THE TENNIS & RACKETS ASSOCIATION LIMITED

Registered charity 1167866 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Advancement of amateur sport for public benefitNational Governing Body in the UKOrganising tournaments and other events Increasing participation by all members of the publicProviding grants to clubs, schools and universities to assist in the provision of facilities

Objects

2.1 THE COMPANY'S OBJECTS ARE RESTRICTED SPECIFICALLY TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF AMATEUR SPORT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF PARTICIPATION IN TENNIS AND RACKETS THROUGH SUCH MEANS AS THE DIRECTORS THINK FIT INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO:2.1.1 ACTING AS THE GOVERNING BODY FOR TENNIS AND RACKETS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM;2.1.2 ORGANISING TENNIS AND RACKETS TOURNAMENTS AND OTHER EVENTS AT WHICH TENNIS AND RACKETS ARE PLAYED; 2.1.3 INCREASING PARTICIPATION IN TENNIS AND RACKETS BY ALL MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC INCLUDING, BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, BY THOSE UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE AND BY UNDER-REPRESENTED GROUPS INCLUDING THOSE WITH DISABILITIES; AND2.1.4 PROVIDING GRANTS TO CLUBS, SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES TO ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR TENNIS AND RACKETS.

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

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

Registered contact address: Hammersmith and Fulham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net gain of £52.7k for the year ended 30 June 2025, an improvement from the prior year's loss. Total reserves stood at £3,064k, with unrestricted reserves at £2,080k, which the Trustees consider healthy and sufficient to meet their stated policy target of covering six months of management expenses plus expected grants for the next three years.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).

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

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07819045

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Atlantic Customer Solutions — “Atlantic Customer Solutions -IiP supporter” (source page)

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.

• PAGE, Andrew John Walter — director, appointed 04/12/2025on trustee list
• HORN, Robert William John — director, appointed 04/12/2025on trustee list
• JAMES, Nicholas Colin William — director, appointed 04/12/2025on trustee list
• MEROLA, Lucantonio Roberto — director, appointed 04/12/2025on trustee list
• LAMBERT, Juliette Louise — director, appointed 23/04/2025on trustee list
• ACHESON-GRAY, James Ralph — director, appointed 22/11/2023on trustee list
• PATERSON, Ronald George — director, appointed 23/05/2023on trustee list
• COMPTON-BURNETT, Richard James — director, appointed 29/03/2023on trustee list
• HARVEY, Victoria Jane, Dr — director, appointed 24/05/2022on trustee list
• SUTTON, Rory David — director, appointed 01/07/2020on trustee list
• POWER, Andrew Charles — director, appointed 06/02/2019on trustee list
• ORR, James Nicholas Niven — secretary, appointed 03/06/2026

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~41.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (54% 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: 2.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW CHARLES POWER
• Andrew John Walter Page · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr VICTORIA JANE HARVEY
• James Ralph Acheson-Gray · trustee of 1 other charity
• Juliette Louise Lambert
• Lucantonio Roberto Merola
• Nicholas Colin William James
• Richard James Compton-Burnett
• Robert William John Horn
• Ronald George Paterson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rory David Sutton

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 GRANTHAM TENNIS CLUB LIMITED.

• GRANTHAM TENNIS CLUB LIMITED income £946k
• LONDON BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION income £429k
• British Para Table Tennis Ltd income £6k
• TENNIS FIRST income £301k
• THE ACCESS TO SPORTS PROJECT income £896k
• HYTHE LAWN TENNIS CLUB income £126k

Side by side with its peers

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