BRITISH GYMNASTICS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1157747 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Current activities include: gymnastics exercise programme which supports people with long-term health conditions and is both dementia-friendly and age-friendly; hardship grants programme; sports leadership programme for people living in a deprived area or with other barriers to sport; inspirational experiences; accessible gymnastics for young disabled people.

Objects

The objects of the Charity are for the public benefit:2.1 to promote community participation in health recreation by providing facilities for participating in gymnastics and other sports ("facilities" means land, buildings, equipment and organising sporting events);2.2 to provide and assist in providing facilities for sport, recreation or other leisure time occupation of such persons who have need for such facilities by reason of their youth, age, poverty or social or economic circumstance or for disabled people and the public at large in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving their conditions of life;2.3 to advance the education of children and young people; and2.4 to advance any other purpose that is charitable in accordance with the laws of England and Wales in association with sport.

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Shropshire, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net deficit of £9,823, driven by unrestricted reserves falling to -£10,749 against a policy target of £130,000. Although charitable expenditure increased significantly, the charity secured a £150,000 donation from Gymnastics Enterprises Ltd post-year-end, which the trustees believe secures the charity's immediate future.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 16/03/2022, 44 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — British Gymnastics Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexander Colin Laybournechair
• Andrew Kenneth Dodd · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anthony Burns Langenegger
• Chisara Nwabara
• Daniel Thomas Booth
• Esther Jane Ashman
• Gary Tolometti
• Jessica Cook
• Louise Fawcett
• Sarah Boissel-Marshall

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRITISH SCHOOLS GYMNASTICS ASSOCIATION.

• BRITISH SCHOOLS GYMNASTICS ASSOCIATION income £111k
• ERDINGTON GYMNASTICS CLUB income £878k
• SANDBACH GYMNASTICS FOUNDATION income £405k
• HUNTINGDON GYMNASTICS CLUB LIMITED income £1.0m
• BIRMINGHAM SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY TRUST income £1.3m
• THE DYNAMIC GYMNASTICS FOUNDATION income £36k

Side by side with its peers

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