathan David Brookstein
- Kelly Gordon
- Lorraine Godkin · trustee of 1 other charity
- MIchael Thomas Finn
- Mercedes Mary Antrobus
- Michelle Orange
- Sion Owain Edwards
- Stephen David Newton
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Throughout England And Wales
Income and spending
Common questions
Is Sale Sharks Foundation financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £62,685 for the year ended 30 June 2025, with total income increasing by 4% to £990,967. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £448,700, which is within the stated policy target of three to six months of running costs. The charity is not prepared on a going-concern basis of doubt, as trustees confirmed adequate resources for the foreseeable future. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.
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