LONDON SPORT

Registered charity 1165100 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

London Sport has a clear vision: to help make London the most physically active city in the world.Our first milestone is a target: to get 1,000,000 Londoners more active by 2020.We do this by building collaborative, valuable partnerships with the numerous organisations involved in physical activity and sport in London, to help make London happier, healthier and stronger through sport.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · 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

Latest income
£3.7m
Latest spending
£4.0m
Registered
2016
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £290k for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing from £866k to £576k. The trustees confirm the charity remains a going concern with adequate resources until at least March 2027, supported by current Sport England funding. The organization relies heavily on grant funding, which accounted for 93% of total income.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: > £120,000 — in the top quarter for charities its size (median £70k)
“The number of employees whose emoluments for the year fell within the following bands were: £70,001 - £80,000 > £120,000”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Employees paid over £60,000: 2
“The number of employees whose emoluments for the year fell within the following bands were: £70,001 - £80,000 > £120,000”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Largest income source: Sport England (89% of income)
“Sport England funding accounted for £3.3m, 88.5”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by PKF Littlejohn LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — London Sport (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Total income
£3.7m
Total spending
£4.0m
Reserves (reported)
£327k
Employees
51

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 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 (97% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£3.7m£4.0m
31/03/2024£3.6m£3.3m
31/03/2023£4.3m£4.1m
31/03/2022£4.6m£4.8m
31/03/2021£4.4m£5.1m

Common questions

Is LONDON SPORT financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £290k for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing from £866k to £576k. The trustees confirm the charity remains a going concern with adequate resources until at least March 2027, supported by current Sport England funding. The organization relies heavily on grant funding, which accounted for 93% of total income. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by PKF Littlejohn LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of LONDON SPORT earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the > £120,000 band, and 2 employees earned over £60,000.

Who funds LONDON SPORT?

Funders whose own accounts filings name LONDON SPORT as a grant recipient include SWEATY BETTY FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
SWEATY BETTY FOUNDATIONFY2023£20kCommunities

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Sport England25/03/2026£516kPlace Expansion - Enfield
Sport England25/03/2026£529kPlace Expansion - Newham
Sport England04/02/2026£445kPlace Expansion - Lambeth
Sport England09/10/2025£735kPlace Universal Offer
Sport England05/09/2025£61kMultisport AP Capacity Funding
Sport England15/01/2025£848kPlace Expansion - Brent, Barking, Dagenham, Tower Hamlets
Sport England19/12/2024£98kSystem Partner Investment 2022-27
Sport England22/08/2024£60kMultisport AP Capacity Funding
Sport England24/07/2024£368kPlace Expansion - Brent, Barking, Dagenham, Tower Hamlets
Sport England25/06/2024£9kThriving Communities- Regional Post
Sport England22/05/2024£50kROPF: Playing fields in London
Sport England25/03/2024£26kMoving Communities
Sport England20/12/2023£1.2mSport Welfare Officers
Sport England12/09/2023£26kThriving Communities- Regional Post
Sport England17/05/2023£60kMultisport AP Capacity Funding
Sport England12/01/2023£55kTogether Fund - Phase 4
Sport England22/12/2022£20kTogether Fund - Phase 4
Sport England05/09/2022£59kMultisport AP Capacity Funding
Sport England01/04/2022£14.5mSystem Partner Investment 2022-27
Sport England21/03/2022£500kTogether Fund - Phase 4
Sport England04/02/2022£8kMoving Communities
Sport England07/04/2021£240kPrimary Role 2018-21 (Tackling Inequalities Through System Partners).
Sport England12/03/2021£950kOpening School Facilities Phase 2
Sport England17/11/2020£9kCSP Daily Mile
Sport England07/10/2020£200kPrimary Role 2018-21 (Tackling Inequalities Through System Partners).

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 THE LONDON PLAYING FIELDS SOCIETY.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
LONDON SPORT£3.7m> £120,0002unclear—no doubt
THE LONDON PLAYING FIELDS SOCIETY FY2025£1.8m£100,001 - £110,000—above—no doubt
LIVING SPORT CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH SPORTS PARTNERSHIP LIMITED FY2025£2.4m——below—no doubt
KICK LTD. FY2025£2.1m£90,001 - £100,0001above—no doubt
THE LONDON MARATHON CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED FY2024£62.7m£330,001 - £340,000—unclear—no doubt
LONDON YOUTH SPORTS TRUST LIMITED FY2025£199k—0above—no doubt

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