THE UPHILL SKI CLUB OF GREAT BRITAIN

Registered charity 287106 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DISABILITY SNOWSPORT UK · also registered in Scotland as SC040699 (OSCR)

To provide opportunities for people with disabilities to take part in snowsports, to help improve their enjoyment and standard of performance at a level of their choice, and to help transfer the benefit that they gain from taking part to their everyday life.

Objects

TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL AND THERAPEUTIC WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL CEREBRAL PALSIED AND SIMILAR MOTOR-IMPAIRED OF ALL AGES

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Highland, Scotland (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small deficit of £9,767 for the year ended 31 March 2025, primarily attributed to depreciation rather than cash losses. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves have decreased to £84,161, with free unrestricted reserves standing at £56,672, which falls below the stated target of £100,000 for out-of-season operations. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Innes & Partners Limited. 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
• 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

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01681335 · Financial health read from its filings
• Trading subsidiary: BRITISH PARASNOWSPORT LTD Companies House 09816259

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Virginia Anderson — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Shona Marsh — Chair of the Board (source)
• Lauren Henderson — Vice-Chair of the Board (source)
• Robbie King — Company Secretary / Trustee/Director (source)
• Jane Harvey — Trustee/Director (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Crystal Ski Holidays — “Crystal Ski Holidays are national travel partners of Disability Snowsport UK and have raised more than £50,000 over the last winter season a…” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• HARVEY, Jane Margaret — director, appointed 13/01/2026on trustee list
• HOLLIMAN, Alan — director, appointed 09/12/2025on trustee list
• BROWN, Katrina Dorothy — director, appointed 21/10/2025on trustee list
• CARTER, Monique Patrica — director, appointed 21/10/2025on trustee list
• KNIFTON, Baden — director, appointed 15/04/2024on trustee list
• DUCKER, Rachel Alice — director, appointed 22/01/2024on trustee list
• MOONEY, Debbie — director, appointed 22/01/2024on trustee list
• RANKIN, Peter — director, appointed 14/02/2022on trustee list
• MARSH, Shona Elizabeth — director, appointed 14/02/2022on trustee list
• KING, Robert — director, appointed 15/03/2021on trustee list
• HENDERSON, Lauren Irene — director, appointed 18/01/2021on trustee list
• KING, Robert — secretary, appointed 27/04/2021

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~3.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 11.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Holliman
• Baden Knifton
• Debbie Mooney
• Jane Harvey
• Katrina Brown
• Lauren Henderson
• Monique Carter
• Peter Rankin
• Rachel Ducker
• Robert King
• Shona Marsh

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

Operates in: Andorra · Austria · Belgium · Canada · City Of Wakefield · Croatia · Finland · France · Germany · Hertfordshire · Ireland · Italy

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 WINTER SPORTS FOUNDATION.

• WINTER SPORTS FOUNDATION income £1.5m
• UK Ice Hockey Foundation income £50k
• PLYMOUTH SPORTS CHARITY LIMITED income £76k
• HARTLEPOOL UNITED COMMUNITY SPORTS FOUNDATION income £199k
• DISABILITY SPORTS COACH income £401k
• THE SNOW SPORTS FOUNDATION income £223k

Side by side with its peers

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