NORTON SPORTS CHARITY

Registered charity 1154688 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORTON (TEESSIDE) SPORTS COMPLEX, NORTON RECREATION GROUND CHARITY

Provision of sports facilities for community use including those for archery, athletics, bowls, cricket, football, hockey, squash and tennis consistent with the objectives of the Charity. The Charity also owns a Community Interest Company providing social facilities, acting as the umbrella body for non-sporting activities and also to generate revenues for the Charity.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (OBJECTS) ARE TO PROVIDE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF NORTON AND ITS SURROUNDING AREA 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 CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that consolidated unrestricted funds decreased by £38,524 to £572,204, while the charity maintains a reserves policy target of £250,000. The trustees confirm that the current level of general reserves (£49,670) is below this target but assert that the charity has sufficient resources to remain operational for six months should all income cease.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Chipchase Manners. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Norton Sports Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• James Hartley — Chair (source)
• David McCullogh — Charity President (source)
• Louise Harrison — Operations Manager (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)

6 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (6 freehold); recorded price paid £85k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/11/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~20.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (60% 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: 44.7% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/04/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• James Andrew Hartleychair
• Anthony Charles Johnson
• DAVID MCCULLOGH
• Dr CAROLE FROST
• Dr PETER WILLIAM FROST
• Jake Stephen Milner
• Nicholas Robert Collins
• WILLIAM RICHARD PICKERSGILL · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Darlington · Durham · Hartlepool · Middlesbrough · North Yorkshire · Redcar And Cleveland · Stockton-on-tees

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOUTHWARK COMMUNITY SPORTS TRUST.

• SOUTHWARK COMMUNITY SPORTS TRUST income £259k
• EASTBOURNE SAFFRONS SPORTS CLUB TRUST LIMITED income £229k
• THE SPORTS COUNCIL TRUST COMPANY income £4.0m
• WEST WARWICKSHIRE SPORTS COMPLEX LTD income £383k
• MELTHAM SPORTS AND COMMUNITY GROUP LIMITED income £134k
• CLUB DONCASTER COMMUNITY SPORTS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

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