ACTIVE OXFORDSHIRE

Registered charity 1179040 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Active Oxfordshire is working together with partners to create active and healthy communities across Oxfordshire. Our focus is on reducing inactivity levels and making sport and physical activity and sport part of everyone's lives in Oxfordshire.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN SPORT AND HEALTHY RECREATION FOR THE BENEFITS OF THE INHABITANTS OF OXFORDSHIRE IN PARTICULAR BY:3.1 WORKING WITH AND THROUGH LOCAL AGENCIES TO INCREASE LEVELS OF PARTICIPATION IN SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY;3.2 PROMOTING AND PROVIDING PROGRAMMES AND SERVICES FOR SPORT, RECREATION, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, INFORMATION EDUCATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR HEALTHY RECREATION;3.3 PROMOTING AND PROVIDING FACILITIES AND SERVICES FOR RECREATIONAL, SPORTING OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE OR THOSE WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES AND SERVICES;3.4 THE IMPROVEMENT AND PRESERVATION OF GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION; 3.5 PROMOTING AND PROVIDING EDUCATION, TRAINING AND COACHING COURSES WHICH PROMOTE PHYSICAL HEALTH AND FITNESS;3.6 FACILITATING AND PROVIDING IMPACT EVALUATION, PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND RELATED INTELLIGENCE FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE CONTEXT OF SPORT, RECREATION, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND WIDER HEALTH AND WELL-BEING.

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: Oxford, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £122,961 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total funds increasing to £682,242. The charity holds £279,716 in unrestricted funds, which includes a designated shutdown reserve of £177,356 intended to cover three months of running costs and redundancy payments in the event of closure. The trustees and auditors confirm that the charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Richardson Jones. Discloses 6 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
• 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

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Active Oxfordshire (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kate Longworthchair
• Amanda Pearce Higgins
• Claire Ferens · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dean Woodman
• Donna Husband
• Kenny Shek
• Nathan Matthews-Tree
• Sarah Magill
• Timothy Hamp
• Valerie Messenger

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ACTIVE CHESHIRE.

• ACTIVE CHESHIRE income £831k
• ACTIVE ESSEX FOUNDATION income £1.3m
• TOGETHER ACTIVE income £540k
• ACTIVE LINCOLNSHIRE income £1.0m
• Get Berkshire Active income £1.1m
• ACTIVE GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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