BERKSHIRE CRICKET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1165948 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Benefit Berkshire in developing the game of cricket. It will: - Promote community participation in cricket and recreation. - Provide and assist in providing facilities for cricket and sport, recreation and other leisure time activities in the interest of social welfare.- Advance the cricket and physical education of children and young people

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE INHABITANTS OF BERKSHIRE AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS:3.1 TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR AND THE ORGANISING THE PLAYING OF CRICKET AND OTHER SPORT AND GAMES CAPABLE OF PROMOTING HEALTH ("FACILITIES" IN THESE ARTICLES MEANS LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT, PERSONNEL AND KNOW-HOW); 3.2 TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR SPORT, RECREATION AND 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 ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITION OF LIFE; 3.3 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT; AND 3.4 SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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

Causes: Education/training · Amateur Sport · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: West Berkshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £23,173 for the 15-month period ended 31 December 2025, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted reserves to £67,462. The trustees confirm that resources are sufficient to continue as a going concern, with total net assets standing at £252,125. The charity relies heavily on principal funders, specifically the England & Wales Cricket Trust and Chance to Shine, which together provided the majority of its incoming resources.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Richardson Jones. Discloses 3 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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
• Trustee expenses 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.

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/04/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alistair Scottchair
• Ian Michael Wood-Smith
• Ishfaq Ishaq
• James Anthony Gervase Fulton
• Mandy Lane
• Mark Simmons
• Matthew John Greenough
• Susannah Louise Daniel
• Tameena Hussain
• Toby James Lancaster

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

Operates in: Bracknell Forest · Reading · Slough · West Berkshire · Windsor And Maidenhead · Wokingham

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 BERKHAMSTED COMMUNITY CRICKET AND SPORTS CLUB.

• BERKHAMSTED COMMUNITY CRICKET AND SPORTS CLUB income £153k
• THE WARWICKSHIRE CRICKET FOUNDATION income £1.6m
• DERBYSHIRE CRICKET FOUNDATION LIMITED income £1.2m
• Kent Cricket Foundation income £68k
• THE YORKSHIRE CRICKET FOUNDATION income £575k
• DURHAM COUNTY CRICKET FOUNDATION income £858k

Side by side with its peers

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