Active Partnerships

Registered charity 1144600 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COUNTY SPORTS PARTNERSHIP NETWORK, CSPN

The charitys purpose is promoting community participation in healthy recreation by providing sport & recreation facilities equipment,education & training for the public & specific target populations to improve the health & well being of individuals and society;Our mission is together creating National Reach & local Impact improving peoples lives by Growing Grass Roots Sport & Physical Activity'.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF COUNTIES THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AND IN PARTICULAR TO PROVIDE, OR TO ASSIST COUNTY SPORTS PARTNERSHIP ORGANISATIONS IN PROVIDING, AND TO PROMOTE:-(1) PUBLIC FACILITIES, AMENITIES, EQUIPMENT AND SERVICES FOR HEALTHY RECREATION;(2) FACILITIES AND SERVICES FOR RECREATIONAL, SPORTING OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE OR THOSE WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES AND SERVICES;(3) THE IMPROVEMENT AND PRESERVATION OF GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING THROUGHPARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION;(4) EDUCATION, TRAINING AND COACHING COURSES WHICH PROMOTE PHYSICAL HEALTH AND FITNESS.

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Charnwood, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net deficit of £26,514 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £402,167. The trustees state that reserves were well above the policy minimum of three months of core operating expenditure, providing flexibility and resilience despite the drawdown on unrestricted funds to invest in strategic infrastructure.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BK Plus Audit Limited. Discloses 4 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07800542 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• MORLEY, Alison Clare — director, appointed 18/07/2024on trustee list
• JOEL, Victoria — director, appointed 18/07/2024on trustee list
• DALY-SMITH, Andrew — director, appointed 18/07/2024on trustee list
• DE GRUCHY, Jeanelle, Dr — director, appointed 18/07/2024not on trustee list
• FLETCHER, Neil Gary — director, appointed 21/08/2023on trustee list
• SHAKESPEARE, Jack — director, appointed 01/07/2023on trustee list
• BARIKOR, Born — director, appointed 22/05/2023not on trustee list
• AMIES, Julie Ann — director, appointed 22/05/2023on trustee list
• CAPPER, David Andrew — director, appointed 26/01/2023on trustee list
• PIELICHATY, Hanya Liesel, Dr — director, appointed 20/01/2023on trustee list
• PURDIE, Robert Irvine — director, appointed 03/10/2022on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Daly-Smith
• Benjamin George Glover
• Bornmene Barikor · trustee of 4 other charities
• Clare Morley
• David Andrew Capper
• Dr Hanya Pielichaty
• Dr Jeanelle de Gruchy
• Jack Shakespeare
• Julie Ann Amies · trustee of 1 other charity
• Neil Gary Fletcher
• Robert Purdie
• Victoria Clare Joel · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ACHIEVING GOALZ AND DREAMS.

• ACHIEVING GOALZ AND DREAMS income £81k
• SPORTS PARTNERSHIP HEREFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE income £768k
• THE ACCESS TO SPORTS PROJECT income £896k
• ACTIVE PARTNERS TRUST income £2.2m
• PUBLIC HEALTH COLLABORATION income £354k
• WALTON COMMUNITY CENTRE AND RECREATION GROUND income £30k

Side by side with its peers

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