AVENUE TENNIS

Registered charity 1164493 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote community participation by the provision of a tennis academy and other sports facilities for healthy recreation or other leisure time occupation for the benefit of the inhabitants of Medway and the surrounding area (including open membership to individuals, community groups and schools) in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving the condition of life.

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

Latest income

£681k

Latest spending

£723k

Registered

2015

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £42,852 for the year ended 30 April 2025, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted funds from £280,157 to £237,305. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The charity's reserves policy targets maintaining unrestricted funds equivalent to three to six months of expenditure, a level the trustees consider has been maintained.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three to six months expenditure (held: £237k)

“It is the policy of the charity that unrestricted funds which have not been designated for a specific use should be maintained at a level equivalent to between three and six month’s expenditure.” — 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.

Year-over-year changes

Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Total income

£681k

Total spending

£723k

Cost of raising funds

£14k

Reserves (reported)

£237k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 2.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

COLIN JARVISchair
Alan Rainer
CLAIRE JARVIS
GLEN JARVIS
Keith Grubb
Mark Ian Diffey

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

Operates in: Kent · Medway

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/04/2025	£681k	£723k
30/04/2024	£550k	£475k
30/04/2023	£491k	£502k
30/04/2022	£488k	£430k
30/04/2021	£130k	£96k

Common questions

Is AVENUE TENNIS financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £42,852 for the year ended 30 April 2025, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted funds from £280,157 to £237,305. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The charity's reserves policy targets maintaining unrestricted funds equivalent to three to six months of expenditure, a level the trustees consider has been maintained. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE TIM HENMAN FOUNDATION	1	£15k
THE FINNIS SCOTT FOUNDATION	1	£3k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SUTTON TENNIS & SQUASH CLUB.

SUTTON TENNIS & SQUASH CLUB income £375k
AVENUE HOUSE ESTATE TRUST income £687k
WIGMORE LAWN TENNIS CLUB income £241k
RYCROFT LEISURE income £340k
TENNIS SHROPSHIRE income £122k
EAST DORSET LAWN TENNIS & CROQUET CLUB LIMITED income £548k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
AVENUE TENNIS	£681k	—	above	—	no doubt
SUTTON TENNIS & SQUASH CLUB FY2025	£375k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
AVENUE HOUSE ESTATE TRUST FY2025	£687k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
WIGMORE LAWN TENNIS CLUB FY2025	£241k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
RYCROFT LEISURE FY2025	£340k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
TENNIS SHROPSHIRE FY2025	£122k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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