CYCLISTS' TOURING CLUB

Registered charity 1147607 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5014548 · Wikipedia · also known as CTC - THE UK'S NATIONAL CYCLISTS ORGANISATION, CYCLING UK, Cycling UK · also registered in Scotland as SC042541 (OSCR)

CyclingUK's vision is of a healthier, happier and cleaner world, because more people cycle. We want people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to be able to cycle safely, easily and enjoyably. We promote all forms of cycling, protect the interests of existing and would-be cyclists, and inspire people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to discover the joys of cycling.

Objects

1. PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROMOTING THE AMATEUR SPORT OF CYCLING, CYCLE TOURING AND ASSOCIATED AMATEUR SPORTS;2. PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF THE PUBLIC BY ENCOURAGING AND FACILITATING CYCLING AND THE SAFETY OF CYCLISTS;3. ADVANCE EDUCATION BY WHATEVER MEANS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT, INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF CYCLING, TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES RELATED TO CYCLING;4. PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT.

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 · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Guildford, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £0.15 million for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by planned strategic spending and external pressures. Despite this, the trustees consider the charity to be well placed to continue operations with adequate resources, citing a strong cash position and unrestricted reserves of £6.59 million against a required reserves policy of £2.495 million.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Cyclists’ Touring Club examinerlive.co.uk · 05/06/2017
• Interview: Paul Tuohy, Cyclists’ Touring Club CEO essentialsurrey.co.uk · 27/11/2015

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Cycling UK (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sarah Mitchell — Chief Executive (source)

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)

1 registered title 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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% 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: 3.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/05/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ashley Wheatonchair
• Dr Ben Still
• Elizabeth Dobson
• Fiona Abbott
• Mark Smith
• Melanie Carroll
• Nadia Jayne Kerr
• Paul Baker
• Robin Clifford Tucker
• Robin Oliver Martin Grant

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CAPITAL OF CYCLING.

• CAPITAL OF CYCLING income £181k
• CYCLING PROJECTS income £770k
• LONDON CYCLING CAMPAIGN income £1.4m
• Walk Wheel Cycle Trust income £51.7m
• CYCLISTS FIGHTING CANCER income £1.2m
• THE BIKE EXPERIENCE income £27k

Side by side with its peers

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