OSPREYS WHEELCHAIR RUGBY

Registered charity 1162504 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity is a Wheelchair Rugby team operating in the South Wales area. The charity provides an environment for people with varying dissabilities to play the sport of wheelchair rugby.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE PLAYING OF WHEELCHAIR RUGBY IN THE SOUTH WALES AREA

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 · Disability · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Swansea, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£85k
Latest spending
£102k
Registered
2015
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £17,170 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £75,254 to £59,642. The charity maintains a policy to hold approximately three months of running costs in unrestricted reserves, but the unrestricted fund is in a deficit of £9,150. Despite this, the trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months of running costs (held: £-9k)
“The charity’s policy on reserves is to maintain approximately three months of running costs within unrestricted reserves.” — page 4
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/07/2025

  • Volunteers: 20

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/07/2024

  • Volunteers: 15

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/07/2023

  • Volunteers: 10
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Bridgend · Cardiff · Carmarthenshire · Ceredigion · City Of Swansea · Merthyr Tydfil · Neath Port Talbot · Newport City · Rhondda Cynon Taff

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/07/2025£85k£102k
31/07/2024£80k£101k
31/07/2023£108k£77k
31/07/2022£54k£59k
31/07/2021£25k£25k

Common questions

Is OSPREYS WHEELCHAIR RUGBY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £17,170 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £75,254 to £59,642. The charity maintains a policy to hold approximately three months of running costs in unrestricted reserves, but the unrestricted fund is in a deficit of £9,150. Despite this, the trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds OSPREYS WHEELCHAIR RUGBY?

Funders whose own accounts filings name OSPREYS WHEELCHAIR RUGBY as a grant recipient include THE GRAND LODGE OF MARK MASTER MASONS' FUND OF BENEVOLENCE, THE GOSLING FOUNDATION LIMITED, THE RATCLIFF FOUNDATION, THE GREEN HALL FOUNDATION, THE GEOFF & FIONA SQUIRE FOUNDATION.

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).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Postcode Lottery30/09/2024£20kUnrestricted Funding
Postcode Lottery03/04/2023£10kProject Funding

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 GREAT BRITAIN WHEELCHAIR RUGBY LIMITED.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
OSPREYS WHEELCHAIR RUGBY£85k—0unclear—no doubt
GREAT BRITAIN WHEELCHAIR RUGBY LIMITED FY2025£2.0m——unclear—no doubt
LONDON WHEELCHAIR RUGBY CLUB FY2025£84k—0unclear17.4%no doubt
NORTH WEST WHEELCHAIR RUGBY FY2025£109k—0unclear—no doubt
SOLENT SHARKS WHEELCHAIR RUGBY CLUB FY2025£108k—0unclear13.7%no doubt
WESTCOUNTRY HAWKS WHEELCHAIR RUGBY CLUB FY2025£30k—0unclear—no doubt

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