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.

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

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.

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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

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

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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 SPORTED FOUNDATION.

• SPORTED FOUNDATION income £6.8m
• UNITED THROUGH SPORT income £125k
• THE BRITISH SPORTS TRUST income £2.3m
• SPORTS CONNECTIONS FOUNDATION income £155k
• Young Leaders Academy income £194k
• YOUTH SPORT TRUST income £12.2m

Side by side with its peers

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