Trilogy Active

Registered charity 1145613 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORTHAMPTON LEISURE TRUST, UNITY LEISURE

The charity primarily operates leisure centres for community use within Northampton. This involves the full range of leisure and health activities normall associated with these types of facilities. We provide swimming lessons for children as well as play and diversionary activities in the community We also provide support to club and societies.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£9.6m
Latest spending
£9.5m
Registered
2012
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group delivered a surplus for the year of £54,031, driven by the turnaround of Belper Leisure Centre and the acquisition of Hickory Dickory's Limited. The trustees confirm that the group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified regarding going concern. The group holds unrestricted reserves of £7,284,873, which significantly exceed the stated policy target of £600,000.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: £600,000 (held: £7.3m)
“The reserves policy for the Trust sets out the cash target level of reserves of £600,000.” — page 5
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Hickory Dickory's Limited, Belper Leisure Centre Limited, Belper Sports Centre Services Limited
“The results of the following subsidiary undertakings are consolidated within the accounts: Hickory Dickory's Limited, Belper Leisure Centre Limited and Belper Sports Centre Services Limited.” — page 7
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Hawsons Chartered Accountants. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Total income
£9.6m
Total spending
£9.5m
Reserves (reported)
£600k
Employees
477

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Northamptonshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£9.6m£9.5m
31/03/2024£8.4m£8.3m
31/03/2023£6.1m£5.8m
31/03/2022£5.6m£5.2m
31/03/2021£3.9m£4.7m

Common questions

Is Trilogy Active financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the group delivered a surplus for the year of £54,031, driven by the turnaround of Belper Leisure Centre and the acquisition of Hickory Dickory's Limited. The trustees confirm that the group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified regarding going concern. The group holds unrestricted reserves of £7,284,873, which significantly exceed the stated policy target of £600,000. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Hawsons Chartered Accountants.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund27/07/2018£193kNorthampton Street Sports Programme
Sport England04/10/2017£10kAgeing Well Duston
Sport England13/10/2015£15kThis Girl Can - Northampton
Sport England11/06/2014£9kWomen's Sports Legacy Project

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE PROSPECTS FOUNDATION1£11k
LOUIS BAYLIS CHARITABLE TRUST1£3k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ACTIVE NORTHUMBERLAND.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
Trilogy Active£9.6m——unclear—no doubt
ACTIVE NORTHUMBERLAND FY2024£20.1m£120,000 - £129,999—unclear—not going concern
LEISURE FOCUS TRUST FY2025£1.2mmore than £60,000—unclear—no doubt
ACTIVE LANCASHIRE LIMITED FY2025£2.7m£90,001 - £100,0005above—no doubt
NORTHAMPTON TOWN FC COMMUNITY TRUST FY2025£1.4m—0below—no doubt
ACTIVENEWHAM FY2023£7.6m——below—not going concern

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