PENRITH CRICKET CLUB

Registered charity 1191369 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · filing overdue (register status)

To promote community participation in healthy recreation by providing facilities for playing cricket and other sports. To promote for the benefit of the inhabitants of Penrith and surrounding area the provision of facilities for recreation of individuals who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, financial hardship or social and economic circumstances

Objects

3. OBJECTSTHE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE(1) TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR PLAYING CRICKET AND OTHER SPORTS. (FACILITIES MEANING LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT AND ORGANISING ACTIVITIES).(2) TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF PENRITH AND THE SURROUNDING AREA THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS.

Area of benefit: THE INHABITANTS OF PENRITH 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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Registered contact address: Westmorland and Furness, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£110k
Latest spending
£77k
Registered
2020
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £11,419 at the end of the period, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of three months of income. The filing notes this was the charity's first period of operation, with funds transferred from a previous entity, and unrestricted reserves are currently insufficient to meet the stated policy target.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months of income (reserves figure: £11k)
“The Charity will look to increase the level of unrestricted reserves held over the next few years to 3 months of income”
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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 31/10/2024

  • Volunteers: 20
  • Has a trading subsidiary

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/10/2023

  • Has a trading subsidiary

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/10/2022

  • Has a trading subsidiary

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/10/2024 (received 22/07/2026, 325 days after the 31/08/2025 due date).

1 further annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

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 · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/10/2025——
31/10/2024£110k£77k
31/10/2023£0£0
31/10/2022£0£0
31/10/2021£0£0

Common questions

Is PENRITH CRICKET CLUB financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £11,419 at the end of the period, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of three months of income. The filing notes this was the charity's first period of operation, with funds transferred from a previous entity, and unrestricted reserves are currently insufficient to meet the stated policy target.

Who funds PENRITH CRICKET CLUB?

Funders whose own accounts filings name PENRITH CRICKET CLUB as a grant recipient include THE HOLEHIRD TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE HOLEHIRD TRUSTFY2025£2k

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Sport England12/03/2025£13k"Inclusive Cricket Futures"
UK government12/03/2025£13k"Inclusive Cricket Futures"
The National Lottery Community Fund18/07/2024£20kThe Community Crease
Sport England05/06/2020£7kCOVID-19 CEF
Sport England14/01/2015£14kCompletion of Pavilion Modernisation
Sport England28/08/2013£49kCompletion of Pavilion Modernisation

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Kent Cricket Foundation.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
PENRITH CRICKET CLUB£110k—0unclear—no doubt
Kent Cricket Foundation FY2025£68k——unclear—no doubt
DERBYSHIRE CRICKET FOUNDATION LIMITED FY2026£1.2mmore than £60,0001below—no doubt
THE CLUB CRICKET ORGANISATION LTD FY2025£171k—0unclear—no doubt
ESSEX CRICKET FOUNDATION FY2024£86k—0unclear—no doubt
HAREFIELD CRICKET CLUB FY2025£29k—0unclear—no doubt

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