HORLEY LAWN TENNIS CLUB

Registered charity 1150481 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

HLTC provides affordable access to tennis to support its objects. It provides free taster sessions to adults & children and 2 public open days per year. It promotes tennis in local schools, provides free use of courts & facilities to the coaching team to enable them to deliver the tennis programme, access to which is available to members and non-members alike (the latter pay a small visitors fee).

Objects

3.1. THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF HORLEY AND THE SURROUNDING AREA: 3.1.1 TO PROMOTE THE AMATEUR SPORT OF LAWN TENNIS; 3.1.2. TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION,IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE LEARNING, TEACHING AND PLAYING OF LAWN TENNIS; AND 3.1.3. TO PROMOTE THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS.

Area of benefit: HORLEY AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Reigate and Banstead, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a deficit of £31,461 for the year due to a £40,000 court replacement expense, despite overall revenue growing by over 15%. Per the trustees' report, the charity remains well-funded with a year-end cash balance approaching £70,000 and total reserves of £222,029, which are maintained to enable capital replacement of facilities. The trustees consider that financial projections and conservative reserve levels will not put the charity at risk of repaying its £30,000 outstanding loans.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08277089

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.

• NORTH, Christine Louise Desire — director, appointed 16/07/2025on trustee list
• KNOWLER, Michael David — director, appointed 09/04/2025on trustee list
• ALLEN, Simon David — director, appointed 14/09/2024on trustee list
• ROBINSON, Gabrielle Suzanne — director, appointed 14/09/2024on trustee list
• WATSON, Sean — director, appointed 10/09/2022on trustee list
• WYLIE, Robert James — director, appointed 14/07/2022on trustee list
• FARRELL, Paul Richard — director, appointed 15/09/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Simon Allenchair
• Christine North
• Gabrielle Robinson
• Michael David Knowler
• Paul Richard FARRELL
• Robert James Wylie
• Sean Watson

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

Operates in: Surrey

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

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HYTHE LAWN TENNIS CLUB.

• HYTHE LAWN TENNIS CLUB income £126k
• OSWESTRY TEAM TENNIS (OTT) LAWN TENNIS CLUB income £40k
• NUNEATON LAWN TENNIS CLUB income £39k
• CRESCENT LAWN TENNIS CLUB income £102k
• MARESFIELD LAWN TENNIS CLUB income £29k
• SALTFORD LAWN TENNIS CLUB income £52k

Side by side with its peers

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