ASIAN SPORTS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1176146 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote community participation in healthy recreation by providing facilities for the playing of sports capable of improving health

Objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (“OBJECTS”) ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC:TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR THE PLAYING OF SPORTS CAPABLE OF IMPROVING HEALTH (“FACILITIES” IN THIS CLAUSE 3 MEANS LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT AND ORGANISING SPORTING ACTIVITIES);TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR SPORT, RECREATION OR 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 AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE;TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY IN SPORT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY:- WORKING TOWARDS THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF RACE;- PROMOTING THE PARTICIPATION AND INTEGRATION OF MEMBERS OF ETHNIC MINORITY MIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITIES IN SPORT;- ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS IN EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY;- CONDUCTING OR COMMISSIONING RESEARCH ON EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY ISSUES AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTS TO THE PUBLIC; AND- PROMOTING ETHICAL STANDARDS OF CONDUCT AND COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAW IN RELATION TO RACE RELATIONS AND RACIAL EQUALITY

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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Registered contact address: Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£66k
Latest spending
£19k
Registered
2017
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held £62,717 in total funds, comprising £55,000 in restricted funds and £7,717 in unrestricted reserves. Per the trustees' report, the unrestricted reserves are held to support future essential running costs, while the majority of reserves relate to the timing of lottery-funded projects. The trustees confirm there are no uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: support future essential running costs of the charity (reserves figure: £8k)
“There is a small amount (£7.717k) of unrestricted reserves carried forward to support future essential running costs of the charity.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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 31/03/2025

  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 1
  • Grant-making is its main activity

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 13/02/2024, 13 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

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.

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: India · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£66k£19k
31/03/2024£11k£61k
31/03/2023£174k£157k
31/03/2022£0£61k
31/03/2021£150k£73k

Common questions

Is ASIAN SPORTS FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity held £62,717 in total funds, comprising £55,000 in restricted funds and £7,717 in unrestricted reserves. Per the trustees' report, the unrestricted reserves are held to support future essential running costs, while the majority of reserves relate to the timing of lottery-funded projects. The trustees confirm there are no uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Sport England04/12/2024£359kCapacity Resource and Sustainability
Sport England03/01/2023£24kCOVID-19 Tackling Inequalities Fund
Sport England17/03/2022£100kCOVID-19 Tackling Inequalities Fund
Sport England16/03/2021£63kCOVID-19 Tackling Inequalities Fund
Sport England14/09/2020£63kCOVID-19 Tackling Inequalities Fund
Sport England16/04/2018£100kBradford Activity Programme

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COVENTRY ASIAN SPORTS FEDERATION.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
ASIAN SPORTS FOUNDATION£66k—0above—no doubt
COVENTRY ASIAN SPORTS FEDERATION FY2025£161k——unclear—no doubt
OPPORTUNITY SPORTS FOUNDATION FY2025£221k—0unclear—no doubt
SOHAM AND DISTRICT SPORTS ASSOCIATION FY2025£268k—0unclear—no doubt
EASTBOURNE SAFFRONS SPORTS CLUB TRUST LIMITED FY2025£229k—0below—no doubt
RECREATION AND EASY ACCESS FOR DISABLED YOUTH FY2025£53k—0above—no doubt

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