LEICESTER RIDERS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1161638 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · filing overdue (register status)

The Foundation delivers programmes around both basketball and a wider social agenda in Leicester and Leicestershire. These programmes are delivered in partnership with private, public and third sector. The programmes cover a wide scope of activity, including including basketball participation, player pathway , working with disability, education related, healthy living and social inclusion

Objects

1. TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN SPORT AND RECREATION BY THE PROVISION OF SERVICES AND FACILITIES TO IMPROVE PEOPLE’S HEALTH2. TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT PEOPLE WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE PEOPLE AND ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THOSE PEOPLE.3. FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE EDUCATION (INCLUDING SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL TRAINING) OF PEOPLE IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY SEES FIT4. TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PART OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF BEING A MEMBER OF A SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED COMMUNITY5. TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLES OF DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leicester, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net deficit of £48,377 for the year ended 30 November 2024 and held net current liabilities of £957,989. The auditors identified a material uncertainty regarding the group's ability to continue as a going concern, although the trustees maintain they have adequate resources for the foreseeable future. Total unrestricted reserves stood at £3,416,430 against a policy target of three months' fixed operating costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Duncan & Toplis Audit Limited. 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 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 30/11/2024 (received 13/12/2025, 74 days after the 30/09/2025 due date); year ending 30/11/2023 (received 01/08/2025, 305 days after the 30/09/2024 due date); year ending 30/11/2022 (received 01/01/2024, 93 days after the 30/09/2023 due date).

1 further annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

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 — Leicester Riders Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/11/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~18.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (79% 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: 80.1% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Leanne Hathaway
• MARK ELLIS
• MR KEVIN TIMOTHY ROUTLEDGE
• SIMON WINFIELD · trustee of 2 other charities
• STEVEN MUGGLESTONE BA FCA
• Vipal Karavadra

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

Operates in: Leicester City · Leicestershire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LEICESTER TIGERS FOUNDATION.

• LEICESTER TIGERS FOUNDATION income £432k
• LONDON BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION income £429k
• CHESHIRE GHOST RIDERS income £35k
• DERBY TRAILBLAZERS BASKETBALL CLUB income £296k
• LEICESTER TIGERS WHEELCHAIR RUGBY CLUB income £148k
• FRIENDS OF LEICESTER CITY FARM LIMITED income £218k

Side by side with its peers

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