LEADERSHIP THROUGH SPORT AND BUSINESS

Registered charity 1147616 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEADERSHIP THROUGH SPORT · also registered in Scotland as SC052928 (OSCR)

Leadership Through Sport & Business is a national social mobility charity that prepares and supports disadvantaged young people across the UK into meaningful employment with major firms.

Objects

1.1 The Charity’s objects (“Objects”) are specifically restricted to the following for the public benefit:1.1.1 To advance the Education of the public in general and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing children and young people in particular through provision of sport training and related opportunities, academic study and life skills experience;1.1.2 To pursue such other charitable purpose or purposes according to the law of England and Wales as the Trustees in their absolute discretion shall select from time to time.1.2 Throughout the Articles, 'charitable' means charitable in accordance with the law of England and Wales provided that it will not include any purpose which is not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the 2005 Act. For the avoidance of doubt, the system of law governing the Articles of the Charity is the law of England and Wales.1.3 This provision may be amended by special resolution but only with the prior written consent of the Commission.

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 · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £220,568 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net reserves from £1,651,666 to £1,431,098. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £1,034,603, which the trustees confirmed was sufficient to meet their stated policy of holding six months of operating costs in reserve. The trustees consider the charity to be on a secure financial footing with sufficient cash to cover more than six months of expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Slade & Cooper 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Leadership Through Sport & Business (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (52% 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: 10.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BHARAT MEHTA
• Connor Blackburn Moore
• Gary John Duggan
• JEFFREY CHRISTOPHER HAYES
• LORRAINE EMMA BARCLAY
• Patrick Charles Thornton-Smith
• Philip Alan Bunt
• Ruth Louise Poulten
• Victoria Kathryn Kirkhope
• Wincie Wong

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SPORT LEGACY FOUNDATION.

• THE SPORT LEGACY FOUNDATION income £94k
• THE ACCESS TO SPORTS PROJECT income £896k
• YOUTH SPORT TRUST income £12.2m
• PLYMOUTH SPORTS CHARITY LIMITED income £76k
• WOMEN IN SPORT income £1.4m
• THE STREET SOCCER FOUNDATION income £291k

Side by side with its peers

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