SOHAM AND DISTRICT SPORTS ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 285967 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ROSS PEERS SPORTS CENTRE

Providing sport for the local community

Objects

TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION, PHYSICAL EDUCATION OR OTHER LEISURE-TIME ACTIVITIES IN OR IN CONNECTION WITH SOHAM AND THE SURROUNDING DISTRICT, SUCH FACILITIES TO BE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE, SAVE THAT SPECIAL FACILITIES MAY BE PROVIDED FOR PERSONS WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES MAY HAVE NEED OF SUCH SPECIAL FACILITIES ALL SUCH FACILITIES WHETHER FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE OR FOR ANY OR ALL OF THE ABOVE-MENTIONED SPECIAL CLASSES TO BE PROVIDED IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE SO AS TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Area of benefit: NO DEFINED

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 the charity ended the period with unrestricted reserves of £912,593, representing a net increase from the previous year. The trustees report that the financial position was good with a positive cash balance sufficient to fund ongoing maintenance and day-to-day working capital. No funds were materially in deficit, and the charity continues to operate without perceived uncertainties regarding its future.

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 charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• PAUL EDWIN DAYchair
• Geoffrey Fisher · trustee of 5 other charities
• PHILIP STEWART LANE · trustee of 5 other charities

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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