Sports Chaplaincy UK and Ireland

Registered charity 1168051 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SCUK; SPORTS CHAPLAINCY SCOTLAND; SPORTS CHAPLAINCY WALES; SPORTS CHAPLAINCY IRELAND; SPORTS CHAPLAINCY ENGLAND, SPORTS CHAPLAINCY UK · also registered in Scotland as SC049820 (OSCR)

Sports Chaplaincy UK and Ireland operates across the United Kingdom and Ireland helping recruit, train, and support chaplains for sports clubs at elite, professional, semi-professional & amateur levels.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) THROUGH THE USE OF SPORT AND SPORTS CHAPLAINCY.

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

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North East Derbyshire, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£498k

Latest spending

£493k

Registered

2016

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a small financial surplus of £4,918 and unrestricted reserves of £26,718. The trustees note that these reserves are below their stated policy target of approximately £70,000, which represents three months of staff costs. The charity remains operationally active with cash at bank of £194,154, though a significant portion is held as deferred grant income.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Churches and trusts (52% of income)

“Donations from churches and trusts 259,483”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy

“The Trustees recognise that reserves are currently below the £70,000 target”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management 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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 900
Employees paid over £60,000: 2 (£60,001–£70,000: 2)

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 800

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 61
Grant-making is its main activity

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Register events

Received assets from another charity (10/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (16/01/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

ANNE WAFULA STRIKE MBE
BOB HAMER · trustee of 2 other charities
Daniel Caldwell
David Courteen · trustee of 1 other charity
Dean Charlton Thorpe · trustee of 2 other charities
Justine Barnes · trustee of 2 other charities
Rev Haydon Spenceley

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£498k	£493k
31/12/2024	£498k	£522k
31/12/2023	£457k	£457k
31/12/2022	£377k	£411k
31/12/2021	£307k	£313k

Common questions

Is Sports Chaplaincy UK and Ireland financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a small financial surplus of £4,918 and unrestricted reserves of £26,718. The trustees note that these reserves are below their stated policy target of approximately £70,000, which represents three months of staff costs. The charity remains operationally active with cash at bank of £194,154, though a significant portion is held as deferred grant income. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds Sports Chaplaincy UK and Ireland?

Funders whose own accounts filings name Sports Chaplaincy UK and Ireland as a grant recipient include HINCHLEY CHARITABLE TRUST, OAKHALL CHURCH, CATERHAM, THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARK KENNINGTON, SOUTH WALES BAPTIST ASSOCIATION BUGB.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
HINCHLEY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£10k	Young People
HINCHLEY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2021	£10k	Grants - Young People
OAKHALL CHURCH, CATERHAM	FY2025	£2k	Providing pastoral and spiritual care across UK sports communities
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARK KENNINGTON	FY2025	£2k	Grant awarded (remained unpaid at year-end)
SOUTH WALES BAPTIST ASSOCIATION BUGB	FY2022	amount not stated	Home Mission grant
SOUTH WALES BAPTIST ASSOCIATION BUGB	FY2021	amount not stated	Chaplaincy HM grant for developmental work in Wales

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	22/02/2017	£10k	Sports Chaplaincy UK - Young Amateur Sports

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
SWEATY BETTY FOUNDATION	1	£406k
UBS UK Donor-Advised Foundation	1	£146k
THE HYMANS ROBERTSON FOUNDATION	1	£96k
THE LONDON MARATHON CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED	1	£71k
THE WESTMINSTER FOUNDATION	1	£52k
THE MAURICE AND HILDA LAING CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£34k
PETER HARRISON FOUNDATION	1	£25k
THE DEO GLORIA TRUST	1	£20k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ACCESS TO SPORTS PROJECT.

THE ACCESS TO SPORTS PROJECT income £896k
SPORTSREACH income £314k
SPORTING EQUALS income £1.4m
SPORTINSPIRED LTD income £1.4m
Sportily income £1.2m
CHAPLAINCY SUPPORT SERVICES income £172k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
Sports Chaplaincy UK and Ireland	£498k	—	—	below	—	no doubt
THE ACCESS TO SPORTS PROJECT FY2025	£896k	—	—	within	—	no doubt
SPORTSREACH FY2025	£314k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
SPORTING EQUALS FY2025	£1.4m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
SPORTINSPIRED LTD FY2025	£1.4m	unclear	0	above	—	no doubt
Sportily FY2025	£1.2m	£60,001 - £70,000	2	within	—	no doubt

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