THE LONDON PLAYING FIELDS SOCIETY

Registered charity 302925 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE LONDON PLAYING FIELDS FOUNDATION

The provision, promotion and protection of playing fields in London for sport and physical activity with the aim of creating a happier, healthier and more cohesive London by providing places to play sport forever. The society caters particularly for the young, old, disabled and disadvantaged. It also provides resources and coaching facilities for students at schools, universities and colleges.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted net expenditure for the year amounted to £27,032, reflecting that income from grounds usage is insufficient to cover operational costs. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £5,818,752, which exceeds its stated policy target of twelve months' general fund unrestricted expenditure excluding depreciation (£1,847,382).

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MHA. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Alex Welsh — Chief Executive (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).

• Cadogan Charity — “Funders Further Supporters Cadogan Charity” (source page)
• Dr Mortimer & Theresa Sackler Foundation — “Funders Further Supporters Cadogan Charity Dr Mortimer & Theresa Sackler Foundation” (source page)
• The Khayami Foundation — “Funders Further Supporters Cadogan Charity Dr Mortimer & Theresa Sackler Foundation The Khayami Foundation” (source page)
• Pears Foundation — “Funders Further Supporters Cadogan Charity Dr Mortimer & Theresa Sackler Foundation The Khayami Foundation Pears Foundation” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

11 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (7 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 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~14.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (76% 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: 10.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/01/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Webb
• COLIN AINGER
• George Ryan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Henrietta Martin-Fisher
• JAMES WILLIAM MURRAY DALRYMPLE
• LUCY MCCRICKARD
• Neil Greenwood · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rukmal Deepani de Silva
• SALLY-ANN HOPPER
• The Hon. William Cadogan · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• The Hon. William Cadogan — trustee here and at THE CADOGAN CHARITY

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CLUB DONCASTER COMMUNITY SPORTS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION.

• CLUB DONCASTER COMMUNITY SPORTS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION income £2.0m
• GOREFIELD PLAYING FIELD ASSOCIATION income £100k
• THE LEEDS UNITED FOUNDATION income £2.4m
• LONDON SPORT income £3.7m
• LONDON PLAY income £148k
• MILTON KEYNES DONS FOOTBALL CLUB SPORTS & EDUCATION TRUST income £3.9m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.