SMILE THROUGH SPORT

Registered charity 1191534 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SMILE THROUGH SPORT C.I.C

North East England based charity providing sport, physical activity and leisure activities to individuals of all ages, disabilities and backgrounds. Our charity offers one off events and competitions, weekly drop in sessions and training courses. Our ultimate aim is to improve the lives of disabled people within their communities through better health and social interaction.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH OF DISABLED PEOPLE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY CREATING OR ASSISTING IN CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN AMATEUR SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

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

Causes: Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity has continued to recover from the impact of the pandemic and has overturned the unrestricted funds deficit shown in the prior year. However, the trustees acknowledge uncertainty surrounding funding, although they have secured a pipeline of funds to address this risk.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Smile Through Sport (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stephen James Miller MBEchair
• Joanne Elizabeth Blackett
• Michael Jonathan Todd Costello
• Paul Robert McGettigan
• Tara Kate Tordoff

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SMILE FOR LIFE CHILDRENS CHARITY.

• SMILE FOR LIFE CHILDRENS CHARITY income £657k
• GIFT A SMILE income £141k
• SMILE INTERNATIONAL income £143k
• SPORT IN MIND income £1.7m
• NORWICH CITY COMMUNITY SPORTS FOUNDATION income £6.4m
• MILES FOR SMILES income £195k

Side by side with its peers

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