ACCESS SPORT CIO

Registered charity 1156819 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Angus Irvine Playing Fields Fund · also registered in Scotland as SC052913 (OSCR)

Our mission is to transform the lives of young people from disadvantaged communities through sport.We support volunteer-led sports clubs to reach their full potential to connect young people in their communities with the social and health benefits of sport.We help club leaders and volunteers make the most of their passion and dedication providing advice, connections, and funding.

Objects

The objects of the CIO are, for the public benefit:(1) To promote the participation of disabled and able-bodied people in healthy recreation by improving access to sport, recreation and leisure facilities;(2) to promote the public participation in sport through the provision of facilities, equipment and financial support; and(3) to advance education in particular by the provision of training and resources to assist organisations and clubs which provide education, development, capacity, skill training and practical experience to young people."Sport" means sports or games which promote health by involving physical or mental skill or exertion

Area of benefit: THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AND WALES

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Amateur Sport · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Southwark, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased by 18% to £3,057,327, while total expenditure rose by 57% to £3,140,159, resulting in a net expenditure for the year. The charity reports free reserves of £242,222, which the Trustees consider appropriate as it falls within their stated policy target of three to nine months of unrestricted expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mercer & Hole LLP. 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
• 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

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 — Access Sport CIO (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Hayley Barton — Director (source)
• Sue Wheeler — Director (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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Wembley Stadium Foundation — “Access Sport is pleased to announce that the Wembley Stadium Foundation’s Connecting Communities Fund will support our Changing Places progr…” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (68% 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: 17.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/01/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rachel Mary Campbell Baillachechair
• Daniel Rudolf John Pell
• David Paul Ascott · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Paul Stephen Jackson
• Eniola Kehinde Oyesanya
• Mandans Mehran Pour
• Matthew Dawson
• Michael Jeremy Diaper
• Nevin John Truesdale · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rory Price
• Russell John William Jefferys
• Sarah Louise Mortiboys

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 THE ACCESS TO SPORTS PROJECT.

• THE ACCESS TO SPORTS PROJECT income £896k
• SUCCESS CLUB CIO income £345k
• FC HARTLEPOOL income £293k
• ADWICK PARK COMMUNITY AND SPORTS ACADEMIES CIO income £129k
• Kingswood Sports CIO income £353k
• RE N-GAGE income £327k

Side by side with its peers

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