The Sports Trust

Registered charity 1155522 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE SHEPWAY SPORTS TRUST, TSST

The promotion of community participation in healthy recreation for the benefit of the inhabitants of the district of Shepway assisting in the provision of facilities and other services that will enable them to participate in amateur sports.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY (THE “OBJECT”) IS THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE DISTRICT OF SHEPWAY BY ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES AND OTHER SERVICES THAT WILL ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN AMATEUR SPORTS.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a deficit for the year of £79,025, primarily due to depreciation charges of £296,459 following the operational start of the F51 skate park. Per the trustees' report, while the charity has no free reserves as its unrestricted funds are tied up in fixed assets, it maintains adequate cash balances and has secured multi-year funding and loans to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RPG Crouch Chapman LLP. 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
• Conflicting interests
• 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

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 — The Sports Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The National Lottery Community Fund — “The Sports Trust Receives funding from The National Lottery Community Fund” (source page)
• Holiday Extras — “Thanks to Holiday Extras, global company based locally, and the Pack Foundation, we were able to extend our holiday offer with additional fr…” (source page)
• Pack Foundation — “Thanks to Holiday Extras, global company based locally, and the Pack Foundation, we were able to extend our holiday offer with additional fr…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £1.5m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (64% 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: 28.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Briony Walsh
• DAMIAN COLLINS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Peter George Dunton
• Gregory John Timmins
• Louisa Marie Eede
• Roisin Jean Mackenzie
• Sophie Downey
• Stephen Hughes
• Viscount Jacob Folkestone

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 BARWELL SPORTS TRUST.

• BARWELL SPORTS TRUST income £56k
• TAMESIDE SPORTS TRUST income £14.8m
• THE ACCESS TO SPORTS PROJECT income £896k
• STOKE SUB HAMDON SPORTS AND RECREATION TRUST income £85k
• KIRTON IN LINDSEY ACTIVELY SUPPORTING SPORT IN THE COMMUNITY income £29k
• Torquay United Community Sports Trust income £404k

Side by side with its peers

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