BISHOP'S STORTFORD COMMUNITY SPORTS CLUB

Registered charity 1171519 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BISHOP'S STORTFORD COMMUNITY SPORTS CLUB LIMITED, BISHOP'S STORTFORD SPORTS TRUST

To promote community participation in healthy recreation through the provision, maintenance and improvement of facilities for but not limited to cricket, tennis, hockey and squash for the benefit of the inhabitants of Bishop Stortford and the surrounding area.

Objects

TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION THROUGH THE PROVISION, MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF FACILITIES FOR CRICKET, TENNIS, HOCKEY AND SQUASH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF BISHOP STORTFORD AND THE SURROUNDING AREA.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £5,202 for the year ended 30th September 2025, increasing its total unrestricted and restricted reserves to £154,924. The trustees report that the charity remains focused on providing sports facilities to the local community and intends to improve these through income generated by its trading subsidiary and other fundraising activities.

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.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01373545

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.

• BARTON, Gregory Larne — director, appointed 03/06/2024not on trustee list
• BURSLEM, Peter Robert — director, appointed 11/10/2021on trustee list
• LANCASTER, Tanys Elizabeth — director, appointed 31/07/2019on trustee list
• SMITH, Grahame Keith — director, appointed 31/07/2019on trustee list
• PENNISON, Anthony Clayton — director, appointed 01/07/2018not on trustee list
• SMITH, Neil Roy — director, appointed 01/07/2018on trustee list
• COTTON, Bernard James — director, appointed 17/11/2014not on trustee list
• CARTER, Paul Anthony — director, appointed 18/12/2006on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• PAUL CARTERchair
• BERNARD JAMES COTTON MBE
• Grahame Keith Smith
• Neil Smith
• Peter Robert Burslem
• Tanys Elizabeth Lancaster
• Tony Pennison

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Essex · Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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