THE WALLINGFORD SPORTS TRUST

Registered charity 1171574 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Through the management of Wallingford Sports Park, the CIO aims to support the provisionof a variety of facilities for sport and recreation to enable local people, from all backgrounds, and including young, old and disabled, to participate in and enjoy recreational and health benefits from sporting activities.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO IS THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION AT WALLINGFORD SPORTS PARK FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS OF WALLINGFORD AND SURROUNDING AREAS IN OXFORDSHIRE BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR PLAYING SPORTS OR ACTIVITIES CAPABLE OF PROMOTING PHYSICAL HEALTH OR FITNESS.

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

Causes: Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £1,246,465, with unrestricted reserves at £447,694 and restricted reserves at £798,772. The charity reported a net income of £22,443 and held £302,018 in cash at year-end. However, the trustees noted that discussions regarding discounted rent with the landlord had not reached a conclusion, introducing a dependency on future rental terms.

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 4 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
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: WALLINGFORD SPORTS AND SOCIAL CLUB LTD Companies House 10654339 · Financial health read from its filings

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/10/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Martin Richard Hoarechair
• Adam Beasley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Adrian Aldred
• Andrew Bucknell
• BERYL ANN GUIVER M.SC MRTPI
• DAVID WHITTOW WILLIAMS
• John Atkins
• John Kirkpatrick
• Mark Arthur Goodman
• NICOLA MICHELLE HOUSE BA FCA
• NIGEL ERSKINE HUGHES · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Alan Abery
• Samantha Abrey

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WATFORD FC'S COMMUNITY SPORTS & EDUCATION TRUST.

• WATFORD FC'S COMMUNITY SPORTS & EDUCATION TRUST income £3.0m
• SOUTHWARK COMMUNITY SPORTS TRUST income £259k
• NORTON SPORTS CHARITY income £1.2m
• THE SPORTS COUNCIL TRUST COMPANY income £4.0m
• GOSFORTH FIELDS SPORTS ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £475k
• The Sports Trust income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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