SUSSEX CRICKET FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1162649 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

As Sussex Crickets charitable arm, our aim is to actively change lives through cricket across the communities of Sussex. We use the game and the Sussex Cricket brand to deliver accessible and enjoyable opportunities that grow the sport, tackle inequalities, improve health and wellbeing and enable people to fulfil their potential. Through our activities we look to make cricket accessible to all.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF SCF ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO: A. TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROVIDING AND SUPPORTING THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR PLAYING CRICKET AND OTHER SPORTS (?FACILITIES? MEANS LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT AND ORGANISING SPORTING ACTIVITIES); B. 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, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE, AND; C. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF PEOPLE OF ALL AGES AND SPECIFICALLY CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF CHARITY;

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Amateur Sport · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Brighton and Hove, South East, 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 £58,715 and total net assets of £316,335, down from £375,050 in the previous year. The trustees report that the Foundation is in a solid financial position and remains a going concern, with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors. The charity plans to break even over the medium term and holds sufficient cash resources to meet working capital requirements.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Forvis Mazars LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09592885

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Sussex Cricket Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Gary Wallis-Tayler — Head of Foundation (source)
• Shelagh Legrave CBE — Chair (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.

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.

• THORNICROFT, Annali-Joy — director, appointed 01/08/2025on trustee list
• LEGRAVE, Shelagh Jane — director, appointed 01/08/2025not on trustee list
• MORRIS, Ian Thomas — director, appointed 01/08/2025on trustee list
• IVES, Kevin Ronald — director, appointed 10/02/2025on trustee list
• BATCHELOR, Kirsty — director, appointed 10/02/2025on trustee list
• MAIN, Sarah, Dr — director, appointed 19/01/2023on trustee list
• SMITH, Phil — director, appointed 19/01/2023on trustee list
• CHAUHAN, Anju — director, appointed 19/01/2023on trustee list
• COOPER, Katherine Marie — director, appointed 01/07/2016not on trustee list
• COOKE, Anthony Paul — secretary, appointed 22/07/2026

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (61% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Shelagh Legrave CBE DLchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alison Addy
• Anju Chauhan
• Annali-Joy Thornicroft · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Morris · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jack Stephen Barton
• John RT Barclay
• Kevin Ives
• Kirsty Batchelor
• Laura Greenwood-Pearsons
• Phil Smith

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

Operates in: East Sussex · West Sussex

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 ESSEX CRICKET FOUNDATION.

• ESSEX CRICKET FOUNDATION income £86k
• THE YORKSHIRE CRICKET FOUNDATION income £575k
• GLOUCESTERSHIRE CRICKET FOUNDATION income £1.2m
• Kent Cricket Foundation income £68k
• Sussex Community NHS Charity income £141k
• BERKSHIRE CRICKET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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