MOMENTUM FITNESS CHARITY

Registered charity 1202050 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MOMENTUM IN FITNESS

Momentum is a charity that provides and facilitates accessible fitness sessions for local people across Hampshire.We aim to break down and overcome the barriers which prevent some individuals and groups in our community from being physically active. Our work supports everyone to experience the wide range of benefits from participating in exercise.

Objects

The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability or financial hardship, in particular by improving access to physical activity for disadvantaged children, young people and adults in Southampton and the surrounding areas through the provision of exercise facilities, coaching and education to improve health and wellbeing.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds approximately £40,000 in free reserves, which aligns with its policy to hold four to six months of planned expenditure. The trustees report that annual expenditure does not exceed income, and the charity is in an improved financial position with no creditors falling due within one year.

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 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.

• 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Momentum in Fitness (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• GEORGINA KATE SALMON
• PENELOPE WATSON
• Paola Sabine
• Peter Stokes
• ROSS WALTERS
• RUTH ELLEN ANDREW

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Southampton City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MOVE MOMENTUM.

• MOVE MOMENTUM income £85k
• THEMOVEMENT income £55k
• EXERCISING FOR MOBILITY income £31k
• FITNESS WITHOUT BOUNDARIES income £37k
• MOVE MORE income £897k
• THE MOTIVATION CHARITABLE TRUST income £4.0m

Side by side with its peers

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