BRIDPORT AND WEST DORSET SPORTS TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 267781 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRIDPORT LEISURE CENTRE

The provision and maintenance of recreational facilities for the benefit of the inhabitants of West Dorset and its neighbourhood without distinction of political, religious or other opinions with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants. (Memorandum of Association of Bridport & West Dorset Sports Trust Ltd)

Objects

A) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF WEST DORSET AND THE SURROUNDING AREA 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 THEIR CONDITION OF LIFE AND THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL WELLBING; B) TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES; AND/OR C)TO CARRY OUT SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTS CONSISTENT WITH THE ABOVE WHICH THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: WEST DORSET 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.

Causes: Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a small surplus of £7,018 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1,549,924 and expenditure of £1,542,906. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves have grown to £55,233, continuing an upward trend following a challenging period post-pandemic. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to continue operations, with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Edwards and Keeping Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Bridport Leisure Centre (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• William Thrower — Centre Manager (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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: 2.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Frederick Fowlerchair
• Caroline Saunders
• Deborah Fox
• Jason Vaughan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicholas John Thornley
• Phillip Alan Summerton

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

Operates in: Devon · Dorset · Somerset

Income and spending

Common questions

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 DACORUM SPORTS TRUST.

• DACORUM SPORTS TRUST income £3.2m
• THE ISLAND TRUST LIMITED income £273k
• THE HULL & EAST RIDING SPORTS CLUB income £295k
• DEESIDE COMMUNITY TRUST income £599k
• HARTLEPOOL UNITED COMMUNITY SPORTS FOUNDATION income £199k
• West Wight Sports and Community Centre Trust Ltd income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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