Kent Cricket Foundation

Registered charity 1155485 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KENT CRICKET DEVELOPMENT TRUST, KENT CRICKET RECREATIONAL TRUST, Kent Cricket Community Trust

To promote community participation in healthy recreation by providing opportunities for the playing of cricket and to promote other sporting activities capable of having a beneficial effect on health. To provide opportunities to promote social inclusion and social cohesion for the public benefit by using the game of cricket and using sport more generally to integrate such persons within society.

Objects

The objects of the CIO are for the benefit of the public generally and, in particular, the inhabitants of Kent and its surrounding areas:1) To promote community participation in healthy recreation by providing opportunities for the playing of cricket and to promote other sporting activities capable of having a beneficial effect on health. 2) To provide or assist in providing opportunities for the playing of and development of the game of cricket on a recreational basis for such persons who have need for such opportunities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, poverty or social and economic circumstances or for the public at large in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving their conditions of life.3) To advance the education and development of children and young people through such means as the trustees think fit in accordance with charity law. 4) To provide opportunities to promote social inclusion and social cohesion for the public benefit (including, for those facing mental health worries and/or dementia) by using the game of cricket and its associated facilities and using sport more generally to integrate such persons within society.5) To advance the education of the public in the history and heritage of Kent cricket and of the sport of cricket generally, using all media.6) Such charitable purposes for the public benefit as are exclusively charitable according to the laws of England and Wales as the trustees may from time to time determine.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased from £288,326 to £254,171 due to a net expenditure of £34,155 against total income of £52,494. The unrestricted reserves stood at £69,966, while the charity reported no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ann Taylor
• David John Daly
• Elizabeth Davidson
• Gail Clarke
• Karl Smith
• Michael David Walters
• Rosemary Judith Piddock
• Sonya Dey
• Stuart Butler-Gallie · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bexley · Bromley · Greenwich · Kent · Lewisham · Medway

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Government & lottery funding

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