ENGLISH SCHOOLS' ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1207831 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Objects

ADVANCEMENT OF THE MORAL AND PHYSICAL WELFARE AND DEVELOPMENT OF SCHOOL PUPILS THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF ATHLETICS.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £599,681, while total net assets stood at £796,394. The trustees report that assets are adequate to fulfill the charity's objects for the foreseeable future, noting that the change to a Charitable Incorporated Organisation limits trustee liability.

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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures

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

Reported reserves equal ~15.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (69% 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: 1.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/12/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Roger Bladeschair
• Jill Wright
• Laurie Alcock
• Lynne Pope
• MARGARET MEIKLE
• PAUL JAMES PONTON BSC BA DLC
• Roger Michell · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ALEXANDER SHTIEBEL.

• ALEXANDER SHTIEBEL income £248k
• NATIONAL NUMERACY income £2.2m
• FELSTED SCHOOL income £31.6m
• LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL STUDENT ASSOCIATION income £2.5m
• KINEARA CHARITY income £125k
• SPALDING HIGH SCHOOL FUND income £248k

Side by side with its peers

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