ACTIVE LANCASHIRE LIMITED

Registered charity 1159832 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LANCASHIRE SPORT PARTNERSHIP LIMITED

Working in the North West of England, the organisations objects are to promote community participation in healthy recreation for the benefit of the inhabitants of the Area. The aim is to increase and sustain participation in and widen access to sport and physical activity in the Area, particularly in disadvantaged communities and strategic groups where being sedentary is the dominant behaviour.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £330,462 for the year, resulting in total reserves of £1,002,543, of which £430,228 are unrestricted. The trustees' report notes that the current reserves policy target of £350,000 was met, although the organization faces risks related to short-term funding cycles and has sought financial support from its company owner to address potential income shortfalls.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BK Plus Audit Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06859894

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Active Lancashire (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Adrian Leather — Chief Executive (source)
• Darren Wright — Director of Communities (source)
• Paul Blythin — Director of Health and Skills (source)
• Stuart Oliver — Director of Finance (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).

• The National Lottery — “Leading the Movement, funded by The National Lottery, is a Sport England programme designed for…” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• JOGI, Zaynab — director, appointed 31/07/2025on trustee list
• MURRAY, Nigel Russell — director, appointed 31/07/2025on trustee list
• RAWDING, Donna — director, appointed 31/07/2025on trustee list
• DOWNARD, Alexander — director, appointed 20/06/2025on trustee list
• ROBY, Georgina Elisabeth — director, appointed 20/06/2025on trustee list
• ROBINSON, Joanna Sue — director, appointed 05/09/2024on trustee list
• THORNTON, Amanda Louise, Dr — director, appointed 19/10/2023on trustee list
• ROBERTS, Dannielle — director, appointed 19/10/2023on trustee list
• JONES, Bryan — director, appointed 14/03/2023on trustee list
• OLIVER, Stuart James — secretary, appointed 01/04/2025

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 1.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexander Downard
• Bryan Jones
• Dannielle Roberts
• Donna Rawding
• Dr Amanda Thornton
• Georgina Elisabeth Roby
• Joanna Sue Robinson
• Michael Brian Cookson OBE
• Nigel Russell Murray
• Zaynab Jogi

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

Operates in: Blackburn With Darwen · Blackpool · Cumbria · Lancashire

Income and spending

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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 LIVING SPORT CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH SPORTS PARTNERSHIP LIMITED.

• LIVING SPORT CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH SPORTS PARTNERSHIP LIMITED income £2.4m
• ACTIVE LINCOLNSHIRE income £1.0m
• PRESTON NORTH END COMMUNITY AND EDUCATION TRUST income £1.8m
• THE OLD ALBANIAN SPORTS ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £1.1m
• CLUB DONCASTER COMMUNITY SPORTS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION income £2.0m
• ACTIVE COMMUNITY TRUST LTD income £503k

Side by side with its peers

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